Hence my problem. I have all the snaps turned off, and it still wants to snap to something--no smooth navigation. From the Basecamp workshop it was stated that LO works best on the smaller sheet size, and I am trying to use 18x 24 (which doesn't seem excessive) to me, but nevertheless, pretty agrivating. I don't want to give up on it. LO is a great tool--i am just struggling with it.

Thanks for the help.

D

One more issue I am having tho'. .. when I wnat to move objects around smoothly it keeps wanting to snap to some invisible geometry or grid. I have object and grid snaps turned off, but that doesn't seem to help. Bubbles, notes, etc seem to snap off in any direction, but they don't move just straight accross the page, inferences don't seem to help. So far, I am not too happy with LO

I am working on an 18 x 24 sheet of paper. When I cut and paste objects into a new file with a standard sheet, it seems to flow fine? is this the problem?

any ideas?

Thx,

D

@remus said:

To paraphrase: "all the threads in the corner bar are boring and predictable"

ah . ..yes. .. but not this thread of course. . ..

**@unknownuser said:

Is therean individual in you? doubt it.**

what does this mean anyway?

Meg. . .by all means stick with SU and give it a chance. Gaieus is right. All kinds of plugins and this great forum will give you the skills you need to do your stuff and more. good luck.

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i stuggle with this as well. I do a lot of site modeling that requires trees and I like to use 2D cllips as often possible, but for aerial views, I kinda need 3D trees, and the good ones are so High poly. I guess I should play around with Proxies more to simplify and only turn on the biggies when it comes time to render or something, but Any other hints to manage the file would be grateful.

Ps. I havne't done it yet, but I have the link to the 3D basecamp workshop on this. I oughtta listen to it. . ..

I wasn't invited, you know. . .

Hasn't this thing played itself out by now????

I don't us LO a lot and now I know why. Maybe you can help. I am just trying to set up an 18 x 24 sheet to do some standard views. It is deathly slow even at 72 dpi and then the model won't update. I had to bag it and cut in paste in PhoShop.

Any ideas?

thx,

David

the planet I seem to be living in . . .

Yet across an immense ethereal gulf, minds that to our minds as ours are to the beasts in the jungle, intellects vast, cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their plans against us . .. orson welles, 1938

Well we need to start our own little club then. I am feeling less lonely now.

Anyway. .it turned out kinda nice. This is a spire off of a religious temple built in 1969 that needed an asbuilt model for study. Thanks for the help.

the one and only Ray. . . .

everybody sing along. . .

Hit the Road Jack. . .doncha come back no more, no more, no more , NO MORE. . .

Do you ever have one of those **"DUH!!!"**slap-yourself-upside-the-head moments?

no . . .I'm sure you don't.

I get em all the time. Yeah. . .thanks guys. That was it. Here is a pretty down and dirty attempt, some refinements needed but essentially the plan worked. on the other tiers I just use the same method with a few tweaks. Thanks for the wakeup call.

we need a little emoticon dude slappng himself in the head. .. .I would use that one alot.

@kobus said:

in the basecamp tutorial section there's a tip for this.
The essence is that you can make scenes without camera positions.
This way the scene tab behaves like a display mode.
Per tab you retain full control over displayed layers and such, as mentioned by earlier posts.
Good luck !

That is excellent. I do that a lot my self. One thing I never use is profiles or jitters. What the heck for? In fact I rarely use "styles" at all, and certainly never when modeling. navigating in Wire mode is always good. Thanks for the tips as well.

I feel like such a noob when I come on this site.

I am a pretty good skupper but I have got something here that I need some help on. I tried this with the new tools on surface, but it's just not workin' for me and its a bit beyond my capabilities. I need to cut an arc along these complex curves to recreat this spire. I marked in red what I have to do. See attached Working drawing sample. I didn't want to post the skippy cuz I want to do it myself. But I would like some help on perhaps the best approach.

Thx in advance

David

I used to be very timid about posting on this site. Not because I am a novice SU user--or that I didn't have anything useful to say -- it was just that the community got so Large that I felt that my posts would be ignored and I wouldn't get the answers I wanted so I stuck to the Podium forum. Once I started talking to folks and seeing other guys from the Podium forum, I got more brave and now I feel very much at home here. This is the best forum on the net because it is FUN!!!! Do see my point, besides the one on the top of my head?

as far as Goon's rant is concerned. .. isn't okay if we talk about Batman or something while at the same time seeking answers to our questions about Ruby files or modeling tips. .. isnt' that what we do at the office or anywhere else? That's why it's called the corner bar. . .and it;s only bar I have ever really been in. Have you ever been to any of those "Corporate Forums" like for some big software or computer company or something like that? They are so strictly monitored, unfriendly and dry and yet competely useless as far as help goes--in my oppinion anyway.

Lighten up for cryin' out loud (<<<<crying out loud).. . .it's just a cyber-forum--I come here for help and to have a little fun. And as long as we are courteous and helpful to one another, who cares ? Is there a lot of junk on here. Yes. .. (including this post porbably) Is it sometimes hard to wade thru muck to find an answer? yes. That 's what the advanced search is for. . .but. . . If someone can post a thought that has a little wit attached to it, I appreciate that. That's what I try to do.

besides. .. you guys are my only friends. . ..

I stay away from rays. . .especially after what happened to that Steve Irwin guy.

**BREAKING NEWS!!!!**Morgan Freeman Injured in Car Accident in Mississippi. He is in very serious condition.

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Our prayers are with him.

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Offset thing. . .good tip. . .I just like using the word Residue.

oka--this is getting to be like "look what I did in school today Mommy" .. .but i have played around with the UV tools. . ..(thanks Solo) . . .and now I am starting to get it. okay .. it takes me a while. . .

anyway. .thse are starting to look better. . .not like stupid dinosaur eggs or something. n'est-ce pas?

Worked for me too. . it's a great tool, but there is one issue I don't understand about it. How come it leaves some Geometry "Residue" (i.e. tell-tale faces and lines) after running the sweep? Doesn't do it everytime, but it did in this model (jim's) even after playing with the different values and "True/False" options.

see attached