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RGyori

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  1. This one has me stumped.

    Beginning with the PIO for a siral stair, I change settings so it winds around a interior radius of, say, 4 feet. The stair is set to "standard" style. Since the stair is to be on the exterior of a building I need to enclosed it.

    The questions is: How can I have the bottom of the enclosing element precicely terminate in alignment with the bottom of the upward curving stair stringer? (I've tried with a curved wall)

    Intersecting Solids in the Model menu yields an error message stating that the action cannot be calculated.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Mac OS 9.3/G4/VW/VWA 9.5.2

  2. Actually, there is relatively simple workaround.

    First insert a space between the selected letters then go back and individually select each new space and change its point size to some smaller (or larger) value. This will require some experimentation.

    Though not practical for large amounts of text, it works OK for titles and the like. rolleyes.gif" border="0

  3. "Anyway, I inserted the plugin hole and then copiedd the hole from the wall and into my 3d window symbol on a hunch, and it worked, once. but now I have copied it around a few places and it is no longer working, though it is still leaving the outline of the window on the outside of the wall."

    This is technicall not "copying" but might explain what you have observed. When you duplicate a symbol or PIO that has already been inserted into a wall, you have duplicated BOTH wall and symbol. So when you drag the newly duplicated symbol to its location you are leaving a second wall behind. delete this wall and you should see the original in-the-wall object.

  4. If you haven't already, re-build the desktop. As a rule, do this whenever a new application has been installed. With more tha one version of VW installed, and when double cliking a VW document to open the application, this may help in getting the latest version to open in lieu of an earlier version. This has worked for me in the past on my Mac running pre-OSX (OS 8.6 through 9.2.2).

    Being new to Mac OS...rebuild the desktop by pressing and holding down the command + option keys upon startup (or at least before the last of the extension icons finish dilplaying) until you get a message asking if you want to re-build the desktop. Of course, click yes.

    Hope this helps.

  5. Perhaps not a major gripe in the overall scheme of things, but...when rendering (take your pick on the rendering engine, it doesn't make a difference) a French Door PIO with doors "3d Open" and "0" entered for both astragal parameters, the door renders with a thin plane down the center of the opening. There seems to be no way to avoid this. NNA take note.

    VW/RW/VA9 on a Mac G3/266 mhz/432MB RAM with 280MB dedicated to VW.

  6. Three problems most recently encountered with RW9:

    1. French Door 2 PIO, whith "0" for both astargal values and with "3d Open" checked renders with a slim solid line down the middle of the opening.

    2. Transparency textures don't always render as transparent when using "Custom Renderworks" (all options checked with 1 level of recursion and detail at "high"). Same object (in this case a french door) renders correctly with "Final Quality Renderworks").

    3. When in perspective view the print output on my HP 870cse will print the full 8 1/2" x 11" page even when the screen image is limited by the perspective viewing box. Annoying.

    Anyone encounter similar problems?

    Mac 7500 w/ Newer 300 mhz G3 card, 420 MB RAM with 250MB allocated to VW/RW9.

  7. OK! That did it. For whatever reason, unlike RW 8, I apparently have to zoom out several times until I can see some portion of the object to be mapped ? though the origin coordinates are at 0,0 when I first open the mapping window. I them zoom in on the object so I can map the texture. Why the multi-step process I don't know but thanks for the answer!

    (NNN: this is with a document original to VW9/RW9 with textures created in VW9/RW9). Is there something I could/should be doing to avoid the problem?

  8. Thanks for the suggestion; however NNA in all its collective wisdom saw fit to limit running RW9 so that it needs thousands of colors or more to run...no 256 color bit depth solutions for this boy.

    Onward.

  9. Not to add more to the now extensive list of gripes with VW9/RW9 (manuy of which I am still suffering with), but here goes...

    MacG3/512MB RAM/280MB to VW/RW and OS9.1 - After creating a new texture and applying it to an object, I see no texture when attempting to map it. I've tried all conceivable settings to no avail?still blank. I've worked with RW for several years and this is a first. Any help out there?

