X Plane 12 Active Sky

[Jessia Adachi]

Ialso use multiple WCS's for a lot of 3-axis milling work and have asked for this same feature. I think there should be an option in the op tree right click menu that would set the active WCS to the operation that was clicked.

The section plane was not inside a group or component, and by clicking on some geometry that was cut by the plane, it disappeared. The section was not displayed based on the current style, but not otherwise hidden.

True. Locking section planes just like looking groups and compnents sure would make sense. Especially given how they are linked to scenes and LO and stuff. An accidentally deleted section plane can cause a lot of work!

In my working viewport, I continuously activate different named views to go to a specific spot of the project. The C-plane updates with the view (which is handy). In order to activate a clipping plane I need to do one of the following:

My default template has one clipping plane on a layer that is off.

I have two named views in that template: they are called v0 and v1.

When I type v1, the scene is clipped. When I type v0, the scene is not clipped.

Observations:

It is completely strange because when i double click LALALA in the named views both clipping planes are activated which is wanted behaviour.

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However, when i double click blablabla in the named views, expected behavior should be to deactivate both clipping planes because thats the way i set it and then saved the view.

It is not happening:

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Initially, I was very excited about the Rh6 Snapshot introduction. With time I found that the use of this feature works well if limited to creating transitions to a simple animation. Always best to save as detached study because it can seriously mess up you WIP file. Positions, for instance, restore all your model geometry transformations not just selected elements (i.e. named positions).

X-65 is purpose-designed for testing and demonstrating active flow control (AFC) for multiple effects, including flight control at tactical speeds and performance enhancement across the flight envelope. The AFC system supplies pressurized air to fourteen AFC effectors embedded across all flying surfaces, including multiple wing sweeps. The aircraft is configured to be modular, featuring replaceable outboard wings and swappable AFC effectors, which allows for future testing of additional AFC designs.

Active flow control technology has the potential to replace traditional flaps and rudders, which are used to maneuver most aircraft today. AFC may deliver benefits in areas such as aerodynamics, weight, and mechanical complexity. X-65 is designed to demonstrate the benefits of AFC for both commercial and military applications.

The manufacturing phase of the program follows three years of work, across Aurora and Boeing, in design conceptualization, preliminary and detailed design, wind tunnel testing, AFC system testing, and more. The program would culminate in flight tests of the full-scale, 7000 lb. X-65 aircraft at speeds up to Mach 0.7. Flight testing is targeted for summer 2025.

Active Pause - Autopilot does NOT freeze, and continues to overtrim plane, and also Plane speed continues to change.

This results in Elevator Trim at FULL limit, incorrect speed, and an unstable plane on unfreeze.

In regard to what Active Pause is, this will stop the aircraft so your plane is stuck in mid-flight. This provides you with the opportunity to take in the breathtaking sights all around you without having to worry about staying straight and on course. The plane will still respond to any wind; adjusting trim, elevators, etc. because the outside environment is still active. So before you unpause active pause, you do have to make sure the aircraft is configured for it by scanning instruments.

Ive noticed that if Im flying and using the autopilot, doesnt seem to matter which plane, that if I put the sim in pause when I come back the plane is completely uncontrollable and crashes after about 5 minutes of trying to recover. Anyone else...

What I am looking for (and from the Post on Active Pause, many others are expecting) is a Pause Mode, where the plane stops moving and one can alter items like COM Frequency, and they can be changed, and the instruments respond, but the Plane Keeps Frozen in space

These new Pause/freeze methods are all very well, if they have a use, but what is missing is a FSX like pause, where one can effectively FREEZE time, but still be able to make adjustments to the planes instruments.

If you press ESC, it does the same PAUSE, and puts up the OPTION windows over the Instrument panel view, but like PAUSE ON - PAUSE OFF, you cannot interact with the Instrument panel, even if you can see part of it behind the OPTIONS window

SET PAUSE ON still allows me to adjust COMs, interact with GPS panels, even adjust mixture & throttle. You wont see knobs & levers & whatnot move to the right position until after you release pause though but you can see the tootip values changing.

Double-clicking the "Active Layer Plane" from the Working Planes palette does not have any effect either. The only way i have found to restore the working plane to the active layer plane is to restart.

Are you using a custom workspace by any chance? Try using one of the defaults (or even just a different default, maybe Fundamentals) and see if it works properly there. If it does, then either start from scratch and completely rebuild you workspace (best option) or just edit the workspace and remove the Working Plane tool and re-add it. It could be using an older version and just needs to be kick started to use the newer version.

I've definitely had occasions where the Working Plane gets "stuck" and won't change regardless of what I do to try and change it. Restarting VW usually fixes it. This happens maybe once every other month. Not sure if it's related to using the Set Working Plane Tool though, and might be a different issue than what you're encountering.

Disappointing because my custom workspace has evolved over several years (decades indeed) and I was always impressed that the migration function has appeared to become more and more seamless with each new VWX version. I'll be spending the next few weeks re-discovering the keyboard shortcuts that I have added...

The only changes I made to the default Spotlight workspace were keyboard shortcuts, specifically default views. I map Ctrl-Alt-Shift-UIOJKLM as if they were a numeric keyboard... have been doing that since I learned how to draw in 3D. I am almost always on a notebook without the extended keyboard so these movements have been natural for me for a long time.

I believe it is that sometimes when a workspace is brought forward some of the tools/commands don't get updated properly. This could be because the tool/command actually changed behind the scenes and the one in the "old" workspace is not the same as the one you should be using. In other cases it could just be an issue of "bit rot" that over time something in the workspace has gotten corrupted.

You could try and "rescue" your old workspace by removing the working plane tool and reading it. But that might fix that one problem and leave others that you are not aware of to bite you later. But it might get you by until you have some time to make all the changes.

The other benefit of starting with the default of every version is that you have all of the new tools included. You would not (or maybe you would) believe how many people ask me about when something was added to VW and I tell them 5 years ago but they never updated their workspace and have been doing difficult workarounds for a long solved problem.

The problem reappeared after re-loading the default Spotlight workspace and changing only those specific shortcuts to create a new workspace. This was the only change that was made; other than that it is essentially the default Spotlight workspace. I had abandoned the old workspace that was a result of migration.

The problem seems to occur when one of the shortcuts is used to change the view. Changing views with the drop-down menu is fine. Plane tool works fine if views are changed this way. Double-clicking the Plane tool reverts Working Plane to Layer Plane as advertised. Then if the view is changed using one of the shortcuts, the Working Plane gets stuck on the next selection and the tool stops working.

Attached are the simple VWX file and the new workspace with just the keyboard shortcuts added. I was able to replicate this problem as described on a different computer using these two files. On the new computer, it took a few view changes via shortcut before the problem happened, but it still did. Again, this workspace is based of the latest Spotlight workspace with just those 9 keyboard shortcuts added.

Not sure this is the best place for this but I'm having issues with working / layer planes as well. I typically just use 2d drawing and don't use working planes. For some reason, my drawing will switch on me and go from layer plane to working plane. I'm drawing and all of a sudden there's a big pink box in my work space and things just don't seem like they are working right. Drives me crazy. I have to turn it back to layer plane. I've turned off all the hot keys to anything related to working plane.

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