New to the forum and Carrara. Picked up 6 Pro last week while it was on sale at DAZ. 

My Name is Joe Keezer and I started here at Renderosity back in 2002, worked as the Moderator of the Rhino forum for a brief period and have since stepped down to Coordinator.

I look forward to meeting and working with you all. Thanx for taking the time to say hello.

Yank My Doodle, It's a Dandy!

o.k., joe. is that an ak47?

Nice to see you around!

Glad to see you back in action, GI Joe!  :lol:

Irene-

Thanx all...

..no its not an AK47. That is a Bolt Action Winchester 30.06 (pronounced Thirty Ought Six) with a Bushnell 4X12X40 Power Scope. I'm not that good anymore, and the last time I shot it I almost broke my collar bone; but my son can blow away a Poker Chip at a thousand meters!

Most military rifles are not terribly accurate. My AK look-alike couldn't hit the broad side of a barn unless you throw it! But its durable. Like all civilian rifles, its not capable of full auto, and the Congress-critters who call them assault weapons can't tell the difference between a pistol and a pocket watch.

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I'm kind of curious about exporting files. I see that you can open 3dm (Open NURBS) files but you cannot save or export them as such. 

So if I wanted to do work in Rhino with an object from Carrara which would be the better file type? OBJ files get me nowhere as I have to convert them into NURBS in order to work with them.

Yank My Doodle, It's a Dandy!

I've had good luck with the .3ds format. Carrara doesn't export NURBS so it will have to be a poly object in some form.

Okay, so when you've zoomed in on a vertex or three and moving them around (using four view-ports) and I loose the perspective (directors camera) view of the object, how do I get it back??? I have to save the file. close it and reopen it again to get it back.

One nice feature I've found by right clicking in the Modeling Room you get to avoid those Poser type interfaces that drive me batty. 

Oh, BTW I loose my view in Poser all the time and can't get it back either.

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This is a great shortcut. Select all using the Command-A (Mac) or Control-A (PC) key combinations and then press the number zero on your keypad. Additionally, under the View Pull-down menu, you'll find Reset All.

Hi Joe,
welcome to Carrara!

When you're lost with zoom or something, you can use your Winchester, but better if you use "set position to reference"... Sorry i can't post images i'm in render mode.

-TOXE

 

Thanx all. 

Say, is there a way to select more than one vertex at a time? I would like to move three or four vertexes that are in a row .01 units.

Oh, and Mark, I've been viewing your Tuts for about a week now. Great stuff.

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I would think that .dxf (AutoCad) was the most appropriate file type to save for use in RHINO?

bwtr

I could give it a try, however unlike AutoCAD dwg files, dxf usually will not save as surfaces but as splines. Whereas Rhino is a Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline modeler.

Nice hat bwtr...

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I press ZERO a lot in Carrara to center my object on the view screen if I lose it.

Continue modeling your imported Carrara object in Rhino in polygon mode.  Or add NURBS parts to it.

I try to do all my modeling outside Carrara first.  Then I use Carrara to import, texture, and render it.  I only use OBJ format.

www.youtube.com/user/ShawnDriscollCG

The Vertex selecting aids

bwtr

Thanx bwtr, my vision isn't so great.

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You making another vagina?

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms!!

Yes I am! I spent nine months trying to get out of it, and the rest of my life trying to get back in!

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Lol!