Maxwell Render

Happened two times here on two different machines, after a long work session.
There is no way to copy/paste in another file (just won't copy) , or "save as" or "export".
All this will fail, leaving as the only solution to close the file and lose work time.

I can't be absolutely sure it is related to the plug-in, but I noticed that I was still able to copy/paste curves and lines which are by nature ignored by the plug-in.

Cheers,

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Olivier

Well really, when you copy/paste, it is the same as doing an Import; a temporary .3dm is literally written to disk, and then imported into the current document. So the assumption that this would be related to what type of geometry you've copied/pasted is probably not a good one. Not to mention that curves are most definitely not ignored by the plugin -- you need to be able to put materials on them for RDK curve piping.

All I could say at this point is to check the plugin's log viewer when this happens to see if it reports any errors.

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Next Limit Team

Ok, I'll do that.
It's strange that this has never surfaced from the hords of people using Rhino+Maxwell when it happened both to me and the seat next to mine

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion.

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Olivier

Just thinking... is there a way to "kill" the plug-in when this happens to see if save gets re-enabled ?

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Olivier

No, Rhino can't unload plugins once they've been loaded. However, you could try using the Maxwell_SaveAsWithoutMaxwellData command -- this basically does a regular Save As, but sets a temporary flag which prevents the plugin's save code from executing. And again, make sure to check the plugin's log viewer to see if anything interesting is happening when this issue occurs.

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Next Limit Team

Cool info.
Thanks Jeremy.

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Olivier