Cad64 Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Cad64, Is this the Vue you're speaking of? http://www.vue7.com/ple/ td88 Yes, and that link is to the PLE (Personal Learning Edition). It's free for you to use for as long as you want in order to learn the program. You just can't use it for commercial purposes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
td88 Posted April 6, 2009 Author Share Posted April 6, 2009 Cad64, I went here: http://www.vue7.com/ple/ http://www.studica.com/products/product_detail.cfm?productid=56024 http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/mform?id=10083915&siteID=123112 I can see how we might get an inexpensive introduction to the software but, I'm a little uncertain about the bottom line price for our needs/budget. However, I can't see how any red-blooded, male could possibly resist the Vue videos. Will run it by the guy with the money. Thank you for your time on this. td88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chulse Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 May I get some suggestions of the best way to draw organic shapes (like amoebic type shapes)? I'm drawing landscape plans and laying out beds, which many times will be those shapes. The plugin software I'm using wants a bed drawn with polyline, in order to create the symbolic hatches for groundcovers. I'd love to use spline, because it lends itself to those shapes but,I'm not sure a closed shape spline will be recognized as a polyline and I don't know if polylines can be used to draw shapes like I'm describing. Any ideas? If you have access to full autocad, you can draw a spline and use a lisp program to convert the spline to a pline. I don't remember where I got the lisp I use, but it works well. Let me know if you would like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f700es Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Vue 7 Pioneer is the new free version of Vue 7 - http://www.e-onsoftware.com/products/vue/vue_7_pioneer/ It is free and yes it is water marked but for $50 with a theme pack it will remove the water market and for another upgrade you can import other 3D formats. Worth playing with since it is free. I have used an older version but with practice it is a very nice program! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
td88 Posted April 6, 2009 Author Share Posted April 6, 2009 If you have access to full autocad, you can draw a spline and use a lisp program to convert the spline to a pline. I don't remember where I got the lisp I use, but it works well. Let me know if you would like it. chulse, Thank you for the offer. Can you place the lisp routine in your next reply? I'm a rookie, when it comes to lisp but, I would like to see it. Thanks, td88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
td88 Posted April 6, 2009 Author Share Posted April 6, 2009 f700es, I'm still a little fuzzy on how Vue will match up with what we're trying to do short term and what we can afford. I'm going to present the video and assess the reaction. If Vue is a go, I will be looking for more advice. At the least, it would be a nice ability to have. Thanks, td88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Vue can be run as a stand-alone application or as a plug-in for 3DS Max, Cinema4D, Ligtwave, Maya or XSI. It doesn't work with Autocad or Sketchup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chulse Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 chulse, Thank you for the offer. Can you place the lisp routine in your next reply? I'm a rookie, when it comes to lisp but, I would like to see it. Thanks, td88 I sent you a PM... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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