Hi folks, Finally got the 09 DVD down here in NZ last week and been playing around with stuff that's new to me coming from 05 - yup 08 is sitting in the box never used...RIP
...which brings me to my first comment... The 08 style command manager is an utter POS (sorry SW programmers) - tried hard to like it but now putting back ye ol' familiar toolbars per my 05 install - dunno how people can be complimentary about it even with 09 alterations As far as I am concerned it is very inefficient and hides stuff away I want to see - maybe in Office you want to pack all those little options and nuances away but in SW I like my surgical tools laid out where I can pick them
In Realview the glowing selections are a little overpowering -be nicer if the extent of the glow could be user set - but then I have complained about fuzziness of UI elements before to no effect -tufts of irradiated wool and streaks of crayon...cant we have a little finesse for Barbie as well...oh well at least no magnifying glass handle - reflective floors are already banished here though ...
3D sketch planes I cant use these for mirror planes? (pity) or make dragged copies of them or otherwise reference them? Odd things these - seems like exposed planes for insert loft section in 05 Instant 3D ( old move and resize with bells and whistles?) I'm still playing with -does seem fairly fast to update although I note that the screen doesn't always refresh properly after it recalculates Some readers here may remember me suggesting an enhancement for something called a 'kite' - basically a plane on a bit of anchored string - I don't think the 3D sketch planes we have now are quite there yet in terms of easy placement and use...fully articulate and gimballed is what I'd likeBoundary surfaces Must say these are quite cool and fairly responsive with a new pc (3.8ghz) No excuses for not getting something swoopy how you fancy it now but they seem to have a very crude preview? and visually they are a little busy with combs showing (as is freeform) - still, looking forward to creating with these So far it seems very flexible but I get the impression I would like to be a little more precise in the placement of curves and points - how can I do this other than by eyeometer? say I wanted a point 25% up a curve and a curve 25% along a side... Speaking of combs - straight line caps on the combs..called curves in the option settings though...made less noticeable by increasing the density...hmmm
I am finding sp0 surprisingly stable for newly hatched prodigy although there are obviously bugs and mistakes but I haven't encountered anything too gross yet -not the dog arse piece of rubbish I was expecting based on previous sp0 experience however I wont use it for production for a while yet Installation and activation went well - didn't bother about MS search although I still got .NET3 ( shouldn't that be mentioned in the software requirements and then you have to MS update anyway...) Another oddity - I haven't understood why its necessary to separately download all those weldment profiles etc - why cant they be on the DVD?
Anyway there's a few thoughts feel free to chip in with any of your own observations. Let you know how further excursions go
neil