Problems with selecting object in PowerShape-e
I recently downloaded Delcam’s PowerShape-e design program for evaluation. Looking at the videos there seemed to be some very interesting capabilities. Shortly after downloading I was up and running (after entering in the password) and off to creating my first drawing – a circle!!
Creating the circle worked just fine and was certainly intuitive. But after the circle was created I just wanted to select it for modification. Wrong! No matter what I did I could not select the circle. A call to tech support and I have the answer: apparently the software doesn’t play to will with some ATI Radeon video adapters and a parameter needs to be modified.
Go to the path: Program Files (x86) > Delcam > PowerShape1020 > sys > misc
and find the file “powershape.conâ€
In this file find the section as below:
# Software picking
# Picking is done in hardware by default. Uncommenting this
# resource may solve some picking-related problems.
# software_picking: yes
Now remove the # from the software_picking: yes line as below and save the file.
# Software picking
# Picking is done in hardware by default. Uncommenting this
# resource may solve some picking-related problems.
software_picking: yes