POA Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Hi All, I can't seem to get the curtain walling panels in my model to display as glass. I have applied the 'glazing-clear' class to the panels and all setting are set to 'as class' (fill, pen, texture etc.) but they appear to render empty. The windows I have placed in the curtain wall have the same class applied to their glass and they render fine. Can anyone help? I have attached an image of the problem for information. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Couple things to check: Class of the curtain wall glass set to visible? Color fill (in class settings if set to Color by Class) of the curtain wall glass something other than None? -B Quote Link to comment
POA Posted December 11, 2014 Author Share Posted December 11, 2014 Thanks Benson, I have checked and double checked the class settings and visibility. I can see the glass in relation to the window unit, all seems fine. But the curtain walling panels show nothing at all. Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Paste the curtain wall into a new, blank drawing and test it there. And post it here for others to look at if no success. Visibility problems almost always relate to class settings. Did you access the Curtain Wall Edit tool to check the class and texture settings for the curtain wall panels? Maybe there is some item there to tweak. -B 1 Quote Link to comment
POA Posted December 12, 2014 Author Share Posted December 12, 2014 Benson, I have indeed tried those methods (see attached) to no avail. I have also attached a quick rendered view that shows the issue. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted December 12, 2014 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted December 12, 2014 Post that VWX file please and we can have a look. Quote Link to comment
POA Posted December 12, 2014 Author Share Posted December 12, 2014 Thanks, any tips on lowering the file size? Its currently 4mb and I believe there is a 2mb limit? It contains only the curtain wall symbol and I have purged it. Quote Link to comment
POA Posted December 15, 2014 Author Share Posted December 15, 2014 Sorry for the delay I struggled to get the file size down. In the end I had to create something similar but smaller and not a symbol which just about meets the criteria. Really appreciate the time guys. Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 POA - Did you get this sorted? 2 things: A. The lower glass panels have white color fill, rather than By Class. The Class fill is Black. But any dark color will show in a rendered view if textures are on. I think the white fill is rendering, but it's just too light with all that transparency that we don't see it. You may have to go into every panel and change the glass panel fill. The magic wand will probably pick up the upper panels, too. But no prob. Change the entire selection attributes to anything, then back to all by class B. I didn't track this down, but in design layer views other than Top/Plan, screen plane objects, eg text or rectangles, draw invisible, even with color fill. May be corruption or some setting. I started a new file and pasted in your objects. Attached find the extracted glass with some more 'splainin'. -B Quote Link to comment
gester Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 sometimes i've had an issue with the fills (which is btw required for the ifc exports) when the class solid fills were not set up from the beginning with the 'use at creation' checked in the class settings. adding it afterwards (and applying the changes for all elements with this class) doesn't work in some cases. rob Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 That's interesting. I think this one is just the texture settings. High setting in the transparency shader combined with color shader set to object color. When the glass panel color fill is set to white, the glass is rendering, but it's just too transparent to see it, esp against a white background - it looks like no texture, no render. -B Quote Link to comment
POA Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 SOLVED Sorry for the late response guys, I had a somewhat extended Christmas break. Benson, Thank you this was exactly the problem. I thought the glass texture would override the solid fill so I always just overlooked it. I ended up just adjusting the class to have a black fill. Only then could I see the option in the CW panel editor. Very much appreciated anyways! Gester, Thanks for the heads up I will keep an eye out for this problem. Quote Link to comment
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