CompuServe Messages

Craig: I thought maybe Visual Link allowed you to set something in ACAD to force two sided. I find that when modeling it essential to control the face normals because it often provides an important visual clue to orientation in the 3D Modeler. Of course there are times when it isn't important whether you render force two sided as you mention, just a factor of processing overhead. As for AME, I agree that it is sloooow. Especially doing booleans as compared to 3DS boolean operations. Open solids are a fact of life and need to be modeled and I expect to be able to create models in a solid modeling program and have the surfaces oriented the right way. Simple solids are about as good as the translation to 3DS gets, however even simple, simple things get screwed up faces. But we shouldn't be too critical because it was designed with a different motive in mind. I also understand that AME will no longer be supported in future versions of ACAD. Correct me, but it my understanding that AutoDesk is retiring AME in favor of NURBS. Mike