@august said: @august said: I got something. August, What did you get? Tom

...so to add to Jim's post, something must have gone wrong. You should definitelybe able to open a version 6 file in SU 7. In fact, we do that all the time here with files uploaded by members still using SU 6 (or even 5).

Thank you ! It works fine!

Sorry to hear that. Do you have a screen shot of an area of your curtain walls so we can share in your pain.

this is definitely quite the list.. i might just have to utilize it too, if no one minds. and for the record, i too like modelling from plans/elevations...not sure why, but it can be 'fun'... its probably a good chunk of my workload, too.

Is this being rendered? Is there any particular reason you want to do this w/ geometry vs. textures? With pits and hairline cracks I can't see not using a texture. If it's being rendered a decent bump map will help you there. If you really want to get fancy or if you want to show some more depth from larger cracks and deformation then you're probably looking at more of a displacement map situation. -Brodie

Problem solved. I just dragged the piece I'm working on in a new drawing and voila! Thanks for the help!

Yeah, it definitely seems to be a (maybe just "almost") coplanar z-fighting issue. Do those lamp shades have "thickness"? Or are they just single faced? (painting on the front and back faces - even if you paint different materials on them - shouldn't cause this problem). Such a z-fighting can occur with even not entirely coplanar but very close faces like EscapeArtist says. It happens when the "physical" distance of two faces - viewing from far enough - is already foreshortened enough to be less than 1 pixel on screen; the limit OpanGL can display. In your 2D export that distance must be very very small however (if that's the case) since it's not a very far away shot OR I'd still suggest there are exactly coplanar faces there.

Thanks for the posts and feedback. Looking around other forums and posts and yes I guess its not doable in SU and has to be hand rendered externally. I wonder how difficult it would be to add to the software. If you can change the style on everything in one file should it not be easy for the software to style a individual component and have different components with different styles within one file? Would certain save a lot of time. Thanks

OK, so now that I got that looking pretty ok, anyone have good snow materials in vray?

Hi, You have already asked this here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=19553&p=161757#p161757 please, don't double post. If there's a solution, it should go into the same topic.

@aidus said: Well now you need to place complex tree in skp format directly in your project. I thin pavol is working on stuf which allows us to add mxm file as proxy not putting complex tree in main model. With this we can simply use very realistic trees like evermotion trees. I'd say now they will try and save this and all the bug fixes till version 2 of maxwell! I hope though they will consider fixing the bugs in studio and release a fully working version of 1.? so that those restrained by the current economic climate are forced to buy V2 to gain the fixes!

Use Pixplant and make the texture?

Here's a fixed version. Draped it onto a surface to make sure it was flat. The main things wrong were the parallel lines didn't often meet the faceted curve - fixed by copying a long line at the centres drawn multiple times, overlaying existing lines and auto-cutting curve's edges, then deleting unwanted bits (v7 auto cuts intersecting edges). A few unconnected vertices and strange overlaps didn't help. Make Faces was not needed that much once that was fixed... There are still a few messy bits around the circular shape - suggest you might redraw that over the top [in a group], then erase the unwanted mess and then explode group to insert the good circle etc ? Note this version is stripped down - no layers, materials etc... 680_LagoonaTilePattern[fixed].skp

Thank you to all who answered, today i tried it again with a copy of the line and it worked. this step belongs to a quick tutorial for road design. If you are interested have a look here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=19578 Comments are welcome Karlheinz

I think it was 3d max

I could reproduce it in that particular file. Haven't tried in another one (yet) however. I suppose it's somehow related to the combination of the groups and face me component axes but I can't tell for sure.

Now it looks more realistic Karlheinz Alpen41-2.skp [image: Alpen41-2.jpg]

Thankyou very much for this advise because i faced a problem with the method i used. But after toggeling start and end point, the result shows some faults. I will correct them manually. Karlheinz There are no problems, only questions. [image: Alpen41.jpg] Alpen41.skp