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control-shift selection

control-shift clicking is really handy, but sometimes I make a mistake and marquee through a dense mesh or block edges and it takes ages for the selection to appear. Sometimes the system hangs for…Continue

Tags: wish, selection, control-shift

Started Feb 11

Rebuild - maximum deviation not calculating
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I noticed in previous wips and rhino versions, sometimes the maximum deviation would not show up in the rebuild dialog unless you changed the point count a couple of times. In the DVD version of…Continue

Tags: bug, rebuild

Started this discussion. Last reply by Pascal Golay Feb 5.

Rhino 5 CD.
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I received my shiny new Rhino 5 CD and have been playing with it the last two days. There was only one install button (no options for 32 or 64 bit), so I assumed it would install 64 bit.I have been…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Andrew Chan Feb 4.

Sections for laser cutting
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I have a series of radial ribs, about 125+ of them. I need to create 2d outlines of each rib on the xy plane for laser cutting. at the moment I am creating a cplane:to object for each rib to create a…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Andrew Chan Jan 28.

 

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control-shift selection

control-shift clicking is really handy, but sometimes I make a mistake and marquee through a dense mesh or block edges and it takes ages for the selection to appear. Sometimes the system hangs for ages or crashes altogether. It would be great to be able to esc out of the selection if you can see the selection taking too long or causing a hang.See More
Feb 11
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Pascal Golay replied to Andrew Chan's discussion Rebuild - maximum deviation not calculating
"Hi Andrew- the thing doesn't recalculate automatically when the total point count is above a certain number- but this will get tuned up in SR2 to remove or move up the cap so you'll see the deviation again. -Pascal pascal@mcneel.com"
Feb 5
Andrew Chan replied to Andrew Chan's discussion Rhino 5 CD.
"Hi James, Thanks for the reply. There were no desktop shortcuts created on install. And when I did a search for Rhino in Win7, only the 32bit version of the program showed up (as Rhino 5.0), so I assumed that was it. Since your message I found the…"
Feb 4
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Feb 4
James Carruthers replied to Andrew Chan's discussion Rhino 5 CD.
"Hi, It installs both, you should see shortcuts to both on your desktop. I know for at least some people getting Windows to use V5-64 as their default app for opening 3dm files requires setting that in Windows Explorer."
Feb 4
Andrew Chan replied to Andrew Chan's discussion Sections for laser cutting
"Hi Dale, I'm familiar with Section and Contour- they're great! But I have around 200 sections to do which are at angles to each other in plan (like pieces of an orange). The quickest way i've found is to intersect the object with an…"
Jan 28
Andrew Chan replied to Andrew Chan's discussion Sections for laser cutting
"Hi Chris, Wow! Thanks so much for your grasshopper script. It will indeed make things a lot easier for me than flattening those sections manually. (I sped things up a little with a rhino macro, but was still painfully manual!) I must learn…"
Jan 28
Dale Fugier replied to Andrew Chan's discussion Sections for laser cutting
"Hi Andrew, Rhino's Section and Contour commands work well for creating 2-d profiles.  -- Dale"
Jan 23
Chris Tietjen replied to Andrew Chan's discussion Sections for laser cutting
"Screencast on using the GH definition."
Jan 23
Chris Tietjen replied to Andrew Chan's discussion Sections for laser cutting
"Andrew, Here are some screenshots showing what's possible and how it was done.  The Grasshopper file is attached but if you're unfamiliar with Grasshopper then I'll have to do a screencast to show you how it works.  Also I…"
Jan 23
Andrew Chan replied to Andrew Chan's discussion Sections for laser cutting
"Hi Chris, I'm happy to send you the file directly. I've just sent a friend request. Thank you."
Jan 22
Chris Tietjen replied to Andrew Chan's discussion Sections for laser cutting
"A script or Grasshopper is a faster way.  Can you post the file?"
Jan 22
Andrew Chan posted a discussion

Sections for laser cutting

I have a series of radial ribs, about 125+ of them. I need to create 2d outlines of each rib on the xy plane for laser cutting. at the moment I am creating a cplane:to object for each rib to create a make2D, but it is taking quite some time. Is there a faster way?Thanks,ASee More
Jan 22
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Andrew Chan replied to Andrew Chan's discussion old newsgroup
"Thanks Helvetosaur!"
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At 2:12am on December 13, 2012, Tony Drew said…

Hi Andrew, Ive just up-graded to 5 and joined the Rhino Community-Yay

 
 
 

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