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RAMA  
#1 Posted : Monday, September 15, 2008 5:29:01 PM(UTC)
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Hello Forum,

I've followed the forum for years without directly contributing and am a heavy Shark user. I've just purchased a new Mac Pro which should be a significant upgrade from my MacBook Pro. I also ordered a 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator. Is this supported in FX? I can return it if not. Have others had experience with it? Some of my friends have said it's great. Curious if it'll work.

Thanks, Rama
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tmay  
#2 Posted : Monday, September 15, 2008 5:56:47 PM(UTC)
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and it's worth it.

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Tim Olson  
#3 Posted : Monday, September 15, 2008 6:45:29 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: RAMA Go to Quoted Post
Hello Forum,

I've followed the forum for years without directly contributing and am a heavy Shark user. I've just purchased a new Mac Pro which should be a significant upgrade from my MacBook Pro. I also ordered a 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator. Is this supported in FX? I can return it if not. Have others had experience with it? Some of my friends have said it's great. Curious if it'll work.

Thanks, Rama


Hi Rama,

You will need Shark FX 5.5. We went through certification with 3dconnexion on two devices for mac (Spacenavigator and Spaceexplorer).

Tim
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RAMA  
#4 Posted : Monday, September 15, 2008 9:17:20 PM(UTC)
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Oh, that's great news! I've downloaded 5.5 beta so will be up and running soon...
Rama
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awieneke  
#5 Posted : Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:11:11 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: RAMA Go to Quoted Post
3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator.

Thanks, Rama


Hallo,
does the 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator works with ViaCad.
I would like to buy it also.
i could not find anything about viaCad support on the site of 3d connextion. But i think that i have read ( don't no where ) that it will work.
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Tim Olson  
#6 Posted : Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:17:29 AM(UTC)
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Hallo,
does the 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator works with ViaCad.
I would like to buy it also.
i could not find anything about viaCad support on the site of 3d connextion. But i think that i have read ( don't no where ) that it will work.



ViaCAD 2D/3D V6 supports SpaceNavigator. V5 does not.


Tim
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awieneke  
#7 Posted : Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:49:10 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Tim Olson Go to Quoted Post
ViaCAD 2D/3D V6 supports SpaceNavigator. V5 does not.


Tim


Great, i start to love ViaCad more and more,
particularly the bendigtool i used today very successfully:-)
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Tim Olson  
#8 Posted : Wednesday, September 17, 2008 12:56:50 PM(UTC)
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Great, i start to love ViaCad more and more,
particularly the bendigtool i used today very successfully:-)


Thanks for the feedback. Bending is fun to explore. Bending along a curve also produces some very interesting shapes.


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awieneke  
#9 Posted : Wednesday, September 17, 2008 2:42:16 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Tim Olson Go to Quoted Post
Bending is fun to explore. Bending along a curve


Tim


Hallo Tim,
could you tell me moe ?
This sounds very interresting to me.
I used bending around axises and the 'middlebending'. wher can i found the function ' bendig along a curve' ?

hope my english is not to bad.
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Tim Olson  
#10 Posted : Wednesday, September 17, 2008 3:43:52 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: awieneke Go to Quoted Post
Hallo Tim,
could you tell me moe ?
This sounds very interresting to me.
I used bending around axises and the 'middlebending'. wher can i found the function ' bendig along a curve' ?

hope my english is not to bad.


I made a quicktime movie in CU showing it applied to making a ring.

http://www.csi-concepts.com/Demo/RingBend.mov

This feature is in Shark LT, Shark, Shark FX and ViaCAD Pro.

Your bend ring is very nice! Feel free to post in the gallery, I'm sure others will find it interesting!



Regards

Tim
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awieneke  
#11 Posted : Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:21:18 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Tim Olson Go to Quoted Post

This feature is in Shark LT, Shark, Shark FX and ViaCAD Pro.
Your bend ring is very nice!



Thanks Tim, your film over bending is very good. It shows exactly, what up I looked in ViaCad
Can one select the bending path also inside?. My idea is that the ring size does not change, if I change material thickness

Anyway, i should upgrade.
What would you suggest? ViaCad Pro (i can not find an upgrade version from ViaCad ) or one of the Sharks ( better later, too expensively in the moment for me)

[SIZE="1"]'a result of my translation widget ' i hope one can read it[/SIZE]
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Tim Olson  
#12 Posted : Monday, September 22, 2008 12:58:01 PM(UTC)
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>>Can one select the bending path also inside?.

The path can be inside/outside wrt to body.

>>What would you suggest? ViaCad Pro (i can not find an upgrade version >>from ViaCad ) or one of the Sharks ( better later, too expensively in the >>moment for me)

The current version of ViaCAD Pro is V5 where V6 is scheduled for Feb. If you wanted to get on the current code stream (8xx) sooner, you may want to look into Shark LT.


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awieneke  
#13 Posted : Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:10:44 AM(UTC)
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Thank you Tim,

Originally Posted by: Tim Olson Go to Quoted Post


The path can be inside/outside wrt to body.
Tim

thank you, this sounds great ! I will download a demoversion to try it.


Originally Posted by: Tim Olson Go to Quoted Post

The current version of ViaCAD Pro is V5 where V6 is scheduled for Feb. If you wanted to get on the current code stream (8xx) sooner, you may want to look into Shark LT.
Tim

MMMh,
where is the tool 'curve bend' in Shark LT ?
i placed a question in the store. What they can offer to me.

back to the thread: I bought the 3dconnexion spacenavigator. It works fine.
But i could not find an easy way to navigate with the spacenavigator and select multible ( severel ) objects. as it is necessery to use the keyboard/an mouse, so i did before.


Is it possible in ViaCad to make own keyboard shortcuts ? in the special one : Group/ungroup and show workplane/change workplanes.

maybe someone is interested in my bendingring see the file.
Another thing i discovered in this file: how easy it is to change the sequence in the features ( history ).
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