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    • S Offline
      Stu
      last edited by

      Andrew,
      there is PDF Creator.
      Im finding it good for capturing ACAD drawings for emailing to Clients.
      And you can specify Jpegs, Pngs etc if you want to.And its cute being able to make PDFs without Acrobat.
      http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator
      Stu

      http://www.landesign.com.au

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        otb designworks
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        If you happen to have a Mac, shift/alt/4 all at the same time gives you a crosshairs that allows you to draw a window and get a png. This works particularly well with dual monitors.

        Cheers, Chuck

        OTB Designworks is on Youtube

        6 core nMP, 32 gig RAM, (2) D700 GPU's, dual monitors

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          utiler
          last edited by

          thanks all, I am on PC and am aware of the print screen key but it seems the long way around. i have tried Gaieus's recom, aviscreen and it is a little beauty!!! real easy to operate.
          Stu i do have PDFcreator but was unaware that it would export to jpeg, only.... you know PDF!!!

          thanks guys.....

          PS: love this little bar we have found; sshhhhh don't tell the young one's.....

          purpose/expression/purpose/....

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            utiler,

            Something that most folks aren't aware of is that Alt-PrtScrn (in Windows) captures just the current window, not the entire screen.

            Personally, though, I like the screen capture utilities that come with PaintShop Pro and CorelDraw. The one in Corel is probably more powerful--more options for capturing specific screen elements like menus and child windows and cursors and so on. It's a stand-alone utility with a taskbar icon and can save images to the clipboard or to disk. However, I prefer the one in PaintShop Pro; it's simpler, with fewer options, but still fairly capable. It pulls images directly into a concurrent session of PaintShop, where you can crop them, enhance them, resize them, and export them in the image format of your choice.

            -Gully

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            • utilerU Offline
              utiler
              last edited by

              Cheers Gully where does Alt print screen go when executed? did not work for me.....

              purpose/expression/purpose/....

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              • N Offline
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                last edited by

                where does Alt print screen go when executed?

                To the clipboard. Should work. I just tried it.

                -G

                P: Gully Foyle

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                  Baker518
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                  Gai, I have used your method of creating a sphere, your tut is a bit fast on one or two points. My problem is that my sphere keeps coming up with holes in it, top and bottom. What am I doing wrong?

                  Don't worry about things you have no control over. Worry is a lack of Faith!

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                  • GaieusG Offline
                    Gaieus
                    last edited by

                    Mike,

                    One possible cause is that you are modelling in very small scale. When it comes to millimetres, Su tends not to fill very small faces with the follow me tool.

                    Scale your model up by 10 (or even 100) times (depending on the scale), make the sphere and re-scale it to the size you need.

                    Gai...

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                      Baker518
                      last edited by

                      Gai, that worked great. Thanks.

                      Another question, how did you shift the inference in your tut without moving? Is there a shortcut I missed?

                      Don't worry about things you have no control over. Worry is a lack of Faith!

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                      • GaieusG Offline
                        Gaieus
                        last edited by

                        If you mean the rotate tool, I just place it, click one and before releasing, start pulling in a direction (in this case along the red axis - but it can be any line or guide lie or even a "free" direction). Then release the mouse button (the axis is now closed and won't change) and pick the point of rotetion and rotate.

                        If that's not what you mean, explain, please.

                        Gai...

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                          Baker518
                          last edited by

                          That did the trick, much easier than roaming around the screen waiting for it to change then holding down the shift key

                          Thanks....Mike

                          Don't worry about things you have no control over. Worry is a lack of Faith!

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                          • Mike LuceyM Offline
                            Mike Lucey
                            last edited by

                            A, give this little utility a try out,
                            http://toolbox.vmn.net/godownload.php

                            Mike

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                              utiler
                              last edited by

                              Thanks Mike, will give it a chop......

                              A

                              purpose/expression/purpose/....

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