@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…
@Anthony Apostolaros
I'd love to use C or C++ but my reading of the support under Linux suggested that my only option for FULL support was Lisp. I haven't touched a Windows box since 1999; I'm strictly Linux.
If my interpretation of what I read is…
James:
Thanks for the additional sources.
So far, LISP has to be the ugliest syntactical language I've ever run across and I've code in 22 computer languages. Trying to read someone else's code at this stage is not a learning experience since I ge…
This is a duplicate question. It was answered elsewhere.
When I posted the question, the web site gave me an error and told me to wait to try again. I did so and it resulted in a duplicate post.
The answer, BTW, is non intuitive.
James:
Thanks for the information. I didn't know BLADE existed so I'll have to research that. I'm hoping BricsCAD has some tutorials on LISP development.
I looked at afralisp.com and all I get are links to sites that want to sell services or route…
James:
I was reading about LISP today when this thread appeared.
What programming environment did you use to write the code?
I'm a professional software developer with zero LISP exposure. I want to start creating drawing objects by just specifyin…
When cloud becomes the only option, I'll quit upgrading. Anyone that wants to feed the CIA, NSA, etc can do so, but not me.
To create a better product for all platforms, two versions of any particular platforms executable should be provided. The fi…
Thank you for the reply.
Have you read this anywhere to reach your conclusion or is your knowledge arrived at by experience?
I've watched the videos and read what I could find and never discovered what you've stated. I'm going to experiment using …
