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2. Choose File->Export->Export High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI).........
........Note that this is a low-dynamic-range image not HDRI.
I'm confused Dave;
are you saying the Export HDRI command does not export an HDRI?
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Make a new layer
choose View>Create Layer Link
tick Project 2D objects.
You will then have the 2D parts lying on the ground which can be rotated.
I have to say, though that I think you'd be better off working from the Plan view; VW is not really designed to work the way you described. (which sounds more like SketchUp)
N
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A couple of points to note though, islandmon;
Your sheet pattern is not the correct development of that shape,and;
the development was done in VW, but not by VW. Yes?
Or did you write a script?
cheers,
N.
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VW cannot do developments of solids.
You would have to do it the old fashioned way, or, try TouchCad
www.touchcad.com
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This is what I did recently.
Apply one (or more) Pads with slopes set and an appropriate fence. Duplicate the Pad and turn it into a Texture Bed. Raise the Texture bed up just a little to be above the Pad.
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I had this just the other day.
I think what happened was I was trying to apply an arrow head to a polyline in the Sheet layer and I think I accidentally selected the viewport and applied an arrow to it.
It showed in sketch but not normal view modes. In fact it applied an arrowhead to every vertex of every poly!
clicking and unclicking the arrow button in the Attributes pallette made it go away
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As Orso points out: the advantage of dongles is (ironicaly given the possibility of loss)portability.
In Australia we have the option for commercial lisences of a serial number (1 operating system only) or a dongle (either operating system)
for Educational and student they are dongle only.
I currently have a dongle running OS 10 for my private work, the same dongle running WinXP on a bootcamp partition at one clients workplace, and a separate educational dongle running on a separate User on OS10 for teaching work.
It's all a little clunky, but not really any big deal. (mind you; I haven't turned up at work with the wrong dongle..........yet)
For the ability to use it on both operating systems, I decided the dongle was worth it for me, despite the inconvenience.
N.
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For the Site Model, do you have a Hull set in the DTM settings?
For the car model: try 3D Cafe. They won't be VW files but you should be able to get a DXF or 3DS and import it
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Didn't they mention the special Jet-Pilot style helmet with 3D goggles and bio-feedback gloves that will be available as an add-on? ;-)
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yep, one more thing,
Model> Create Surface from Curves.
then you should be right.
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There are a couple of ways to do that.
First is the Shell tool which usually works,
the second is to duplicate the curve (or a different one) and use the Loft tool.
N.
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If you start with a Polyline shape of the path in plan view and convert it to a 3D poly you can then move some of the verticies up in the Z direction to make a rise in the path.
Is this what you mean?
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And just to prove I have no life..........
Here's a more finished one, ...complete with tassells. :-D
Top:
Interpolated Surface
Push and pull verticies to get the top half
Extract edges to get the seam line, Ungroup and Compose to make 1 NURBS Curve (keep somewhere)
Bottom:
Use Curve to make new Nurbs surface
Push and pull new surface to make bottom half
Move Bottom down a small amount to make room for braid
Braid:
Get Curve back again
Duplicate curve and move it down the same distance as the bottom was moved
Duplicate it again amd move it half way between them
Scale the middle one to make it a bit bigger than the other 2
Loft between the 3 curves.
Tassel:
Draw half profile of body
Sweep
Draw curvy line. Extrude along Path with a circle to make 1 string
Make symbol of string
Place multiple string symbols and group
Place Tassel body in place with string group Create Tassel symbol
Place Tassel Symbols in place
Render
Weight with Textures 1.5MB
Weight without Textures 650KB
cheers
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Oddly enough, that is such a relief to me!
Well I understand what you mean. {:-/
Solids operations have become more reliable in recent versions, but I personally reached a point of just expecting them to fail. Then when they worked it was a pleasant surprise.
This may sound like I'm being a smart ar** again, but it is literally true.
Just to illustrate what I mean by unreliable: this morning I did the same operation with the same steps and the same sizes; ................and it worked.
What can I say? Restart VW, open a new file and try it again?
N.
