Mike Twining

The new and "improved" system requires you to exit all your files before you can change your renderer.... (i.e. IC open, but with no files).

Does the update for PU1 on a 32-bit XP system include the V11 License Update, or do I still need to install the License Update independently?

I think you guys are all crazy.... This HAS to be what he was looking for: The Real Crane

Good point Tom. I always end up with anomalies when I deviate from good 'ol classic OpenGL (not the Advanced version, but the plain-Jane one). If only we could get 3D PDF export with classic OpenGL I would be a happy man.

For the missing items specifically, we have found that if you suppress and then unsuppress those items, they return to view.

I have seen the light, and it emanates from 64-bit computing goodness. If anyone out there is on the fence or doesn't believe in the power of 64-bits... I urge you to re-consider. I just used my home computer (Vista x64 with an a$$-load of RAM) to do some work on older large IC files that were driving me crazy on IC 11.0-XP32 at work (which I have a CAD-oriented machine). The performance difference was shocking (to say the least). So, if you have the power to get yourself a 64-bit OS (XP or Vista), I suggest you do everything in your power to get it, and throw as much RAM into that machine as possible. I swear, it is the difference between a Yugo and a Ferrari.... Decreased save/load times. SIGNIFICANTLY faster response time...everything the impatient geek in you will love! Well done IC Dudes... well done. Now, lets get this sucker multi-threaded and throw some spinner-dubs on it... and we'll be rollin!

DirectX in Vista is probably going to be much faster than OpenGL. MS is trying to fortify their monopoly with Vista by neglecting to natively implement OpenGL very well, (where as since DirectX is a MS deal... that of corse works very well).

I believe if you just type "bcdedit" into the command prompt you will get a list of all your bootable entries (probably only one unless you have been messing with it). If you see a line for "increaseUserVA" then you have the switch set. No line, no switch. Trolling the net I found this: Notice the bottom entry...or don't because the image tags aparently don't work on this forum... Linky to Photo And just to clarify, the "/3GB" switch does not exist in the same way for Vista that it did with XP. With XP, there was an additional /USERVA=XXXX switch that went along with the /3GB to "fine-tune" the /3GB switch. Now, with vista, the only thing that exists is the "UserVA" portion (or "increaseuserva" as it is implemented). It does the same thing, but there is no shortcut to implement it... Edit... Kev beat me (to it), although I was under the impression that the bootcfg was the old XP command and was replaced by bcdedit.exe... Also, I recommend EasyBCD as a nice GUI for modifying your boot options in Vista. You still need to do the command prompt entries to enable the userva adjustments, but EacyBCD makes it easier to adjust and tweak the boot devices or OSs that you may want (i.e. I would use this to make a 2nd bootable Vista entry for the increaseUserVA setting, just in case you can render the OS unbootable by tweaking the setting).

...Well if its not one things its another.... Apparently our Web Nazis think the IC bugs are a little more than "harmless"

Did you use the new and "improved" windows search that only looks in indexed locations, or did you use the trusty old-school real search?

That picture gets the geek in me all worked up....

Nice Tom! It probably took me longer to figure out what you did than it took you to do it. I like that trick.

Tom- I've always thought you were the mascot.

Tom- You sure do have a lot of cool tricks in your bag there. So, that spring in 3 shapes... and I assume the "top" of the spring is just a portion of 1 coil that is being translated trough space during the animation, and that the "bottom" of the spring is also just a tiny fraction of the end of the spring that remains at a constant position in the animation? I would love to get my hands on the .ics that the spring animation came from...Hint Hint Cary?

Tom- I'm impressed! As I understood the problem he wants to change a cross section with time. I didn't think that was possible. How do you do that (or, how do you plan on making it look like that is happening)?

I also think you need an OS section, now that you are going to have 4 options: 32/x64 Xp/Vista/(Win 7)

...in additional to that, there is no indication (that I can tell) that the patch is installed on the "Help -> About" dialog... But I guess if you are running a registered 32-bit version, you can pretty much assume its has been done.

Ha! So... how many of you are there? Do you have to get each of you a Christmas gift? Are the various yous aware of the other yous?

Yeah.... We perhaps made some poor choices for "standardized" IC keyboard shortcuts. We have been using "A" to turn on/off the Triball since about V6 (try to use all left hand keys).

So... I should absolutely delete that template?

As I was going through all my IC (english) scene templates, un-hiding all of the coordinate system planes (which I love doing by the way... hint hint), I noticed something odd with one of the templates: The "Blue-Reflection.ics" template had the global coordinate system listed twice in the scene browser, and the two listings seemed to be linked (i.e. as I un-hid the X-Y plane in one, the X-Y plane in the 2nd also became un-hidden). None of the other scene templates were like this...IC11.0.0.0.0.1 (the working download) 32-bit. Anyone else have this, or is it just an anomaly for me?

Doug- Question #1 in the Tech Support handbook is, "Do you have the latest video card drivers?". I would not limit yourself to installing only those drives which are "Certified" or whatever for IronCAD. Weather you have a Quadro chipset or a GeForce chipset, you best bet is always to go with the latest release of the video card drivers. I am pretty sure that the IC guys don't have the free time to "Certify" every driver that nVidia releases, and I can't think of any situation where a specific (older) driver was recommended over a newer driver. The 2/1/08 date of your driver is old, because it was from a previous release (i.e, it is not new, but old). And as I do my homework, I see that the latest version of the Quadro driver is now 178.46, released last week...so I guess I too need to be aware that I am not using the latest video drivers. I am not saying you need to update your drivers (I have no intension to today, if it ain't broke...), but if you do end up having graphic related issues in IronCAD, I would then definitely update to the latest version before I tried any bug hunting. I hope that puts the importance (or lack there of) of the "IronCAD Certification" of the video drivers in its place....

I think I am running 178.26 Quadro (32-bit) drivers right off the site... they seem to work great. I wouldn't put too much stock in that "IronCAD Approved" stuff. Just go with the latest and greatest.

The 4GB switch is kinda like having an amplifier that goes to 11...

/ set Useful Information = Off / set Rant = On So Sunday morning, before the 'ol Chargers game, I decided that I was not going to wait any longer for IC to support Vista (which I have at home), and I was just going to dual-boot Vista & XP. So I make myself a 50Gb partition on my primary hard drive (of which I have 2, the 2nd holds all my "data" and the 1st just holds Operating System files & such), throw an ORIGINAL XP (no service pack) upgrade disk into the 'ol CD-Rom and off we go... ...I get to the part in the install where it asks me where I should put XP. None of my options seem to be what I would have expected, but I do see an "unallocated" or "unknown" partition, and it is the second item on the list. A little too overconfident, I select that partition and format it with NTFS... and then proceed with the install. Upon re-boot, I got nothing (which was an option I was prepared for), so I put in the Vista boot disk and recovered (Vista at least). Upon booting, I notice that there are NO DATA FILES. Thats right, I formatted that drive...so $50 in recovery software later, I learn that all the useful files were corrupt. So, with no more data to lose, I make a couple more attempts at installing XP, which eventually lead to the corruption of the Vista install, and a total loss of all things useful. So, now I am back to square 1: (Almost) new PC with fresh data-less hard drives... great... all because I wanted to do some IC home improvement projects / set Rant = Off / set Useful information = On If you ever decide to install Windows XP on a new(er) computer, you should really make sure that the install disk has the proper drivers to recognize your hardware (in my case, the SATA drivers would have been pretty cool)...or else you could corrupt your whole set of hard drives. So... how is the IC on Vista progress? Need some testers? I have a really clean install .