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by Alan Gray
Thu Dec 08, 2016 2:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Zooming
Replies: 12
Views: 19905

So the clip on measuring coastlines.

If the recursive subdivision was allowed to go forever, the answer is infinite.
However, nothing can be shorter than a "Plank Length" so the answer is finite.

It is a great documentary though....
by Alan Gray
Thu Dec 08, 2016 2:05 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Zooming
Replies: 12
Views: 19905

by Alan Gray
Thu Dec 08, 2016 10:46 am
Forum: General
Topic: Zooming
Replies: 12
Views: 19905

Oh culling. That should only kick into play when you zoom out, not in.

As so how long is a piece of string? One mathematical argument using recursive fractals says infinite.
by Alan Gray
Thu Dec 08, 2016 8:14 am
Forum: General
Topic: Zooming
Replies: 12
Views: 19905

How close? Down to the size of a microbe?

Without data demonstrating, not more can be said.
by Alan Gray
Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:49 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Optimal Hardware Set up to run 12d v12
Replies: 24
Views: 97329

Here are some benchmarks I did for triangulation. The only difference was the amount of RAM in the computer. This alone shows the value of RAM to a computer http://forums.12dmodel.com/downloads/alan.gray/bigfoot_benchmark_relative.htm As Blake says, upgrading computers is becoming almost impossible ...
by Alan Gray
Fri Sep 23, 2016 11:26 am
Forum: General
Topic: Section View - Display Chainages
Replies: 5
Views: 14274

The grid on a section view does display the chainage.
by Alan Gray
Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Error 2147024865?
Replies: 1
Views: 10155

12d Field is not available in the practice version.
by Alan Gray
Wed May 25, 2016 11:38 am
Forum: General
Topic: Windows 10 and 12d field
Replies: 3
Views: 15609

Many years ago, we learned never to upgrade the OS on a working computer. Better the devil you know..... Yes Microsoft are really aggressive on this one :( The trouble with Windows 10 upgrade, is then you probably need to check for updates a number of times, and they have fixes on top of fixes. Once...
by Alan Gray
Thu May 21, 2015 12:10 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: Video for Point Clouds in 12d Model V11
Replies: 0
Views: 27423

Video for Point Clouds in 12d Model V11

Here is a Overview of Point clouds in V11 C1f. As a necessity, it does delve into View drawing engines, drawing density etc http://forums.12dmodel.com/downloads/alan.gray/12d_Point_Clouds.mp4 What I did not add into the video was discussions on projects being on local computers vs network drives. De...
by Alan Gray
Wed May 13, 2015 8:57 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: 12d V10 C1n Hotfix
Replies: 0
Views: 25647

12d V10 C1n Hotfix

Some users are getting the error message "Fatal Error" "12d Model cannot continue - error code xxxx" when starting 12d Model V10 C1n. Find below hot fix zip files to void the problem. The zip files just contain 12d.exe files which you need to place into the correct location. Thes...
by Alan Gray
Mon Apr 27, 2015 4:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Searching for a specific point
Replies: 5
Views: 20135

And for other point selection fun, once you have a point snap,

Home takes you to first point on string
End takes you to last point on string
-> next point (also up arrow)
<- previous point (also down arrow)


and the information should update.
by Alan Gray
Fri Oct 17, 2014 5:49 pm
Forum: General
Topic: V10 Tin Problem/Glitch
Replies: 3
Views: 15351

If it is a chain, and it is reproducible, we can have a look.
by Alan Gray
Thu Sep 18, 2014 6:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Help menu does not load
Replies: 11
Views: 45946

Jonathan, the only problem I can reproduce is that "Help on help" indeed does not work. It appears Microsoft do not ship/install the winhlp32.hlp file since Windows Vista. I can see in the code, that "Help on help" is not supposed to be displayed from Windows Vista and onwards. A...
by Alan Gray
Wed Sep 17, 2014 4:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Help menu does not load
Replies: 11
Views: 45946

Can you show a screen grab of any messages.
by Alan Gray
Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Find Exact Level along a Super Alignment
Replies: 2
Views: 7892

Typed input:

Pick the string, but before accepting, type

ch123.456