3ds Max :: 2014 Snapping Tool Now Sucks
Jul 8, 2013Why did autodesk change the way the snap in 2014 worked prior to its dozen of version of max. The latest snapping tool sucks horribly now.
View 9 RepliesWhy did autodesk change the way the snap in 2014 worked prior to its dozen of version of max. The latest snapping tool sucks horribly now.
View 9 RepliesI'm having a problem with Maya's vertex/point snapping function. This is a simple thing to do normally but in the 2014 student version (which is full functionality other than having a prompt saying it is a student version upon saving the file), it isn't working.
Basically the process is making a selection of vertices and with the transform tool active, MMB dragging the manipulator to snap the selection to a destination vertex. The pivot point/manipulator of the selection is moving and snapping to the destination vertex on it's own when I hold 'V' and MMB drag, rather than the whole selection moving with the transform manipulator and snapping to the destination vertex. This problem is also happening with the modelling toolkit which is really annoying. I have checked that i'm not in edit pivot mode etc.
The point snapping is working however for objects, but not in component mode as above.
I am running Windows 7, Maya SP2.
When I originally designed it.. Well I just sort of rushed through trying to make a simple logo. It keeps turning out too complicated..
The best logo I've had on that site so far was big bold text in Arial Black font.
Any ideas are appreciated, I'm planning on redesigning the whole template.
The site's about a modular, versatile CMS to give you an idea.
I just want some ideas of things that might be cool..
Turn off snap to objects.Now select a dimension tool and draw either a vertical or horizontal dimension line.Now notice the snapping to objects is re-enabled.How can I stop this from happening without having to keep turning of snapping while in dimensioning mode?This looks like a glitch in X4 because I don't see this problem in X5.
View 4 Replies View RelatedFor example take this tutorial and look at step 2:
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I tried view snap to grid, but this only affects the end selection of blend tool and not the start.
For some reason, the tool palette I usually use is not accessible. I opened a drawing that a co-worker was using and my tool palette now looks like an old version - it doesn't have any of my custom tools in it. How do I get back my tool palette??
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy pc is being upgraded next week (while I am away on holiday). The IT guy will be adding 4GB of RAM and will be switching from 32bit win 7 pro to 64bit win 7 pro, obviously, this will mean a clean install and re-installing all my software. I have my tool palettes set up with many blocks, leaders, hatch patterns etc and I want to know if there is a way I can save my tool palettes and then reload them onto the upgraded pc with the re-installed AutoCAD LT?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have just installed AutoCAD 2014 with our company update and I am having problems using our tool palettes.
When I click the buttons on the palette to load our blocks I get the message below:cad2014 tool palette error.png
I've checked the directorys of the tool palettes and they are routing to the correct location.
in 3D - Section Box all measurement tools are grey indication of no use/doesn't applay/stay away/? Using 3D-SB you can have a glance insidea 3D modell and there be objects that only have a elevaton and no other properties except New Constuction (Specialty Equipment). So confirming space is a pain.
View 6 Replies View Relatedi'm using 3ds max 2014, i'd recently installed it, and i've problems with the "conform" tool in the graphite modelling tools. i select the mesh i want to draw on, but the tool doesn't fit my mesh how i want, it just move it around the viewport with no sense. Iwas working in 3ds 2012, and it never happend
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhat's up with the Show Manipulator Tool in Maya 2014? On my system, the tool is not showing up in the toolbar. There's just a blank spot where the icon used to be. The tool is still accessible via the General Shelf.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have been using the Tube and Pipe tool on a daily basis for a few months running Inventor 2010. I recently installed Inventor Pro 2014 and it no longer works. As I click on the Tube and Pipe button, the Windows loading icon thing shows up and runs in circles until I manually stop it by closing Inventor thru the Task manager (printscreen attached). I tried this with a very light Assembly containing only 2 parts that I need to connect.
Inventor Pro 2014 64 bits / Build 170 / Release 2014 RTM
Windows 7 SP1
Intel Xeon CPU E5-1620 @ 3.60 GHz
8 GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro 4000
Where the "Layout constraint" options have gone in Inventor 2014?
Last seen in Inventor 2013 on the right-click menu of a part created through the "Make components" workflow, this invaluable tool has been abducted.
I just loaded 2014 onto a new computer and poof every custom toolbar has a question mark. Yet the image displays on the preview in the cui.
All of my button images are in a folder on my C: drive and that path is in the support file search path.
I went to one of the buttons and click on the small and large image and browsed to the folder with the BMP files and clicked it for both small and large.. And when I clicked 'ok' everything started to display correctly.
Custom Build with Win7 Pro 64Bit SP1
Gigabyte Tecohnology Co. X79-UD3
3.60 gigahertz Intel Core i7-3820
16GB GSkill Ripjaw Z PC3 2133 PC17000
PCI-E ATI FirePro V7800 2GB 256bit
ATA SanDisk SDSSDX24 SCSI Disk Device (256 GB)
Dell 2001FP and (2) 2407WFPHC Triple monitor setup
I am having an odd problem in AutoCAD 2014. I have 3D solids and when I cut a section through the building various objects in the 2D section are placed very far (like over 100,000 meters) to the left or the right of the main section. I have exploded all blocks down to their base components (all 3D solids).
