> How do you know if the history is enabled or disabled on an object?
You just know from its behavior - if it updates when you edit the generator curves or objects it has history enabled, otherwise not.
> I am still adjusting to the GUI and am not sure if i am just missing something
> obvious. Is there somewhere that lists object properties? Maybe that shows
> the current state of the object being selected?
This is one of the areas that is not really finished yet. In the future I expect to have the concept of an object properties panel that lets you edit various parts of the object state, but version 1.0 won't actually have this yet.
MoI is still a very young product, there will be several "missing" areas like this for some time - some type of grouping / layers / object management type mechanism is another big missing area. I'm kind of lumping this together with object properties so that's also why I have held off on object properties until I have had a chance to really tackle this area as a whole. Certain areas that involve a lot of UI are going to progress rather on the slow side.
> When I run history, all I see is a prompt for select objects, if i have not already, then enable or disable.
Yup, it's pretty bare bones, it just lets you set it on or off, it doesn't tell you the current state. Eventually when there are object properties this command will go away and it will just be in the properties.
> Just curious, if more indepth parametrics were in effect, would there be a
> much larger draw on system resources?
Yes in some ways, because certain types of parametric history will involve saving earlier versions of the objects involved.
For example - if you import a model from an IGES file and then want to fillet some of the edges of it, for the fillet to have parametric history means that the original unfilleted objects need to be stored somewhere so they can be accessed again for recalculation when the fillet changes. That's in addition to the normal current model state that has the filleted result. It may be necessary to store many different earlier versions of models in this manner, which is going to involve quite a bit of work for managing all this extra data.
> How do you get any work down with all the effort you put into your forum?
:) Well, if it wasn't for my effort in the forum I wouldn't really properly understand what things need the most work.
So it pays off because otherwise I might be spending a lot of effort working on the wrong stuff...
> Thanks for making me budget a new tabletPC. By the way, are there any
> you would recommend?
The tricky part is getting one with an ok video card in it, there are plenty that skimp in this area so watch out for that. For quite a while Toshiba had some with pretty good graphics cards in them, so that might be a good one to check out. When you get closer to buying, maybe you can post (under a new subject) here asking for recommendations, or also post the specs of the one you have decided on for comments. You also might want to check out what people are talking about here:
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/
There's also a different option, the Wacom Cintiq:
http://wacom.com/cintiq/ - it's rather expensive, but it is a monitor + tablet combination that you can use with your existing computer and video card.
- Michael