Arcanor

I've just submitted a mantis request for a new "Reset EVERYTHING to defaults" menu item. http://3d-coat.com/mantis/view.php?id=1403

Thanks again carlosan. Those sound like good solutions, but a typical newbie wouldn't know that they should do those things. Now if I can find my way into the mantis tracker I'll suggest that something like it can be done automatically from a menu, for any future newbies who don't know why every tutorial is failing.

Thanks carlosan, but we've already solved that problem above. Right now we're just trying to figure out if there's a way to get the "default" settings back for a newbie like me who accidentally changed them and didn't know what to do.

Thanks again pagankmck, but I saw that menu option and did try it before making my original post in this thread. It doesn't reset the rectangle selector (and thus didn't solve my original problem). It only appears to reset the page/room menu and the window positions.

Still can't login to mantis, and not getting email notifications at all. I'm moving this conversation to PM so it doesn't confuse the ongoing support thread.

I have tried to register for an account on the mantis tracker, but I've not gotten the email, and there's nothing in my junk mail folder.

Thank you so much pagankmck! I looked and looked but couldn't see the relevant difference between my screen and the tutorial. I don't know how it got set that way, but I'm glad it's set back to a "normal" setting again! My spheres are indeed now looking like spheres, and I can continue with the tutorial. Developer suggestion: add a new entry on the Help menu that resets the entire workspace to default settings.

I've just downloaded 3d-coat and am just trying to follow along with the "rat from scratch" tutorial, but I'm having trouble using the sphere tool. I'm using the 30-day free trial of v4.0.04B, cuda x64, in Windows 7. When I select the sphere tool I am having two issues: 1. if I single click I do not get a sphere. I get nothing at all. This is driving me crazy. All the documentation and tutorials say that if I single-click I should get a sphere. 2. if I drag click I do not get a sphere. I get some kind of extruded rectangle with rounded edges. I'm guess I've inadvertantly changed some setting somewhere, but can't figure out what I've done wrong. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance. Here are some images from my troubleshooting process in 3d-coat: documentation right in the interface, explaining that the Sphere tool LMB should create a sphere: http://screencast.com/t/fLzRYNnK me trying to single LMB click, but no sphere results: http://screencast.com/t/i1mWqQZyw me dragging with the sphere tool selected, which I hope will create a sphere: http://screencast.com/t/jJ09IspEtrag the resultant non-sphere that I got instead: http://screencast.com/t/5QymjqWJyg