What Enhancement Would You Like To See Implemented

[miljnor]

9 - Use Flash CPR. All that OpenGL goodness let's you control the light source. And you don't have to re-render on rotating or zooming.

I don't know how but will look into flash cpr.

what do you mean about no re-rendering on rotating and zooming???

[Tekwrtr]

Flash CPR, introduced w/ GibbsCAM 2004 (v7.3 IIRC) is an OpenGL rendering method. One way to access it is to right click on the render button in the top level palette and select FlashCPR. The next time you render you use Flash CPR instead of the traditional CPR.

This rendering mode lets you manipulate the rendered part as much as you want without redrawing. A redraw (re-render) is forced when you change tool data or operation data.

[gibbsman]

The flash CPR is great, I'm currently trying to get my bosses to upgrade our gibbs software so I can use the latest version on a daily basis. I find it a pain to have to re-render the part every time the view is changed, especially when zooming in.

[jonbanquer]

Originally Posted by Tekwrtr Umm ... that's been in since GibbsCAM 2004. The Windows paradigm is that right-clicking is for context menus, etc.. However, a scroll button click will let you rotate the part. And personally, I still use the trackball (the eye) for quick and easy presets ... straight down the current plane depth axis, iso, earlier views, zoom to fit. Sure there are kb shortcuts but sometimes the mouse is easier.

1. Thanks for posting here. Greatly appreciated.

2. I have always used the middle mouse button (the wheel) to zoom in and out in Gibbs and I never realized that if you hold down the middle mouse button you can rotate the part as well.... as you know I only have the old Gibbs manuals but my friend back in Connecticut sent me the new .pdf manual for Solid Surfacer this week and I'm going to spend sometime with the Solid Surfacer manual this weekend. I actually called Gibbs and asked if I could buy the new help manuals on .pdf... was told no.

Thanks for the heads up on using the middle mouse button to rotate !

Hope to have some good feedback for you on your updated Solid Surfacer manual.

jon

[jonbanquer]

Originally Posted by gibbsman The flash CPR is great, I'm currently trying to get my bosses to upgrade our gibbs software so I can use the latest version on a daily basis. I find it a pain to have to re-render the part every time the view is changed, especially when zooming in.

I found that annoying as well. One other benefit of Flash CPR seems to be that the lighting and detail seem much better with Flash CPR (MachineWorks) vs the traditional CPR. I have not found any drawback to Flash CPR yet.... other than it takes slightly more time to exit it.... no big deal.

jon

[AplusWizard]

How about sub routines for 4 and 5 axis milling? I got files that are clogging up my machine because the are pretty big...
Well, they are not that big but my machine only has about 1.25 Mb of memory... How embarassing...