"RenderWorks required"

[Christiaan]

We've got someone working on a file which keeps telling her that "Renderworks is required". In one instance she was changing layers and in another she was hitting command-g to group something.

When the message comes it pops up four times and you have to click okay each time before it goes away until next time.

The file is made up of some simple bathroom elevations (lines and polygons) and Design Layer Viewports or a referenced file (layers imported).

Has anyone else run into this?

[Bruce Kieffer]

Are you using VW with Renderworks? Are you sure she's not hitting command+shift+g?

[Guest]

Do you have a mixed environment where you have some licenses with RenderWorks and others without RenderWorks?

[Christiaan]

Yeah, my machine has RenderWorks and I created the file.

[Guest]

Does her machine not have RenderWorks?

It sounds like she does not have RenderWorks and the file has been saved with a a rendering set to RenderWorks. When she's trying to do something, since the file is saved with the rendering, she's being prompted with the message because she doesn't have RenderWorks.

She can fix this by pressing esc and going to View > Rendering > Wireframe.

It's not a bad idea to save files as wireframe rather than rendering. It helps save time when launching.

In addition, if you want to save a rendering, use the cached viewports option and set a viewport to some rendering mode. That way, you don't run into the situation as you do with her, and others don't have to mess with canceling a rendering when trying to open a file.

[Christiaan]

Her machine doesn't have RenderWorks.

The file is set to wireframe already.

Could it have anything to do with the objects sketch setting in the Render tab of the OIP being set to "Document Default (Rough)"?

[Guest]

Sketch is a design series feature, not RenderWorks.

There's something in the file that is either rendered (you may need to check all the layers - at least the layer that she's trying to switch to) or using another RenderWorks feature.

[Christiaan]

I wonder if it's the default Sketch setting then (even if nothing is rendered). Where do I set the default Sketch setting in a document? It seems it was set to 'Rough' in our template file.

Edit: found the setting, I'll test and let you know

Edited November 15, 2007 by Christiaan

[Guest]

Sketch has nothing to do with RenderWorks though. You can use Sketch without RenderWorks - it's an industry series feature.

[Christiaan]

So it's part of VW Architect?

[Guest]

Yes - sketch is a design series feature, not a rendering feature.

[Christiaan]

Hmm, well I don't know what it can be then because there's definitely nothing set to render.