Spinner,
Nope, when I figure out how to do things like torpedo cut outs, build an Oerlikon gun etc. It'll be a 1942 Vosper MTB...
I'm scratch building one in plastic at the mo.
Cheers,
Fraser

Samples from a few different eras there.. :) That's great progress!

- Michael

Schbeurd wrote:

> By the way, Michael, is it normal (!) that if you have several non joined surfaces
> (or different objects) and that you select a curve on one of them and press
> CTRL-A, MoI will highlight all curves on the selected surface and all the other
> surfaces, not the curves ???
> Maybe not a bug, but at least some "unexpected" behaviour...

Well, this was intentional so that Ctrl-A / Select all would behave equivalent to dragging an area selection around everything.

But I think that you're right - if you have an edge or face sub-object selection it is probably more expected that select all will only grab those other sub-objects instead of everything else in addition to that.

I have changed select all to behave like this for the next beta.

- Michael

>> Well, this was intentional so that Ctrl-A / Select all would behave equivalent to dragging an area selection around everything.
But I think that you're right - if you have an edge or face sub-object selection it is probably more expected that select all will only grab those other sub-objects instead of everything else in addition to that.
I have changed select all to behave like this for the next beta.


Cool ! Thanks Michael. It seems there will be a lot of small changes in the next beta that will make life easier ! ;-)

> It seems there will be a lot of small changes in the next beta that will make life easier ! ;-)

Yup, a bunch of little polishing here and there.

It's easier for me to quickly jump on things that don't add any new top-level UI. Stuff that adds UI to the top level makes me slow down and carefully consider it an awful lot.

Now I just need to fix this meshing bug, get selection undo working, and get back on track to work on editing background images so I can release a new beta.

- Michael

Now I just need to fix this meshing bug, get selection undo working, and get back on track to work on editing background images so I can release a new beta.

- Michael


It would certainly make life easier if one could have seperate top, side and front background images to work to!
Cheers
Fraser

> It would certainly make life easier if one could have seperate top, side
> and front background images to work to!
> Cheers
> Fraser

Hi Fraser, you can do this with the current Jan-18-2007 beta! Add in as many background images as you want - you can draw one in the top view, one in the side view, and one in the front view if you like.

This is available under View/Image - that will open up some controls in the upper-right and there is an "Add" button there, add in as many images as you want.

- Michael

Snap!
I'm building a 20mm for mine in modo and MoI currently.
Elco 80, Fairmile D and Vosper is my build order.
MoI is prooving invaluable with its easy importing to modo.
WTG, Michael!

Great!
I started an Oerlikon in SketchUp but haven't gotten around to finishing it. I did manage a 73' hull in SketchUp, but it was a complete bastard to do! In fact to do my scratch built Vosper, I modelled the bridge in SketchUp and then laid it out flat in Xara (what an ace vector prog that is) and cut plastic from those drawings.
The results, so far, are here: http://www.frasers-art.com/models/m-index.htm Working in both worlds is really 'educational' You can check out the sections you've drawn, make sure they fair up before getting busy cutting etc. My next problem is going to be finding a rorgamme I can actually afford in my now unemployed state to map, texture and colour what I do!
Have you got your work posted somewhere?
Best,
Fraser

Seems you have a very good handcraft style!

Cheers, Frenchy!
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