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I'm trying to draw ribs/frames for a ship and want to use a spline mirrored from the centerline of the ship for each rib/frame. The problem is that when the spline is connected to the centerline added knots does not get mirrored. I can adjust the spline with the knots that is already there, but if I add another knot to adjust the spline, just one side gets adjusted. Is this ment to be this way? Or is it a bug?

I was thinking of adding wiring at least 4 Cat 7 Ethernet ports beside every outlet at least one per room, that I could think of where be a need for a wired Internet. Then all of those could be plugged in a Switch somewhere on our attic. Do you think using a Wall Mounted Ethernet switch, so you don't need to run the whole Device to attic Ethernet cable directly an efficient way to do it? Also will Ethernet ports degrade speeds vs direct Ethernet to Ethernet ports on Switch?

When I select File "Print" nothing happens? same for "Print Preview" and "Print Settings" ? Can anyone help ? I'm using DSM 5 on in Windows 10 Pro 64 bit . I have re installed, but no change. My web broswer is Firefox. I was able to print a few weeks ago, now no response and no errors ?

Bonsoir messieurs/mesdames. Je suis à la recherche d'un logiciel d'électronique qui le permettra d'apprendre la conception électronique avec les Arduino pourrait vous m'aider svp

Attached is a model containing 4 identical solids that I would like to combine: I can join any 3 of the 4, but not all 4. Any suggestions?

I am updating old PCBs from an earlier version and appear to be accumulating dangling tracks at component and via connections.  These can only be seen by dragging the component or via which reveals the dangling tracks.   I cannot cut or delete these tracks  which appear to persist even after many removals. Any suggestions ? Very many thanks Colwat

Why do JPGs that are attached rather than embedded, cause browsers to download the image (as an .jpg.htm???) and need to be viewed in an external viewer?   eg. The two JPGs attached to the OP in this thread:    

Hello again. I have a solid rectangle pulled to 0.125" thick. I need to modify one end so it has two legs, and the opposite end so it has one leg in the center. I was able to make the two legs by ddrawing two straight lines on the back surface, then connecting them with the Tangent Arc tool. I pulled the enclosed area down, and I was done. See the attached image with the green surface, mouse pointer outside. But the single centered leg isn't working. Again on the back surface, I drew two short perpendicular lines and connected them by using the Create Rounded Corner tool. I repeated this for the second side if the centered leg. Both images show these lines. Everything looks good, but when I move the mouse pointer over one of the rounded-corner areas (yellow surface,mouse pointer inside), the entire back surface is selected, so I can't pull down just that area. What am I doing wrong? Does the Create Rounded Corner tool not work the same as the Tangent Arc tool? I suppose I could try creating those areas with the Tangent Arc tool, but I did that initially, and decided the Create Rounded Corner tool was a better choice. Thanks for any information on this. --- Mike x (x)  

I am completely new to DSM so please bear with me! I am trying to design a very simple case for a small electronic device: Essentially a "box" with rounded corners with a front side that has one hole for a potentiometer, the rear side has several rows of holes for ventilation. There is certainly more to come but that's how far I am by now. While replicating the rear-holes and adjusting them to be evenly spaced across the back plane I somehow managed to remove the actual backside. I.e. the rear-side consists of those holes but there seems to be no more material around them. When I spin the box the holes seem to hang in "empty space". I tried to make that visible in the attached screenshots. How do I "re-attach" that side to the box again (while preserving the holes that is). Or maybe I just made it invisible? But how do I then make it visible again? Hope I could make myself clear...

I have pattern containing 32 identical solids. I create a 'boss' in the middle and then combine them. Or, at least attempt to... IIt elects to join the boss to every other spar; and any attempt to combine the other 16 collectively or individually is met with the ever annoying "Unable to intersect bodies". If I duplicate the boss, I can the combine it with the other 16 spars; so there is nothing wrong with the spars. Of course, attempting to merge the two sets of spars+boss togther fails! If it wasn't so frustrating, it would be laughable.  

I have a 2D shape that I designed in a vector drawing progam (Adobe Illustrator) that I want to 3D print. Originally I planned to use a craft cutter to cut it from 0.020" styrene, but 3D printing to 0.080" would give me a more substantial part. Please see the attachment. The shape is fully enclosed by 0.014" solid black lines. I can scale it to any size, and export it as a PNG or JPEG image. I can open this file in DSM, but I can't find a way to have DSM trace the lines and create a plane the same shape and size as the image. Once I have the plane, I can pull it up to 0.080". Is there a way to do this, or must I manually draw lines around the image, then delete the image? Thanks for all information and advice. --- Mike   x (x)  

如题，软件不知道怎么的变成了xxx国的语言，怎样调整回来

In the following image, I'm trying to distribute 20 small cylinders (2mmΦ 3mm high centreed on and aligned with the Z axis) equally around the periphery of a 100mmΦ elliptical path (tilted at 45 degrees, though the tilt probably doesn't affect this here). You'd think that tabbing to the percentage and typing 100 would work, but it is just ignored. Or, using the measure tool to get the length of the circle (314.15926...) and typing that into the field currently showing 200 and be done; but no.  290 gets changed to 211.460184 300 gets changed to 221.460184 310 gets changed to 231.460184 314 gets changed to 235.460184 and 320 gets changed to 72.600082 If anyone can discern the logic that would allow me to do what I want...

Is there a way to toggle snap grid on and off without having to go to preferences>grid>snap?

How can I adjust DesignSpark Mechanical's UI language? Even though I installed the program while having switched my system to US English it now displays the UI in German. This, however, makes it VERY hard to go through the English tutorial and match the terms used there to what the UI displays. I would thus switch the entire application to English, so that I can follow the tutorial. How and where can I adjust that?