Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:12:00 +0800 From: Josh Carton Subject: [IML] QUEST: Magnetism Heyas, Well, this is probably a reeeely basic question, but could someone please explain how to use the magnetism tool, or point me in the direction of a good tutorial for it? Thanx a bundle ---------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 01:40:57 +0400 From: Charles Blaquiere Very quick demo: Add a default sphere; pick it. Enter Pick Points, then Hide Points, and with the Drag Box selection tool, hide all the points in the top half of the Top view. Enter Drag Points mode and ensure your selection tool is "Click to pick". Activate magnetism, changing it to Bell mode and its radius to 30. In the Front view, move the mouse to the center point and hold down the mouse button. You'll see all the points within a 30-unit radius light up; these are the points that will be affected by the magnetism tool. Drag the point around, and the other will follow -- but those that are farther away from the center point will be less affected by your mouse motion. This is fine if you wish to drag the points in the X/Z plane, but what if you want to drag them closer to or farther from you? You'd obviously drag the mouse in the Top or Right view, but it's often hard to select the desired set of points. With magnetism, you'll often want to select in one window, and drag in another. Here's how to do it. In the Front view, hold the Shift key and click on the center point. When you release the mouse, the point you clicked will be left highlighted. Release the Shift key. Then move the mouse to the Top or Right view, press and hold Ctrl, and hold the mouse button down. You'll now be able to drag the points in the Y direction (and X or Z, depending on the view), something you were unable to do in the Front view. ---------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:51:08 -0600 From: CJO JOSH magnetism is used in the drag point mode only (as far as I know anyway) if you drag a point it will drag the point you chose as well as some of the points aroound it sorry for the lame answer but if you play with it you will fiqure it out,its really very simple Im shur someone else on the list will give you a more complete answer,but Im just throwing my 2 cents worth at you(and you probly got short changed) ----------------------------------