wishes for better downloads

[Fr. Bill]

Hello Fr.Bill

I think there was a mishmash between feet and meter.
If the developer has had the data from a papersketch with feet data and build it
with meters you get the shown big aircraft.

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Actually, the problem is the result of folks who don't read instructions, or at best don't understand them properly.

In both Max and GMax, the "System Unit Scale" MUST be set to "1 Unit = 1 Meter." This defines how the mesh will be re-scaled during the Export process. It has nothing whatever to do with the "units of measurement" that the modeler will use in Max or GMax, which are set in another part of the configuration, and may be metric or decimal, with a number of variations for each.

[nandi]

Hello.
Here another one.

EDDB_FS9.zip

The taxiwaysigns are confuse middle on the taxiway.

Regards
nandi

[nandi]

Hello FR.Bill.
Sorry if my English is so bad, that you don`t understand what I mean.

I know developers,they have books with aircraftsdrawings in it.
The information is in feet.

Before anything doing in GMax with meters it is important to scale,convert,
the data from feet in the book to meters for Gmax in your mind.

Example.
I`m tire but start GMax.
Select cube.
Have a look in my book.
Length 15
Write in GMax 15.
Boiiiing.
It must be 5.

If not, you get the bigger one.
I hope you can follow me ?

Regard
nandi

[Fr. Bill]

Hello FR.Bill.
Sorry if my English is so bad, that you don`t understand what I mean.

I know developers,they have books with aircraftsdrawings in it.
The information is in feet.

Before anything doing in GMax with meters it is important to scale,convert,
the data from feet in the book to meters for Gmax in your mind.

Example.
I`m tire but start GMax.
Select cube.
Have a look in my book.
Length 15
Write in GMax 15.
Boiiiing.
It must be 5.

If not, you get the bigger one.
I hope you can follow me ?

Regard
nandi

[color=#000000]No, you don't have to do any mental arithmetic!!

YOU can simply tell GMax that you wish to model in one of the following systems, using Customize/Units Setup:

US Standard
Decimal Inches
Fractional Feet
Decimal Feet
Feet with Fractional Inches
Feet with Decimal Inches

Metric
Centimeters
Meters
Kilometers

However! Customize/Preference Settings/System Unit Scale must always be:

1 Unit = 1 Meter

This last setting is only used during the Export process so that the conversion from your Units Setup will be automatically rescaled to the Flightsim's 1 Unit = 1 Meter requirement...

[nandi]

Hello Fr.Bill.

I never worked with feet.

I`m always ready to learn.

Usually at first before begining to make a model is to set the unit to meter.
I don`t know, how

[JakesF14]

Hi Nandi,

What I normally do is that I use an external converter to convert feet to meter, and as FR Bill said, you set up your Gmax as 1unit =1meter. Thus for example you want to draw a box of 20ft x 20ft x 20 ft, I use an external convertor, and convert 20 feet to meters. Then in GMax I enter 6.096m 6.096m x 6.096m. Make sure all the values you enter into GMax is converted to meters, that way you can never mix them up or get confused. There is ways to work in feet in GMax, but if you want a simple proven way, you can follow this guideline. I hope this answers your question?

[Fr. Bill]

Why do you guys insist on making this SO COMPLICATED???

[Felix/FFDS]

So, Fr. Bill - I take it that means no easy cubits ?

[JakesF14]

[quote]Why do you guys insist on making this SO COMPLICATED???

[nandi]

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[Fr. Bill]

[quote]All you wrote is right, if you mean

[Felix/FFDS]

Nandi.  In FSDS, you set your program preferences (File Preferences) to  model in meters of feet.  The "System unit"  of 1 unit=1 meter is handled internally.

There is no bug.


When you import a source file that was modelled in feet and your program is set up to model in meters, you will get a dialog box asking you to make the conversion or not.....


Even if you import a model in meters and leave it unchanged, the plugins menu inlcudes a "ScaleProject"  utility to convert the model from one to the other.




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