Calculus in 20 Minutes

[anomaly]

Rant.
Who ever thought that using a mouse was a good way to create accurate 3d shapes was a total n*b! I hope his arms fall off.
One of the reasons I have stuck with my odd lithunwrap building technique, is that apart from selecting/scaling in the UV map window, everything else is numerically controlled. its so much easier to type 1.0 than it is to drag a vertex to an accuracy of six decimal places without any clear measurements. 

Who said you had to use a mouse for precisely placing points?  I'm pretty sure all modelers allow you to also move points by specifying coordinates or typing in something like +5 to move it over 5 units.  Also, you can usually switch on a setting that snaps all points to adjustable intervals, which would be handy with a mouse.

[Spawn]

You ever use autocad shed?

[Avatar]

Sounds like he's an Acad personality type...

I told my boss I can DO Autocad, but I prefer 3D Studio.

He asked me what the difference was...

I said to an Autocad person that box has to be 3.452317 long, whereas a 3D Studio person drags the mouse a bit and says "That looks about right...".   

Autocad is for engineers, 3D studio is for artists.  The mouse is a paintbrush, not a slide rule...  in most parametric Cad packages you can drag/slide the basics with the mouse and then, if absolutely necessary, adjust the values afterward.  (I admit, I've done it, made that 1.0057 into 1.0...  I just feel ashamed afterward... ).

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[Nielk1]

This is the whole reason we have mice: Grr, cant find the 'first mouse' vs joystick at NASA vid. [2]