Bring back the grips!!

[Mr Cory]

Bring back the grips!! This could justbe a settings, for so tell me to shut up but bring back the grips for 3D Solids! its fustrating when a solid only has 1 grip and its sitting way out in mid air grr....

[stelthorst]

Hi Cory,

Grips work for me. Check to see if you have Enable Grips checked on the selection tab FORMAT - Options.

Hope this helps,

[Mr Cory]

Yeap its checked a

[david_peterson]

Have you tried mass elements? They have lots of grips and options to pull faces/split faces. And in the end you can convert them to solids if you like.

[H-Angus]

Also it may be that the objects were created in 2007 and saved back to 2004 file format.

[Mr Cory]

3D solids created from mass elems are worse lol i made 1 and it only had 1 grip. I only use 07 a. Heres a pic of whats happening

[stelthorst]

3D solids created from mass elems are worse lol i made 1 and it only had 1 grip. I only use 07 a. Heres a pic of whats happening

Hi Cory,

I think mass elements may be the way to go considering the geometry you are trying to create. I drew a quick recreation of the drawing you posted with solids. Everything was fine until I unioned all of the geometry together. When I did this I only had one grip available just like you (See first picture). After converting it to a mass element a multitude of grips were available (See second picture)

Hope this helps,

[Steve_Bennett]

3D solids created from mass elems are worse lol i made 1 and it only had 1 grip. I only use 07 a. Heres a pic of whats happening

Once you create the mass element, select it, right click and choose convert to free form mass element.

If that pic is a pic of an autocad 3D solid, I have no idea whats going on. You might try posting a question in the AutoCAD 3D forum for that stuff.

[Mr Cory]

I always turn my solids into mass elems eventy because of the ability of controling the display reps, but i learnt to use Vanilla so i prefer to work with solids but its just a pain to adapt them with only 1 grip.

The soild i posted was created in ADT 07

[Steve_Bennett]

If I make a simple 3D autocad solid using the dashboard in ADT 2007 with no acad cui loaded, the attached image shows I get grips for the cube I made.

How did you make your 3D solid?