Ok all,

Really dumb question. I understand the principles of 3D cad, it is just the implementation it driving me nuts.
I am rather new to 3D cad. (go ahead and laugh, just not too hard) ;-)

I am not a designer just a lowly c# developer.

I have received some great info from Burrman on how to draw profiles around a curve and then sweep them into a nice radius.

When I attempt to draw the profiles up from the Right view port (z axis) and then across the x or y axis. I am having all kinds of problems
getting the profile to go in the correct direction. I have tried to go across view ports but my profile lines look rather wiggly all over the place.

When I show points than attempt to align, oh boy, what a mess. The examples I have seen here on the forum are all beautifully neat an organized.

For us graphically-challenged types. What are some basic tips and tricks to lining things up and being able to work across multiple axes.

Thanks

Joe

Make sure you have "object snap" turned on (and then make sure "axis" is ticked).

I tired that Nick, Works beautifully.

Thanks

Joe

:)



Maybe one day.

Hey Danny,

I will order two copies ;-)

Michael, with all of that free time you have on your hands, writing version 2. You should be able to wip this right out! ;-0

Thanks

Joe

Hi Joe, also there are some video tutorials available here:

http://moi3d.com/1.0/docs/tutorials.htm

Those go through a pretty detailed step-by-step for building a few basic models, if you haven't seen those yet those are definitely worth going through to get an overall introduction.

- Michael

The tutorials are a great place to start!

Also, more so than object snap, you wan to make sure that "Straight snap" is enabled. This will produce little guide lines when you are moving in the x, y and z directions.

Thanks Michael,

I am on round two of the video tutorials. Every time I watch them I pick up something new.
Thanks Burr on the tip on "Straight snap".

Joe