etweed Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 I have a drawing containing stairs created using the stairs tool. The "Create 3D" button is clicked in the Object Info plt, but the stairs remain in the "Top" view (2d, including directional arrows) when I am in a 3d view. It has at times showed up as 3d in the correct position, but is currently staying where it was in the top view, while everything else is rotated. Is there anything I can do? Quote Link to comment
etweed Posted June 19, 2003 Author Share Posted June 19, 2003 Update: When I render the drawing, the stairs not only show up unrendered where they were in 2d, but also in the correct location and are fully rendered. When I deleted the 2d version (yes i can click on it even when it is out of place) the correctly located rendered version disappeared as well. So that blew my theory that there were 2 sets. Quote Link to comment
zero Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 It sounds like the stairs are on another layer...and you need to do "align layer views" when you change views. Quote Link to comment
etweed Posted June 25, 2003 Author Share Posted June 25, 2003 nope, I only have one layer in the drawing. Quote Link to comment
BK Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 Did you check your elevation to make sure that they are aligned on the Z axis with the rest of your drawing ? Quote Link to comment
etweed Posted June 25, 2003 Author Share Posted June 25, 2003 everything seems to be fine as far as the elevation on the stairs. Regardless, they should show up in 3d and not stay as a 2d object, even if they were out of place. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Have you tried using the stairs in a new document? Does it work? Quote Link to comment
etweed Posted June 30, 2003 Author Share Posted June 30, 2003 Pasting the stairs in a new sheet corrected the view problem w/ the stairs. However, I am unable to import my saved sheets into the new file. arg! Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 Was this issue ever resolved? I have this same problem. My 3D stair shows up in 3D view in 2D. Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 The Trick i use to get around these little gremlins is to activate the 3D Rotate Tool ... bingo ... everything is back to normal ... this does NOT work with 3D Views switching only with the 3D Rotate around objects or axis tool. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 Yeah, tried that. Didn't work for me. When I do a 3D rotate (around axis) the 3D preview/outline box shows but when I stop it flicks back to the 2D representation. Interestingly when I select the 2D stair and try to do a rotate around object is says no object is selected to use as the centre of rotation. Quote Link to comment
Travis Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Christiaan, I've solved this problem several times (but not every time) by doing the following: Check the font you have assigned to the stair object. (I know, that sounds like it ought to belong in a Ripley's "Believe it or not" episode.) Select the stair object and then pull down the Font menu to see which one is checked. You might find that *no* font is checked.! Assign a known system font (one that came with OSX) such as Arial or Times. This may be sufficient. Alternatively, create the Stair PIO in a clean document with a know system font already selected as the default (so that font automatically becomes assigned to the Stair). Verify which font is checked. Verify that the Stair behaves as expected in both 2D & 3D space. Copy and paste into the original document. After saving, I've been able to assign the desired font and have everything function normally thereafter. If this doesn't work, you may have a sufficiently corrupted file that you'll have to WGR it into a new one. When this recurred in several documents last winter, I trashed the Stair PIO (it's buried pretty deep) and reinstalled. Hasn't recurred for more than six months. Good luck, [ 09-06-2005, 01:18 AM: Message edited by: Travis ] Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Another good reason to stick with the 'vanilla' fonts - ie. those that are common and therefore 'safe'. Use obscure fonts which may not have equivalents on other computers or platforms at your peril. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 It was set to Helvetica. I changed it to Arial just in case and nothing happened. Looks like it's corrupt, as you say. By the way, what does WGR stand for? [ 09-06-2005, 10:39 AM: Message edited by: Christiaan ] Quote Link to comment
Travis Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 WGR = Work Group Reference. See How to Save a Corrupt File at http://www.archoncad.co.nz/resources/resources_tips.php for a complete explanation. Good luck, Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 Didn't work, but I've found out what the problem was. I had assigned class styles to the step and rail finish in the stair object info palette. Problem was I had these classes turned off. When I turned them on the problem went away. Thanks for all the help. Quote Link to comment
Travis Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 Joachim's Razor (paraphrased): the simplest answer is usually the correct one. Glad you found the problem. Quote Link to comment
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