Re: Snapping

2009-07-31 Thread Henry Tjernlund
i'm sorry if I upset people with my criticism of RS. I don't mean to be harsh. But when I spend half an hour trying to get things to snap, and can't, its frustrating. The other teacher I mentioned was not (my) teacher, but a fellow teacher. He taught full time for his whole career. (He's retired n

Re: Snapping

2009-07-31 Thread Boris Jahn
Hi Henry, I'd have a discussion with your teacher. For working productive and good with your software you've to be a virtuso on the keyboard and the mouse or use a different input advices no matter of the used software. It's like typeing blind with 10 fingers. If you need snapping you would hav

Re: Snapping

2009-07-31 Thread Jean-Sebastien Perron
"Shade" a very expensive 3D software I once loved, use an unusual technique for point snapping to other point from other object. Simply select the desination point and press the "Memory" button then select the point to be moved to that location then press "Apply" button. It's not the fastes

Re: Snapping

2009-07-31 Thread Henry Tjernlund
Just got back to RS after a couple weeks away. Still having problems with snapping. I was going through one manual and using the pen tool to make a sweep surface with curves. (One profile, on path, I guess.) I decided after making the surface that i wanted to snap the two curves together at their s