Hi Henry,
I'd have a discussion with your teacher. For working productive and good
with your software you've to be a virtuso on the keyboard and the mouse or
use a different input advices no matter of the used software. It's like
typeing blind with 10 fingers. If you need snapping you would have to
activate the wished options in the tool bar. I can't see the difference
instead to swapping to 2d projection. Also the menu is already totally
overloaded.
To continue the discussion with your teacher: At work I've to feed a
databank with a lot of information. My most complain is that I can't work
here consistently with the keyboard. I've to switch very often to the mouse
which is very time consumming. All this theory of that you've to get it all
with the mouse in the menu is based on the idea to give beginners a good
step in the software but it's not a bit productive.
cheers
Boris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Tjernlund" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: Snapping
Just got back to RS after a couple weeks away. Still having problems
with snapping. I was going through one manual and using the pen tool
to make a sweep surface with curves. (One profile, on path, I guess.)
I decided after making the surface that i wanted to snap the two
curves together at their starting point. No matter what I did (5 key,
comma key, etc) I could not get them to snap in 3D. They would snap in
2D but be horrible off in the projection. What am I doing wrong?
BTW, why didn't RS simply put snapping options in a tool options bar?
One fellow teacher I knew didn't like it when software maker required
you to memorize what he called "finger gymnastics." What is so
difficult about making a snap tool bar with options? I'm dyslexic
(yes, I am actually dyslexic which is why interfaces make a big
difference for me) enough to have to try and memorize 10 different
special (no other way to access the feature) keyboard commands for 10
different programs who's makers think that theirs is the only program
that you use.
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