PS in contrast you might want to look at this thread to see the sorts of things VW Can do when it's in the mood
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Hi Steve,
I wrote this tutorial for some of my students.
If you ignore the Cabinet references and think LX, ;-)
it might help
cheers
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If you start with
Model>3D PowerPack> Create Interpolated Surface
you can make a flat surface and pull the verticies up and down to make the surface bulge you will get (say) the top half.
Then mirror it to get the bottom half and push it around.
This produces a fairly realistic pillow form
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I was following the tutorial? I've attached the drawing, why won't it subtract?
Because the 3D engine that NNA licenses is flakey and unreliable?
Sorry to sound like a smart ar**, but in my experience this is normal behaviour. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
For what it's worth, I looked at your file and couldn't find anything wrong with it, so I did the exercise myself as per the tutorial.
I got the same result as you.
Perhaps we both did it wrong, but I suspect not.
I'll have a bit more of a go, if I can get it to work I'll let you know
N
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Maybe financially raped kinda sounds better than ripped off
Dear me!
Name calling again..........
Well, I won't upset you anymore.
Good luck in business!
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I'm sorry you thought I was being harsh Digby, that was not my intention. -Nor was I calling anyone names.
What I was pointing out was that the economic viability of the US manufacturer selling direct to the US market are not the same as a local distributor selling to a small market like Australia.
This is not an attack. It is a simple reality.
To accuse Ozcad of a "Ripoff" may be an "opinion", but in my opinion (which I asume I also have a right to express), she -and you- are missing a vital point.
There is a reason for the difference in the AU and US price.
That is: It costs more to buy a license in Australia because it costs more per license to supply it to you in Australia.
There is nothing unique to VW or Australia or Ozcad in this; it is a universal characteristic of global trade. Prices vary for the "same" goods all over the world.
You may want NNA to sell direct from the maker, and not have any local support or representation; -many software companies trade in this way,... but that's a completely different argument from accusing Ozcad of "ripping people off big time" because of the economics of running a small business supplying services in a small market.
Who is making the "harsh attack" here?
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I bought Vectorworks Architect after I finished Uni. I didn't know it then but I got ripped off big time. I am pretty cross about that now and I am not the only one. I like the software but the extra stuff you get in Australia is no big deal. I wouldn't pay for it. What really creeps me - ozcad is still doing it cos you have to buy from them.
Susan,
By making perjorative claims like you "got ripped off" and "What really creeps me - ozcad is still doing it"; you (and the others who feel the same) are missing a fundamental reality of business.
The actual price of any product is bound by 2 things:
1/The cost of providing the product for sale, and
2/What the market will pay for it.
(the 2 do not necessarily have any relationship)
You seem to think that Ozcad is using a "monopoly" dealership, or deceiving you in some way, and excessively inflating the price in order to make an "excessive" profit. (see item 2 above)
As others have pointed out; the reality is far more likely to be related to item 1
The cost of any product in one country does not define the final cost in another, except insofar as it is (just) one of the business input costs for the distributor.
This is just as true for selling imported software in this country as it is for selling Holdens to the US or Saudi Arabia.
More to the point; as has been pointed out previously, the cost of the software to the business is less than AU 0.50c / hour. If you were to pay "parity" with the US that figure would be perhaps AU 0.35c/ hour.
For a "typical" proffessional charge-out rate of between $60-120/hour, the 15c /hour you claimed to have been "ripped off" is meaningless.
The cost to the business of our primary tool for generating income is less than the cost of leasing the office photocopier, and the daily cost of the software is about the same as buying a cup of coffe at the local deli.
That's hardly a ripoff Susan. ;-)
N.
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You could use different saved views of the same sheet with the keyplans in different classes. Just make sure they are not in viewports.
N
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It doesn't actually erase the history.
If you Ungroup the fillet, the history prior to that point will still be available.
But yes, it does seem strange.
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How about any programs for making your own font(s)?
Fontographer
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Did you chamfer the edges of the 3D sweep using 3D tools, or make them as part of the 2D profile?
Excel Table import? [Noob Question]
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or export out of Excel as a Tab delimited file and import into VW.