Thanks Michael

Another query.
I regularly need to add extra styles and would like those extra styles to became part of my standard default listing.
Using the Add To in the Edit Styles does not get retained as a permanent thing?

Brian

Hi Brian

re: set default styles - the way you do that is to set up a blank model with the styles how you want it, then save that off to a 3DM file.

Then go to Options > General > Template file: and specify that file as the startup template.

Then when you start up MoI or do A File > New, that 3DM file will be used as a template and the styles (and objects if you wish - anything that is stored on a per-file basis) will be sucked in from that file.

- Michael

And just a few seconds ago I was only 77!
Hope I can work that through!

Brian

Hi Brian, do you mean that the Template file thing is confusing you?

You can do the first step of just adding the styles you want and then saving that to a 3DM file, right?

After you have done that, you just go to the Options dialog, which you can launch by pushing this button:




You will want to fill in the option that says "Template file", push the little button at the end of the line to get a file picker dialog, then pick the file you saved that has your styles in it:




That's it, you're done - the next time you start MoI your initial style list will be loaded from that file. If you want to update them, just update that file.

MoI will need to access that file every time it starts, so put the file somewhere that you are not likely to delete it. If you delete it, then MoI won't be able to find it at startup and it will revert to the stock set of styles if that happens.

- Michael

Thanks Michael
I understand that last post (easy) but, trying to use your previous explanitory post seems to be beyond me---brrrhhh!

Am I miss interpreting what your meaning is of--"set up a blank model""??

Sorry!

Brian

Hi Brian,

> Am I miss interpreting what your meaning is of--"set up a blank model""??

Blank in this context just means "no objects".

So set up your styles as you want, but do not create any objects - then save out as a 3DM file. The file will contain no objects but it will contain a style list still.

When you set it as a template, that file will be loaded as the starting environment when you start up MoI or pick File / New.

You can have objects in there as well, if you always want some particular objects to be included in your environment when you start up MoI each time, but usually most people don't want there to be any objects in their model when they initially start the program, hence the "blank" part.

- Michael

Thanks
Brian

Hi Brian, I'm still working on the release notes, won't have those ready until tomorrow.

- Michael

>Hi Brian
>
>re: set default styles - the way you do that is to set up a blank model with the styles how you want it, then save that >off to a 3DM file.
>
>Then go to Options > General > Template file: and specify that file as the startup template.
>
>Then when you start up MoI or do A File > New, that 3DM file will be used as a template and the styles (and objects if >you wish - anything that is stored on a per-file basis) will be sucked in from that file.
>
>- Michael

Thanks guys, I had been wondering how to do just this thing.

Mark

Great stuff Michael G.! I noticed that you don't have to hold down the tab key while typing "merge" when merging edges. Much easier to use!

Thanks again for a great tool!

Michael T.