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That Looks great DWorks Will be trying it out for my future Plan Renders Thanks

Good day All I seem to experience a similar problom with PDF's being to big. I only have Adobe Reader 9 and the Quick PDF Tools with PDF Complete. When Print to PDF, it saves the PDF with some "Not Allowed" functions which makes it not possible to merge in Quick PDF Tools. Can't seem to find where to edit that all is Allowed. I need to be able to combine multiple PDF files into one and not be to big to send via email. Any work around for decreasing File size when not having Adobe Acrobat Pro and still keeping a reasonoble DPI of say 250-300? Have not tried Exporting to see the differencee in File size, but from above posts it seems to be bigger. Thanks for any responces

In Adobe Acrobat Pro:- Save as: For internet use/files

Thanks Dave. But that does not work. Instead VW is now being dumb... "This object does not have an editable texture. Only texture with wrapped color shader or mask transparency shader can be edited with the Attribute Mapping tool" It is a VW texture...fcol :mad: So how do you Edit the setting that it does not align the extrude caps to the longest edge of the cap??? ............. I have now given up and created two objects. The smaller triangle shape which was giveg the hassle I have rotated the texture to the desirable angle. Please note: This is not what I would want VW to do.

Good day All This is really frustrating me now as I have redone this several times and in different ways. Drawing a flat/screen to be used on the stage made from treadplate. a Corner has been cut off at an angle and then extended above it. so the texture stays the same with regards to angle and size. VW2012 does not see it this way. :mad::mad::mad: I have drawn a regtangle, drew a guideline and created the top shape with the polygon tool. Then duplicated that shape and moved down the distance required. Drew another guideline and created the bottom shape. Deleted the unwanted lines etc and extruded the two shapes, Applied the treadplate texture and did a OpenGL Render. the two shapes are textured differently (see pic att.) I then did a rectangle, drew two guidelines at the angle required, drew a polygon and cliped the surfaces, extruded and applied texture - Same result. I would not want them to be two seprate extrudes and in a different shape it worked as it should. Also seems the polygon tool is not performing perfectly when snapping to points of lines etc, sometimes does not want to, other times it is a 'Y/axis and other are Endpoint. WTH!! VW SHOULD STOP BEING TOO CLEVER FOR ITS OWN GOOD AND DRAW WHAT IS ASKED FOR!!

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Thanks guys. Yes we do have manuals here haha. Just I'm @ a new Co. (see sig) and waiting for it to be sent to the branch I'm at as they just installed it on this pc. will be moving to 2012 soon though.

Cool Thanks Guys! What is the Section one for then? (Sorry flying blind here at the moment as I can not install Adobe Flash player7 and do not have a Handbook yet with me[coming from other branch])

Good day Ian Good to hear from you again. Thanks for the tip. Do they behave the same as a Layer link and where are they found? I have View>Create Viewport ; Create Section Viewport.

Good day All Up to VW12 we had the Create Layer Link. Where do I find it in 2011? Is maybe called somehing else? Thanks

OH! OK Will have to master this new tool I still have a problom with the issues as mentioned by Kevin and the way the new tool is setup I think is wrong as now I need to group a singe extrude to edit it as all is done in the drawing. The window worked well as it was seperate of the drawing and no obstruction by other things in the drawing. Will try the convert thing too. Thank you all

Hi Bill Good to hear from you again Where do I find this tool?

What a FREAKIN MISSION!!! to map a Texture!!!! Got it to an almost aceptable standard. but the Scale slider keeps jumping around, or rather resetting it self to the value you selected on the slider, not tiping it in. Then to move the bloody thing you need to manually insert the values by geussing what they would be? WTH is this MS-DOS!?!?! and the curser does not even stay active in that tab, so got to click then type, then click again and type. repeat to change. Why cant we just have back the Move and rotate tools to edit the mapping??!!?? :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

I found that the mapping of textures have taken a dive for the worst and moved 5 steps back from VW12 to 2011. If we cuold have back the pop up window for Mapping/editing/creating a texture like it was in VW12 it would make ALL the 2011 users EXREMLY HAPPY!!! Maybe like a service pack upgrade/fix to hadd this to the current version. Thanks alot

Thanks Kevin. Read your post and yes, What a freakin dissapointment!! I was on 12.5.3 and the freedom I had and userbility to place a texture(image) to an extrude of say a screen surface was effortless. Now you have to battle your @$$ off to try and get a sutable texture that would work, not the way to go, as clients would give you one logo to be shown on screen, and then change it to a backlit image9I do not see where I could edit this) In fact I still have not been able to do so, never mind editing an old one. @ Nicholas: does not matter if it is in Perimiter or plane in certain texture and defualt is Perimiter so I did go to all options to see WTH! When you uncheck auto align and perimeter there are more stuff greyed out... I serious am NOT impressed with what they did as this is a DOWNGRADE from VW12!! What I suggest is that that do a SP and add what they add in VW12 to 2011. I will go look for an image of what the mapping page looked like as I do not have VW12 anymore. Thought each version would be better, but it seems we are on a downward spiral here. PS I cannot afford C4D so Im stuck with this stupid setup... :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

As I mentioned here: http://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=164813&gonew=1#UNREAD They went back to the Stone Age!!!

Would I need to have C4D installed to follow this for the things you will learn?

Thank you Tamsin. Looks great and all, but I still don't know where to do the mapping of the texture etc. Please see attached a screenshot. Notice the greyed out tools in the OIP/Render Tab. Maybe I'm missing something here.

Thanks Pat. Will download the upgrade Pity about the camera tool though. I will have a look see. I understand they have tried before and was told it needs to be re-written for some ridiculous price. I think it's just not saved in the right place.

Good day All What happened to Renderworks!!?? Did it go back to the Stoneage? I note that in 2011 in the OIP-Render part there is NO! pop-up window for Mapping textures like in VW12. Also most of it is greyed out so I cant even set the scale of a texture in Plane. How do I you visually move a texture into place without a Pan tool. This is really frustrating!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

No it does not, but I did manage to get it kinda working. IF I am in an Isometric view it works, but then you will need to draw each line, edit it, go to TopPlan and then move the line in place as trying to draw a flat plan does not work. I note that it is only in TopPlan that it is a problem in. - Works in Plan(5)

Good day All I seem to have a "broken" OIP function. I draw a line of any value. when I need to change the value on the lengh it does not give me the correct value and changes the angle value. Is this a fualt with all and how would one fix it? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Good day all. Im running Version 11.5 and 2011. Is there a SP for 11.5 and can the Renderworks Camera be used in 11.5 as I think it only came in with VW12. Also what needs to be done to plug-ins to work on newer versions? I'm clueless as to how they work. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Good day Joshua We have "fixed" it... for now. It is a plug-in someone wrote for us and only worked in v.11. I am now running both v11.5 and 2011 on my machine. Would be great to know what to do to run it in 2011 though, but need to wait for the people that know to come back from leave.