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I too was mistaken, the name is its manufactoring size (eg, 130nm, 22nm, 22nm, 14nm etc)

You were right to provide the number, as even within each lithography they divvy up the specs.

I havnt closed any other open apps as I am working on them, but converting the subdivide to mesh (same polycount) results in a 0.2 fps increase from 3.6 to 3.8 in scene mode. (I ran it repeatedly and took the average)

OGL is running is software mode at this time because of the other apps open (even though PerfectGold uses DirectX)

When I take a break, I will run the scene again in hardware mode.

However, as steve has already indicated, you have modeled excessive faces on the head, eyes and hands.

Trev

I also loaded your project and noticed some things.

When I load the object or figure its fine, but when I enter sequence mode it slows down dramatically.

When I press play in sequence it playes at 8fps, yet I can drag the timetrackbar accross the screen and play the animation at probably double that (pretty much as fast as I can rotate round the object in arc rotate, which while slower than in object or figure mode, is still a lot faster that 8 fps)

Scene is also the same.

I noticed that while you said there were no textures, when I downloaded the zip it did have textures, the eye and metal.
I had no problems with these at this time.

Trev

Steve, Im not sure that refrence images should be exported in obj and stl.
Im not sure when they started to be exported but it means removing them before exporting which I forget since they are in a hidden layer.

Refrence images should be an8 only, If they are to be exported they should explicitly be converted to mesh.

I guess you could add a questionbox on exporting stating
"You have 1 or more reference images in this object.
Do you want to export these too?
YES NO"

Trev

I like the history F-Key.
I assume it would work like this:
Object Mode > Point mode
F2 returns to Object and press again returns to Point.

Select > Box Select > Scale
F2 returns to Box select, pressing again returns to scale.

Or would pressing F2 keep going back untill it reached Object Mode?


FromSoySauce, do you know that all PE and F buttons are enabled from the offset in the latest versions?
That means you dont need to switch mode to select a point or face.

If you still want the single cycle then I can see that auto-conversion will not work for it (as selection gets ever bigger, I use this technique sometimes so its rather usefull on its own, but now for cycleing)

Trev

Just thought Id Highlight a few needed features that were stated previously.

DebugA works great, I forgot about it and needed it, thanks to a few posts up I was able to see all legnths of lines.

Corner Angles are still needed (Maybe toggle like DebugA)

Splines need the ability to join or else, what does "Convert to spline" work on, so far it has never worked for me.

Lines need a tool to add "Thickness", I tried my making a line path a mesh and used "Extrude Edges" but nothing happened, I also tried "Inset" but that requires a face.
It would be good if that could work with lines from the offset (just like shell mode, add thickness would draw aditional lines a set distance away from the original line with mouse drag (or dialoge per line segment))

Then the line can be extruded or lathed with the thickness already set.

The reason for wishing the feature at the line stage is for drawing more CAD style with the numbers.

If we drew a single line and then lathed/extruded into a mesh and then shelled, we loose the line legnths.
I am not requesting line legnths on mesh as we have already seen the mess, so Im requesting a feature to be brought forward to the planning stage of drawing.

Thanks,
Trev

EDIT
I  have just realised how "Convert to spline" works.
You have to go to PEF mode and then select on edges that dont connect back over themselves (eg, on a cylinder, cut the top off, then only select the perimiter and ignore the crossing lines(Triangulation)) then click "Convert to Spline"
So, this should be dissabled on object mode to denote it cannot be used.

With this method I extruded a line, used shell tool on it, deleted the "Raised" verticies, removed all faces and cross connecting lines on bottom, then finally selected the Inner and Outer Perimiters and said "Convert to Spline" to get back legnths on screen.

This is a very long way round, but at least I know it can be done now.
Im not sure I want to teach my dad how to do that though....

Attached was suppoosed to be a working example, however it crashed when I edited the path/spline

The boolean scripts work most of the time, but I found they got stuck with high poly counts for 2 reasons. 1 High poly counts bring the script to a crawl, 2 the more polys, the greater chance for errors and holes.

I made a screw thread and boolean subtracted it from a cube, it left many holes and inverted faces.

So, best to use simple stuff, subtracting a cylinder from a cube is fine so Im sure its poly-count related. (cylinder being 3-32 sides while screw thread was (32*6)+(2*(6*32)) which was a lot of faces. (if interested on my maths, I used the spring plugin with 4 sides 6 loops at 32 per loop. Boolean union spring and cylinder removes inner 2 sides)

Trev

I dont have either of those, I only have an8.

Mostly because an8 still supports all my hardware configurations and OS's but the others dont and havnt for a long time.
Not to mention that I have absolutly no idea how to do anything in them except maybe place a primitive.

Since you seem good at making videos, perhaps you could make a comparison vid showing the same features in blender.

As you say, showing individual polygons is not good for examples sake, but that sword you made showed clearly some feature alteration requests.

Trev