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Re: Suggestion?
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Tue, 15 Aug 2000 06:19:59 GMT
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The sounds like a good idea.
However you should check your settings, and see if the Position for new part
is not centered, and the draw to selection only option is disabled .... this
slows down very much.
Thanks,
Michael
Adam Howard <abhoward10@hotmail.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
FzBJoG.3pG@lugnet.com...
> Hi Mike!
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> I've been working on a large model and have run into the
> slowwwiiiinnnnggg-dowwn wall. Whenever I add a new piece or rotate a
> selected one it seems to take forever.
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> I'm not sure, but I believe it is because MLCAD re-renders the whole model
> when a new part is added. I know the best solution is to buy a high-speed
> computer with lots of memory, but I was wondering if making each step act • as
> a Layer would help. With each step as a layer you could select wich layers
> to turn on or off when you are working on the model. It would also help • keep
> track of what you are doing at a certain step, and if you need to go back • in
> the model and change something it would be easier to do. Now considering
> some models have zillions of steps, it might be too much for 'each' step • to
> be a layer. So there could be options: 2 steps = 1 layer, 3 steps = 1 • layer,
> etc, or simply an option to Turn off all steps/layers before the previous
> 1,2,3,etc layers.
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> Another thing that would make building models a little easier is when
> 'plopping' (drag/dropping) a new part that it take on ALL of the position
> attributes of the currently selected part. Maybe I have something set • wrong,
> but when using this option, my part always appears at the center of the
> window that I didn't plop into- I use two views Front and Top. Example: I
> plop into the Front view (to make sure it is at the correct level, but the
> part always appears near the center of the Top view while in the Front • view
> it is where I wanted it to appear. Now this may seem a simple problem to
> fix- just grab it and drag it where you want, but when you are working on • a
> large model and you have it set to 100% zoom the center of the model (from
> the Top view perspective) is not always visible, so you then have to go
> through a lot of trouble to find/then move the part to the section you are
> working on..
> So could you add an option where plopped parts take on all the position
> attributes of the previous part regardless of where the mouse was in the
> window when you plopped the part?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam Howard
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>
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| I turned off shading and turned on BFC, it seemed to improve speed a little. The settings you mentioned below were already set. I still have the problem with drag/dropping 'plopping' new parts into the window. Why don't they take on ALL the position (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| Hi Mike! I've been working on a large model and have run into the slowwwiiiinnnnggg-dowwn wall. Whenever I add a new piece or rotate a selected one it seems to take forever. I'm not sure, but I believe it is because MLCAD re-renders the whole model (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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