View 1 Replies View RelatedI used to paste parts all the time while the constraints tool was open which made for a good work flow when I had to insert a lot of the same part. I just updated to SP1 and whenever I paste a part the constraint tool closes now.
How to use the ability to paste parts while constraining?
We have just recently install Building Design Suite Standard 2014 and the tool palettes DO NOT work.
Clicking on the standard palettes that load with ACAD will not even work. We have also tried to make new ones and the will not MAKE (for lack of words).
Here is the Autocad warning it gives us:
Unable to execute the tool. Possible causes are:
-The tool is not registered properly. Please check your installation.
-the tool is from another application and is incompatible with the current application.
We are running a new copy and it IS registered.
If I put an outer stroke around an image, the guides won't snap to the edges of the stroke. Instead, the guides will snap to the edge of the image. How can I get the guides to snap to the edges of the stroke?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have these small thumbnails on large white BG I need to crop out the white.
But when I crop, Ps does not snap to the edge of the thumbnails borders even though I have PS set to snap to layers and documents bounds.
How do I prevent files/photos from "snapping" together when I have multipul items open in photoshop CS6 at the same time and drag one close to another one. I work with a very messy screen and I like it that way. I HATE it when the 'snap' together.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow do I snap (objects or, especially, guidelines) to the outer edge of an outline? The guideline always snaps to the edge of the object, if the outline is behind, or within the outline if it's in front of the object.
I usually employ workarounds such as converting the outline to an object but that's not always convenient.
I have a canvas which is 1680x1200 and i'm designing a website. I've added some guides around the canvas but here comes my problem. Everything i create which i want to snap to those guides - snaps ....
View 9 Replies View Relatedchange the default (permanent default from image to image) of snapping from off to on --
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen adding a guide in CS2, it would usefully snap to the centre of the current layer. Sadly, cannot make this happen in CS3 except for text layers.
View 18 Replies View Relatedis there a way to turn off grid snapping with vector images? i have a point that is close to an edge and it keeps snapping to it when i try and move it. possible to turn it off?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm making a model of a building over a AutoCAD plan and I’m having problems with snapping and aligning. After I import polylines from AutoCAD, the accuracy becomes a problem, I can’t align or snap anything accurately (as seen on the attached picture). It keeps snapping in midd-air and not in the endpoint/midpoint, align doesn’t work either (the boxes in the picture are all aligned, x-max and y-min). I should mention that the same (similar) problem accrues in AutoCAD and after purging and repairing the dwg and starting over in max, it got better, but is still there.
3Ds Max 2013 Design/Vray 2.3/Win7 64bit
Q6700/8Gb/Radeon HD4870 1GB
I created this script to snap a three-bone IK chain to a three-bone FK chain. It works by first creating a line between the first and last bones in the IK chain, then it positions two point helpers (call them pointA and pointB) on the pivots of the second bone in the IK and FK chain.
Using the nearestPathParam function we can find a value (between 0 and 1) such that pointA and pointB lie on the normal plane to the straight line and then use the pathInterp function to translate the parameter into a position vector which we can use to position another helper (call it pointC) to then calculate the angle between (pointA - pointC) and (pointB - pointC). Sometimes the angle is calculated incorrectly, which is why I put an if-statement in towards the end to deal with this case; simply put a negative sign infront of the swivel angle.
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local arrayIK = #($Bone_IK01, $Bone_IK02, $Bone_IK03),
arrayFK = #($Bone_FK01, $Bone_FK02, $Bone_FK03),
IKGoal = $'IK Chain001'
function snapIKFK IKarray FKarray =
(
IKGoal.transform.controller.swivelAngle = 0
[code].....
I'm not a good scripter, so the script looks a little clunky. I'm also having the problem that the script doesn't work when I try to activate it through a button press, it says "--Type error: Call needs function or class, got:
ButtonControl:snapIKFK".
It seems there is no way to stop illustrator (CS5) from snapping to the edge of the artboard. Even if you hide the artboard, it still snaps to the invisible artboard.
is it possible that the brilliant folks at adobe missed this one and there is no way to disable this snapping to the artboard?
I'm having an issue with CS6 where my objects don't want to snap together. I have snap to point checked but it still won't work. Also when I hover over point or intersections it doesn't say "intersections" or "center" or etc beside my mouse.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI used to be able to snap to the end of the linework that form the visual end or intersection of walls while grip dragging a wall of one style to another. For example, using a wallstyle as a countertop, I'd be able to drag it to the corner of a room and use object snap to the intersection. In ACA 2012, the object snap defaults to the justification plane of the wall even if that's not where the intersection snap is desired.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI layout photos for albums and I just upgraded to CS4. Even though I have the snap to grids function selected my photos don't seem to be staying in line with the grid. I don't know what to do!
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