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Mads Prahm

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Jun 13, 1995, 3:00:00 AM6/13/95
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Help!

My extruded ellipses/cirkels look like hexagons/blocks! In AutoCAD12
there was a way to adjust the detaillevel of solids when displayed as
meshes. Is there a way in acad13?

Thanks in advance!

Mads Prahm


DavidR505

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Jun 16, 1995, 3:00:00 AM6/16/95
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In article <3rip9b$s...@news.uni-c.dk>, Mads Prahm <mpr...@inet.uni-c.dk>
writes:

>My extruded ellipses/cirkels look like hexagons/blocks! In AutoCAD12
>there was a way to adjust the detaillevel of solids when displayed as
>meshes. Is there a way in acad13?

Change the FACETRES variable.
HTH

Regards
Dave

Internet:
Davi...@aol.com

Dennis Shinn

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Jun 16, 1995, 3:00:00 AM6/16/95
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On 13 Jun 1995, Mads Prahm wrote:

> My extruded ellipses/cirkels look like hexagons/blocks! In AutoCAD12
> there was a way to adjust the detaillevel of solids when displayed as
> meshes. Is there a way in acad13?

FACETRES sysvar.

I've read that this sysvar is tied to the VIEWRES setting as well. And
very subtle changes in FACETRES with a high VIEWRES will cause a drawmtic
change in the tessellation.

Here's a catch 22! Autodesk claimed in the product demo show I attended
last fall that the ACIS modeler doesn't maintain any history on complex
solids unlike the CSG of AME. And that this _should_ result in smaller
files for heavy solids modeling than AME does in R12.

Try setting your FACETRES to a high value along with your VIEWRES
setting. Then save your drawing.

Be sure to have something to do for a while during the save (grin).

Now take a look at your file size.

> Thanks in advance!

I hope this answers your question.


Dennis Shinn / jee...@halcyon.com
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Peter

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Jun 20, 1995, 3:00:00 AM6/20/95
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davi...@aol.com (DavidR505) wrote:

>In article <3rip9b$s...@news.uni-c.dk>, Mads Prahm <mpr...@inet.uni-c.dk>
>writes:

>>My extruded ellipses/cirkels look like hexagons/blocks! In AutoCAD12

>>there was a way to adjust the detaillevel of solids when displayed as
>>meshes. Is there a way in acad13?

>Change the FACETRES variable.
>HTH

>Regards
>Dave

>Internet:
>Davi...@aol.com


You can also try ISOLINES.

Peter


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