Unusual side effect of enabling/disabling decorations within gearotics

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Unusual side effect of enabling/disabling decorations within gearotics

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Art

I'm in the process of regression testing my previously published simulation models of
of an E Howard Tower Clock mechanism and a chronometer.

I stumbled across an oddity while trying to replace components on the clocks with my indicators
that I had used before.  The indicators would not load.  At first I thought perhaps that
my dxf files of the indicators were somehow corrupted.  I then realized that any of the
standard indicators, for instance alien hour hand, loaded with the hand completely filled in.
The same held true for any of the other standard indicators that had cutouts.

The solution to my problem was to make sure that "decorations" were enabled within gearotics.
Once I enabled decorations the different indicators loaded properly.  I now know to always have
decorations enabled.

I don't really consider this a bug merely an undocumented feature of the decorations settings.

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Re: Unusual side effect of enabling/disabling decorations within gearotics

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Thanks for your feedback Bill.
I agree, so many little things to keep in mind when dealing with gears and spokes, yet another example. By default, the "no decoration" is set unless users decide to do so and check on the enable box.

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Re: Unusual side effect of enabling/disabling decorations within gearotics

Post by ArtF »

Thx Bill:

I will take note of that..

Art
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