The only real forethought is what items would stay in the Default BO and what ones would go on specific BO's. Since an object that belongs to a Building Option that is turned off is completely ignored as if it does not exist then you should not have any dimensioning problems as you described. You can drag options into, out of, and between groups. Now you can just drag them around to whatever order you want them. So if you wanted to move the names around or insert or delete names you were pretty much screwed. Previously you could not rearrange the Building Options. And they don't take as much planning as they did in earlier versions. Other than that one annoyance it works really well in SoftPlan.īuilding Options would be a good solution. Forcing us to use the Alt key to speed up the movements means I have to constantly keep taking my right hand off the mouse, find the Alt key, hold the Alt key while I rotate the model, then go back to my mouse. The way the 3D mouse is intended to be used is that you have the 3D Mouse in your left hand and your normal mouse in your right hand. My repeated attempts to get SoftPlan to speed up the movements without holding the Alt key were unsuccessful. You want to move faster you use more pressure. You want to move slowly you use just a little pressure. So there is no reason, in my opinion, to limit the speed. The more pressure you put on the 3D mouse puck the faster the movements are. You can speed it up to an acceptable speed by holding down the Alt key but that is a real pain to have to do just to speed up the movement. My only complaint with SoftPlan's implementation is that the movements are way too slow for my taste. It allows you to spin models around, zoom in and out, and move the camera to any location.
Now, you’re ready to proceed, right? Check the box next to the hanging process (program), click “End Process”, and your frozen, locked-up program should come back to life.I've used the 3D Mouse for years with Sketchup. Before proceeding - just to be safe - save any open work in any other programs you may have open. If you see at least two processes in the list, the one that is furthest down is the one instance of the program that is hanging. Right-click on the application and choose “Analyze Wait Chain”. Switch to the CPU tab (this tab should be the default) and find your frozen program which should be easy since it will be highlighted in red. When RESMON.EXE appears at the top click it to launch the Resource Monitor. The next time you have an application that is frozen or hanging, do this:Ĭlick Start, type RESMON in the start menu search. In those earlier versions, you had no chance to unlock a frozen program at all.
Keep in mind this does not work all of the time, but it does work some of the time and that’s a much better chance than you had in earlier versions of Windows. And using this method to unlock or un-freeze a program will allow you recover the program without loosing any data.
But Windows 7 users have at least a shot at un-freezing the program – plus you may get a nifty explanation of the problem too. In earlier versions of Windows if a program froze (hung, locked-up) there was nothing you could do about but kill the program using Task Manager/Processes/End Process.