mark@custom Posted November 22, 2002 Share Posted November 22, 2002 Hello all, I upgraded to 9.5.2 a couple of months ago and have made great use of the hidden lines smoothing angle function and the additional functions of the 3d power pack. However, I have found that 9.5.2 can't handle solid subtractions and additions as well as 8.5.2 does. I was pestering Katie about this, the other day. When trying to do a solid subtraction with 2 extruded shapes (the base polygon for each has around 20 to 40 nodes), VW generates intermittent run time errors resulting in an abnormal program termination. When not doing that it tells me that I've created non-computable shapes (which weren't a problem in 8.5.2). As a work-around, I export the problematic extruded shapes to 8.5.2 and the solid subtraction and additions work like gang busters - every time. I just wish I didn't have to do that... Katie, the video driver helps, but not with the solid/addition issues discussed on the phone... Thanks, m. BTW - the o.s. is NT 4.0 on a Dell Workstation PWS420 w/ 256 mb ram and a matrox millenium g400 max dual head video card. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 22, 2002 Share Posted November 22, 2002 Mark, Can you send in one of the files you are working with so we can take a look at it and see where the problem is? tech@nemetschek.net attn: katie Quote Link to comment
Kevin Posted November 22, 2002 Share Posted November 22, 2002 Where in the program may I find "Smoothing Angle Function"? Quote Link to comment
Kevin Posted November 22, 2002 Share Posted November 22, 2002 Thank you Katie. However Mark@Custom refers to this function in VW 9.5.2. Is this function only available in VW 10 or is it indeed available in 9.5.2? [ 11-22-2002, 01:41 PM: Message edited by: Kevin ] Quote Link to comment
mark@custom Posted November 22, 2002 Author Share Posted November 22, 2002 Kevin, I was able to down load a plug-in and modify my work space thru the work space editor under the file menu. I'll see if I can find the details and post them if someone else doesn't beat me to it. m. Quote Link to comment
MikeB Posted November 22, 2002 Share Posted November 22, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Kevin: Where in the program may I find "Smoothing Angle Function"? I think Andrew Bell at NNA wrote a script for VW 9.5.2. It was floating around for awhile, mabye someone has it and can post it again. Or look at www.vectordepot.com it may be there Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 22, 2002 Share Posted November 22, 2002 It's at VectorDepot.com ! Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 23, 2002 Share Posted November 23, 2002 vw 10 is under Doc Prefs in the File>Prefs menu. Under the Line Render tab. This setting can be bewteen 0d and 90d and will affect the angle at which a line will be placed in hidden line rendering mode. Quote Link to comment
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