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#digitization over bg

    20-Aug-93 22:44:19
Sb: #digitization over bg
Fm: michael poly 71604,332
To: Yost Group 76702,413
Virtually all 3-D software systems permit 3-D modeling (digitization) using a camera captured background. I realize 3-D Studio does permit this (load pix as background, see background in shaper). If the background contains small objects or intricate type it is virtually impossible to see what you're drawing over as no provision has been made to be able to have any zoom capabilities on the background. As you are aware, if you in- advertently hit zoom, only the wire (shapes) get larger and you can never hope to return to your model exactly over the background. I know… disable scrolling…that's not what I'm talking about….Is there any hope that in Release 3.0 this glaring shortcoming is going to be fixed-or is there some trick I'm unaware of to magnify the drawing making digitization a more simple and exacting process? I'd really appreciate your inputs on this as it is a daily frustration. Thanks