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Delmer

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  1. Increase the snap radius in the VW preferences and see if that fixes it for you. I think the default is 5, try upping it to 20 or more.
  2. I have had good dentists and bad dentists.
  3. - Works fine on my PC Also, Ramon, one fairly common practice is to set up classes named 3mil, 6mil or mm or whatever with the correct pen settings. These can be catch-alls, especially in sections and elevations, for all items that don't need to be governed by their own classes. Then you just change an object's class to set a different lineweight.
  4. Might not be exactly what you want, but you can set your pen color to white and place a stipple over the image. With the right stipple settings you can tone down the image a bit.
  5. If you're patient enough to draw cut sections through the rudder every 1/2" or so moving from bottom to top a simple multiple extrude will give you a reasonable shape. The more sections the truer your shape -particularily the elliptical portion at the end. Use front and side profiles on a 2D grid to assist. - If necessary a quick way to get elliptical beziers to start off is to group a circle, resize it, ungroup. - Rather than trying to maintain the correct drawing order it is sometimes easier to get it all done and then start at one end and send to back or front one at a time till you get to the other end. If you have the terrain modeler a similar method would be to arrange your cut sections out of 3D polys, this time using 3D side and front profiles. Then use the DTM modeller to create the surface.
  6. The other thing to consider is to go ahead and adjust it in the photo editing software and bring it back in & resize before you delete the old one.
  7. It is a good suggestion, and as much as I would like to have a detail layer set at 1 1/2" = 1'-0" and bring a VP into it off a 1/4" = 1'-0" section, I guess this may be the item that has enough of a reward to get me over my distrust of viewport annotations. Thanks again.
  8. Alright already, sit down and get back to work. I?m only going to try them this once.
  9. As with all of what we (I) do on a screen, on paper or out of scraps, the model is an explanation tool. It can explain a roof form to a client or committee. It can explain a truss connection to an engineer. It can explain to me my headroom in a flight of stairs. Unless the client really needs it I like to avoid modelling the complete interior, it generally helps me very little and the builder even less. Complex components yes, but I haven't done a walk-through in years. I don't usually model my EPDM membrane either. The model aspect is solely for what needs to be explained to whom. I like the idea of this whole building complete with nails and glue turning on my screen, but I have to look at who it would assist to create the real thing and devote energies accordingly.
  10. If you save your perspectives in saved views the bounding lens will be saved for each. If not using saved views I find that if I leave a perspective view and then set another my window/lens is set the same as the previous one. V11.5 [ 05-13-2005, 10:20 AM: Message edited by: Delmer ]
  11. That shouldn't happen. If something in class A is grouped with something in class B and put in the none class without converting objects to group attributes, in the dwg you should get a block in the none layer. Explode it and you have an object in layer A and an object in layer B. If you take that same VW setup and export by layers the group will be in ACAD layer "Design Layer-1" or whatever you might have named it. Explode it and you'll see your objects will be dumped into the 0 layer. Typically you export classes to groups. I can't think of what else you would be doing.
  12. Organize>Modify Layers & Classes. If you already have the new classes in the file then add them to the right side. Select those on the left you want to convert, select the one on the right you want to conver to, merge. You'll have to go to layers. If you're happy with layers, add them all, click OK.
  13. Peter, if I want to add more detailed hatches, lines and other info at an enlarged scale then you're saying I could do that on the sheet layer, or VP annotations? Using a bubble for a VP is great but I have more drawing to do. Tell me if I missed something. Thank you, Delmer
  14. To add even more to the VP capacity, it would be superb if one could VP into a design layer. There are any number of uses for this, just one being the ability to bubble a portion of a section, VP it to a detail sheet, adjust lineweights by scale factor in the OIP and add levels of detail.
  15. I had held off for a couple versions and only purchased RenderWorks in V11 thinking it would take them that time to get it running at a competitive level. I used to go through the pain of taking models to Alias Sketch, 3D Studio or Lightscape/Viz but the time factor made it almost a hobby, I certainly couldn't justify the expenditure. Then, thinking RenderWorks might be of age, I spend the dollars and find that most of it is accessed off a pallet submenu and the quality is something like you would see on a Ronald McDonald Play n' Learn CD, not something I would ever show a client. Art*lantis is easy and has limited use but still . . . I haven't tried CD4, it sounds like it may be the most plausible option. If RW ever becomes a valid presentation option I would actually like to be able to enter a RW mode, something like setting up a RW workspace, where tools were accessible and it had its own shortcuts etc. [ 05-12-2005, 02:59 PM: Message edited by: Delmer ]
  16. Before sheets came along you could batch print layers, I'm really not sure why this was dropped. Now you have to viewport the layers into sheets in order to utilize the Batch Print function. My Acrobat is a couple years old and the batch print produces a file for every sheet, then if you want to compile them into one file you do that from within Acrobat. I don't know if a newer version will print multiple sheets to one file or not.
  17. You can deny people write permissions but that just means they open a copy and can do what they want with the copy. If you use Acrobat to write it to a PDF you can set the security there so it cannot be printed.
  18. - check the Rotate in Wall box
  19. I didn't initially see that you are on 9.5.2. In v11 you can use raster images as fills. I gave it a shot & made a simple half-black-half-white rectangle in photoshop, stuck it in a wall and it works beautifully. Another thing you could do if this is important to you is to create a hatch with a number of levels. Eg: 5mm lines offset by 15mm, separated from the next by .5mm, with a moderate line weight.
  20. This has only happened a couple times and has been more amusing than harmful. I'll switch drawings and perform a keyboard operation such as zooming out -nothing will happen. At first I think its locked up, then tab back to the first drawing to find it is the one which has zoomed, not the one that was on the screen.
  21. quote: Originally posted by Ray Libby: quote: Try the Translate View Tool when in Edit Crop mode. Ray, that's a great suggestion for a model but I tried it on a plan and I had to exit with the plan left in 3D. When I changed the projection in the OIP back to 2D Plan it jumped back to its original position.
  22. or put them in millimeters, that will save you a ", a ', a -, a / and a . [ 05-11-2005, 01:12 PM: Message edited by: Delmer ]
  23. quote: Originally posted by islandmon: Try goto menu>File>Document Preferences > Dimensions>ASME Dual Stacked>create New Dimension >edit dual stack, as required. You might prove me wrong, but from what I remember the stacked dimensions only provide two versions of the same measure, I don't think you can split one number up with whole on top and fraction on the bottom.
  24. I agree with jan15, ACAD has had line thicknesses for 5 years now and I don't know anyone who uses them. This is partly because old habits die hard but also because there is only one particular zoom factor where the lines accurately represent the output, everything else either loses definition or is a blurred mess. WYSIWYG is the base of the VW display format. [ 05-11-2005, 10:01 AM: Message edited by: Delmer ]
  25. ACAD allows you to set a support file search path, meaning you can put a few fonts in a folder and specify it as the font resource. That would be one solution.
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