Samuel Derenboim Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Is it me, or has the 3d tiles function been eliminated from Vectorworks Architect 2016 without Renderworks? In Vectorworks 2015 (without Renderworks), if I were to extract a surface, I could still apply a 3d tile to it, view the 3d tile in 3d and if i wanted to view it in a viewport, - if i check the view planar objects checkbox. In Vectorworks 2016, I can no longer add tiles to a nurbs surface or view it in 3d (if I do not have Renderworks). Is this a bug? or something that was eliminated from the previous version? Thank you in advance. Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 In Vw2016 I can apply a Tile fill to a Rectangle or Polygon rotated into a 3D plane and the Tile fill shows up in OpenGL, but an extracted NURBS surface will not take a Tile fill. But this is also how it behaves in Vw2015. No difference. (This is assuming that by '3D tile' you're referring to Tile fills, and not 3D Hatches). Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted October 29, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 29, 2015 NURBS surfaces can not have Tile fills in any version that I am aware of. 3D hatches as suggested above is more likely, but that would have required Renderworks in 2015 as well as 2016, since it is accomplished as a component of Renderworks Textures. 2D Polygons can have Tile fills and would show up in OpenGL however, if that was perhaps what you were recalling? Quote Link to comment
Samuel Derenboim Posted October 29, 2015 Author Share Posted October 29, 2015 Hm, that's strange. I used the same exact process as I did with VW 15. Take a regular wall, extract surface - apply tile. In VW 15 it works, in VW 16 it does not. I however have not checked if the extracted surface was a nurbs surface or a polygon. I checked that in 16 it is a nurbs surface, but will double check in 15 once more. I know VW in 16 also uses new worksheet reference commands, so that could have changed as well. Will give an update tomorrow, for today Im taking on the famous ARE exam Thank you! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted October 29, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 29, 2015 You are able to do this in 2015 right now? I just attempted it and it is not possible, this was 2015 SP4 on OS X 10.10.5, what Os are you on? I can test that as well just in case. Quote Link to comment
Samuel Derenboim Posted October 29, 2015 Author Share Posted October 29, 2015 (edited) Yea, I did it a few times yesterday. I'm in Windows 7. I also have SP4. Edited October 29, 2015 by Samuel Derenboim Quote Link to comment
Samuel Derenboim Posted October 29, 2015 Author Share Posted October 29, 2015 but it is possible it could be creating a polygon, and not a nurbs surface. I'd like to confirm, because I did it very quickly. Quote Link to comment
Samuel Derenboim Posted October 30, 2015 Author Share Posted October 30, 2015 Ok, just verified. In 2015 - If i do extract surface to NURBS - you are correct - it doesn't show anything. But my extract surface tool was configured to creating 'planar objects' while my VW 2016 was not. By creating planar objects - it creates a polygon along the surface of the geometry instead of a nurbs surface - which in turn can be hatched. If I do the same in 2016, it does the same exact thing. Thank you for your help! Quote Link to comment
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