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Well thanks whomever rated me. The fact of the matter is still...you only have one vote....pity.

Our graphic Designer helped me out on this one as she knows how to do it quick, I would still be busy redrawing if I had to do it in VW. But here is the VW and dxf file. See if you come right with it...

Yes I was waiting for the render to finish, but after two hours it was at about 52% so I stopped it and that was a challege on its own. Thanks for the star though, just now you can't give me a higher rating if I do or comment on something that should reward me with more stars accourding to you....

Cool, another Carl...yay. OK so you already have textures in your Resource Browser and you seem not to be able to Apply them...? Select the extrude, In Resource Browser-right click the texture you wish to make it and select Apply. Have you mapped the texture yet? See the link below. http://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=121445&page=1

Vincent Congratz for your first star rating. Does the 1 star mean that you said/did something Good or for something Bad??

Thanks Vincent Will attach it soon as my rendering has stopped.(taking more than two hours, bleh) Just to give you an idea as to how it was created so long. Redrawn in Corel from a scanned image, saved to .dwg/dxf, imported to VW. VW crased when I tried to import an .eps file version of it, even after greatly reducing the amount of nodes before exporting.

Good day All I have text which has been redrawn as a vector with nodes. When imported they are Polylines. I wish to extrude them but seems they do not what to do it correctly. Please see attached. As soon as the 2d polygons get the extrution command some of the "lettering" change to blocks....and simply extruding or converting to 3d polys makes half of it dissapear. What else could I try? Thank you in advance

Good day All I have a similar problem I have text which has been redrawn as a vector with nodes. When imported they are Polylines. I wish to extrude them but seems they do not what to do it correctly. Please see attached. As soon as the 2d polygons get the extrution command some of the "lettering" change to blocks....and simply extruding or converting to 3d polys makes half of it dissapear. What else could I try? Thank you in advance

I've always just held down Esc key until render stopped. Have not tried it with the shift key combo.

This is why the star rating does not work.... It might change ten times whilst you are not viewing the forum. The one forum called the method I suggested Karma...If it is equal your Karma is ballanced even if it is 524/524. at least everyone knows what your "rating" is Star Wars. Start of the Clone(user)Wars?? Why fight?(as in whats the point?)

Good day Kelly19 How do you mean twice? by itself, or when you export does it Render once and then Save the render? In the case of option B here. When you want to Export, select the render tipe you want, it will start to render, hold down Esc key. Render will stop. Select the Export tipe you wish. Please add your system details (OS and VW??) into your signature.

I'll have to run it by my boss and let him do it, as Iam not allowed to even swith on the server unless he aproved it....we have had some serious problems here, so only one controls all of it.

brudgers, I don't like being "poked" heehee Orso that is a valid point, like when two users controdict and you know which is right, we could crit them...that is where the system I suggested will work well as the rating can only be done once at present.

There is a problem there though, once you have given someone a rating you can't re-rate them

I have seen on another forum they have something similar. username journeyman smite/applaud 2 / 100 You could click on smite or applaud, which has counters, so the next refresh will show the change. You could make it Forum related or just be good/bad on the other hand. This is not a forum for chatting, but an information base and no question is a dum question. Why would you want to give someone a negative rating Orso?

From what I have read and understand from the links Iv;e posted above, the system will only be unstable if you take away to much RAM from the OS, but you can still gain a lot by pressing it's limits. So maybe you could press it till 2.8GB and it will still be stable. depends on your setup. As Ian has mentioned he took it to 3072 and still have a stable OS. So what I understand is that he could allocate more to the applications but he does not want to risk that, and besides he now has 3GB with a stable system.

Thank you Ian http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124810.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms791558.aspx

I have been trying to get any of the NNA members to respond on here as They could not as yet answer my question on this, as to why is it different. As Orso has brought it to our attention, simply switching OS will double it, but if there is different way to get more RAM without changing OS(which could cost a fortune) then maybe this activation switch would be a good thing. What do we do to aquire this switch??

My apologies Orso

Thought so.... Another thought could, if you could, to create scripts and jusr them...don't know if it would be easier.

I have not tried this myself, but could you not costumise your own menu in VW?

Vincent Maybe this will help http://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=118399#Post118399 Did not see that the actual differece was mentioned, but it was explained in a way....

Thank yoiu Mr.Gog Still does not explain why it is different. Could someone from NNA please inform us as to why VW is different on the different OS systems at the same bit rate and why it does not make full usage of RAM available??

Jeff. Sounds to me your image your using for the texture is to big. Open it in Photoshop and save at 10%. Recreate the texture with the newly saved image and see if it goes black. you can the up the persentage to see what your max would be before it does not work. Also, in the PDF is mentioned the border around boards, wave and dolfin are 3/4" round steel. If you have applied a texture with metal/(steel) capacity it does influence the render. Edit the texture in it's reflectiveness and maybe change the metal tipe. What tipe of mapping are you using for this? Also, what lights do you have in the render? Ambient and fixtures? Ray I do understand a 64bit will have more than a 32bit, but if I understood Orso correctly he was comparing the different OS at the same bit rate.... Mr.Gog posted in the other thread: So why is different on on the different OS? Could someone from NNA Please answer this for me? Vincent I have found over time when running large renders (90MB++) with all the other applications a simple Restart instead of Shutdown does not work. I think it depends on big the renders areeach time....

Is Drape Surfaces available in VW12.5? If so Where do I find it?