TIG,

Thank you for the enlightenment.

I had not noticed that this topic refers to DWF and I just kept talking about DXF. I should have looked closely . Sorry if I had caused any confusion.

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Unbelievable!!!

Church Signs

Thrill at whose cost?

**Apparently...**could just as well have been during the same visit by the Chinese boss. Could be unrelated but seen together... funny.

@unknownuser said:

The leader line for the enlarged detail stops at the dashed lines. They made the step continue through.

They innovated at site!

What particularly struck me was they constructed the detail call-out, though the circle was obviously approximated. Moral of the story: never place your detail call-outs on top of building elements, put it in empty space!!

Eric,

Re: the third image in your first post, that's funny. Either the mason has a sense of humour or he is 'illiterate'.

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Interesting topic with lots of ideas pouring in. Even so, as I scan down the page, if the preceding post had an image, my thought process would have flowed smoothly into it.

So, I think we should encourage posting of screen shots, so that basic information is visually available in the forum page itself. Downloading and opening attachment would be for getting more detailed insight or saving the file. Think convenience and saved bandwidth.

Sorry to be off topic, but relevant nonetheless, IMHO.

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Brad,

You have lots of imagination. I envy you.

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@unknownuser said:

I want to add some bushes in the front to hide both side of the front stair and also a treeline in the back but since this presentation is in hidden line mode , no texture will work....

Will the plant and tree components do? I mean they are not realistic. You can place them strategically; you don't need to bother about display mode.

@unknownuser said:

....and anyone know a way to apply hatch pattern or a technique to achieve the same effect as hatching???

First I typed "turn hatch into texture using other software" and then OOPPS. The only other method I can think of is to draw all the linework (or import from AutoCAD) of a unit hatch and array in two directions.

BTW, why did you choose such an odd view? Look at the converging verticals. To reduce this effect, if so desired, you can move back your view point and zoom in by changing the FOV.

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Hi Bob (?),

If you could attach images showing your problem it would be much easier to understand for others. For example:

@unknownuser said:

Also on a side note, I am dragging in a few trees and they are coming in as top view (because my perspective import, to show correctly, is a top view), but the two are in different planes(perspective vs. top).

I find it difficult to visualise this scenario, so a screen shot would have explained a lot. Similar is the situation in the other topic you had started.

Just trying to help.

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YNO,

Is the left image what you are trying to achieve (see attached)? It can be done so long as the NPR SU components gel with your render. But like Alan said, a paint program would be better.

@ynotbob2008 said:

I have also done the same process in ADT using the export to Autocad command and then importing the file as a .dwg (instead of the .bmp) and the file will get to 99% completion and stall out and never finish.

May be the file is too big, polygon count is too high. Depends on you machine also.

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@anssi said:

A DWG with irritating lines in 3D can be flattened easily with SU too: Select the Plan view, turn off Perspective (select Parallel Perspective), export a 2D image as DWG to full scale, and reimport.

WOW! Ansii, that's way cool!!! That's a nice and new idea, fresher than this morning's milk delivery!!

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PS: Not that we get stale milk, sorry your quick wit guys .

As soon as I opened the page with the image I thought I was looking at a photograph of the building already built. But then I had to remind myself that the building construction is not yet complete.

Fletch, great render, and noble work.

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Hi all,

There used to be a "Cooking CAD" topic in the old Google SketchUP forum dealing with ACAD import. Might be still there in the Google Groups.

In my experience the flatten command tends to distort some geometry. One of the tips in the Cooking CAD topic was to explode everything repeatedly (moving everything to zero layer was another, BTW). So what I usually do is select everything and open the properties panel (right click context menu or "CH" command), select entity type in the drop down thingy of the properties panel, set lines to start Z = 0, end Z = 0; polyline elevation = 0. Accomplishes what the flatten command does but more accurate.

Hopefully this is helpful for those who cannot access the flatten command.

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Doesn't this forum have that 'man bowing' smiley/icon that I can insert? I need it right here, right now!

Mr. Bartels, just awesome!!

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As I started scrolling down the images slowly, I was half expecting it will all lead to a complete human body model down the page or on subsequent pages. At the same time some colourful exclamations were running through my head .

Solo, STUPENDOUS work!!

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Jason,

She's cute. She looks big. Is she? Can we have a graphic scale beside her

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Who needs Kerkythea when you can just imitate Ross!!