by Mooselake » Mon Aug 24, 2015 4:25 pm
I may have found another bug (2.2990 on W10), or perhaps opportunity for user error, but can't find a work around.
While playing with a project for the laser (tiny version of the
quadra-lobed wheels, minus the different eccentricities) I created a pair of 4 sided mod 0.5 elliptical gears. To give them a little stand I went to boxing and to make plates for them (and got outsmarted, only made one that didn't have shaft holes, fixed per your previous post), and adjusted the sizes. I set the material thickness from the default 4mm to 2.5mm, and they disappeared off the screen (I couldn't recreate this on 2.29870 on the desktop, didn't try resizing here). A bit of experimenting and I found they changed size to become invisible. Ctrl-mouse wheel became an exercise in chasing them around the screen and beyond my eye-hand coordination. Saving and reloading the project didn't correct the size.
This is a round about way of also saying I couldn't find a resize option to make them visible again. Is there such an option, or is this a good time to ask for it to be added to your list - if so perhaps fit width, fit height, fit project options?
I did cut a pair of gears successfully, from dxfs. No option in the plugin to cut inside/outside the lines (that I've found yet, anyway_ so the teeth were too narrow, but they meshed and turned. Will redo after tweaking the minimum spokable gear size to get those 8 straight spokes. Auggie would have done it better
Kirk
I may have found another bug (2.2990 on W10), or perhaps opportunity for user error, but can't find a work around.
While playing with a project for the laser (tiny version of the [url=http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/POWER/gear/gear.htm]quadra-lobed wheels[/url], minus the different eccentricities) I created a pair of 4 sided mod 0.5 elliptical gears. To give them a little stand I went to boxing and to make plates for them (and got outsmarted, only made one that didn't have shaft holes, fixed per your previous post), and adjusted the sizes. I set the material thickness from the default 4mm to 2.5mm, and they disappeared off the screen (I couldn't recreate this on 2.29870 on the desktop, didn't try resizing here). A bit of experimenting and I found they changed size to become invisible. Ctrl-mouse wheel became an exercise in chasing them around the screen and beyond my eye-hand coordination. Saving and reloading the project didn't correct the size.
This is a round about way of also saying I couldn't find a resize option to make them visible again. Is there such an option, or is this a good time to ask for it to be added to your list - if so perhaps fit width, fit height, fit project options?
I did cut a pair of gears successfully, from dxfs. No option in the plugin to cut inside/outside the lines (that I've found yet, anyway_ so the teeth were too narrow, but they meshed and turned. Will redo after tweaking the minimum spokable gear size to get those 8 straight spokes. Auggie would have done it better :)
Kirk