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Antoine's Wishlist for Shark 7.5 (#3201)
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la mouche  
#1 Posted : Wednesday, June 23, 2010 8:10:26 AM(UTC)
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suggestions and requests for the future (near?) version of SharkFX.

1. click on the layer ---> highlights the objects in the scene.

2. click on an object ---> highlights the layer for this object.

3. preview mode for rotating and mirror function.

4. radiosity calculations much faster. currently, it is absolutely innutilisable ---> see competition with other programs.

5. correct .., completely rebuild the user interface rendering.
---> We do not know now, what materials for what object...

6. possibility zoom in very, very near to the ends of splines, lines.

7. correct rethink the text mode ----> edition of the text directly on the text and not in "inspector"

8. tubing with different sections to choose ---> square, rectangle, triangle, oval, etc..

9. possiblility to distort the cut surfaces.

10. a preview ---->smoothed, fluid
11. cages deformation on volumes ---> twisting, stretching, etc..

i'm industrial designer, I do not use Shark for modeling type "body automotive". mode surface is too rigid.

12. correct settings of perspective. more ergonomic please.

13. please, please, to enter into a model in OpenGL and rendered mode. ----> For architectural projects

14. correct the many bugs in the 2d mode technical drawings. please, more professionalism in the engineering drawing 2d mode.

15. remove "pattern" on the lines. Just style mode.

16. and finally ... the cake: a library of screws ---> parameter!

Thanks and cordialy

Antoine
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blowlamp  
#2 Posted : Wednesday, June 23, 2010 9:05:53 AM(UTC)
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Antoine.
I'm not in need of many of your requests because I'm not designing very complicated parts with my copy of ViaCAD Pro.
I do agree with point number 14 that you make. As much of my work is reverse engineering parts, I have no drawings or dimensions to work to other than those I can extract by measurement and common sense. Because of this, things like being able to make curves easily tangential in all circumstances without resorting to construction, is something I would look for in an update.

As for point 8 of your list. Why don't you just use the One Rail Sweep Solid tool with as many Closed Profiles as you need? It seems to give what you want and is very quick too.

Martin.
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jol  
#3 Posted : Wednesday, June 23, 2010 9:28:33 AM(UTC)
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I think your no's 1 and 2 are brilliant !!

.. and I like no 3 too !!

[With respect, my point was to try to focus the team on urgent and manageable changes in 7.5 - they would need to be fairly modest : only urgent and manageable tasks are going to be feasible. Realistically - things like rewriting the rendering interface is not going to happen in a non-major release]
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la mouche  
#4 Posted : Friday, June 25, 2010 2:46:08 PM(UTC)
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hello, it's ... very long to align the sections on non-planar spline, exemple: a helical.

Tubing in the path axis would be extra and much simpler.
with sections of your choice.

cordialy

Antoine
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blowlamp  
#5 Posted : Friday, June 25, 2010 3:25:52 PM(UTC)
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Antoine.
I find that careful use of the C key and having the workplane set to Global allows me to get the results I need in these situations. Have you tried this without success?

Martin.
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ZeroLengthCurve  
#6 Posted : Monday, June 28, 2010 1:23:50 PM(UTC)
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How about a preview of "preserve annotations" before committing? Yesterday, i for the very first time tried out saving PDFs from VCP and after a few hiccups, i was printing my butt off, enjoying exploring it. But, i got really confused when i suddenly realized that after printing i couldn't see my text. Apparently, it downsized so small to match the drawing and paper relationships. I had to do maybe 15 undo steps to get to see the final undo for "undo preserve annotations".

But, that undo took maybe 5 minutes to finish. At the very end, it started regenning surfaces. I was stupefyed. Undoing preserve annotations requires regenning the model? I am glad i didn't have any offending geometry and my model didn't crash. I then did save-as so i could have a save point.

How about a 3-D print preview of a model to paper? I know it's there, somewhere, but i better look again.
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la mouche  
#7 Posted : Tuesday, June 29, 2010 2:09:56 AM(UTC)
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hello, Blowlamp

I am very familiar with the work placement sections with the "C"

but ... This is very long and does not give the result I want
example: between two sections you must have an effect [COLOR="Red"]"curve, blending"[/COLOR] on the path.

calculating the numbers click between "the solution several sections on a path with the "C" - and the my solution I propose:

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1 - classical solution "C" button with "guid skin solid":

1.1 - build 1 (or 2-3-4 ...) path - spline
1.2 - place with the key "C" the sections (square) along the road, about 5 and build each time the

Result: [COLOR="Red"]20 click!
[/COLOR]
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2 - solution pipe with (1 only) section: "Antoine proposal"

2.1 - build one path - spline
2.2 - build the (1) only section (square)
2.2 - select the path and the (1) only section.

Result: about [COLOR="lime"]4 click![/COLOR]

and hop! finished :)))
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blowlamp  
#8 Posted : Tuesday, June 29, 2010 5:06:04 AM(UTC)
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Antoine.
I thought you wanted to do like in the attached file. Have I misunderstood you?
It took very little effort to do them. I didn't use Guide Skin Solid, I used One Rail Sweep Solid and selected 2 or more closed profiles to be swept along the curve.

Martin.
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la mouche  
#9 Posted : Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:54:25 AM(UTC)
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hello,

Thanks Blowlamp,

I take your file to my argument:

your examples are simple because they are on flat paths.


in fact, my real question is ...:

[COLOR="Red"]Tim? can you implement in a NEW function pipe ---> as the new function reference volume on the face, as (duplicate path)? to avoid the section twist on the path to normal and remains the face of the volume on which the path is placed?[/COLOR]

see my demo.

http://screencast.com/t/NDQ3Y2IzYz

cordialy and thanks for your participation.

Antoine
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jlm  
#10 Posted : Wednesday, July 7, 2010 1:35:31 AM(UTC)
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Hi Antoine,
I support your wish list !
Your video about profile twisting is very clear. It also happened to me several times.
Thanks,
JL
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