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    Wall suface patterns in hidden line mode, plus..

    in Architecture

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    One of the color shaders that comes with Renderworks is called Roof Tiles. Make sure you scoll down to the bottom of the pop-up list to see it. It does a good job right off the bat of a grayscale roof or siding shingle texture. You can have two copies and change the color of each to differentiate between the two.

    To make the rendering more white, turn on Ambient Lighting to at least 75%, and then set the sun position to something close to your pacific time. Then in the edit window, change the two colors of that shader to white to completely get rid of the gray.

    I don't know what "1x8 "teardrop" 3 drop siding" is...no help there.

    Polygon fill and lasso modes in Viewports

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted

    Yes, if I want to fill in a part of the roof, that is on a design layer, with a hatch, let's say, that's being shown in elevation in Hidden Line, I can use the fill bucket mode of the polygon tool and do this in the Viewport Annotation window.

    Or if I want to put a heavy outline around the whole building elevation, I can use the Lasso mode and that works as well, and again, on objects from different layers as being shown in the viewport. Sometimes the lasso mode does funny things like wrap around shapes within the larger shape but is easily cleaned up with the reshape tool. But like I said before, it sometimes doesn't work at all and I don't know why.

    Watch out for "autosave" while in Viewport edit.

    in Architecture

    Posted

    I moved the mouse all over the place, both screens, and nothing for a good ten minutes. In the force quit window it said VW was not responding. Just now, VW crashed completely on me while trying to print to PDF. This time I was in the Edit Annotation mode which is probably not a good thing to do..

    I'll still keep the autosave feature on though, it has saved my butt as well.

    Watch out for "autosave" while in Viewport edit.

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Yeah, I think there is still something going on here that is still not right with even the latest version of 12.5.1(65397). My beachball is currently spinning non-stop with a sheet open (not in any edit mode but just finished printing to PDF) and the indication of "Backup complete" still showing in the upper right corner. Time to force quit I guess.

    Edit Viewport Names?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Michael K

    It would be great if the viewport name could show up in the shape pane of the OIP next to where it says "Viewport" or "Section viewport". You would still edit it in the data pane, but since one spends more time in the shape pane, you could see the name of the viewport while editing it and therefore have a better chance of remembering that name when you go looking for that particular viewport in the navigation palette.

    It's not an issue when there's only one viewport on a sheet, but when there are many on a sheet or you have overlapping viewports it's easier to know their names and select them directly from the navigation palette when you need to.

    Dual Screen Capibilty

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    so it is possible to have one drawing open on 1 screen and another on the other screen.

    If you're talking about two separate files on each screen, then yes you can. But if you mean a viewport on one screen and its design layer on the other from the same file, the answer is no. It sure would be nice if you could, though.

    Politeness from Petri

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

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    Petri reminds of me the old grumpy senile uncle that everyone puts up with at family gatherings. You engage him at your own peril. He comes with the territory and is part of the landscape. But he is also a source of entertainment and if viewed as such, is every bit as toothless as your grumpy old uncle.

    With love and appreciation,

    WORKSHEETS!

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Speaking of formulas, does anyone use the wall area functions and are you getting accurate numbers returned? I just recently started to try my hand at the worksheets and double checked the results by actually measuring the surface area of a wall and found the results displayed in the worksheet to be incorrect. I talked to a tech at VW who was discovering the same inaccuracies. For example, a wall measuring 8 feet high by 10 feet long returns an area of 98 s.f.

    The tech said he would check with the engineers and get back to me.

    Maybe the waste factor has already been added in...

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