Axes settings save incorrectly in scenes.
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Hi,
I've noticed a few times that when I save a scene with the axes off, they often re-appear the next time I go to the scene, even after un selecting axes and updating the scene.
I've just been setting up some scenes for a template file, with 4 scenes. On the 1st 1 of the scenes I want to see the axes, and on the next 3 of these scenes I want the axes not showing.
Despite changing them and updating the scenes multiple times, they come out the wrong way, ie the 1st scene has no axes but the next 3 have them showing. I've checked that the axes are ticked or unticked when I update the scenes, it shows correctly but as soon as I change scenes, they keep reverting.
I've also set up different styles for the scenes, but even though I've set up scenes 3 & 4 as 'shaded with textures', the textures don't show if I draw a face and apply a texture.
I can't work out what's going on, can anyone help? Has anyone else had this problem?
I've attached the file.
Thanks for any help you can offer, Sally
PS SU 8 (not 2013) on a Mac
PPS Mac users - skip to last post for complete "how to" explanation!
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Two main issues.
You need to set and save the axes in the styles.
Your template is huge, and when I say huge I mean Texas huge. I drew a simple square in it just to see what I was doing and it was 800000m, far too big to see textures.
I'd start again with a cube of a known size in it to make your template, you can always remove the cube before you save it finally.
Anyway, attached is a working version but it may not be positioned exactly as you want and I think I mixed up one of the texture styles.
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Hi Box,
thanks so much for your help, which has mostly solved the problem (I don't know how I'd managed to get the template soooo large!)
However, when you say
@box said:
You need to set and save the axes in the styles.
I can't see anywhere within styles to set whether the axes show or not.
I wonder if it's the same on Windows and Mac. But it makes sense that I have to set it somehow other than just ticking or unpicking axes within the view drop down, and this would explain why I have had so many problems with this previously.
best regards, Sally
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Yes it may be different on Mac, it's here on windows.
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It must be somewhere else, but I can't find it! This is the mix panel in styles on a Mac.....
Are there any Mac users who can help?
Thanks again Box.
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Try clicking edit tab and then the last one, Modelling settings.
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I tried that but you can't click on it, just drag style icons onto it.
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Mac edit
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First click the edit button next to Mix, then click the little blue icon that now appears.
Ah Wind-borne's got it for you.
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Brilliant, thanks to you both, problem solved and new things learned. Great!
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Hi,
to anyone on a Mac who wants to know more, I kept having problems even after Box and Wind-bourne helped me so I played around a little more and discovered what I was still not doing completely right. I have summarised the steps you need to follow in the attachment below. Hope it helps!
Best, Sally
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