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While working on a rather large model, I discovered that Ctrl-A selected only half of the surfaces. The model consists of two adjacent meshes and only the surfaces of one of those meshes was being selected. See the attached screengrab.

The zip of the model is too large to attach (3.5MB) so here's a link to it:

https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/files/Avalon-P1-2.zip

Well, in that case, then, I'm not sure what you mean by "its veracity has been challenged". WIPs certainly don't have to be shown in their final forms.

CC,

Groups can be used to reduce the number of manual copy-paste-and-rotate operations when the rotations are around a central point. You can group the models that already have been rotated and then rotate that entire group. It can significantly reduce the total number of operations involved. When you're done you can ungroup them all (or not) as appropriate. Similar groupings can help when creating linear assemblies.

I agree, though, that creating "macros" consisting of a sequence of operations would be very helpful.

Here's the announcement for some of my most recent efforts. As mentioned above, they need Celestia to have been installed. They should work under Windows, MacOS and Linux. Each includes both installation and operating instructions.
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The preliminary Framework, Power and Mundilfoeri map Addons have all been updated. The Framework has increased dramatically in size to support additional interactions with the communication system used in the Neosol stellar system. They all work individually or in cooperation with each other and/or the original Resurgence Addon.


I consider these to be "Release Candidates." I think they've ready to be officially published, but would like others to test them for bugs or problems that I might have overlooked.

1. MundilfoeriMaps_v097.zip  (45 MB, expands to 68 MB, updated 16:30 EST, 19 Jan '18 )
 -- Adds maps of the Mundilfoeri planetary system.

2. ZeusBattery_v097.zip (3.4 MB, expands to 4.2 MB, updated 16:30 EST, 19 Jan '18 )
-- Adds a battery to the Resurgence maps. v0.95 improves backdrop and explosion.
 
3. ResurgenceFramework_v097.zip (19 MB, expands to 37 MB, updated 16:30 EST, 19 Jan '18 )
-- Adds several control icons at the bottom of the maps, in addition to some control over the things they display.
This includes elements of the Neosol Communication network.

Below are screengrabs of some of what is included in the updated Framework Addon. See earlier posts for images from the Mundilfoeri and Power Addons.

Framework cooperating and interacting with the original Resurgence Addon and with the Zeus Battery Addon.

Two 3D maps of the NeoSol communication network as provided in the Framework Addon.

Two control pages for the Neosol communication devices: a buoy used by the network and an interface to control the local connection to it.

Edited to add:
Almost all of the visible objects were created using Anim8or, including the buttons and the backgrounds. The exceptions are the hexagonal and circular meshes which consist of individual OpenGL lines. Those were created by programs which I wrote.  They defined those two objects using Celestia's native "CMOD" format.  It'd be nice if I could have used Anim8or to create them, but so far I haven't figured out a way to do that.

What renderer are you using?

I'm slowly adding some interactive 3D components to the Resurgence maps. (See link above.) Here's an example, providing them with a power source.

Steve,

Thanks!

It doesn't crash and it remembers the default font.

Oops. Without making any changes (i.e. with the new Arc Rotate still the default), "Anim8or has stopped working" when I selected/opened an existing .an8 file which contains (among other things) multiple text strings, although the latter might be a red herring.

I've set Anim8or to be the default program used to open .an8 files.

In contrast, running Anim8or first, then using its "File -> Open..." menu item to open the same .an8 file doesn't crash.

A zip containing clipper.an8 is attached.