New to 2010. Weird curve render problem

[Boriqua]

I downloaded the trial and I know I haven't even begun to check its new abilities but

I have a baby pit wall that I was rendering with a leaf pattern. I have made the wall the same probably sick way in ver 11 and was able to render it. My low wall in this drawing has the rendering in slices?

Any ideas what I did wrong

image

http://www.cerebralacrobatics.com/playspace1.JPG

VW file

the link to the file will download automatically and is about 17 mb

http://www.cerebralacrobatics.com/playspace.vwx

Thanks people for any help

Alex

[Horst M.]

The Problem is, that the Basic Polygon of the Solid Sustraction representing the Wall has already approx. 120 Verticies.

Thats the reason for the segmentation

I think, you can use the curved Wall tool to get a good result.

The other option is, to redraw the basic Polygon with just a few Verticies.

I'm not shure, if there is a Tool to reduce the Verticies of Polygons, as you can do with

the rebuild Nurbs tool.

May be the Cracks in this Folum have smater solutions. :-)

[Boriqua]

I should explain what I did so maybe it makes more sense.

I used a nurbs curve to mess around and get me the shape of the curve. where I ended it on the far side I attached a polygon. I converted the two parts to a polygon and extruded... At least that is what I think I did!

Then I punched a hole for the door using solid subtraction. I was able to do it before in 11 and texture?

Alex

[mike m oz]

Boriqua for objects like this you are better off using nurbs curves. I've attached a drawing showing one method for modelling your pit wall (If you copy the final result and use Paste in Place in your file it will be in the same location).

You can find out more about nurbs modelling in the 3D Power Pack area:

http://www.nemetschek.net/3dpowerpack/qtexamples.php

The information is very good and if you do the tutorials and deconstruct some of the sample models available you will get a good sense of how to go about free form modelling in an efficient way.

The 3D Modeling in Vectorworks, Second Edition manual would also be a good investment: http://www.nemetschek.net/training/guides.php

PS: You also need to correct your version detail - it is Vw 2010 not Vw 11.

Edited March 21, 2010 by mike m oz

[Boriqua]

That was SOooo much easier than I had down it!! Thank you. I want to go through all of the tutorials while I still have the trial software before I make any decision on upgrade. Thanks mike!