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<br><div><div>On Aug 2, 2010, at 9:44, Jean-Paul Vignault wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<br><br>Sorry for my late response. It seems there is a bug in solides.pro,<br>and the object "plane" is not a solid type.<br><br>Waiting the bug is fixed, you can try something with code jps. For<br>example :<br><br>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>% !TEX TS-program = latex<br>\listfiles<br>\documentclass[11pt]{article}<br>\usepackage{pst-solides3d}<br>\begin{document}<br><br>%\axesIIID(4,4,2)(5,5,6)<br>\begin{pspicture}(-0.5,-3.5)(3,3.5)<br>\psset{lightsrc=50 40 30, viewpoint=15 30 50 rtp2xyz,Decran=50}<br>\psset{solidmemory}<br>\defFunction[algebraic]{SurfFunction}(x,y){}{} { (x^2-3*y^2)/2 }<br>\psSolid[object=surface,<br> fillcolor=lightgray,<br> incolor=green,<br> ngrid=0.1 0.1,<br> base=0 1.5 0 1.0,<br> function=SurfFunction,<br> action=none,<br> name=graphsurf,<br>]<br>%<br>\psSolid[object=plan,<br> definition=normalpoint,<br> args={1.0 0.5 0.125 [-1.0 1.5 1]},<br> fillcolor=red!50,<br>% opacity=0.4,<br> base=-0.75 0.75 -0.5 0.5,<br> action=draw**,<br> ngrid=0.2 0.2,<br> showbase,<br> name=tanplane,<br>]<br>\codejps {<br>/TEST tanplane newplan def %% now, TEST is from solid type<br>}<br>\psSolid[object=fusion,<br> base={graphsurf TEST},<br> action=draw**]<br>\end{pspicture}<br>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br><br>Hope this help,<br><br>Jean-Paul<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>PSTricks mailing list<br><a href="mailto:PSTricks@tug.org">PSTricks@tug.org</a><br>http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pstricks<br>archive: http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pstricks/<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>