JeffPPI

Hi all I've created a 3D shape by extruding a polyline. I then sliced a corner off it, and all heck broke loose. Not really, but there is a bit of wierdness going on. VW created an entriely new shape. Anyone encounter this before? I can send you the shpe in it's own file upon request. Thanks! Jeff

my arial black behaved as expect as well until a few days ago, and VW is the only program that does italics. I even reloaded the fonts onto my computer, but that didn't seem to help. thanks

hi again Anyone else have a problem with VW only displaying the font Arial Black in italics? all text settings are set to plain text. If i check the display box GDI+ Imaging, it displays normal but still prints in italics. anyone else have/solve this problem? Thanks Jeff

Hi all I know they're not lights, but can anyone share symbols for chain motors and shackles? I'd like to put them into drawings, but VW 2008 has everything but chain motors and shackles. thanks Jeff

hi all I'm trying to update a viewport using Open GL forground rendering. Each time I try(4 so far) VW crashes. It's not a complex drawing, so memory shouldn't be a problem. anyone encounter this before? thanks

interesting point: I copied and pasted a human figure from another drawing, and it works just fine. also, on the one that works, in Wireframe rendering, the colors of the lines matcht he colors of the attributes(ie, shirt's purple, pants are black) but the ones that stay gray, their lines are all the same color. Is there a setting I'm missing? As far as I know, I created them the same way, witht he same attributes. thanks

the class was set to use "other texture" at creation I modified the class to not do that, but that didn't help. I then created a new class using nothing at creation and tried again, but with the same gray result. thanks

Hi all I'm trying to insert a human figure. I have already set all the attributes and custom positioning and not had a problem doing so. My problem is when I tell VW to render(Final Quality), all it gives me is a gray figure, no matter what the attributes I set were. I have tried rendering in the window as I edit the attributes, but I can't get VW to render anything other than a gray figure. I don't have any custom lights on, but this hasn't hampered figure rendering on past drawings I've done. Anybody encounter/solve this problem before? Any help would be appreciated. I'm running 2008 Design on Windows XP. TIA Jeff

Hi everyone I've been trying to write a CNC program for creating a "Crown." This requires me to "flatten" a Nurbs surface. Is there a way to do this? I need a 2D pattern for my CNC to cut the lines I need.(I need to have the CNC cut the flat shape out of a 4'x8' sheet of wood). I have looked in the reference books, but seem to have struck out. I can email anyone a file with the curve in it, if you'd like to try. Thanks very much Jeff jcebula@proofproductionsinc.com

I've been having issues with snapping to objects created with the extrude along path command. It's a Dykes Molding that I can't snap to, created with a polygon that I converted from a combined surface(using the combine into surface command followed by the convert to polygons command.) I have no trouble extruding the shape, but then I can't snap to any of the corners. I have simple shapes created with a polygon and a path that I can snap to without a problem. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? Thanks! Jeff