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    How to change colors of symbol entities?

    in Rendering

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    I am building a 3-D model in VW 2008 Designer and want to include vehicles from the resource files. The overall shapes are fine, but the colors of the items are awful in my compositions. I prefer a much more neutral palette for entourage . . . less cartoon-y.

    Can I change the colors of stock items? If so, how?

    Many thanks in advance.

    Direction of brick pattern (standard from built-in Resources)

    in Rendering

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    I'm building an architectural model in VW 2008 using brick as an exterior material. When I started the model, the "Brick" texture from the Resource Browser was running in the correct direction, as a horizontal running bond. Now the pattern has rotated 90 degrees to run vertically.

    How can I control the direction? I read the recent post on wood grain orientation but couldn't understand the suggestions.

    I'm a near beginner, so am not aware of a lot of the details of how to make things work. Thanks in advance!

    Callouts from a database on a sheet?

    in Architecture

    Posted

    I would like to systematize the callouts on my construction drawings. A friend using AutoCAD set up such a system and I'l like to adopt something like it.

    Instead of the descriptive callout, I want to use a number, like "01.2.5", which is the first column on a DB on the sheet. The second column will have the descriptions of the materials, etc. corresponding to each numerical entry. That way the callouts are short, and are keyed back to the DB for elaboration.

    How can I do this? I've read my Architect Training Handbook and the help files and can't seem to find a way to specifically do this. Perhaps I'm overlooking something; it often happens!

    Using VW 2008 SP3 for Mac.

    Thanks.

    2-D drawing style defaults to Rough Sketch

    in Architecture

    Posted

    This is a small issue.

    Since installing Service Pack 3, whenever I open a specific 2-D file the default drawing rendering style is Rough Sketch, a style I've never used. It's easy enough to change it to the preferred No Sketch each time.

    How do I change the DEFAULT preference to NO SKETCH?

    Thanks,

    Ed

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    VW 2008 crashes when working with CLASSES

    in Architecture

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    A very strange thing is happening in VW 2008 on my laptop (MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM, OS 10.5.3).

    Whenever I work in the CLASSES list on any of several different files, the program crashes . . . closes and asks if I wish to relaunch. This occurs when I try to select CLASSES from LAYERS or other category. I can't add or edit the Classes. No other function, so far, seems to have this effect; everything else is working fine, including rendering, etc.

    Normally I run VW 2008 on a Mac Pro at my office with no problems. In fact I've never had this problem on the MacBook before. I'd try to reinstall the application but I'm in Spain and the disk is at home in Dallas!

    Any ideas about what's wrong, how it could be fixed, or any work-arounds?

    Thanks.

    Ed

    Can't get rid of residual graphic elements

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    quote:
    Originally posted by Janis Kent:

    What you need to do is force a screen redraw. Do this by double-clicking the Pan tool, or by selecting the Pan tool & clicking once on the drawing window.

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    Ms. Kent,

    Thank you for the replies to my questions. I'll get the book. Since you are the author of highly recommended manuals, I should address my comments given to a previous respondent to you. You should write a step-by-step, well illustrated book on rendering and lighting and perhaps animation. Perhaps a bit like the best Photoshop manuals, that take you through the process of each major move and build confidence as well as teach. This is important for anyone to get better.

    As an architecture educator I know how difficult it is for students to get to the point that VectorWorks arrives at quickly. And nothing makes people want to buy or use a tool like seeing what a peer has made with it. So I'd suggest a RenderWorks, etc, manual lose the clunky mini-mansions and bad kitchens as examples. A group of students from good architecture or product design schools, given VectorWorks as a starting point could make very sexy and interesting images.....from historical reconstructions to furniture to landscapes to suggestive new environments.

    Thanks again for your help on the bulletin board.

    Edward M. Baum FAIA

    Architect

    Can't get rid of residual graphic elements

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Several of my 3-D drawings contain the spurious images of prismatic elements and fragments--lines and polygons--that were the by-products of previous operations. They cannot be 'Selected' with the mouse or the 'Select All' command. Yet they are rendered as if they were 'real'.

    How do I get rid of these phantom elements?

    Thanks in advance.

    Ed in Dallas

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    Edward M. Baum

    Need good manual/tutorial for Renderworks

    in Rendering

    Posted

    Originally posted by MikeB:

    Ed

    I can relate to your frustration, We've had Renderworks almost since its release and it's been a trial and error process but we finally have a firm understanding of it. The manual only gives the basics of how the program works, not what techniques to use to sucessfully render an image. The best suggestion I can give that has worked for me is using this BB for information. We have several of our renderings posted at www.omniarchitects.com please take a look and If you have any questions I'll try to help if I can.

    Thanks for your comments....very helpful. VectorWorks would be almost perfect if the documentation and tutorials were better. That would seem the easiest part of the production of major international professional software. There's a marvelous market for a superb illustrated third party book that begins where the manual leaves off and shows one how to make the program SING. Write one!

    Edward M. Baum FAIA

    Keyboard Shortcuts?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I'm looking for a table of any keyboard shortcuts that may be built into VectorWorks 8.5 (Mac).

    In particular, are there equivalents to "Command-5" for other views besides "Plan"? Is there a keyboard shortcut to "Duplicate Array", a command I use all the time?

    Is there a simple way within the program to assign new commands?

    Thanks!

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    Edward M. Baum

    Saving perspective views? (Mac)

    in Rendering

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    As a former Form.Z user who loves VW, I miss the option of saving different views--perspective settings, attitude, etc--while I'm working. Currently I have to go back and reconstruct each view after I make mychanges in orthographic projection. Am I missing something? I hope so.

    Thanks,

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    Edward M. Baum

    Need good manual/tutorial for Renderworks

    in Rendering

    Posted

    I'm delighted with VW in general, and am mastering Renderworks. But I sorely miss a decent manual and step-by-step guide that takes me through topics like lighting, materials, transparency, etc. The manual that came with the software is very skimpy the farther it goes into the program. Is there any really good third-party manual with examples? I've noticed the CD collection, but really need only the RW item, not the $200+ package.

    Any sources or ideas?

    Thanks

    Ed in Dallas

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    Edward M. Baum

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