Forum: Carrara


Subject: Lather Tool

dbigers opened this issue on May 05, 2004 ยท 9 posts


dbigers posted Wed, 05 May 2004 at 10:08 PM

Anyone else have trouble with the lathe tool from within the vertex modeler? Heres what happens. I create a profile of one side of a wine glass. Then I select the profile I just created. Then I hit the lathe button. Just like the manual says. The manual says I can adjust the number of sections using the + or - keys. This part works. But I cant tell what level I am at unless I count each keypress. It defaults to 12 each time. The manual says you can also enter the value manually. But that option doesnt come up until after the lathe operation has been done. And it always defaults to 12. The only way I discovered that I was in fact increasing the sections with the + or - keys was the fact that after the lathing operation was complete it showed in that box how many sections there were. This box will not come up for me until after I do the lathing operation, which is not very helpful. I found a thread about this on the 3D Extract forums with a similar problem. They mentioned problems with the interactive renderer interfering with the view of the axis line. I have tried it using all three rendering modes. For now I can keep track of the number of key presses, but it would be nice to have it show before I do the operation because if its wrong, then I have to start over with the default of 12. Anyone else have this problem. I am running under WinXP home edition. Thanks, Donnie