Rendering stairs in viewport

[Jonathan L]

I have a VW 2008 file that I can't render the viewport of a stair that I have in the design layer. All the options are available in the design layer. In the viewport only a few options are available - sketch, hidden line etc. and none of them work. The image remains a wire frame.

[Guest]

Once you choose the render style for the Viewport in the Obj Info Palette, do you click on the "Update" button at the top of the Obj Info Palette?

When a viewport has the red and white candy stripe around it, the viewport is out of date, including rendering. Since viewports can take longer to render than design layers, the option to update (or execute a render selection) a viewport is managed through the Update button in the Obj Info Palette.

[Pat Stanford]

The other rendering options are found in the Background Render pull down. Background Render is where you want to start. If you then want a line render over the top of your solid render, use the Foreground Render.

Pat

[Jonathan L]

Thanks Katie and Pat. That has sorted it.