Todd W

ok that worked - thanks! I had tried this already and did not work - not sure why it worked all of a sudden. Thanks again!

Working with site modifiers - With the first screenshot, a site model with grade limits set and planar pads come out graded into the site. Even if I have vertical sides set to inside modifiers, when I set an planar pad inside the first pad it grades out instead of having vertical sides. With the second image, without grade limits i can easily create a pad with a vertical retaining edge. Is there a way to use both types simultaneously?

Thanks a lot Jeff! As you can see I did simplify the curtains and it did help. For the images below I used the Fast Renderworks and it took about 8 minutes to render. I will keep working on the final render options.

Thanks again all! An update: I re-worked all the repetitive elements, simplifying geometries and creating symbols for them as recommended. All this went really well. Then, I created viewports and sheets for the renderings, with sheet res at 300 DPI. I purged the file and re-started everything before rendering. I was able to easily create some nice Fast Renderworks images, but Interior Final, Final Renderworks, and Custom Renderworks still get hung up and I get the memory full notice. I am going to try this on my PC and see if the same thing happens. I also tried rendering a different file and still could not get the final rendering options to work.

Ha ha, now I'm embarrassed! Thank you everyone for the great advice! I am going to have to take a step back and rework some of these things with your comments in mind. Todd

Vectorworks freezes up while rendering and I get an error message saying Vectorworks is using 195 GB of memory. I've read about "memory leaks" and am wondering how to fix this? I am trying to create a final rendering. I've tried Custom Renderworks, Interior Final, etc. If I cannot create final renderings VW is basically useless to me. Mac is a 2022 Mac Studio with 64 GB of RAM, running Sonoma 14.6.1. Vectorworks is 2024 Update 6 PICKLE DILLY-3-PURGED.vwx

Thanks for your help bcd and Pat. I tried all of the above and think the problem was ultimately solved when I disconnected my display from my laptop.

I have a small warehouse conversion project and the file basically freezes up when "rendering" the front elevation in "hidden line", using excessive amounts of memory and not completing. I've read about "memory leak" a bit but not sure how to fix this? I've uploaded the file below and I am interested in what I can change to make this work? Thanks for your help. Todd PICKLE DILLY-2.vwx

Thanks Tom! This works! It took me a few minutes as I haven't used Data Visualization before, but what a great too!

I have a low wall which shows the hatch in plan. I would like this hatch to not be shown as it is not in cut-section. Please see attached pics - any way to do this?Screenshot 2024-07-10 at 6.06.48 PM.pdfScreenshot 2024-07-10 at 6.07.11 PM.pdf

Once you make the opening how do you get the edges of the walls to appear as gypsum board? I checked both uploaded files and cannot figure this out. Thanks!

Deleting top walls peaks ended up deleting the top portion of the wall, but that gave me the idea to just make the furring space (which was my clip walls component) a few inches thicker and that seemed to solve the problem. The file seemed to large to upload - thanks for your comment!

Hi - I have a sloping "roof style" which is a furring component (set to clip walls) and a gyp board component (clipped by wall). I picked the walls in question to associate with this "roof style" and it generally worked really well except I am getting a small portion of gypsum board sticking up past the ceiling. Does anyone know how I can fix this? For one of the other walls I just decreased the height until the piece went away but for this one that does not work. Thanks!

I have window trims along the bottom of each window (see 3D), but they are not showing up in the plan section (which is set to a horizontal cut section). Everything else is showing up fine; am I missing a setting somewhere? Note this is trim not a sill. Thanks!Screenshot 2023-10-15 at 5.27.40 PM.pdf Screenshot 2023-10-15 at 5.28.05 PM.pdf

Thank you! Tom, you are correct, I just did not see that check box under Face items. I then had to set the glazing texture under 3D attributes and it rendered the glass correctly.