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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Zing! - 3D Drawing program
Message-ID: <1990Aug24.145616.6915@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 24 Aug 90 14:56:16 GMT
References: <3234@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston, IL
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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