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3DVIA Shape 3.0 Tips and Tricks
Here are more than 30 video tutorials filled with tips and tricks on how to get the most of 3DVIA Shape 3.0’s amazing new features! Check them out now, gather your ideas and start making them real. Refer back here often to be reminded of the wealth of new ways to create 3D models in ways you never have before!
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3DVIA Shape Tip #1 Easily select complex objects without selecting what is on the other side of the object. |
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3DVIA Shape Tip #2 How To Select an Entire Component Select entire components with a single click. |
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3DVIA Shape Tip #3 Split line segments by adding sketch points. |
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3DVIA Shape Tip #4 Create cones, spheres, and donuts/torus. |
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3DVIA Shape Tip #5 How To Create Tangent Elements Draw lines tangent to circles. Create arcs tangent to two intersecting lines. Sketch two circles tangent to each other. |
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3DVIA Shape Tip #6 Fill holes on surfaces by redrawing border edges or through the center of circles, etc. |
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3DVIA Shape Tip #7 How To Use Existing Elements to Draw Inference or reference existing lines and/or points by hovering over them before or after starting to sketch a line. |
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3DVIA Shape Tip #8 How To Draw a Perpendicular Line Draw perpendicular lines on existing geometry or out in space using inferencing. Rotating the grid can also help with drawing perpendicular lines. |
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I am not able to see those videos. :(
Which player/add on is required to play those video?
It is using the Youtube player so all you should need is the flash plugin!
Try not using Google CHROME, for me even Internet explorer didn’t worked, when I wished to see the models in 3D, but you can use Mozilla Firefox, it would ask you to download plug in
Very nice tips and tricks!! very useful for simple operations… thanks Marc
You are very welcome! Stay tuned for more videos from the 3DVIA team. Let us know if you have a specific operation you would like to see in 3DVIA Shape.
Does this function exist in CATIA? And it will exist one day, like NX with synchronous modeling??
i got flash plug in if you don’t see screen you need to download flash plugin
I have the flash plug-in, but it is saying “Movie not loaded…” checked the source and it’s pointing to youtube
Our company policy is block everything so no surprise that YouTube is blocked
Can you post videos on your domain like 3Dvia Composer blog makes is 3DMojo Video Podcasts so we who are stranded behind company firewall can see videos also.
For the firewall and several other reasons, we will have an alternate version hosted here on one of our servers for users that need it. It should take a bit to convert and we will update this page when it is ready.
It’s primarily for marketing purposes that the videos are hosted on YouTube. 3DVIA Shape’s initial targeting is for consumers and more mass market that our typical software offering. However, we are seeing more business users showing interested in how simple it is to use.
In the meantime, is there a particular practice or video that you would like fast tracked for your viewing? You can also post a question here or in the 3DVIA Shape group. We are more than happy to help anyone learn.
Thank you for the feedback.
I can’t figure out how to get the flip handles (symmetry tutorial) or how to change the anchor point (pattern tutorial). Any tips?
Spacebar! Got it…the video should mention that. I didn’t know when I was supposed to look at the help bar to see what key to press.
Hi Jacob
Oops! I guess that one slipped by us. Sometimes we’re too close to the product and miss the obvious. Thanks for letting us know and I’m glad that you figured it out!
Don
I agree with Jacob, I would suggest this as one of the very few flaws of the software. It is a matter of luck to realize about this simmetry button.
Ok, here it´s the precise procedure:
1) Select the object to copy.
2) Press Ctl-C.
3) Move the mouse where you aim to position the copied object.
4) BEFORE and only before clicking the left-button of the mouse, press Space bar.
5) Now the flip handles appear.
6) Select the proper handle for your need.
7) Select and click the reference point from the copied object.
8) Select and click the reference point from the original object.
9) Done.
Thanks for the step-by-step help Fernando!
Very impressive and cool and useful tips and tricks.I LOVE 3DVIA SHAPE lol it is awsome and simple Thanks marc
Thanks for the compliments! Let us know if you think of any specific tips you’d like to see, so we can get to work on them.
discovered something new:the cam amy work just like in 3dxml player,and if you select a surface and press ctrl+X it will erase
Hey sady!! I guess ctrl+X is for cut-paste. when you press ctrl+X it will cut (not erase) & then pres ctrl+V to paste it in another location. I used this a lot.
I’m confused? “cam amy”? Could you add a little more information please :)
Execellent.
Thinks to improve to make it perfect:
- Free Move on a plane (Not only over axis)
- 4 Plane views (xy, yz, xz, isometric)
- more intelligent deform tool (some times is disbled when it could gues what to do)
- pre created objects: ex: cones, truncated cones, pridamids.
- to be able to save and reload my own precreated objects (when you insert an object from teh 3Dvia site you lost the components information and the object can only be used as a whole)
- To be able to create simple object animations (along some time it becomes boring working only on static objects even for “grand Public”)
one more think,
I think 3dvia shape tool is excellent and it target well the general user. the problem is that once objects are created and published they are not exploitable any where. When I pass hours creating a complex object (even if at the beginning is for fun) I would eventually want to be able to useit some where else (my graphic design, my web site for showing my house, my tuorial for ilustrate the building of something, etc) On 3Dvia site they are only for fun and remember, any “toy” always finish by boring and put it away.
So I thnig next step in 3dvia should be make it usable in an external context in a natural way. (I know it exist 3dvia Printscreen and others, but the transition is not natural for the “general” user)
i would like to see how to build a car
Check out this great video from user shodiq38: http://www.3dvia.com/blog/user-submitted-tutorial-building-a-car-in-3dvia-shape/