mcobbs Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Maybe somebody can help me with this problem. I have created some objects as 3d solids in VW2009, extruded circles and polygons, etc. Some of them are showing up fine, but some of them are EXTREMELY faceted. My settings are = 3D Conversion Res = Very High Print Res = I've tried 72, 150, 300 Line Render Options / Smoothing angle = I've tried 0 to 50 See attached for reference - Artistic Renderworks seems to look the best. This is a VW2009 file. Quote Link to comment
mcobbs Posted October 16, 2008 Author Share Posted October 16, 2008 As an update to this, I have found that this is happening randomly in various different files. Some were originally created in VW2008, some completely new in VW2009. I cannot find a common thread. Sometimes about half of the arc / circles are horrible looking and the other half are fine... Sometimes I can copy the entire drawing into a new drawing, and then they are fine. Nobody else having this problem? Quote Link to comment
quigley Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 I think this is a visual issue with SP0 that has been resolved in SP1. I think it is to do with the way the software facetting engine handles geometry of different sizes. Quote Link to comment
mcobbs Posted October 21, 2008 Author Share Posted October 21, 2008 I appreciate the response, but how do I get SP1, so far, it is not available for download that I can find.... Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 It hasn't been released yet. Quote Link to comment
ffonics Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 As shown in image below, Im having a similar issue it seems. these are all nurbs circles that are extruded along path. All are being cut in section [the one to the far left is the only one cut straight on. As it shows the geometries are both : being simplified to polygons, and are being deformed into what can only be described as cloud like formations. I also created the original geometry in 2008 and then went back and redrew the nurbs circles with 2009 [for problems with severe faceted simplification] image]http://fonner.nicholas.googlepages.com/Picture1.jpg/Picture1-full;init:.jpg[/img] any thoughts? Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Vectorworks Preferences>3D tab, change your 3D conversion res: Quote Link to comment
ffonics Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 sorry, I tried that first and then couldn't find a parametric constraint over the facet simplification in help [other software show this option in the OIP]. The res control wouldn't apply {i think} because it was set the set in v08. If I had it on Extreme the model would become unworkably slow. Quote Link to comment
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