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Post by Electric Jim // Jul 24, 2008, 9:17am

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 This thread is intended to allow people to suggest ways in which the trueSpace 7.6 manual can be improved/enhanced/clarified. (And perhaps to offer their own attempts at filling in the explanations that aren't there but ideally should be.)


Here are my first suggestions:


1) An index. I see from a different thread (http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=5824)that clintonman has already kindly made a pass at providing us with one. :)


2) In Section 3.7.8, "Booleans with History": Explain that to reselect an underlying base or drill object for a Boolean with retained history (so that drill or base object can be modified with the resulting modification being reflected in the Boolean operation), one must use the Link Editor (LE) as follows:


a) Drill down into the "Boolean" object box that now appears in the LE, by clicking on the orange box in its upper-right corner. The contents of the Boolean object expand to fill the LE.


b) Find the desired base or drill object box that will now appear in the LE and click on it. (Now the object is selected for manipulation in a 3D window.)


c) Manipulate the object as desired, in a 3D window. The resulting Boolean object in the 3D window(s) will update to show the result of the manipulations. (One can then "back out of" the Boolean object in the LE by clicking the orange triangle in the upper-right corner of the LE itself.)


This point was probably obvious to a bunch of people, but it took me a few minutes to figure it out, and I figure that some new users (who could be even less accustomed to thinking in terms of the LE than I am) might be confused. :o

Post by TomG // Jul 24, 2008, 9:29am

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 BTW the search function in Adobe can be made to not just search the current doc, but a selected folder - do a search on the manual folder for instance, and you can find every reference in every chapter of the word "Boolean" etc.


HTH!

Tom
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