You quoted my example of a step sheet... Please outline exactly what you want to do - what to find by a pattern-match and how to rename them etc... This thread have been around for a decade ! So what you want to do needs to be specified very precisely...

pretty smart Eric, I like these!

If you have SU Pro, you can export a 2D plan view DWG, and re-import that Anssi

Yea - the revit system is awkward. I'm not to happy about the Autosave system in SU - too many people at work completely ignore the "Autosave_" bit of a filename and use that to continue working on. Make it very hard to know which files can be removed.

hi, thanx a lot, i used this method for a long time, until i found a great script (ruby) exporting only active scenes (scene setting > video on) and giving the jpg's it's scene-name ( very helpfull with 200 different views printed etc. for some sorting etc.) but right today i found this problem with the fixed text (which is helpfull for sinple logo-infos) not working in this script somehow. anyway, we keep on looking for a way.. thank you regards stan

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Perfect! Thanks Bryan.

Thanks for the reply rob.. Yes the nested components (Vertical and Horiz. Mullions) do exist in the main component. I thought by hiding them, it would be more like a "Exist/don't exist" scenerio. Everything works great visually it's just when I generate a report all these pieces show up. what I guess I need to do is find a way to make these sub-component exist or not exist, maybe with an If-Then statement.. I'm not a programmer so I haven't had any luck yet. Thanks again Rob.

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Jean, thanks for the suggestions, I had looked at it that way already but I'm really wanting to be able to work with one file. The size may be prohibitive but I'll get to that eventually. Chris, Namesets looks very good, I've had a little play with it with my morning coffee. I'll delve into it further later and I'm sure I will have some questions for you.

Thanks Jean, Still touch & go, but seems to be working now. I had to experiment with placing the profile on different points along the path to get a perfect 'followme'. Thanks to all,

You can quite easily change the location of the sun by selecting the location tab in the Model info pallette under the window menu. see atttached just type in 180 in the box to rotate the sun through 180 degrees or as required. [image: 8Lae_NORTH.jpg]

There has been several discussions on this on the Thea forum http://www.thearender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=20399#p20399. Apparently it is called letterboxing. There are a couple of code snippets in the above link that can be typed into the console. I know they work for the .skp files I use in for rendering in Thea, I think they may work for files created by another exporter as well, but it may take a ruby guru to verify this.

I've given up on Photomatch for birds eye view images. The lens angle, and the fact that the imagery is cropped - makes it pretty much impossible. I do it by hand now; load the imagery as a background watermark set the AOV to about 6-8 degrees hide anything other that key features of the model pan/zoom by hand to get an approximate match. finish off in post

can you not also select the hidden items as a selection set and either right click select Unhide, or, if the right click menu does not contain Unhide, then you would select from top menu Edit and select Unhide?

I just wish I could get my vistugh machine to display thumbnail images of the models I download at 3d warehouse like my XP machine does.

It is the 'aspect ratio' that can be [re]set by various 3rd party cameras an other tools. There are many camera options settable via the API. Changing the image width/height so it doesn't correspond to the actual window size gives that effect....

@Gaieus @unknownuser said: they also need to find out how to cut that square up, don't they? Yes! @TIG OK, I will do it like this. Probably I add some points or lines where the pieces can be aligned. Thank you all!

Thanks Guy's I couldnt remeber what it was so I deleted all the related files which got rid of the error messages. Thanks for the link Cj, if I decided to use it I'll relosad it more carefully.

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