Robert Andersson

Here is a couple of simple samples Dvari.ics

Potentially, it could work to make the catalogs accessible "Offline". To do that, Right Mouse the server FOLDERS in Windows Explorer and select "Accessible Offline" .

I see. So you are using that when the lines doesnt meet. Im using Key E as short for extend line and Key T as short for trim.

What I have seen so far in 10.0 beta, the new renderer is pretty fast with the right settings. And it have a amazing output quality. It take some learning to master do. But that will go for most powerful renderers, I guess.

zero radius? Whats the point doing that? Thanks

Wonder if that keyboard can make one master IronCADs commands faster: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34443/118/

I miss some info, -Witch detail level do you want on the facets? Do you want exact dimensional values on each facet? If so, witch values? -Can you use Export As STL and import? -Will you do a 2D drawing of this or only a good looking rendering?

One thing that you may want to do is to use Virtual PC´s. Have XP PRO as "rot" OS. -Install IronCAD on the Rot PC -Install WmWare (recommended) or Microsoft Virtual PC. -Install all other software you are using on that Virtual PC. When you upgrade in the future, you simply install IC in the rot OS and move the virtual PCs (a couple of big files only) to you new hardware. You can actually be right in a editing of a spreadsheet or email, and you can continue in that edit when moved. For more information: http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/...pc/default.mspx

RightMouse the window in the Smartmotion editor

-25 frames per sec is often good. -To greate a AVI of an exported .TIF image serie from IronCAD, you may want to use: "Magix Movie Edit Pro 10", or "Magix Silver" that is free with ASF video export. Upgrade to edit pro 10 for like 30$ for AVI Simply a fantastic, chocking good video editor. 10 times more easy to use than Adobe Premiere. I try to find the download URL... Could be this: http://www.magix.com/fi-fi/se/free-downloa...trial-versions/

Render one image of each. Place them in Photoshop on separate layers, and use the Photoshop tools to make some parts transp.

I beleve not. -Maybe you can create a large block as a floor, with a grid texture map ontop.

you may want to check what FAX protocoll your fax machine are using. Maybe you can encrease the resolution.

It would be useful in some cases to: -tell IC to run the mechanism and say that one of two selected parts should remove any geometry it will pass trough. So if two parts will collide during mechanism motion, all intersection volume that the killer part are passing trough, are gone permanently on the looser part. Like a milling machine in real life. Kind of "make room!" feature...

"There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about using Vista as a platform for CAD, not the least of which is that it has demanding minimum hardware requirements. Acceptable CAD performance under Vista is going to require new top-of-the-line hardware. Yet, even with the right hardware, CAD performance under Vista is going to remain an open question for a while longer. Microsoft pushed hard to get Vista shipped, but important components, such as display drivers and development tools, are still buggy and incomplete. It will likely be many months before these problems will be shaken out." -Guest writer Evan Yares is the former executive director of the Open Design Alliance and, before that, a CAD industry analyst. taken from here: http://aecnews.com/news/2007/02/01/2242.aspx

Heres more: http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/200..._runs_cad_.html Vista wants 3D software to use Direct X instead of Open GL. Open GL is a long time industy standard for 3D accelaration, but Microsoft wanted to create their own system, so now there are 2 competing technologies, making developers use both in many cases. 3DCAD system CAN use Open GL in Vista but it have some drawbacks.

works nice in 7.0 Reader also

-with the addition that even if IC dont support more then 128MB MB, I dont know if that is for the framebuffer or/ and texture memory, IC can make use of the GPU´s power. Its not the MB that "turns" the geometry on the screen, its the GPU using Open GL. If you select a fast GPU card, then you will have 256, or 512MB or more shipped with it, you would still benefit fom the faster GPU.

I cant see that the HZ will create flicker on a TFT screen. Those are totaly different than CRT´s The spot/dot/pixels is more like On/ Off. They will lit until told not to. What you can suffer from on a low HZér TFT is that the rotation of 3d modells can be not really realtime like. CRT´s and HZ a different game. There we have a catode beam redrawing all lines say 60 times per sec. The beam hits each spot/dot/pixel of lumination material on the glass wall. That material will light for a very short time, so the beam have to hit it soon again. If the beam is to slow, the user sees flicker. Above the mhz, the lumination material can have different luminate times, so you cant say that 75hertz is flickerfree. It depends on the lumination material prop. You can actually create a flicker free CRT with 40 hertz (with slow lumination material), but that screen will be slow on update of graphics.

You can apply a new color to multiple parts in one step ( without switching over to the smartpaint tool): -Do a selection of parts. -RMB them and select "Smartpaint" from the menu. IronCAD will apply the selected color on to ALL of the parts. Will work dispyte assy structures.

JAWS PDF editor, not free, but good and with a good price. Eval downloadable. http://www.jawspdf.com/desktopsuite/index.html http://www.jawspdf.com/pdfs/pdf_desktop_suite.pdf

-You have to apply a part level parameter from the parameter table. Then you can link all other parameters to that main parameter. This main parameter will show in the Design Variation Table. -If you want a assembly level variant, you have to do the same at that level. PEM_DV_2.ics

You can place stuff on a layer that is hidden. Get it back with temp unHide that layer and change the layer of the object you want to make seen again. The eyedropper can help also.

Tom, it looks quite good as chrome texture. Thanks! -Hove do you create a image for this kind of use? -Attatched is a scene with a surfacemodell with your chrome on. ModelWithcrome2.zip

maybe go in to the crossection and add a set of lines that make the "centerline" as a edge of the solid. Then RMB that edge "Create 3D curve"...