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Motus & Kizza On a Mac, you can hide the dock off screen if you want to gain a little more screen area. It reappears as soon as you mouse near the edge. I am surprised that the screen displays shown here seem to me to have a quite small drawing area - I thought that maximising that was the whole purpose of a second screen.

Great post Tom, but I can't get that d**n song out of my head now.

Nicholas Yes, I'm rendering the model on screen, then exporting an image file (.jpg) to the desktop (@ 2000 pixels wide as suggested), importing it into iPhoto, then exporting from iPhoto back to the desktop at 770 pixels. I guess I could export from VW direct to iPhoto, I'll try doing that as well.

OK, thank you, I'll try 2000p. iPhoto lets you select a pixel width to export (under Custom), so I don't need to enter a complicated fraction.

To answer my own questions: I imported the 7700 pixel wide .jpg into iPhoto, which allows me to modify the size when exporting, so I now have a 770 pixel wide image with no Moire patterning! At last, I've been stymied by this for years. Compare the attached with my first post, both 770 pixels wide.

Partly solved, thanks for the clue, Nicholas. I have been exporting as .jpg images 770 pixels wide, because that is the width required by my website - I just tried it at 7700 pixels and bingo, it renders perfectly (much slower, but I can live with that). Now, how do I reduce the .jpg image to 1/10 its size, and will the interference patterns reappear?

Peter Thank you for your reply. My render is Final Quality RW, it's a 3D perspective view of the model, saved as an Export Image File. I have wondered about modelling profiled weatherboards, but does that mean you have to fit them around every door & window opening? Besides, the renders on the builder's website are plainly flat textures.

Thanks for the responses, but other programs don't seem to have the problem - I attach screenshots from a building company website which show weatherboards (sidings) without a problem. All I want is for VW to do the same. Forgive my exasperation, but every VW issue comes with new whizzo tools and toys, yet the elephant in the room for me is that I still cannot show my clients what their house will look like in the cladding of their choice, I can only show flat plaster-like surfaces.

Does the latest version of Renderworks now show linear textures without interference patterns?

Bruce This may not be related, but I used to have trouble with Autosave set to a time, I had no problems once I changed to save by operations.

No, I don't know what "save for web" is, I don't seem to have that option. The screenshot shows the export image after I have drawn the marquee, selected the pixel size (my website takes images 770 pixels wide, thumbnails are 300 wide) and hit render. It is now waiting to be saved to a file on my Mac. I do exactly the same with floor plans. Then I go in to the website and upload the image from the Mac file to the web server. You choose the size of the capture when you draw the marquee, so you can have the whole sheet if you want, or just a part. I think it's the compression that's important, not the resolution, but I could be wrong, maybe someone can enlighten us all. As you're on a Mac, you could also consider using .pdf's, although the quality can vary depending on what .pdf version you are using.

I put a rectangle around the rendering, & use File>Export>Export image file, and select jpeg image, best quality. I use the rectangle for the marquee. Your web designer should be able to tell you what pixel width to select, and you save as a .jpg which can then be uploaded to the website. HTH.

Has that been translated into some obscure language and back again without reference to the original? Because it's incomprehensible gibberish.

'No resolution' just means that it hasn't been tested, it doesn't mean it won't run. I'm running VW12.5 on OS 10.6.8 and every time the OS has been upgraded I was told I was doomed unless I upgraded VW, but I'm still here and the sky hasn't fallen in. Why be in a hurry to upgrade? You could leave it for a while, and let others do the testing - I'd at least wait until OS10.8.1 comes out.

I don't think you need to give up on Autosave altogether - I used to get crashes and freezes until I changed to Autosave by Operations not Minutes, since then, no problems. With that, anyway

It's ironic isn't it, the computer revolution promised to do away with paper and cluttered archives, yet now we need a room for superseded computers and their disks to access stuff we could have kept as a set of paper documents. This is also assuming you can remember how to run the old gear and it hasn't quietly and irretrievably expired in the meantime!

Thank you Michael, I managed to draw it by using a 3d model of the plate with a hole in it, using a standard view and converting to lines.

Thanks Benson, but you are absolutely correct, v12.5.3 doesn't have those new fangled screen plane options. I am trying to do it using old fashioned 2d drawing techniques. I did make an extrude as you suggest, but I can't rotate it to display in isometric. The Help file and knowledgebase has nothing under Isometric. I'll try modelling it and rotate it in 3d.

I have given up trying to use weatherboard (sidings) textures because I can't get them to display correctly in Final RW, no matter what. I've always assumed it was because my version of VW is too old and obsolete, but then I read posts like this and the problem is not too different to mine, so I think, why bother to upgrade if these sort of rudimentary things still ain't fixed?

Anyone know how to draw a bolt hole in a bracket that I'm drawing at 30? isometric? I've drawn the outline of the box I want the hole to go in, but I can't figure out how to draw a circle isometrically.

tdunn Welcome to the VW user board community. This is a community board for users. It is not a Help board where you can demand answers from Nemetschek. It would be useful to other users who may be able to help or discuss your problem if you could post a signature.

I am very wary of relying only on cloud backup storage or in fact cloud anything. Here in NZ we are watching the Megaupload saga unfold, where a Hong Kong based company headed by a German (Kim Dotcom) residing in New Zealand has been shut down by US authorities for alleged (by US movie corporations) copyright breaches. The US is currently trying to extradite Mr Dotcom to the US and are trawling through supposedly secure files trying to find said copyright breaches. The relevance to this thread is that customers of Megaupload who used it to store data have had their accounts frozen, have lost all access to their data and may never get it back. Too bad if that was their only backup.

Graphisoft (NZ) have just published the results of a survey they conducted amongst architects in New Zealand.

Ken The door should be in it's own class (with it's own texture), not the wall class. I use WinDoor from Ozcad, so I am not familiar with how to do classes within the standard VW door tool, but I think that you can set the class and texture for each component via Settings in the OIP - it might be different in later version of VW. HTH.

That looks pretty good - why do you have to use another prog to create the grid? Can't it be done within VW?