brent kjernisted Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 I'm willing to pay anybody who can show me how to apply a draped surface to the file I posted in the draped surface topic. That would include applying the shingles as Wes did in the eyebrow dormer topic. This may make the difference between by purchasing or not purchasing Vectorworks Designer and Interiorcad. Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Hi Brent... It's fairly straight forward - select your roof and dormer to make them active (to select multiple objects, hold the shift key down then click on the object) You should then be able to go to MODEL >> 3D Power Pack and choose "Create Drape Surface" - you'll get a dialog box that basically is asking for how fine a "mesh" you want in your drape, maybe try the defaults at first and see if they're suitable. The drape is a 3D element so it can be textured - the texture I used is a stock Vectorworks texture called "Shingle Wood Irregular". This can be applied by dragging it out of the Resource Browser and onto your drape. (You may have to first get it from the Library) You may have to adjust it's Mapping in the Object Info Palette so it maps ACROSS rather than DOWN the slope of the roof - play with it a bit. Quote Link to comment
brent kjernisted Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 Wes, my roof is a solid subtraction. I'm not able to select the roof face. What am I doing wrong or what do I need to do. Are you able to select the roof face on the file I have posted. Quote Link to comment
brent kjernisted Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 (edited) I applied a texture and parts of it rendered the texture but parts were white. How do you get rid of the extra drape. Edited February 20, 2009 by brent kjernisted Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Just move the drape UP by about 10 or 12 mm and it'll start rendering correctly - right now the drape and the roof surface or co-planer so Vectorworks can't figure out which surface is "higher" making rendering a bit odd Quote Link to comment
brent kjernisted Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 (edited) Wes where do you move the drape up; under "create drape surface" "plane z value". I tried 10, 12 and 14mm and none of these worked. As well how do you get rid of the extra drape surface. I don't have an active layer only. I have a design layer 1. Wes I'm a greenhorn and am not sure what this active layer only does. Edited February 20, 2009 by brent kjernisted Quote Link to comment
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