I am trying to place a co-ordinate system along a bspline curve. I need to use "by incremental distance along curve" as the spacing varies and I need to use "chord length" for my purposes. I am finding that if I use the "chord length" option I get an error saying the "curve must be planar", but if I use "by spacing along a curve" using "chord length" it works? this also occurs with points? these errors do not occur if I use the "arc length" option.
thanks Wayne, hey would you know when placing cells at CS points along a line, is there any short cut way to not include one? instead of having to add all the CS points that you do want included?
one other thing wayne, you mentioned that you had problems with crashing? would that be because of the base cs being located at 0,0,0? would it be better to move it closer to the model itself? would this create any problems?
Hi Richard,
you could move it closer, but I found as long as it was not visible in the model it is ok. So maybe just select the BaseCS and right click and turn of visibility.
With performance it is a bit of a guess. I found that solids are an issue probably due to the solids in GC being the older solids which don't appear to be very memory friendly. Generally if you have enough ram it is ok. Processors don't appear to make that much difference.
I tend to try and split up processing tasks to different files so that the final file is as efficient as possible. Sometimes using excel to do some of the data handling or storing and read it back into a fresh file.
hope that helps
Wayne
ok, thanks Wayne. I usually have the base CS not visible. someone did mention to do a controlled export of my model onto my local drive and work from there but if I do that wouldn't I loose the paths of all my cells located on PW?
HI Richard.
If you have a something behaving slowly that you think shouldn't, it might be worth raising it as a ticket and providing technical support with your files. They can spend some time looking into it and provide some guidance on where it may be occurring.
Stuart
ok, stuart, but just a question to the more experienced GC users, I have an alignment model which consists of 675 cells. could anyone advise if this would slow down the model significantly ?
also would it help if I used a locale base CS so the model is closer to the base point?