Hi. I don't think anyone was upset. ;-) I am guessing, but I think that the point Boris was making was that when using a software regularly, after learning to use it, the keyboard short cuts are essential for an efficient and productive work flow. For learning, navigating menues and toolbars could be easier than to memorise stuff, but not necessarily - having to switch between different toolbars for performing simple tasks such as snapping to a point sounds very much annoying to me.
Returning to the original topic, what is it exactly that you are trying to do? To move a curve so that the end point is located on a point of another curve, select the curve, start a move action using the m-key or the move tool in the Transformation toolbar. Then hold the comma key and left mouse button down as you drag a rectangle around the point on the curve you want to move. Then release the left mouse button, change view if necessary and then hold the comma key and left mouse button down again as you drag a rectangle over the target point. Regardless of how the views were aligned, the two curves should now intersect at the last selected point. At least it does when I try it. I currently have v6, but this has been the same at least since v4.5 if I am not mistaken. 2009/8/1 Henry Tjernlund <henrytjernl...@gmail.com>: > 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 now.) > I taught part-time for 11 years myself. I learned a lot from him, and > in that learning I would have to disagree. Teaching someone how to use > a program is not about speed typing. Its about concepts and > understanding why you are doing what you are being shown. In the > single course we had for 3D graphics and Animation, we used Bryce. I > was simple and easy and students quickly got results for little > effort. I doubt that any of them went on to use Bryce in a career. But > the point was to whet their appetite and give them an idea what it is > about. We had one 4-month course that met only twice a week to cover > enough material so that the student would know if that was something > that they wanted to invest more education in (at another school that > taught the subject in more depth.) > > I myself am dyslexic and have even switched to a Dvorak keyboard > layout. It turned out not to help as much with spelling errors, as I > had hoped, but since doing that I have never experienced the > arm/wrist/hand fatigue as I used to with QWERTY. Many keyboard > shortcuts are geared toward QWERTY so some are actually more difficult > in Dvorak. But I also write fiction so the avoidance of arm strain is > good for me. > > And back the the teaching. Versions ago in Photoshop some of the tools > used to require keyboard finger gymnastics. Then they put those same > options as icons up in the option's bar for that tool. That speeded > teaching. Before that I had to walk around and help almost half the > students to figure out the finder dance. When the options were > available as icons, the number of raised-hand interruptions dropped > noticeably. > > Now whenever I try out a program, I aw well aware of how the interface > helps or hinders its use. The makers of RS might be brilliant at > figuring out the mathematics of making the program do something. But > the interface is not quite up to than same standard. And in the market > place, that can be a deciding factor. > > -- > -- > Henry Tjernlund > http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?username=henrytj > http://www.modelmayhem.com/HenryTjernlund > http://imdb.com/name/nm2519729/ > http://www.myspace.com/henrytj > http://henrytj.deviantart.com/ >
