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Drawing a curtain/backdrop without fullness


VenusD

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Hello!

I'm looking to insert a backdrop with no fullness, essentially creating a cyc upstage. Also, adding in legs and borders with no fullness, just flat velour. The curtain tool is very unhappy when I attempt to change pleats, etc. value to zero or even ".1"

 

What's the best way to do this? 

 

Thanks!

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2 hours ago, VenusD said:

Hello!

I'm looking to insert a backdrop with no fullness, essentially creating a cyc upstage. Also, adding in legs and borders with no fullness, just flat velour. The curtain tool is very unhappy when I attempt to change pleats, etc. value to zero or even ".1"

 

What's the best way to do this? 

 

Thanks!

Try clicking the Simple 2D & Simple 3D options in the PIO, pretty far down the way, I remember correctly.

Also, lol, I attempted to make a pleat of 0", no joy. Then I tried 0.0001. VWX 2023 has frozen. No skinny rainbow ball, nothing. Not even showing as "not responding" in th e Force Quit pane.

 

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Yes, Use the Simple 2D and Simple 3D options.
If you set the Pleat Width to a small number Vectorworks will draw a draw the curtain that way and creating millions of tiny folds.
Eventually it will draw but Vectorworks has to work on it for a long time. It doesn't hang or pop up the "not responding" message because it's working on drawing the curtain specified.

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The SImple 2D and Simple 3D check boxes cover just about everything, however, they do sligthly diminish a little bit of useful 2D when using the Border option of the tool.

 

To avoid the redraw, enter a Pleat width of the same amount as the adjustable length, and a Pleat depth of say 1mm. That will give you a flat curtain almost instantly.

 

@klinzey@C. Andrew Dunning Perhaps the Simple 2D and Simple 3D checkboxes could be renamed "No fullness" as essentially this is what they do?

 

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