Mike Twining

Tom- Good plan... haven't tried it yet cause I ran into another problem... well actually a bug. Here it goes: If you take an assembly and mirror it (copy not link), when you attempt to place a decal on a face from the mirrored assembly, the default decal placement location is directly over the ORIGINAL assembly, not the mirrored (desired) location. "No problem..." I'm thinking, so I relocate the decal projection (slide) to where I want it located (on the mirrored section). Once I get it all sized and located, I realize that nothing is being projected! In order to display the decal correctly, you need to place the slide projection thingy (technical term) over the ORIGINAL location (even though you are trying to place it in on the mirrored), and you need to flip the picture. The short version: Placing decals on partions of mirrored assemblies is HOSED (also a technical term)! Mike T. PS. Chris, can you copy this post to the bug fix forum

That is kinda what I figured. I have resorted to making little cuts in my face to place the decals on. It is working for now. Thanks! MikeT.

Whether or not I apply the decal at the part or face level, it will only allow 1 per part. Additionally, if I try to place one on another surface, it will recognise the original decal. So... no luck there. If you place the first decal at the face level, and place the second decal at the part level (I am trying to get them on the same face), the part-level decal is not displayed on the part. I am using 6.0 PU1 (I really like that "PU" thing.... gotta love marketing). Any other thoughts, or do I need to make up individual parts to stick the decals on, and then locate thoes individual parts on the model? MikeT. I guess what I am really looking for is multiple decals on the same FACE.

Anyone know of a way that I can stick multiple decals onto a single part? The would need to be scaled and positioned independently.... Thanks MikeT.

Simple little question.... First, if you plan is to make a custom macro that you can use in all your IronCAD files, you are going to want to get your hands on the full version of Visual Basic. I believe that with VBA you will only be able to run your code in one file (that is not to say that you can't put the code in a template however). Second, go here: http://www.ironcad.com/support/community/index.php?showtopic=798 which has some links to older Macro documentation. Hope this helps! There is also a "Custom" thread in the forums that deal with this sort of thing. Enjoy MikeT.

Your VAR is incorrect in this case. The hard drive access will only become a factor when saving, or when working with large models. Typically when running IronCAD, everything you are workin on should be in RAM. If you either have a small ammount of RAM or an extremely large file, then you start working from the pagefile, which is just hard drive space allocated as fake memory (overflow really). I would also say, that in this case, that not only the processor and memory differences are contributing to the slow-down, but also the video cards. IronCAD still needs to draw your parts when their locations are calculated, which falls mostly on the Video card. I noticed that you are running both "MX" versions of the Geforce "gamer" cards. The MX versions are stripped-down affordable cards with less horse-power than regular Geforce cards. My bet is that if you put a CAD card in your slower computer, you might be able to come close to the performance of the faster computer without changing anything else (close being a relative term... heheh). So... basically it is just a hardware difference. You want to test the hard drives, do a "save time" test (and in actuallity this will still be dependent on memory and processor speeds). Hope that helps. I will say, that I went from a ATI 9700 to a NVIDIA Quadro4 and there was a HUGE performance increase... same machine. Hope that helps. Tell your boss to spend the big bucks on processor, memory, and MOST importantly, video card. I love watching big models rotate in real-time. It is like geek-porn! Mike T

I love an easy solution ! MikeT [EDIT] In thinking about this more, this solution would only work if you are not worried about the tangency of the blend in the middle. If you are, then Beat's way will give you the correct results, otherwise simply mirroring the part is $$.

Yeah! I think we should have a BBQ and invite the WINE programmers and the IronCAD programmers. They can all sit around eating burgers talking about whatever programmers talk about at lunch (probably programming eh...no offence). Get them all to be good friends, then the rest of us won't have to live our lives as Bill Gates' bit@# slave. If anyone gets IronCAD working in WINE, please let me know... these cuffs are killing me. MikeT

Isn't "optimized ATI drivers" an oxymoron?

Probably not the problem, but with all these Microsoft Hot-Fixes and security updates, EVERYTHING is taking longer for me to open and run. Thanks Bill. MikeT

So, for all us video-geeks out there, what exactly does this setting "optimize"? Mike T

Geez... I hope by "Drafting" Joe meant ability to create stuff in 3D and not 2D. If IC gets honorable mention for 2D I don't think I can trust old Joe G. anymore (no offence to you IronWood guys... you have done some great things with the 2D lately...making it usable and what not... but I think it still needs a little tweaking). My $.02. MikeT

Amen to that! It is the fundamental difference in their design. For a little more enlightenment, check out http://computer.howstuffworks.com/lan-switch2.htm. Mike T

Great. Glad that worked. I will give you some advance (well, I guess not that advance anymore eh) warning: You don't want to use a "Bold" font for your text (well, not the bold button anyway) as the "bold" aspect of text is not always carried over into all the available text boxes (like pre and post dimension text), which makes it a little tricky to get your notes to look correct. Mike T.

The problem has to do with the fact that the first time you run an Office application after installing, the user is prompted to accept another license agreement of sorts. If this is not done, a bunch of the Office .dll's are not "initialized", and IronCAD dosen't know what to do. ...at least, this was the problem back in the 3.x days. So, I believe it would be sufficient to just run one Office application after installation, not all (no offence to you there Chris). That will save you time if you have the big bucks and can afford all those nice Microsoft products. Mike T.

You can change the GD&T properties by the following: 1. Click on the "Default Prperties" button (IC Drawing) on the left. 2. Scroll down to the GD&T section and click on it to determint what "Label Style" you are currently using. (you can then cancel out of that) 3. Click on the "Named Styles" button, and choose "Label Style" under "Type of Named Styles" 4. Select the Label Style that the GD&T symbols are using, choose "Modify..." and then go to town. You can change the line types and ends as well as font properties. You may even want to make a new "Label Style" in case you want to use the existing properties later. Hope this helps Mike T.