BalinB Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 I'd like to use an image prop of a tree as the 3d part of a hybrid symbol. I'd want to use a filled circle as the 2d part of the hybrid symbol. I can't get this to work. Goal is to create a 2d landscape plan with hybrid symbols so I see a 2d plan in top/plan view and the image prop in other views. Thanks, Balin Butler Quote Link to comment
Kaare Baekgaard Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 It will not work - maybe in the next update this will be fixed. Make a symbol of the 2D representation. Then make a new symbol including the 2D symbol and the image prop. Put this in your symbol folder and use it like any normal symbol, but be sure to convert it to a group before rendering. This way you will keep the 2D representation in the correct location. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Dave Donley Posted March 2, 2005 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted March 2, 2005 Hello BalinB: You can now use image props in symbols. You actually could use non-auto-rotating image props in symbols before, but now they can auto-rotate too. Among the other image prop improvements in 11.5 are that you can enter height and width independent of the image aspect ratio, you can create a symbol from the plug-in with one click, and there is a name field that is the basis for the image prop texture and plug-in symbol name. So if you entered "White Pine 20ft" for the name the Create Image Prop menu item would create a texture resource called "White Pine 20ft Prop Texture" and a symbol called "White Pine 20ft Prop Symbol". When you drag and drop this symbol it is inserted into the drawing as a plugin. This means that you can select it and edit its parameters with the Object Info palette. Also, image prop symbols such as these have a rendered front view thumbnail in the resource browser so that you can distinguish between them better. [ 03-02-2005, 09:57 AM: Message edited by: Dave Donley ] Quote Link to comment
Kaare Baekgaard Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 >Among the other image prop improvements in 11.5 are that you can enter height and width independent of the image aspect ratio Alas, this is does not function as a workaround for changing the proportions of an existing texture. Quote Link to comment
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