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Tamsin Slatter

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    Not Able to Change Class

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Sounds like you have Auto-classing turned on. If you look at File > Document Settings > Standard Naming, you can check.

    However, you might find that if you work with the standard class list that works alongside Auto-classing, it can save you a lot of time.

    Alternatively, if you find that a struggle, you can turn it off.

    Plant tag handles...gone!!?

    in Site Design

    Posted

    Hi

    It sounds like you have inadvertently click on the first mode of the Selection tool which turns off interactive scaling mode. So, you will find that the handles have gone from everything in fact!

    Click the Selection tool and on the tool bar at the top of the screen, click on the second mode. All will be well!

    Hope that helps

    Rendering interiors with natural daylight/heliodon

    in Rendering

    Posted

    You are quite right Christiaan - sorry - I was away from my laptop when I answered you and I gave you a wrong lead.

    You cannot add Lit Fog as an option for a Heliodon - or for a directional light either. You will need to create Spot or Point Lights to create that effect. You can do this using the Light tool in Visualization tool set.

    Rendering interiors with natural daylight/heliodon

    in Rendering

    Posted

    Window > Palettes > Visualization

    Click Lights, right-click your sunlight and choose edit. check Lit Fog.

    Bear in mind also that a directional light (a Heliodon is a directional light) is like a giant plane in the sky emitting light. It may not create the effect you want. You might want to use a Spot instead to create the beams you are looking for.

    Rendering interiors with natural daylight/heliodon

    in Rendering

    Posted

    Are you using bouncing of light? Have you tried the Renderworks Interior Final style? That gives pretty good results to get you started and you can always tweak the style to suit your needs. It does bounce light four times so will take a little time to complete. If you want to be able to see rays of light, you may want to turn on Lit Fog on the light that the Heliodon creates.

    Cut and Fill Calculations

    in Site Design

    Posted

    Hi

    Yes - Tools > Reports > Create Report. Create a report based on the Site Model record and choose the fields you want to include in your report. That will list the information you need in a worksheet.

    The 3D Polys that you use as source data do not need to be in the Site-DTM-Modifier class, but as Marc has already drawn his proposed contours as 3D Polygons, he will need to put those in the Site-DTM-Modifier class to get them to behave as modifiers on his site.

    Attributes not available

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Sounds like your walls are using a wall style, which gets its attributes from within the wall definition itself. If you want to use the attributes palette instead, select the walls and choose Style: Convert to Unstyled on the Object Info palette. If your wall has components, click Components on the same palette to edit them and choose fills for each component.

    Hope that helps!

    Cut and Fill Calculations

    in Site Design

    Posted

    Hi Marc

    You need to create a Site Model. Here's a brief summary of the process:

    You'll need to convert both sets of 2D contours into 3D Polygons and set their Z value to their respective heights.

    Select the contours that relate to the existing site and choose Landmark > Create Site Model. Complete the dialog and click OK.

    Now, select your proposed contours and add them to the class Site-DTM-Modifier. Select your model and choose Update.

    Then, you can choose Update Cut and Fill calculations on the Object Info palette.

    Good luck!

    Why is some text for plant tags gray and other black?

    in Site Design

    Posted

    HI Elena

    Is it possible that you have been creating your own plant symbols from scratch? If so, check the current default opacity setting on the Attributes palette. If it's not 100%, your plants have been created with less that 100% opacity embedded in them. I have found that when placed this way, the transparency gets worse and worse the more you place.

    I have already reported this as a bug.

    If it's NOT that, you are welcome to send me your drawing (or a small extract of it in a fresh file) and I'll happily take a look at your plant settings.

    Hope that helps

    3D trees?

    in Architecture

    Posted

    I would not want to guarantee. You are better off finding some cut outs and making your own image prop if you want something specific. VB Visual has a library of cut outs you could peruse.

    And you can make an image prop using Model > Create Image Prop.

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