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  2. LavenderGardens
    He has great taste in music with these videos.
  3. LavenderGardens
    how are you snapping to the face of the rectangular geometry? When I try that I just get a 2d line even when I using the 3d polygon tool.
  4. lkr241
    Okay! Thanks for all the input. I ended up making my own texture and putting it on a sphere. Here's what it looks like. I'm still working a little on the scale, but otherwise.... Globe.vwx
  5. LavenderGardens
    Beautiful work. How did you make your board showing the three views of Earth on the star field? Is that Vectorworks too?
  6. LavenderGardens
    You make it look so easy! How long did it take for you to become a wizard?
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  8. taoist
    A lot of us have been asking for this for years. Other software does this, why not Vectorworks?
  9. johndoe1302
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  10. Tom W.
    Definitely a great addition! Now I don't need to create an invisible threshold to achieve the same thing... But presumably you wanted to offset the leaf in plan rather than elevation in your original post? Perhaps this is functionality VW should also add. I made a couple of wishes in a similar vein for the Window tool recently:
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  12. Benson Shaw
    Also - If hardscape 3d display curvature is is changed via the simplification tolerance, a double click of the Hardscape launches the Reshape tool and reveals vertices of the Path (no need to right click>edit path) for edit - not converted to some polygon with many facets. Edits can be made in 3d views as if editing that simple 2d polyline. Changing the Simplification Tolerance in the OIP does not affect the vertex count near bottom of the OIP. eg in my example above, the vertex count is 8 in each iteration of the simplification value. -B
  13. Iainy1961
    Ok. Then I paste the symbol back in and then save that file to my favourites or wherever. Thank you.
  14. Benson Shaw
    In my tests - Adjustments to the 3d simplification tolerance, eg in Hardscape OIP, do not affect the source object geometry. Those original Arcs, Bezier and spline curves in the source polyline are present for edit via right click Edit Path pane. TopPlan always displays the curves as the source obj . Perhaps others can comment on performance and print/save issues of complex files with super low tolerance settings for such DTMs and site mods? I don't have any big, complex files to compare. -B
  15. Jeff Prince
    Well, I suppose if you mean all of your existing contours have the same elevation of -5800, then I suppose your are correct 🙂 See this video for an explanation of why your model is misbehaving... flat as a pancake-lr.mp4 You are missing grade limits in that image where your contours look like vertical sided pits. Site modeling is only as good as the data you feed it. It's easy to get lost in all of this, happens to the best of us. Break it down into simple steps and check your work if things go wrong, usually the issue will be evident.
  16. JustinVH
    In the Component Edit Palette you need to change the view in the Edit field to Top. Just click on the double arrow where it says Front and you should see an option to change to top.
  17. Kevin K
    Paul Sadly, tutorials are above my pay grade 🙂 That said, if anyone had a specific problem procuring this, I would be happy to chime in.
  18. Iainy1961
    @JustinVH I'm sorry to come back to you on this, but I get so faar and then it goes sideways. I am clear up to the point when you say ' How do I get back to the 2D side of things? Thank you, Iain
  19. VIRTUALENVIRONS
    Just thinking Kevin, why don't you do a tutorial on this for the Forum, I can't be the only one who would be interested.
  20. nicovlogg
    Copying the site modifiers from your file and using them on my newly recreated file, I get the following result: Rather than the smooth edges I see on yours Smoothing has been set to 90degrees, so it's something else that I'm missing.
  21. VIRTUALENVIRONS
    Hi Kevin, How are things? I just wanted to give @lkr241 something to work with. The texture was the critical part. The models above involve more than one texture map, but they all come from the NASA website. Thanks for your offer, I can always count on you. I have reacquainted myself with VW texture mapping to a point, I can do the basics, but there is really no point for me to learn more. regards.....Paul
  22. Kevin K
    Paul in reference to you query about mapping and closing a texture map to an object, like a sphere, I have found you need to do a little math. Meaning, you need to know the exact circumstance of the object, then match that to the width of the image….if that makes sense. If you are having trouble getting it to work perhaps send me a direct message with the object and the image and I can have a go, then explain how it works.
  23. tysonbrooks
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  24. Niccinator
    Hi Jesse, Thanks so much for building this - I'm looking forward to using it. I noticed that this tool doesn't work on referenced Viewports placed in a design layer. Is that something you can confirm? Would you consider expanding the capabilities to include this? Cheers, Nic
  25. nicovlogg
    I think we're missing each other - I have an existing site file created using points. According to my understanding, the correct way to edit it post VW2021 is to use the 'edit proposed contours' command - you can see the suggestion here: https://app-help.vectorworks.net/2021/eng/VW2021_Guide/SiteModel1/Creating_a_contour.htm#XREF_15642_Creating_a_Contour The proposed contours do have elevation - is the missing link the grade modifier? Even adding that, I get an essentially random landscape as a result, as below, that has nothing to do with the new contours I've drawn in.
  26. michaelk
    Rylevang 3B · D 056 · A 7.10 · Oversigt · Skabe v2024 v2021.vwx
  27. Jeff Prince
    You can't get it to work because your existing contours aren't at the correct elevation and you didn't have a grade limit modifier....It really has nothing to do with the method used to add the proposed contours. I don't recall hearing anyone at Vectorworks claiming anything is superior, they seems to be a bit agnostic on methodology. Can you point out where you heard that? I've been beating the drum for years that people should use points instead of contours. Why, because contours are imaginary and points are real. You can make your own imaginary contours from real points. Your model will be more accurate and operate faster as a result.
  28. VIRTUALENVIRONS
    I got these maps off the NASA website several years ago, 2016 or so. They include the Hi clouds, etc. You might think the first one was done with the AI Visualizer, but just C4D. They are/were Lo res or Hi res. No reason why they could not be used in VW's. If you notice continental U.S.A. they have light maps of the cities and towns.
  29. AKI NAGAI
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  30. nicovlogg
    Thank you @Jeff Prince, this is exactly what I'm looking for! I understand your process and stumbled onto something similar, but I should note that in the Vectorworks guide they do not suggest using site modifiers and suggest editing the proposed contours, so I followed that process. Is there a reason why I can't get it to work that way or a specific reason why that process is suggested by them as being superior?
  31. Niccinator
    Oh Man, thank you for posting. This is going to be a game changer. Thanks @Jesse Cogswell for building this!
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