rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) (08/24/90)
Has anyone used Zing! ? I am interested in a 3-D drawing program for Windows and this one is fairly cheap. -----Dale Rogerson-----
patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) (08/24/90)
In article <3234@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) writes: > > Has anyone used Zing! ? > > I am interested in a 3-D drawing program for Windows and this one > is fairly cheap. They were supposed to send me a copy of Zing ages ago and I've called three times to check on it and no-body every calls me back, so I don't have the most current version. However, I've used Pro-3D in the past (that's the previous name of Zing) on both a Macintosh and the PC. I like the program a lot. It's 3D capabilities are great since you can choose different lighting schemes and there are two ways to produce 3D objects. One is called the Lathe. Basically you just draw a profile of the object and it creates a 3D object that looks, basically, like you've created a "round" object in a lathe. The other way to create a 3D object is, I think the name was, the profiler. In this you create "shapes" at different levels and Zing will fill in the blanks between the levels. So, if I wanted to create a coffee mug, I could use the lathe to create the actual mug and the profiler to create the handle. I guess it's time to call again to get my copy. If I didn't like the program so much I would just give it up, though. -- "Organized fandom is composed of a bunch of nitpickers with a thing for trivial pursuit." -Harlan Ellison Patrick Deupree -> patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us