[Controlling Rotation]

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

[Problem with the Layer Tool (Probably Mine)]

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!

[Problem with the Layer Tool (Probably Mine)]

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

[Tutorial Suggestion]

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.

[Question About Edu vs Pro]

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.

[Question About Edu vs Pro]

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