Bobcad Newbie and Stock Selection

[thos913]

I bought Bobcad V24 and and attempting to learn it. My machine is not complete yet but my support time allowance ran out weeks ago before I ever needed to call them. I have been trying to import a jpeg image with Bobart and everything goes fine until I get to the point where I am trying to create a stock layer. I click on the line while holding shift and it highlights but does not select the other lines in the rectangle that was just drawn. I have tried this many, many times using several different jpegs with the same result. I even got the online lesson and followed it to the letter and still no good. This is my first attempt at using this software. Am I missing something. Any help appreciated....

Kenny

[hkenuam]

Zip up your drawing and post it here and we can take a look. It likely is something simple like the chains are broken.

hk

[thos913]

As the old adage says "when all else fails, read the instructions". The wife walked in and said did you do this and immediately pointed out a point that I had missed. All is well in Whoville for the time being. I will try to do a better job of reading the instructions. Thanks for the offer of help. I am sure I will need it later....

Kenny

[BurrMan]

Leave it to the wife to immediatly see our faults or errors!!! Best go give her a kiss.

[Machineit]

As the old adage says "when all else fails, read the instructions". The wife walked in and said did you do this and immediately pointed out a point that I had missed. All is well in Whoville for the time being. I will try to do a better job of reading the instructions. Thanks for the offer of help. I am sure I will need it later....

Kenny

Damn, you a lucky man to have her!

[mcmoon03]

I agree that it could be a broken chain, I have ran into that same problem in the past from importing poorly produced pdfs with Bob Art. I have found that sometimes just using the optimization utility on the vectors in question had solved the problem. Just may need some cleanup.