TReischl

I was installing a tablet and have inadvertently changed something. It was possible to press the shift key I believe while hovering over the rotation handle and it would allow numeric entry of the number of degrees. Not anymore. I am not currently running the tablet, the mouse works fine. But that pesky rotation thing bothers me. TIA Ted

Thank you very much! That was exactly the problem. I looked at every single menu this morning except that one, of course! I knew it was something simple. And I also knew it was going to be my fault!

I have been getting along with 3DC pretty darn good. Spent the last week or so learning it on a full time basis. Watching all the tutorials, etc. A while back I was using the Layer tool and it worked great. I purchased a pen tablet last week and was messing with various settings as I set it up. Since then when I use the Layer tool, it automatically mirrors to the opposite side of the object. I don't think it did that before and I am pretty sure I changed a setting somewhere to cause it. But for the life of me I cannot seem to locate a setting that will correct it. I have triple checked to make sure I do not have Symmetry on when using the tool so that is not it. TIA

Tutorials are really, really helpful. Instead of asking question after question on a forum I always try to work my may through videos. Also, anyone who makes a video has certainly made a huge contribution and for that I am appreciative. What I would like to point out is that when making a video tutorial there is a tendency for the creator to squirrel the mouse pointer around the screen, rotate the screen view continually. It is extremely distracting and makes it much more difficult to watch a video. After 5 or so minutes of watching something like that it makes the viewer want to do anything other than continue watching. If the video is produced by the company, someone should take a hard look at how it presents.

Thanks for the offer, but I already purchased the EDU. I double checked my screen vs the manual, and yup, no skybox. There are some other differences too, nothing major. I am thinking the manual is not quite as up to date as the software. The units thing is a mystery too, but once again I can easily work around it. I am running Aspire from Vectric which has the ability to scale or switch units to metric/imperial. Aspire is a grayscale modeler specifically for use with CNC machines. Another really good tool. The limitations in the EDU are no issue for me at this time but that could change.

Hello! I am just getting started with 3DC and am really liking it after figuring out a few things by watching a lot of tutorials. Today I wanted to customize the interface a bit. Mostly I wanted to set units as was mentioned in one of the videos I watched. Never found that but it is probably just me. However, I looked at the V4.5 manual and noticed that I could set up a "SkyBox", well, not really, it does not appear anywhere in Preferences that I can find. So that got me to thinking. . . .(dangerous, I know) are there more differences between Edu and Pro than: 1) no commercial usage 2) textures size to export is limited to 2048x2048 3) layers amount is limited to 7 ????? I am using 3DC primarily to create models for my CNC router. I think 3DC is great because it is one of the few reasonably priced programs that allows grayscale images to be exported and does it beautifully. The other thing is that I also have a rotary axis so I can machine full 3D models (no undercuts, tough to do with an end mill). If there are quite a few of these differences I have no problem upgrading to Pro to acquire them. I do not use the software commercially so the Edu license was very attractive. Thanks in advance! Ted