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    Door Hardware Edit

    in Architecture

    Posted · Edited by bcd

    This should work - did for me.

    Duplicate your Door Hardware File

    Vectorworks 2009>Libraries>Door Hardware.

    Open Door Hardware.vwx and locate the symbol you need to relocate in the Resource Browser. You may want to duplicate & rename it.

    Now Edit the 3d Symbol moving it relative to it's default location.

    Save the file and all is well. It will now be available in the Door Settings > Data > Include Hardware > Browse window.

    Likewise - edit the symbol in 3d and scale it there.

    If not - return the unsullied Door Hardware.vwx to its rightful place and no harm / no good done.

    Doors and glass

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    HI Kelly,

    You need to apply a Texture by Class to the class Style Glazing 1 (or whichever one your using) . Go in edit the class, apply any Glass Texture and if you're using the same class for both the internal and external panel as Peter suggested you should have the look you need.

    3D Render Engine/system

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by bcd

    Hi Orlando,

    Yes, Renderworks can be slow (SLOW even) when trying to get realism.

    I've found the following works well for me.

    Set the minimum # of lights.

    Turn off the Layer Lighting or on just <10%

    Turn on Lighting from Background eg Curvy Dome

    Also - changing the Sheet Layer ppi to ~20 can really speed up the Viewport rendering and allow you to tweak the scene until happy. Then bump it up to

    150 / 200 or 300 click Update and off to lunch!

    Also - The Render Bitmap tool is invaluable to get a quick look at a portion

    of the view without having to endure a full scene render.

    For urgent projects something like this can get an acceptable result in an acceptable time -

    I just took a look at LuxRender - they are beautiful. I wonder how long they take to texture, light & render?

    3D Render Engine/system

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    If you're looking for ease of use - why not, for ~$400 upgrade to include Renderworks. It's built in and I imagine the learning curve for Final Quality Renderworks scenes to be extremely short, for rendered scenes including lighting effects would be longer. Allowing the full application of textures will be very useful.

    Just a thought.

    Help with Vectorworks 3D startup

    in Architecture

    Posted

    HI Gerrit,

    How are you navigating into 3d space? I find using cameras to be useful only when preparing 3d perspective views for presentation.

    Otherwise I use either the standard orthogonal & isometric views which, I believe, will center on the some weighted center of all the objects on the visible layer,

    or the shift-c flyover tool which centers the 3d rotation on one of 4 origin modes. (selected point /selected object / ground plane origin / working plane origin)

    hth

    Brian

    Please help with sheet layers

    in Site Design

    Posted

    HI Rosetter,

    It sounds like you may be using viewports as static snapshots. They are in fact live windows of your work. Assuming you are working in 2D here are a couple of possible workflows that may help.

    1)

    Create your reference viewport on a new design layer.

    Create a separate design layer (eg Option 1) and with both layers visible draw your Option 1 design on Design Layer Option 1. Create a viewport on Sheet Layer Option 1

    Turn off Design Layer Option 1

    Create Design Layer Option 2, and with this & referenced layer visible ........

    etc.

    On the sheet layers - you can turn on/off the layer visibilities of the viewports at will.

    Alternatively:

    2)

    Create your reference viewport on a new design layer.

    Create a Sheet Layer Viewport of this DLV on Sheet Layer Opt 1 and in the Viewport Annotations - draw your 2d design on top of the underlying data.

    Repeat with separate viewports either on the same or on separate sheets.

    (Viewports can be copied & pasted)

    Hope this helps.

    Aligning irregular planes to the ground plane

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Debra - a combination of Mike's and Pat's methods may work for you here:

    Assuming all faces are indeed planar:

    Use - Set Working Plane>Planar Face Mode and >Look At the face

    Use - Extract >Extract Surface Mode tool to extract this face as a 3d Nurbs

    Use - Modify>Convert>Convert to Polygon - results in a 2d group

    Ungroup and Modify>Compose

    Presto - 2d Polygon.

    ...repeat as required...

    insert .PSD

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    For clean masking set up your psd file with transparent background and save it as a png. In VW: File>Import>Import image file also using png compression. Turn your objects fill attribute to None. Viola, a masked image file in VW.

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