Most applications rely on certain things being available via the operating system. These are usually libraries of subroutines that the application calls upon to perform its function. As an application gets older relative to the operating system libr…
Wiebe van der Worp
Thank you - I'll give that a try.
I had the Inquiry toolbar vertically in the lower right corner. How it ended up horizontal in the upper left is a mystery.
I was hoping there was a setting and I was just unable to find it.
I guess I'll eventually learn positionally where things are. Now I have to hover over the dark boxes in the status bar to get a hint as to what it represents.
I would expect it to get worse as you use functions that tax the CPU.
I haven't seen a Windows box since 1999, so I don't know what it now contains, but on Linux I have a MONITOR tool that shows CPU threads and how heavily they are loaded. Maybe th…
I always put a temperature monitor on all my boxes because it can show a gradual increase in temperature over time as fans or the aluminum fins on a heat sink get clogged with dust. It provides an early warning to use compressed air to blow out the …
Do you have a display readily available that shows how hot your CPU chip is and other components? Heat can cause all manner of issues difficult to nail down. Testing when the box isn't heavily loaded might not show a condition that emerges under loa…
@Jason Bourhill
I can access the machine but only via the terminal. I'm hoping that Bricsys has a way to do it from my end without the GUI. I have internet access on the box on a public IP. I'm behind 2 firewalls on my end and my ISP has a proxy s…
Grub doesn't come up for me to choose. I've determined it isn't a kernel issue - it's X and the relationship to the Nvidia driver for my P400 board. The startx fails : 'Failed to set IPOL - _not permitted.'
I did my usual apt dance yesterday to ins…
@ScottS
There are numerous ways to approach revealing hidden objects and only the developers know which approach makes any sense from their perspective. I'm sure if they thought about it for a while they could come up with even better ideas because…
An idea.
Once you've started a command and the system is looking for your mouse input, i thought how handy it would be for objects to go transparent as you mouse over them. Enough to see the object, but transparent enough to see through it to what'…
Given Windows history of self corruption, you might want to consider nuking the box and reinstalling your software.
Testing your RAM and drives would also make sense. Check to make sure all your fans are spinning at a visually realistic speed and …
Thank you for the information.
Since I have V20 available to me, I think I should try that first before creating an incident report. If on V20 I have the same issue, I'll report it.
Thank you for your time.
@Owen Wengerd
I just tried a move command. After I pick an object to move there's no place on the screen I can click to reacquire the lookfrom. If I click inside the main window that acts as my base point and then the lookfrom does appear but that…
I have noticed that some operations leave the lookfrom control alone so it is usable throughout the active command environment. Other times it disappears.
For example, if I pick the box icon or manually enter the box command to draw a 3D box, the l…
@Michael Mayer
After I got the second popup asking me to wait 30 seconds, I opened up another browser tab and hit the site to see if either of my post attempts made it and that's when I saw there was a double post.
Having this happen on a cooking …
@Michael Mayer
The point is that none of this should be happening. Posts should be accepted in an eye blink. The back end we're hitting needs to be reworked to get rid of the delay.
I'm on dozens or lists (software development, computer hardware, …
@James Maeding said:
I just got an email on a new post, only one email! Either someone fixed something, or people were double posting, then the admin removing the first.
If that was the case, it was happening 90% of the time, so working on …
@Michael Mayer
I'm a documentation guy.
The one thing missing from BricsCAD is rudimentary documentation, like a real users manual full of examples for using the various commands.
The best technical documentation I ever encountered was Microsoft'…
@Michael Mayer
I purchased a Platinum license, not because I understood what I was going to get, but because it wasn't the minimum and not the maximum and the perpetual license cost was something I thought was reasonable. I took a guess and it's wo…
@Hans De Backer
Thank you for the reply.
What I work on mostly is steel shapes (flat stock, square tubing, angle iron, etc) with dimension ranging from .065" to 3". Those shapes are combined into large structures often 20 feet in dimension. Bewild…
@David Waight - That's exactly what I wanted.
Last night, as I was dozing off, I realize that rotate using Base Angle should work and that I was just interpreting the problem wrong. So, this morning I tried it with fresh insight and it worked.
The…
Denis: Thanks for the link. Now I understand what the BricsCAD docs were trying to explain.
However, that's not what I'm trying to accomplish. I'm trying to draw a steel truss.
Attached you'll see the blue C channel poorly aligned with the white C…
Denis: Before posting my question, I read the description of the 2D Rotate and had no idea what it was talking about concerning the Base Angle. I tried several experiments and nothing worked so I moved on.
Now that you've alerted me that this is wh…
I get an initial response and if what I reported is an actual bug the last thing I get is a message that it's been sent to development. Nothing after that.
I don't see a lot of incentive to spend my time testing, reporting, developing videos of a s…
Regardless of which operating system is being used, is anyone receiving any feedback when they report an incident and the initial analysis confirms a need for development to correct a problem?
Now I know why my testing gave me unreliable results. I didn't know about the split per corner.
BTW - https://help.bricsys.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006889733-Using-the-Manipulator-in-BricsCAD-Shape has a broken video link.
Thanks for the informati…
@Anthony Apostolaros
Since you brought it up, I've reconsidered Lisp and may try BRX with C just as an experiment to see what it's like and how far I can get. At least that way I'm in a comfort zone as far as the language is concerned. With Lisp, I…