  10. I presume you are referring to the "rotated text" problem which cropped up with VW 8.5.2. If so, VW 9 addresses this problem via the PRINT dialog box with the addition of the "Disable Driver Text Rotation" box. Click this option and text prints OK. At least it solved my problems on a Mac with an HP 870 printer. Be aware that VW9 is memory demanding so you should have at least 400MB on board RAM since you will need to asign it 250MB + if you expect to do any decent rendering work. Good luck.

  11. There is no substitute for physical memory. To my experience, after switching to VW9/RW9 I had to increase my Beige G3 Mac's memory from 256MB to 512MB and increase VW9's partition to 280MB to render a 2MB file. Nothing less would work. Good luck.

  12. The following was poorly, if at all covered in the documentation accompanying the recent VW9 release. Unlike VW8.5.2 and earlier, memory on the Mac is allocated differently for VW9 (Remember how you used to have to DECREASE VW memory allocation to allow RW to use more memory?). RW9 now uses memory from WITHIN the VW9 application, so when you encounter an "Out of memory...increase partition size" warning, they mean it! (Apparently this message may also pop up even if you do have enough allocated memory?a bug in RW9). It took me a minimum 280MB allocated to VW9/RW9 to render a 2.4 MB house model in Renderworks highest mode. In short, the shift to Open GL while much faster will take at least 400MB of on board RAM to run VW9/RW9 with Mac OS 8.xx or 9.xx and leave enough headroom for a second application.

    I would be interested to hear more on this subject.

  13. I beleieve most recent PPC's and beige G3's had ATI video chips on the motherboard which required ATI drivers in the Extensions folder. Check the extensions folders on your machines to confirm. Also, do try changing the color depth to 256 colors anyhow.

    Good luck.

  14. The culprit appears to be a conflict between VW and the ATI video driver software (though this is not conclusive). Try updating with the latest drivers from ATI's site. I use a Formac 3 video card on my G3 with OS 9 without a problem. But my Power Center Pro running a Newer (now defunct) G3 card does exhibit this problem?the only predictably successfull workaround has been to change the color depth to 256 colors. Generally OK but not good for 3d rendering!

  15. I use the 1120C on my Mac G3 as follows:

    In FILE menu PAGE SETUP dialog select the appropriate sheet size and orientation and change the size factor to 44% (at least this percentage works for me), then go to the PAGE menu SELECT PRINT AREA... dialog and click on one page. The 24 x 36 document should now display within the boundaries of an 11 X 17 sheet.

  16. I stand corrected. The HP 1120c has been succeeded by the 1220cse, effectively the same printer with improved performance. However I'm not sure it is availble in a serial version, which is what you'd need with a PMac 8500- perhaps a USB to Serial interface would work?? In any case, the StyleScript + cable I referred to is software which allows the 1120c to perform as Post Script printer?won't run on a MAC without it.

  17. I use a Mac with OS 8.6, VW 8.5.2 with an HP 870Cse DeskJet printer. Ever since upgrading to 8.5.2b and now 8.5.2 from 8.5.1 ALL vertical dimensions and rotated text print incorrectly, i.e. individual characters are rotated but dislplay in a horizontal stack. If I print the same document in 8.5.1, it prints correctly. Has anyone elso experienced this? Most curious!

  18. One work-around is to make sure you have the document the way wish for normal use, save it, then position the sheet outline for printing. When done, use the "Revert to Saved" command in the File menu. Awkward, but I know of no other practical method.

  19. When using RenderWorks (VW 8.5.1) and the butmap tool at the default 72 dpi setting the area marqueed renders as expected; however, when I change the resolution to, say 1:4, in the document setup preferences, the image is magnified and and the image rendedered is off-set from the area marqueed. is this a known problem?If so, what is the fix? Thanks.

  20. Having experienced the now infamous "barber pole" phenomenon I also had hopes for 8.5.2. Alas to no avail. Interestingly, the propblem occurs only on my Power Center Pro (with g3 card), not on my biege g3 or my 7500 (with same g3 card as the PCP). Updating the ATI drivers didn't work. Switching the screen res to 256 colors did work.

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