joerg

that's the beauty of VW, do it the way it suits you... but dont get messed up at the end!! in my practice we use the rule name a layer as "where" the object is and a class as "what" the object is. works pretty well... happy easter!

I am using the floor tool a lot for any extrution!you can use any shape and it's very easy to reshape it in 2D and still have always a clean 2D view. I have been working with hybrid symbols but you have to reshape 2D and 3D seperatly which is not very comfortable it only makes sence if it is a combination of a complex 3D Element and a simple 2D view. Floor tool is great they should rename it to "hybrid-Extrude" tool...

Thanks Ray that did the trick!!!! it seams that VW is getting a bit "female" according to the photo...;-))) soo many parameters!

zoom in an zoom out is cmd-1 and cmd-2 but this snapping to a line is not working for me too i can not find a propper tool that it behaves as it did befor, when the curser snapped to"object" and you have been able to place the line where you wanted to. Now it goes all over the place i would be very happy to get the secret trick...!

in VW 2010 it seams to happen that you cannot use the offset tool when you rotate the planview. Worked fine in VW 2009!!! funny "upgrade" to VW2010:-(( anybody else have the same problem than i might write a bug report...again!

is it possible to costumize the view bar in terms of changing the location of an item? couldn't find anything in the help system or forums....

Text along path should do the trick....

something similar happend to me... it was my class setting. i had my active class set to invisable. But because i used it as my active class every object was created with that class and because it was active it was visible but with zooming it went mad until i found out. Bthw i think it was caused by this strange "activate class" command with some mis keybord so i didn't realise... just a guess!

my problem was also with an old DIN font i replaced it by a free downloadable font from here http://www.myfont.de/fonts/infos/5199-Alte-DIN-1451-Mittelschrift.html its in german but tells you where to download in english. that solved my problems....

i had this sort of problems and it was caused by a corrupted font...make sure you use only "healthy" fonts in the particular file you want to export from! That did the trick in my case! good luck!

Thanks again. i might report it as a bug than! Hey i paid for an upgrade not a downgrade ;-) There are probably workarrounds but i liked the siplicity of it! And i like the look and speed of openGL. It has a bit of the Sketchup look, still a drawing not too realistic!!! cheers Joerg

Thanks Pat, i had Quarzimaging turned on ...!

having 2 layers created a viewport and set the top layer in the viewport layervisibilties to grey ind rendered beautyfully transparent. But in 2010 it doesn't!! am i missing something? or is this a bug? This was ( or hopefully is a very nice feature!)

Beside all this i really liked the way to fade away items outside the group the way u want it!! very cool

i dont know on which version the transpancy started but with VW 2009 i would draw a rectangle over the image set the fill to the colour, lines to no fill and adjust the transparancy (and than group it with the image) well perhaps easier to photoshop the background image and reimport it....

Now as we are on parasolid i would love to have VW with its hiddenline and sketch abilities and then get rid of renderworks and implement the MUCH more superior renderengine of Luxology (As Solidworks dit) its realtime to start with and quick and would be a fantastic add-on!!! or if that's not possible an exchange format that works proper would be great.

After updating to OS X10.5.7 I had crashes as I had never before, unpredictable, irregular but unfortunately frequently! And viewports had a strange behavior. They showed up and disappeared again almost impossible to work on!!! I was thinking of reinstalling my old OS because VW always worked fine almost no crash at all! Then test on an other older PB same buggy behavior ! But than SP4 turned up and with it some hope ...but still same problem. Than finally I checked my file.... my default class "none" was set to be grayed!!! (Don't know when and why but it was same in my default-file so every new file was the same...) As I was creating every element in my standard (working)class and didn't change you don't see it at the screen because it's the active class, which is alway visible.... since setting it back to visible everything is fine and smooth as always.... Just to let you all know and apologize for all my secret swearing to NNA and Apple!

If you open in Acrobat than go to "Document"/ reduce filesize it will shrink enormously with almost no loss of quality...

i tried to export an open GL Render (as i did many times before) but there is no file in the destination folder!! i tried different filetypes but no success! is this a (known) bug? or is there a trick??

to khumphries could you solve this most iritating problem that only started with VW 2009? it is strange if you create a symbol from an object at lets say -500/-500 and an other one that was located at -500/-600 and than edit on of it you see the other symbol greyed in the background but at 0/0. where you have to zoom to.and i cannot think of many reason you want to see somthing else while editing an symbol..in groups i do but not in symbols. i thougt i missed a checkbox too!!( like viewports keep view after editing) So please Nemetchek developers if someone wants to edit a symbol you probably want to see it! so it should be center of the screen and when finished, back to where you started....as it was before!!! so please give us the old and good behavior back - maybe with a preference. ()center symbol when doubleclick to edit () see others while editing symbols

well that would be far better to handle... but how difficult would it be to write a tool that converts an orthogonal rectangle automatically to a polygon...? just make it easy to draw quick. Never done any custom tools by myself !

Please give me co-rotating ankerpoints in the rectangle OIP for rotated rectangles!!!! or make in an option to go back to my old behavior because its nice on unregular rotated rectangles but a pain... in orthogonal rotated on's, which is more than 90 percent of my work, because if you want to edit them in OIP they go all over the place until you find the wright ankerpoint. or is there a workarround? joerg greenhorn since minicad5

am i right this is a 2d? i do this a lot myself using image fills etc . but for this reason shadowdrop (like in "pages" or photoshop) for elements or layers is still on my topwishlist. But until now it is an option to draw the shadows with polygons and set them transparent... but no soft edges than! and a lot of work. cheers joerg

Very funny that i saw my old posting again.... i couldn't work it out and really got sick of artlantis so i swapped to cinema. more complex more difficult but also more professional. Artlantis was great until Version 4.5 but than... good luck!!!! joerg

even being a greenhorn (since minicad5...) my VW2008 runs rock-solid and the few crashes i had (must have been VW!cant remember a single crash on VW08) had to do with corrupt fonts. And i got the feeling (and it is only a feeling no proof) that this is still a matter out there! check your font run some "fontdoctor" application maybe it helps. and/or change the fonts in your documents to use only clean fonts! cheers joerg