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Friday pictures 5-4-'18

-niels- — Fri, 04 May 2018 08:20:18 GMT

A nice Friday everyone!

Nothing special today, modeled some abstract shape during a free moment and decided to render it.

Played a little with camera path in 3DS Max, in the final result i found out that it isn't smart to have your model away from the origin when rotating around... hence the moving background.

Shame the forum only allows gif files up to 5000k, so the quality is a bit less then my original renders.

Anyway, i've attached the actual model for those who want to have some fun with it.

It's a fun test of the 3D sketch's "curve on face" function.

Have a nice weekend!

Re: Friday pictures 5-4-'18

Anonymous — Fri, 04 May 2018 10:25:58 GMT

Hi Neils;

Heres a quick render of your Abstract model.

It took around an hour (left it chugging away in the background)

Have a good weekend,

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WHolzwarth — Fri, 04 May 2018 13:03:42 GMT

Hmm. Has anyone else problems with rebuilds in Niels' IPT after moving EOP up and back down?

I've tried with 2018.3 (Build 284)

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TheCADWhisperer — Fri, 04 May 2018 13:13:58 GMT

I get error if I do a Manage>Rebuild All.

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-niels- — Fri, 04 May 2018 13:28:30 GMT

@WHolzwarth & @TheCADWhisperer

Lol, that's weird... it completely falls apart when rebuilding for me too...

I managed to manually fix the failing features, though it might be slightly different now.

Curious why it failed in that manner... i did delete some sketches that i didn't use in the end... and there was a leftover workplane that was not needed...

I think the biggest failing happened in the boundary patch, but not really sure...

Anyway, new version attached that "should" survive a rebuild...

Re: Friday pictures 5-4-'18

timdown73 — Fri, 04 May 2018 13:47:31 GMT

Alien Bowling ...Ball? You almost guaranteed to throw a Blizzlnarp every time. (Just a quick render.)

Re: Friday pictures 5-4-'18

hosford — Fri, 04 May 2018 14:50:12 GMT

A small non free form project.

Re: Friday pictures 5-4-'18

Anonymous — Fri, 04 May 2018 17:39:00 GMT

OK, I know this is not an Inventor model and I hope you don't mind me posting it (Admin can delete it if so), but I just thought it was funny and frankly pretty darn stupid and thought you'd all get a kick out of it.

We just supplied the office here with Varidesks. A few days later, walking by an engineer's desk, I see this:

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WHolzwarth — Fri, 04 May 2018 20:30:42 GMT

@-niels- schrieb:
Anyway, new version attached that "should" survive a rebuild...

Interesting, Niels

Was Rebuild all ok with 2018.2? Here with 2018.3 problem still exists.

Perhaps some stuff for @johnsonshiue.

Re: Friday pictures 5-4-'18

leowarren34 — Fri, 04 May 2018 20:59:40 GMT

The feeling you get when you finish an assembly for your GCSE 3D design project, taken atleast 10+ hours but the adventure and development has been worth it.

Re: Friday pictures 5-4-'18

kelly.young — Fri, 04 May 2018 23:55:38 GMT

Happy Friday!

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-niels- — Sun, 06 May 2018 17:26:29 GMT

@WHolzwarth, @johnsonshiue

Interesting indeed... i rebuilt it several times at work with v2018.3 and i had no problems...

After reading your post i downloaded it at home and opened it with 2019 and it fell apart again after moving the EoP up and back down...

I wonder why it fails so horribly... it's just a part i made for fun so i never considered rebuilding it in the first place but there might be something underlying that could be worth looking into.

To note: after i fixed the model it remains correct after moving the EoP or rebuild all...

@Anonymous: ROFL!!

Are you sure you want to call this person an engineer?

Well... he's thinking with boxes... not outside the box or even inside the box... but there's boxes at least.

Re: Friday pictures 5-4-'18

mpatchus — Sun, 06 May 2018 22:54:39 GMT

Spent a little time modifying last week's chess set with the 2019 relaese.

Hope everyone enjoys and spots the significance.

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johnsonshiue — Sun, 06 May 2018 22:58:04 GMT

Hi Niels,

This is a very stylish model. If I had a printer, I would print it out. It is an art. I am able to reproduce the rebuild all failure on 2018.3. This is not unique to 2019. There seems to be multiple issues here. The main problem is the Curve on Surface seems to be unstable. For some reason, the Sweep feature lost its path on Rebuild All. This is wrong. I don't have a good explanation here. I will work with the project team to understand the behavior better.

Many thanks!