This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Pat: Nice to hear from you. I'm on my way home now. I know that I'm going to have one hell of a pile of stuff to deal with when I finally get home, and I'm really not in the mood to go back to work yet, but life must…
John: Not a lot of message traffic, but I suspect that there are a lot of us lurking around. David Cohn Eclipse
Phil: I vote for Architects Ignoring Architecture. David Cohn, AIA
Carton: No problem. I'm sure that the tape is going to be readily available, but if you have any problem getting your hands on a copy, I've got one for you. David
Gary: > Walk is finally getting on the technology train. We might even get standards > enforced! It always amazes me that some of the largest firms are the slowest to adopt new technologies. It's about time. David
Carlton: I think I've got a couple of extra copies. If you can't get a hold of one, let me know next week. I can send you a copy when I get back from my vacation. David CADalyst
John: Having a notebook computer is one of the things that makes my job so easy. I can go on vacation and still get my writing done for the magazine in the vening when everyone has finally gone to bed. Besides, there's so much message traffic these days that I'd…
John: I think the point that the Schreiber people were trying to make was exactly as you described and was an attempt to differentiate between Puppeteer and the r4 IK routine. I did get a demo copy from Schreiber, which I'm looking forward to trying out once I get back…
Bill: Yes. It appears that if you define the heirarchies properly, everything follows the appropriate motions. David CADalyst
Bill: The XOAS program will be renamed Pennello at release. That's what it's being called now in the Autodesk Booth. David CADalyst
Jim: The Autodesk announcement re: SGI was that the 3DS renderer would soon be available on SGI. Just the renderer. David CADalyst
John: Sorry. I was passing the description on directly from what the Shreiber folks told me. David CADalyst
Dietmar: If you were as exhausted as I was when I wrote that message, your German wouldn't have been any better. David CADalyst
Bill: The Shreiber program does appear to be FK. The new Autodesk IK module in R4 appears to be particularly robust. You can set the constraints for each movement and even apply damping. You can then control motions interactively or have the computer solve complete motions. For example, you can…
Gary: I don't know where the confusion came from. Everything Gary announced is going to be part of R4, is produced by Autodesk, and is supported by Autodesk, just like past releases. It's just that the new features that are so exciting are IPAS routines rather than part of the…
Paul: Please see my other message. Basically, R4 will ship with a number of IPAS routines that were written by or for Autodesk/Yost Group. They are part of R4, not add-on software provided by third-parties. All of what Gary announced will ship with R4. In addition, there have been a…
Gary: Howdy from Siggraph. I was hoping to see you hear. I guess you didn't make it. David
Andy (et al); I'm at Siggraph right now and after the flood of messages last night, I went back to talk with Gary, Jack, Bob B, and everyone else so that I could provide straight answers to all the questions that were flying around after the initial announcement. There are…
Steve: Judging from previous upgrades, you will get a new box with new disks and new documentation but no lock, since you already have one. David
Gary: I just wanted to let you know that Autodesk and the Yost Group have completely blown me away. 3DSr4 looks incredible. Even my 13 year-old daughter who was sitting next to me in the theater at the Sony Center was applauding when she saw the inverse kinematics. I can't…
#113392-
3DS Party
Message #114219
John: Bring any extra tickets with you. I'm bringing my whole family down to Siggraph and could use a couple extra tickets. And I'm sure that there are others that can use some tickets for spouses as well. If anyone has tickets, just bring them along. David CADalyst
Michele: Make sure we see each other in Orlando. I'm bringing the whole family with me this time (Genny and my three daughters, my oldest is staying home for his summer job). We're at the Homewood Suites. See you there. David
Joseph: Siggraph: July 24-29. At least that's what I show in my PIM. David
Peter: Did I catch a peek of your stuff? You bet I did. The mice were great. I made two sets of slides, sent one to Eugene and kept the second for myself. You will probably hear from someone down there about using some images in the magazine. I generally…
Peter: No. The Viper will work with 3DS R3 right now but you should use the VIBCFG command line option to change the driver assigned for the materials-display and the render-display. Here's what I've got working now: Main-Display: Diamond Viper P9000 640x480x16 Materials-Display: VESA Compatibles 640x480x256 Render-Display: VESA Compatibles 640x480x256…
Phil: Whose P9000 board are you using? Most boards either come with a VESA driver or have one available for it. For example, the Diamond Viper has a utility hidden away on one of its disks called VPRMODE. If you type VPRMODE VESA, it loads its VESA driver. David
David: You're very welcome. Let me know if you have any additional questions. David
Dave: It's an old version of TAPCIS (or I guess the current version). I was just a couple of versions behind and too lazy to switch over until the old version started giving me problems. David
