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Kevin K

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  1. One final thought on this topic...then I will shut up about it 🙂

    Note the before and after images.  I hired a drone pilot to take a few aerial shots of the site where this proposed project will be situated.

    My point is that without Camera Match and its great masking and shadow tools, this would have pretty difficult and time consuming to procure by 'faking' a rendered view and placing it into a photograph.  Possible, but time consuming, without any real accuracy.

    It is one thing to take a photograph from the ground, and if you have all the right GPS settings, etc tied to the photo, which can show the longitude and latitude as well the angle of the shot pertaining to North, an aerial photo is a different animal.

     

    So....my sage advice is that Camera Match will probably serve you well.  🙂

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  2. Matt

    I have no idea under the sun how or why you came up with the suggestion to UNCHECK the option for 'none fill uses alpha transparency'....but it totally worked!! 

    I am calling your boss and demanding you get a raise!!! 🙂

     

    The image below is of another view, using camera match, but you can clearly see that the situation I was having, with the halo white outlines around any 3d landscape items etc, is totally gone. You may need to click the image to see it at correct resolution.

     

    Anyway, thanks heaps.

     

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  3. Mark

    Wow...really? In a galaxy far far away in the past 🙂

    Yeah I lived in Cambria and Cayucos for years and years before moving to French Poly.

    I did a little test exporting a render bitmap image after placing a blue extrusion behind there 3d model and you can see there is not issue with any white outlines as occurred with the Camera Match Object Photo.

     

    It will be interesting to have Matt weigh in.

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  4. Dr. Panzer, Dr. Panzer, emergency in room 101! 🙂

    Matt...I  am working on this commercial project in Calif, and the local planning department is requesting some images of how the project will look within the context of the existing neighborhood. So, Camera Match is more than helpful in this situation, but I am noticing this little anomaly pertaining to my 3d model of the new building and the Camera Match Photo.  There is a sort of white outline around some of the objects, especially the real 3d trees, plants, etc (not image props).  You can see this in the screen shot called "Booker St. Anomaly". I also attached the before and after images as a reference.

    Any thoughts on what may be causing this ?

    Thanks

    -Kev

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  5. Ohhhhhhhh.....another thought. I didn't quite catch in your message where you said " If I have nothing selected, and set my Attributes to class settings"...

    Try NOT having attributes set to 'use class settings' as a test.  Jut have everything set to the default classes..and not using ''class style"...see if that makes a difference....

    Again, I would do this in a new blank file to test it....

     

  6. François

    No it should not…..did you try opening a new blank file to test it out?

    you should consider that.  Could be some voodoo in the file you are working on that doesn’t allow you to do what you wish, regarding the attribute settings.

  7. François

    Check your settings, regarding "use at creation"

    Normally I just leave "None" as my default class when drawing anything....then, if desired I will put whatever it is into a specific class.

     

    You may have your None class (if you work as I mentioned above) set to 'use at creation'. ? check that out...if you uncheck 'use at creation' you should be able to set your attributes to whatever you wish, and it will maintain those settings.

     

    Be careful though...there are certain advantages to using the 'use at creation' option. and there are reasons NOT to do so.

     

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  8. Christina

    A few thoughts...some sage advice from an ancient VW user 🙂

     

    First, it is always a good idea to note your version of VW when you post anything.  For example I am not upgrading to VW 2020 for more reasons than I care to mention here, so I was not able to assist you with your issue because your file was a 2022 file and I could not open it 🙂

     

    Second...do yourself a huge favor and spend a couple hundred bucks and buy a second display. Honestly, I absolutely cannot imagine working, as you do, having all the various palettes jammed around your one display window. You will find that you will probably make like 5,000 less mouse clicks during the day by having all your palettes on a second display. The time you spend scrolling to expand and contract all those crowded palettes on your one display would be insanity to me 🙂 

  9. Anders

    Not sure what you mean by 'correct coordinates'?

    I just imported it as 'all 3d data' and it did take about a minute or so for all those pesky 3d loci to appear.

    I also moved all the data to fit on the center of a 24x36 sheet...perhaps I should not have done that?

     

    Under the circumstances, you may not be able to get the data as continuous 3d polys, as I had mentioned, because of the Swedish terrain Model source, but as you noted, you can ask 🙂

     

    Not sure what you plan to do with the site model, but with what I gave you, will it work ok??

     

     

  10. 1 hour ago, Tom W. said:

    Wow well done Kevin I got the eternal spinning beach ball too how did you manage to import the loci?

    Tom

    Not sure, but perhaps because I have my souped-up iMac Pro to thank 🙂

     

    As you know, when you import dwg data you can choose to bring it in as:

    -all 2d

    -2d & 3d (which is the dumbest thing I have ever have  heard of)

    -or all 3d data. (which is best when creating site models)

    Because Anders mentioned there were tons of 3d loci,  so I chose all 3d....which probably wasn't really necessary, but maybe thats why it arrived a bit faster?

    When I import dwg/autoBad survey data I import it first as all 2d,  for the basic top plan view of the site plan, then as all 3d for creation of the 3d site model. 

     

  11. In fact.....if you contact the person who created the dwg file, they may be able to export it using the continuous 3d polygons......worth a try.

    Then, import that.  It should go a bit easier. Then, because they ARE 3d polys, you have the ability to choose the 'Simplify Polys' menu item to reduce the amount of vertices for each 3d poly. It is a great trick! 🙂

     

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  12. J.Wallace

    Glad that worked for ya.

    As Tom mentioned, worksheets and worksheet functions are usually the way to go with these types of items, but to some users, especially newer users, worksheet stuff can be a bit intimidating.

    I use them practically daily for one thing or another, but they still scare the hell out of me 🙂

     

    That option to click on something and just select the menu item to check the Volumetric properties is pretty cool.

    In fact, if you quickly just wanted to get the overall sq. feet of your entire wall(s) you don't even need to extract anything....just select the wall and select the Volumetric properties menu item and it will report back to you to the total volume of the entire wall(s)

     

    As you aptly noted...:knowledge is KING!!!"

     

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