[Render Farm]

Cinema 4d supports network rendering, and there's an exchange plug-in for VW.

I used it for one project and it was quite successful and easy. I can't quite remember the workflow, but I think you upload the project to the server, (via web browser), then hit go. The server distributes individual frames to the other networked machines with the client software installed. So a slow machine might do one frame while a faster machine might do 6.

Cinema 4d is easy to learn and produces a superior render to renderworks.

[Creating Roof]

it's just that you have organise|layer options set to 'show others'.

The roof is on the mod-roof layer that you specified, except you can see see other layers at the same time.

[Window object render/re-render]

I wonder (and I haven't tested this), whether going to Organize|Scripts|Vectorscrip Plug-in Editor, then pressing Done will regenerate all the PIO's in your drawing.

Asumming your class was ticked to Use at Creation, (same for textures) then it might do what you want.

Mat

[Slow printing with viewports]

thanks all

[Slow printing with viewports]

Hi All

Moving the viewports so they don't overlap didn't seem to help. I have to admit that I gave up after 25 minutes...

DPI is 200. Rendering the viewports only takes a minute or two.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[Slow printing with viewports]

Hi all

I use the technique of laying one viewport on top of another to produce elevations etc.

The top viewport set to hidden line render, sketch hidden line, and the bottom viewport set to open gl render (or fast renderworks etc).

This produces a good drawing that the client seems to like, but, printing is SOOO slow.

The following drawing took 40 minutes to print

http://www.urbandesigns.co.nz/family/coppermine/albums/userpics/vports.jpg

I printed to pdf995, but takes as long printing to epson color 1160.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Mat

[3d snapping]

I think if you use the 3d selection tool instead of the 2d selection tool you won't have these problems.

[3d snapping]

I think if you use the 3d selection tool instead of the 2d selection tool you won't have these problems.

[Roofs... HELP]

To get the last gable to show up, you could add a couple of extra points along that left wall.

Pretend you are drawing another entire "wing", under where the gable is to go, but only make it 2mm deep.

You may need it edit the original polygon you used to make the roof, the "create roof from polygon" again.

It should be straight-forward.

[Moving Views]

1> Under the pan tool there is the move page tool.

2> Under the views menu, when you save a view, there is the option to "save page location"

It's to do with these two things, and to fix it, edit each saved view, and uncheck "save page location"

That's if I've understood your question correctly.

Mat

[viewport classes and workgroup references]

xp pro sp2

vwa 11.5 localised australian/nz version

yes the project was originally started in vw11 (maybe even vw10.5)

Thanks Travis

[viewport classes and workgroup references]

Hi Delmar

I tried to replicate the problem with a new file, but couldn't. But I am not just dreaming, and I hope I'm not making some silly mistake.

Here's the picture of the viewports classes dialog - click the pictures to see full size in a pop-up window;

http://www.urbandesigns.co.nz/family/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=4&pid=323

And here's when I use the standard classes dialog to control the visibility;

http://www.urbandesigns.co.nz/family/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=4&pid=324

Can you or anyone offer any comments? Thanks in advance.

[viewport classes and workgroup references]

Hi All

I'm having a silly problem with viewports and w.group references.

Using the viewport class button I cannot control the class visibilities of two specific classes that occur in the workgroup reference.

Yet, using the main class dialog, I can control the visibilites of the two classes.

Is there a bug with viewports and workgroup references?

Thanks in advance, Mat.

[Simple stuff having problems with]

Yhy don't you draw this shape, then extrude it?

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To give it thickness you could do an offset before you extrude, select everything and choose Tool | Decompose . Then you will need to draw two extra lines to conect each end. Then select all, then Tool|Compose, then extrude.

[import viewports including annotations]

well you would lose PIO funtionality, which wouldn't be suitable...I guess

[import viewports including annotations]

I would like to be able to import a viewport from another drawing, complete with the design layer, crop and annotations.

This would make reusing typical construction details much more efficient.

Thanks in advance.

[Security Alert Worm Protection]

VW looks on the local network for other versions using the same serial number. Possibly that's what Norton's is picking up.

You could add VW to the "trusted zone" if that's what Nortons calls it, then you won't get the erro messages.

[11.5 Windows Service Pack update]

answer from Mat in NZ

Mine works fine with OzCAD

[DTM set border]

Hi you guys, thanks for your help.

Robert - if you have a minute, and a 'practice DTM', could you please check that you can change the border.

Islandmon - I don't really understand, presumably you mean the 3dLoci on the dtm data layer? All I have is 3d polygons..

Thanks in advance.

Mat

[DTM set border]

Hi all

I have used the "set border" command successfully, but now I need to change the border.

I change the shape of the 2d polygon, select it, then run "set border", then update the proposed DTM, but it doesn't change?

Should it change or does it only work once?

Thanks in advance.

Mat

[Crashing]

same

[a fake white material]

Hi Peter

I tried that but it was reflection enough of the floor to make it unusable.

Thanks though

[a fake white material]

thanks

[a fake white material]

Hi Nicolas

I was trying to render a joinery unit with black top and white Melamine sides. I want the shadows to fall onto a white background, so the when printed, the shadows would appear to fall on the paper.

The problem was, using lights to create the shadows nicely resulted in the sides of the unit coming out quite grey. My clients wouldn't understand this.

If I had used cinema4d, I would have loaded a white color into the luminance channel, then got pure white.

I was kind of hoping for a similar solution.

Thanks for your time.

Mat

[product testing]

I wish NNA had tested 11.5 before releasing it.

I hope a patch for the random crashing comes soon.

Thanks for listening...