#Architectural Front end
Message #83067
If you're looking for information about Facade, I represent the vendor here on the forum. Facade is sold produced by Eclipse Software in Bellingham, WA. I'd be glad to send you more information. Just leave me your address and/or fax number. Or, if you can call from a fax machine,…
David: I would be glad to send you info on Facade. Just leave me an address and/or fax number and I'll send it right out. Facade is not expensive. It's very INEXPENSIVE! Facade has a suggested retail price of $189. Not bad for a feature-based parametric 3D face-based architectural modeler.…
I just reorganized my CompuServe files with a new version of TAPCIS. Please send me your address and phone/fax number again and I'll get some information out to you right away. David [Eclipse Software]
Facade is a 3D face-based modeler that runs inside of AutoCAD and makes it very easy to quickly build 3D models of buildings complete with windows, doors, floor slabs, roofs (with dormers and skylights) and detailed 3D stairs. Everything is built using meshes so that there are no extruded lines.…
Peter: The Diamond Viper comes with 2MB. I can't remember if you can add more (I don't think so) which would be necessary to do 1024×768 at 24-bit color depth. With 3MB on board, the Matrox MGA can do 1024x768x24. According to the manual (I happen to have a 3MB…
Peter: The Diamond Viper is a graphics board built around the Weitek P9000 chip, which at present is one of the fastest graphics accellerators available. You should be aware, however, that at present there is a small problem with the PCI version of this board and the in-line drivers from…
John: Well, whenever I get the driver, as soon as I get the driver, I'll try it out and post my results here. David
Phil: I haven't done much 3DS with it in the past couple of weeks. I was holding out until the new in-line driver was available. But I can configure for a VESA driver and get the greater color depth and resolution, just not as fast. What we're talking about doesn't…
Dave: Have you had a chance to play with Facade 2.0? I guarantee that if we were to include that feature in a future release, it would only be included if it worked as flawlessly as the rest of the product. While I've already compiled quite a list of features…
Phil: I talked on the phone to a tech rep at Vibrant on Thursday and they were still officially saying 4 to 6 weeks 🙁 David
David: That's an interesting idea. We'll kick it around and see what the rest of the design team thinks. The architect in me kinda likes it. David
Don't worry about it. I try not to make a big deal of wearing both hats because it occassionally upsets people who don't know me and don't realize that I really can keep my business separate from my duties with CADalyst.
John: Did you happen to notice that PC Graphics & Video is published in Eugene, OR by Advanstar Communications, the same people that publish CADalyst? Expect to see a lot more articles of interest to 3D Studio users in the future. David [CADalyst]
Chuck: You're talking to them. Facade is marketed exclusively by: Eclipse Software, Inc. 301 West Holly Street, Suite U4 Bellingham, WA 98225 (800) 768-6779 or (206) 676-6175 fax: (206) 676-0921 I am the president of the company. The software is written by Paul Stocks and Don Obertur. Paul is formerly…
Jim: No problem. There's also an article about them in an ancient CADalyst from 1987. I don't remember the exact issue date (and those issues from before I arrived on staff are not in the retrievable index). David
James: It would certainly be something we would consider for a future release of Facade. Right now, the walls are flat surfaced, as are the walls in virtually every other architectural front-end I have ever seen. It might be possible to create a wall-style with KETIV's package that would mimic…
Dick: The Micron has proven to be almost twice as fast as the Xi from last year. So far, the Micron is the only PCI Pentium we've looked at. There are a number of machines scheduled to arrive in the next couple of weeks for our annual comparative review, so…
I knew you didn't have it yet. I was just pointing out that we are already planning/working on the next release, so this is truely going to be an evolving product. No date for 2.5 yet. Gee wiz. We just started shipping 2.0 two weeks ago. But it will probably…
I hope that you will also communicate wish list items back to us (Eclipse). We are going to be very aggressive in upgrading Facade. We're already at work on version 2.5. Here are some of the current wish list items: 1. Command to automatically change the appearance of an existing…
Joe: Facade will do much more than a program that relies on simple extrusions, and is much easier to use than AME, especially from an architectural standpoint. David [Eclipse]
Joe: >>Can Facade do boolean operations? Not in the true sense of the word. When you create a window, door, or other opening with Facade, it is indeed cut into the 3D wall, so in that respect you could consider it a boolean subtract. The new version of Facade (2.0)…
Bob: Would you be interested in (and would your corporate overseers allow you to) tell your story in CADalyst? I know that I'd be very interested in working with you on the story. As I said in one of my earlier messages, I had interviewed with Mr. Hillier himself back…
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