Drop Shadow

[Dexie]

It would be nice if you could create a drop shadow effect as per Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign etc. It would further expand the graphic ability of VW.

At the moment I create a dropped shadow effect by duplicating objects turning them to dark grey placing on a separate layer and turning on transparency in the layer option. This works well but still gives a sharp edge to the shadow.

What are the possibilities of producing fading to the edges of a dropped shadowshadow.

[Guest]

Is this for text or objects in the drawing?

If objects, are you referring to 2D or 3D?

What type of work do you do?

[Christiaan]

Blurred edges would indeed be nice. And they'd go quite nicely with individual object opacity control:

http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=78144

[Dexie]

The drop shadow is mainly for objects in 2D.

We produce urban design plans and layouts where presentation is very important. Other companies use autoCAD to produce the linework and do their colouring up in photoshop or illustrator where drop shadow is available. We are trying to keep everything drawn in Vectorworks so any changes are instant and give excellent results.

We just need to keep trying to improve the presentation of our schemes.