[palettes]

Wonderful.  Thank-you both.  I switched to another workspace and then back again.  Palettes reappeared.

Thanks again.

[palettes]

Hello

I'm having trouble with the tool palettes - they worked fine yesterday, although when docked will not save their positions, but today Vectorworks opened with the palettes blanked out, as in the image.  I can move them but can't close them.  I've tried opening them again but they are replaced with another blank.

Any suggestions very welcome!

Thanks

Bea

 

macOS 10.14.6

Vectorworks Landmark Renderworks 2020

 

[export image]

That's worked.  Thank you so much.  I'll use that method from now on.

[export image]

Yes, renderworks.  File attached.

Thanks.

test.vwx

[export image]

The black box in the attached exported image is a 3d photorealistic image prop from the VW library.  The rendered image pre export is fine.  Would anyone know why this is happening?  When I lower the export resolution to below about 120 the tree appears but the image is very blurry.

Thanks for any help.

Bea

 

VW 2020

macOS Mojave 10.14.6

iMac 2019

[surface array]

Thanks!  I'll try that.

[surface array]

Hmmm, thought as much.  I think I'll have to stick with the texture.  Thanks to both of you anyway.

[surface array]

I think my settings are wrong but I'm not sure what they should be.  I get the same result with a symbol.  The drawings show the settings and the result.

[surface array]

I've been trying to cover an elliptical dome (nurbs surface) with small hexagonal domes (sweeps) using surface array, as in the image (the rendered image uses a texture on the nurbs surface).  Can't get it to work - maybe it won't.

Many thanks for any advice.

[hexagon-based dome]

That's so much better - thank you!

[hexagon-based dome]

Would anyone be able to help with drawing a hexagon-based dome?  I've tried using loft and revolve with rail but it doesn't give a smooth dome shape - see image.  I'd like the dome to be smooth, without the dividing ridges.

Many thanks.

[shift click select]

Thanks Jim - I'll try that.

Bea

[shift click select]

For some reason I can't shift click select to select several objects at a time. Using the marquee to select objects works but then I can't add another object using the shift key. This has happened a couple of times recently.

Thanks for any advice!

Bea

[Exporting 3D from VW to Sketchup Pro]

Thanks Tim!

Bea

[Exporting 3D from VW to Sketchup Pro]

Could anyone help with exporting photorealistic trees from VW2014 to Sketchup Pro?

Many thanks.

Bea

[working plane?]

Saved! Thanks so much.

Bea

[working plane?]

I don't know how to use the active and working planes but I must have inadvertently altered something to produce the grey box outline in this image. Can I delete or hide it? When I reduce the size by pushing the faces it cuts off parts of the drawing. Thanks for any help!

Bea

[white patch on rendered image]

No, the circles aren't in the rendered viewport. Have you an idea what the planar geometry in the drawing could be and whether it could have been created by the 2d locus points?

Thanks.

Bea

[white patch on rendered image]

Going back to this topic because a similar thing has happened today. The picture attached (final quality renderworks) shows a light grey rectangle dotted with white circles. It doesn't exist as an object in the VW drawing. When I delete all the 2d locus points it disappears. Any ideas?

Bea

[3d tubing]

Thanks for your help - I've got it now.

Bea

[3d tubing]

Thanks for replies. Here is the file. The texture doesn't appear in Open GL either.

Bea

[3d tubing]

I'm having trouble adding a texture to 3d tubing - the texture (i.e. metal tungsten from 'metals plastics glass') shows up in the object info but not when I render the drawing.

Thanks for any help.

Bea

[white patch on rendered image]

Thanks very much for your ideas. I deleted all the objects, one by one, and found that once all the 2d locus points were deleted the white shape disappeared. Not sure why this happened.

Bea

[white patch on rendered image]

Changing the classes hasn't made any difference. Here are two images - when I zoom in or out, keeping the same perspective, the ghost shape moves...

Bea

[white patch on rendered image]

Many thanks for the reply.

The computer is an iMac 27", mid 2010

processor 3.2 GHz intel core 13

memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

graphics ATI Radeon HD 5670 512 MB

software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)

All objects apart from the roofs are in the None class.

Bea