Tamsin Slatter

Radiosity has been replaced by something much simpler to manage! Go to View>Lighting>Set Lighting Options and you'll see Indirect Lighting. You have three choices - single bounce, two bounces or four bounces. I wrote a migration guide this time last year which might help you with the transition from the old render engine to the new CINEMA 4D based render engine. You can download it free from here: http://www.vectorworks-training.co.uk/Buy_Vectorworks/Renderworks.aspx The link is at the bottom of the page. Enjoy!

Have you put the graphic within the title block symbol?

OK glad to help, but Glow won't do a great job without indirect lighting turned to at least one bounce. But you might not need HDRI.

You have to delete lights to get back to the default light. Are you using light bouncing in the Lighting Options? This will create better definition of light and shade too. Also, try creating objects with a texture applied that has a reflectivity setting of Glow. This will create a light source that renders relatively quickly, but you do need light bouncing on for it to have any effect.

Hi Luke As long as the lines are connected at their end points, you can select one line and then choose Edit > Select Connected Objects. Then, use Modify > Compose to combine them into a polyline.

You could also try the Polygon tool in Polygon from Inner Boundary mode. As long as the surrounding edges of the shapes are closed and on the same design layer, Vectorworks will be able to create a new polygon to fill the space.

Hi Miles Yes, edit your Vectorworks Preferences and choose Center on Objects After View Change on the Display tab. Hope that helps

The Triangle tool is great for locating points on a site which were measured by triangulation. Much quicker than the old method of using overlapping arcs.

On your viewport, when you choose to Edit Design Layer, make sure you uncheck Add Reference Crop Object. It is this that is drawing the green rectangles, as Ozzie said above. It can be really useful, but if you don't want them,they are a pain!

Yes it was as I suspected. I created a new image prop from an imported plant image. I chose not to have constant reflectivity and not to have crossed planes. I then created a new plant and used the new image prop as the 3D element of the plant. This automatically turned on crossed planes within the plant. If the plant doesn't have constant reflectivity, this causes the shadow line to appear down the centre of the plant when rendered. I then edited the texture that goes with the image prop and added Glow reflectivity. I edited the glow and turned it down to 50%. This got rid of the shadow line but they are not too bright either. I do hope that helps.

My machine is in the middle of rendering something at the moment, but when it finishes, I will check. I believe that Plant objects always used Crossed Planes, regardless of the settings on the image prop and that the Glow reflectivity (constant reflectivity pre-2011) is applied by default to avoid the problem of the shadow down the center line of the plant.

Are you using the Place Plant tool and putting this 3D image prop into a Plant object?

Ian, you can reset defaults by renaming your user folder (User/Library/Application Support/Vectorworks/2011. If you rename this folder and then restart Vectorworks, it will create a new user folder. I have no idea if this will resolve your problem. However, once you have a new user folder, you can of course restore elements from the old one, such as workspaces and other saved settings. There is no uninstall option for Vectorworks on either the PC or the Mac, so, yes, if you do decide to uninstall, drop the Vectorworks 2011 folder from the Applications folder into the trash.

Hi Ian Well, it seems something has gone seriously wrong in your file... If you have created only one model, there should be only one model. You can get back to the source data - right-click the site model and choose Edit Source Data. Is it worth copying the source data into a fresh file, and creating a new model from it? You could then move your modifiers across and see if it behaves better for you there? I would also recommend trying out referencing the original survey using a Design Layer Viewport rather than working in the same file as the imported DWG. Regarding layer visibility issues - check the settings of the site model. It is now possible to choose which modifiers will affect the model - all layers, visible layers only or only on the same layer as the site model. SOrry to hear of your problems. Hope this helps.

Hi Ian To get you out of a hole, you could make your own modifier... Ungroup your retaining wall site modifier to get to its component parts. Delete the offending element. Draw a 3D Polygon along the edge of the outside of the wall. Use Landmark > Send to Surface. This will adjust the 3D Poly to the terrain. Put the 3D Poly into the Site-DTM-Modifier class, and it becomes a modifier. I hope that helps you get moving again.

It's not there on 2012 anymore. But it was at 2010, which jgmrussell is using according to his signature.

Check View > Unified View Settings to see if you had turned it off there.

Matt XP is a 32 bit operating system so it won't be able to take advantage of all your Mac has to offer. Renderworks is 64 bit. It will definitely run slower on a 32 bit OS.

Christiaan, you can edit the Default Story Layers and Level types so that they align to finish floor rather than structural slab.

The roof can be a layer type pr 2nd Floor Story. It doesn't need its own story. The elevation of the roof is then fixed relative to the story height.

It sounds like you have clicked on the end marker on the Attributes palette before drawing. Try drawing a Line. Does this have end markers too? Sounds like you need to make sure nothing is selected, turn off end markers on the Attributes palette and then any future objects will be fine. For those you have already drawn, just select them, and turn off the end marker in the same place. Hope that helps

Resource files provided with Vectorworks are now "fingerprinted" so they can only be used with a valid licence. For example, the Landmark libraries are fingerprinted so they could not be used with a Fundamentals only licence.

Sorry - answered in haste. Training now but will take a look later...

Alt+Click+Drag still working for me...

Hi Matt With your second circle, click on the surface to push/pull. If you push, just hold down Alt while you click and your circle will cut out of the first extrude. If you pull and then press Alt+Click, you will create a solid addition. Hope that helps.