[I need a second dimension class...]

AWESOME thanks all!

[I need a second dimension class...]

Anyway to set that so another class like "dimension2" works automatically (like when class defaults to the dimension class when you use dimension tool no matter what class you are in) in another layer?

VW 12.5 on a mac

[making a layer link light or different color]

Window>Navigation palette does not offer me that..(that I see in my sleep deprived eyes) and Doc pref display turns everyone a color or b & w..

Can I just turn this layer link (while in this FRAMING layer) a color?

sure hate to reset everything every time I go elsewhere to do something, capeshe?

thanks!

m

[making a layer link light or different color]

I'd love to lay a framing plan over my layer link of the floor plan but its too dark..I know how to shut off the classes but can I fade it? or color it lighter without changing it on the original?

Thanks

Mac book pro with the ancient but still delightful VW 12.5

m

[.pro files how to convert or just read?]

thanks all..we wasted an hour of deadline time to try to capture it..ugh wish I could bill him without this completed! sure you have all been there at some point..thanks all!

[.pro files how to convert or just read?]

ugh! my client is playing designer with Home Design a consumer software to design homes..he imported a pdf I gave him (I assume) and marked it up in there. Now he sends it to me and I cannot open!

and no I am not buying that garbage

Can anyone direct me how to convert the .pro file? or maybe even (pretty please) convert it to a readable image so I know what he is talking about?

thanks a million

michelle

Mac, VW 12.5

ps

I only need to read the darn thing and do not need to work with it and no he can barely do what he did and does not know how to save as a pdf (we agonized over that one)

[furniture, fixtures, fans etc.]

Thanks all!

michelle

[furniture, fixtures, fans etc.]

thanks Jim, but it won't take old stuff

;-(

[furniture, fixtures, fans etc.]

I am a new user of 12 and remember in my older V'works files having accesories available to me that cannot work now in the newer version. I really need furniture and cannot use the Knolls stuff in the package I was issued. Where is the old stuff? Are there fans? As much as I'd like the luxury of sitting around making these from scratch, time is not on my side. Is there a place to download these items?

Thanks

Michelle

I use a PC with XP system

[Door Schedule labels]

Thanks a million if I do figure that out...I'll holler

[Door Schedule labels]

I'm assigning the door's numbers by checking the "on schedule" box in Object info. Is it possible to reduce the text size that shows up on the door or its position? When I enter a different label size on object info pallette, nothing happens (though the numerical value changes as I have entered it).

Thanks!

Michelle

XP

VW12

Renderworks, Architect

[sidelights for doors..where are they now?]

I'm stumped where did the sidelight option go? Can't find it in the settings...oh I fear I'm a sleep deprived fool! Thanks for answers.

best,

M

I am on XP, use VW12 w/ Renderworks

please get some sleep for me :-)

[railing has lines when rendered?]

Dave: I am in fact doing this in a group! Thanks for saving me the madness. It worked!!!!

Benson: Thank you for letting me know my info was not showing up. I use XP, VW12, Renderworks and do not use viewports.

Thanks to you both for your time and answers!

[railing has lines when rendered?]

Hello

How do I get rid of the outlined lines on my railings. They take a texture but show up rendered with an outline of lines that make it cartoonish.

Thanks!

[rendered model on a picture]

I tried that and the obstacle for me is moving the background just where I want it and its size.

you see I am placing a site picture in on a specific angle that forces the model to be in that perspective and size.

I have a few other ideas how to acoomplish this but can anyone tell me how to gid rid of a background without discarding the whole layer? I know I can move the model to a different layer but then I lose the exact location of the its perspective. (gosh I wish there were a way to duplicate that without all the shenanigans of twist and trial and error. thaks for any ideas, help

[rendered model on a picture]

ok now I am desperate...All I want to do is see the rendered model on the photo. I cannot seem to do it by making a texture of the photo. So is there any way to just have the picture (jpeg) appear behind the model so I can display that to my client. I do not want to go to photoshop to cut and paste. (My photoshop is not on my laptop and I'm on the road. Please help!

thanks (sorry to be an idiot!)

michelle

[deleting a background?]

I was trying to delete a background and even got desperate enough to just delete the layer but it still magically reappears when I render. What to do?

Thanks

Michelle

[using jpegs in back of model (rendered)]

Thank you Katie and Matthew, I'm trying both ways so I figure out which is easiest for my general purposes.

Uch! I really need to take another class as I always realize how I'm not using this tool's facilities to my best advantage!

Millegrazie!

Michelle

[using jpegs in back of model (rendered)]

thank you so much!

besides trial and error is there an intelligent way to call the right image size in the making of the renderworks background or must I just scale down the model?

[using jpegs in back of model (rendered)]

I'm trying to place a rendered perspective on a site photo but it keeps coming to the front obscuring the model. How to do this? many thanks!

don't want to go to photoshop :-P