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Note that a photo used for PhotoMatch should not be manipulated, especially by cropping. The optical centerpoint should be located at the exact center of the photo for the feature to work, and that often gets distorted if the photo is cropped or perspective-corrected.
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@daybw said:
I tried the option and restarted, but it did not work. I did try my desktop rather than my laptop, and the desktop did not have the issue. So I am assuming it is some sort of grpahics card/driver issue with my Dell laptop. (Mobile Intel 945GM Express graphics) Thanks for all the help.
You are perfectly right. Mobile Intel graphics don't work well with SU. The only thing you can do is to turn off Hardware Acceleration (Window>Preferences>OpenGL tab), but SU will be quite slow with all but the smallest models.
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@pbacot said:
Are there programs that display dwg besides AutoCAD--I mean as the file is meant to be printed--with actual sheets or views with line weights and text appropriately placed? I think that would be quite a feat. Otherwise you import an AutoCAD model and LO needs to have all the tools to make a drawing of it.
How about importing a pdf of the dwg?
For viewing and printing DWG files, I think the best solution is Autodesk's DWG TrueView. It has almost all the printing features of the full Autocad, it can translate files to different DWG versions, and it is a free download.
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I have noticed this behaviour too. I think the basic reason is that parallel projection exports are correctly scaled across the picture plane, so that would make the objects parallel to the model axis in an ISO export foreshortened. Switching to an ISO view from a plan view only changes the viewpoint and has no effect on scaling. If you draw a cube or a square and export an ISO view, the top horizontal diagonal will be to scale. Of course this is not according to standard.
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I don't know if this helps, but you might get a cleaner result by feeding only the upper contour edges to the Sandbox tool. It does not like the vertical steps much. So if you intend to use the Sandbox to make your TIN, you can just move your empty contours to the right elevations, creating the stepped-type model first is unnecessary.
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I seem to remember that similar problems have been caused by the Microsoft and Logitech dedicated mouse drivers, and that it could be circumvented by uninstalling those and using the standard autodetected Windows driver instead. Not much help if you have a gizmo with additional buttons or other special features that you feel essential
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Anssi is a Finnish version of Anselm
@unknownuser said:
ANSELM
Gender: MasculineUsage: German, English (Rare)
Pronounced: AN-selm (English) [key]
Derived from the Germanic elements ans "god" and helm "helmet, protection". This name was brought to England in the late 11th century by Saint Anselm, who was born in northern Italy. He was archbishop of Canterbury and a Doctor of the Church.
My surname Wainio (most often spelt with a V) means "Field" or "Meadow"
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I have got to take a new look at Xara too - editable PDF import is a great plus.
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Just some comments.
The file has over 1200 component definitions, so the beachballing is probably due to SU trying to make a thumbnail of them all. Is this an import from some BIM application? It seems to me that every single little part of your model is an unique component. Do you need it so? IMO most of them could be safely exploded, and the model purged afterwards. Most often components are useful only to make repeating parts.
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I don't really know anything about the 3DS file structure, but I would guess that as SU itself has no other material properties than colour and texture, the exporter would set all the other required values to something considered as a default. Most users export 3DS in order to render the model in some external rendering application by adding lights and other features not available in SU. In the applications I have used, the ambient property of a material, makes it glow quite unrealistically, so I would have had to turn it off. I am not even sure that the property is set by SU. If it is optional, the problem might even be with your receiving application or its settings, if it adds a black ambient "channel" if your 3DS file has none.
Just blundering guesses
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Your road layout is also very far from the SU origin. That too is one cause for clipping. I would recommend that you move it near the origin. It has, as Juan pointed out, some extra geometry outside the actual model area, possibly due to the application used to make the map. For instance, electronic maps often have a block or a cross or construction points placed at the origin of their coordinate system, that can be hundreds of miles away, I guess that this was the case here too.
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Also, check that you don't have the "Use high-quality HLR" ticked in the print dialog box. The setting switches printing to a vector-only mode: no textures or shadows. The setting should really have something intelligible printed next to it.
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The DWG export uses exactly the same units you are using to model with. The units can be changed on the fly from the Window>Model Info>Units pane. No need to export, copy over etc. Your model and the "real world" stay in sync.
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Are you using a Mac? Have you installed the latest maintenance release? It seems export things can get screwed up if your preferences file (plist) gets corrupted.
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There is a corrupted 3D tree component that has long circulated on the Net that causes errors like that. Your tree might be one of those.
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@remus said:
Sorry to pull this thread further in to the depths of off topicness, but what method does SU use for rendering shadows? is it just a simple vector equation or are there more complex forces at work?
I remember reading in the old @Last forum that the "more complex forces at work" is the answer nearest to the truth, and that shadows are not directly supported by OpenGL, but that some clever engineering has been used to make it generate them. I might remember wrong, though.
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@alan fraser said:
Oh well, I suppose I'll have to continue keeping quiet about alpha-testing the NURBS Toolset. Oh Rats!!!
Alan, you...
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In general it is a good render. It is just that indirect light almost always looks bland, it is even meant to - light fixtures like this are generally used to provide a glare-free computing environment. I would use something more "dramatic" (meaning more direct light) to light a lobby. The lighting levels in the render might be even a bit too high, as the ceiling is quite washed out, or the ceiling material is unrealistically reflective.
So this is more a critique of the design than of the image.
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