Ral Partha said:
I'm having some second thoughts about upgrading. The main reason is that I don't like the way the author re-configured the Find Corresponding Faces (CTRL+K) feature. It feels a lot clunkier. When you use this feature, a panel with a listing of pieces shows up and I don't particularly care for it. I prefer the one in version 2 where you just click the part on the model and it shows up in red in the 2D window. At least the Join/Disjoin feature works the same way as before.
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I loved the "turn the model so the red face is right in front of you on screen", too. But since you pointed it out, I checked it in 3, and I love the new one even more.
The thing is, you get shown even more information. First there is the layout that interactively shows what edge goes where (a great interactive assembly manual !), and when you click on a part in the unfolded layout, the part is highlighted with the rest of the model being transparent. If the model would rotate as it did in 2, that would be nice, but I personally can live with how it works now. Don´t just give up on it, although I too sometimes prefer simple user interface over more (and sometimes unnecessary) information.
But I have another problem, maybe there´s someone here who can help me with it.
I can´t for the life of me get 3 to import other formats than PDO´s ?! 2 worked fine with OBJ and DXF and LWO´s, but now ? I am guessing that it might be a Win Vista access restriction thingamajig, but I am not sure. And with Pepakura having absolutely NO user support in form of a forum on their website (that I can find, that is), I am a bit lost here.
Any hints on where to find other non-japanese english speaking PEPAKURA users ?
Thanks,
Michael
P.S.: FIRST POST ! GREAT FORUM !