jarjones Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 This seems like a simple question, but I'm having trouble finding the answer. Just started with VW, made a theatre groundplan, looked correct with hatchmarks. Extruded the walls and proscenium (complex polygon), went to side view and made the top of proscenium arch, but after extruding, my hatch marks in the polygon have vanished and the top of the arch shows up in my plan view. How do I keep my hatches in the plan view and how do I view just the items' footprints? Do I need to do a section that's about a foot on either side of the ground plane, or is there a way to view just 2D items, or do I no longer have any 2D items due to the extrusion. Can I turn a top view of my extruded polygon back into a 2D item? Thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment
Kaare Baekgaard Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 If you are not using 2D/3D parametric objects, this requires a little trick: Make a copy of the content of your extruded objects (go into 'edit object' and copy everything). Paste the content of the clipboard 'in place' (alt-contr-V). Select the 'Floor'- menu item and covert all the pasted objects into a (fake) floor. Make the floor Z-height, so that it is slightly under the 'real' floor. Adjust the stacking order of the objects, so that it will go in front of the 3D extruded polygons in the top/plan view (you may want to ensure that the polygons of the fake floor have a neutral fill behind the hatch. You can add elements to the fake floor as you go along, but be sure not to ungroup it accidentally: It will then convert into 2D objects. Quote Link to comment
Kaare Baekgaard Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 Well - since you are looking for a simple answer... You can also paste the 2D content into a new layer and make that layer visible/invisible as you wish :-) Quote Link to comment
jarjones Posted November 10, 2004 Author Share Posted November 10, 2004 Now that I've extruded it, where do I get the 2D content to paste into the new layer? Or should I paste the 3D content into a new layer? Without trying to recreate it, how do I recover a 2D version of my complex polygon from the 3D version? Quote Link to comment
propstuff Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 quote: Originally posted by Jeff A.R. Jones: how do I recover a 2D version of my complex polygon from the 3D version? Go to the view you want to see it in and use Tool>Convert Copy to Polygons (or lines if you prefer). Note: if you want to be able to choose between seeing the 3D or2D version why not take advantage of the enormously useful VW Hybrid environment and make a hybrid Symbol out of the 2&3D versions you have made? I can't remember where it is in the manual off hand. HTH, N. Quote Link to comment
MullinRJ Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Jeff, To recover the 2D part(s) of an extrude: Select the Extrude. Go to menu Organize>Edit Group, or Cmd-[ Select all and copy. Go to menu Organize>Exit Group, or Cmd-], or press the Done button in the upper right of the screen. Paste, or Paste In Place, wherever you like. HTH, Raymond Quote Link to comment
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