Hello,
I am somewhat experienced with V2 of WP. I just upgraded to V3 and I have a few issues. Here are the two that bother me the most.
I can't use WP to draw a shape, composed of compound segments, that is wider at the base and converges to a small diameter at the top, for example a 2.5" deep lid for a 7" diameter box. I mean to make it with 12 compound segments (crosscut from the stock board). I think I should be able to draw this shape as compound segments in WP so I can get all the benefits of WP such as board width, board length etc. If I select "compound" I cannot manipulate height independently of upper diameter and the shape shown on the display is not possible to realize in the real world.. To me, the only difference between a compound segment and a stave is that compound segments are crosscut while staves are ripped from the supply piece. WP seems to make further distinctions that I don't understand. The irony is that I have constructed this shape in wood as a prototype and want to draw it so that I can use WP to play what-if in design.
I have two work-arounds. I can draw this if I select "staves" and then take board width to mean board length, etc. I can also draw this shape upside down using "compound" , so that the narrow end is at the bottom of the figure. Still, as I try to learn more about how to use WP, I wonder what I am doing wrong. Its OK if this is a limitation of the program, but its not OK if I do not understand how to use WP for this purpose.
Another issue, while I am at it -- the cutting summary (display and print-out) truncates numbers on the left, so that, e.g., 77.7 degrees shows as 7.7 degrees. I did adjust text size in control panel to be slightly larger than the Windows default. This may be the cause of this problem. Is there any way to change the layout of the summary table to allow nn.n degrees to display correctly?
Doug
I am somewhat experienced with V2 of WP. I just upgraded to V3 and I have a few issues. Here are the two that bother me the most.
I can't use WP to draw a shape, composed of compound segments, that is wider at the base and converges to a small diameter at the top, for example a 2.5" deep lid for a 7" diameter box. I mean to make it with 12 compound segments (crosscut from the stock board). I think I should be able to draw this shape as compound segments in WP so I can get all the benefits of WP such as board width, board length etc. If I select "compound" I cannot manipulate height independently of upper diameter and the shape shown on the display is not possible to realize in the real world.. To me, the only difference between a compound segment and a stave is that compound segments are crosscut while staves are ripped from the supply piece. WP seems to make further distinctions that I don't understand. The irony is that I have constructed this shape in wood as a prototype and want to draw it so that I can use WP to play what-if in design.
I have two work-arounds. I can draw this if I select "staves" and then take board width to mean board length, etc. I can also draw this shape upside down using "compound" , so that the narrow end is at the bottom of the figure. Still, as I try to learn more about how to use WP, I wonder what I am doing wrong. Its OK if this is a limitation of the program, but its not OK if I do not understand how to use WP for this purpose.
Another issue, while I am at it -- the cutting summary (display and print-out) truncates numbers on the left, so that, e.g., 77.7 degrees shows as 7.7 degrees. I did adjust text size in control panel to be slightly larger than the Windows default. This may be the cause of this problem. Is there any way to change the layout of the summary table to allow nn.n degrees to display correctly?
Doug