Seems like it should be so simple to switch to Activeshade viewport, but I can't for the life of me see or find how to do it!
I've got the floating window updating, but I thought the point was use the function in a viewport...
whenever i rotate my view like they do in the videos my activeshade window absolutley never updates...
View 2 Replies View RelatedFrom Model I made 3 view ports. How can I turn layers off in each viewport?
View 9 Replies View RelatedUsing the DAta Connections tool under Planning and Analysis, also known as Map 3D, I have attached a series of shapefiles and I want to be able to toggle the view of some of them on or off depending on the viewport. Is this possible to do?
View 5 Replies View RelatedTurn on/off layers in the current viewport only, I’m wondering if there is a command that can be plugged on the “quick access toolbar” by which one can turn on/off layers in the current viewport only.
The available command to do so is “Freeze and thaw in current viewport” (attached) and it sounds it can’t be plugged in the “quick access toolbar”!
Is there a way to plug the command “Freeze and thaw in current viewport” in the “quick access toolbar” (attached)?
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I created view frames and sheets for a number of alignments. Is there a way to turn off a match line not associated with the main alignment for a particular viewport.
Or did I missed a setting somewhere that should turn this off automatically?
When I copy a viewport in a layout it does not create another viewport, only a poly line.....
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View 5 Replies View RelatedProblem: When I create a new viewport, another viewport's paperspace blanks out or disappears. When I copy a viewport over, the new VP doesn't show anything and you can't maximize/"enter" its paperspace; it's like a simple rectangle, but the properties box says it is indeed a viewport.
Ex. Viewport 1 shows the top view of an object, Viewport 2 shows the right side view... as soon as I add Viewport 3, the top view in VP 1 blacks out. I attempt to ReDraw, Regenerate, etc, but it doesn't re-appear. I've run Plot Preview to see if maybe it's just a fluke with the graphics card on my screen, but alas, even in plot preview the viewport is blanked out.
It almost seems like there is a limited number of viewports I can use.
Solution: Run the MaxActVP command and set the value to a number greater than the number of VPs you actually need. This particular file had that value set at 2; hence, why a new, third VP blanked out the first one.
I have a drawing with a viewport that fits to the page. And I created another smaller viewport over top that just shows the legend. Now when I try to double click inside the smaller viewport it always goes into the larger one. I have tried bringing the smaller one to the front but that didn't work. I know that I can clip the larger viewport around the smaller one or bring the legend right into paperspace or slid the smaller one off to the side work in it and slide it back. This is more out of curiosity of how to get into the smaller viewport.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am wanting to insert a second viewport over an existing viewport and have the information in the existing viewport behind the second viewport and not seen. I want the second viewport boundary to be the "trimming" edge of the existing viewport. How do I do this?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI did a test drawing with 4 viewports in paperspace.I frozen a layer in each viewport (as a viewport override, not global), and wrote code to gather info on layer overrides in viewports.The function takes in a database, and is generally used on drawings only open in memory:
public static bool GetLayerInfoFromDB2(Database db) { //do viewports on layoutstry {using (Transaction tr = db. Transaction Manager. Start Transaction()) { ObjectId ldid = db.LayoutDictionaryId;DBDictionary ld = (DBDictionary)tr.GetObject(ldid,
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the odd thing is it never finds the frozen viewports on the first viewport. It catches the others fine.I cannot see anything odd either, the counts of viewports and layers are all correct, and the drawing has no problems.Is there something that must be done to initialize the mechanism that reads viewport overrides?
how do you create a viewport within an existing viewport ?
View 9 Replies View Related20110421veiwports turning off.jpg AutoCAD isnt being nice to me lately another hassle i have is the viewports randomly turn off ( they dont show anything) and when i turn those ones on, others turn off.
i dont know how to change the topic to "solved" however a collegue told me to enter MAXACTVP at the command line the value was 16, i was told to set it to 64 ( i had 21 viewports ) and they all came on.
sometimes in a heavy scene - it seems to depend on the topology/object count, more than on the actual poly count, when you start moving the viewport/camera there is a short lag in the first second. I assume that has something to do with the directx caching. If you know what i am talking about - here is the workaround: freeze everything you dont need right now (and set "frozen grey" to off). for some reason the lag is no more.
When you use the "orbit" button this is not happening - i guess the time you need moving the mouse from the button to the circle does the trick.
A personal comment at the end: i use 3d studio since the release 4 for ms-dos - so i saw it evolving in the past 15 years and used it nearly everyday. since max 8-9 things went worse with every new release .
I am unable to see my texture in the viewport. I create a plane, apply a material to the plane, attach a simple checkered pattern as diffuse map, enable show in viewport and my plane stays gray. I have also applied uvw map, makes no difference. The use real world scale is disabled.I am only able to see the map and adjust it to my liking when active shade is activated, because it does appear in render. How am I suppose to work if I can't see what I am doing?
Is that a feature, like a toggle or something in view port settings? I am using 3dsMax preferred Nitrous.To add to this, when I start a new file, create a simple box, apply the material and map it appears in viewport as it should.
Viewport lag is not connected with graphics card driver. 3ds max 2012 has well known issue - Viewport lag- 1-2 seconds every time using middle mouse orbit/pan.
When You use alt+z or pan tool there is no lag.I have tried disabling wacom hid devices, disabling tablet pc features, changing group policy management, disabling display drivers... and much more. nothing is working.how to map orbit to the middle mouse button by some other command.
i have dual quadcore xeon, not the 6-core one.Also for sure it is not 3ds max issue. windows is a pice of garbage thet inteferes with max. something wrong is going with the middle mouse button.
I install 3d max 2012 in windows 7 (64) when run program,in perspective view show Red Screen
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I recently installed 3ds max 2012 and opened my old 3ds max 2011 location files (quite big) with it.. viewport appearance was good with more reality to textures but when i try to pan or zoom or move around, its taking more time and crashes sometimes... is there any viewport settings?? to fix this issues?? i changes the view mode form realistic to shaded still no improvement....
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am having this problem for months now and reinstalled my computer multiple times to fix it but everytime within 2 or 3 weeks my 3Ds Max will start to stutter again. Sometimes a lot, sometimes horibbly a lot, but always to much to work.
I have almost no services running besides the standard services. I have no new updates, program's or other stuff installed or changed anything to my computer.
Last night it was working just fine, now it will stutter so much, it is horrible to work with.
I am using 3Ds Max 2013 64-bit. I have NO plugins installed or anything else. It is near impossible to work with this stuttering and lag i.e. when I hover over the "3d control in the top right of the viewport" it takes seconds for it to light up and respond to my mouse movement.
I zoom into a viewport so the border of the viewport cant be seen nor selected no more, then I double click selecting to zoom the viewport of cause. Now how do I deselect it without undoing?
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy setup:
AMD Phenom 9550
4GB DDR2 RAM
AMD Radeon HD4850 512MB
I sometimes have the problem(mostly when I work with a lot of files[10 to 15] or if I work with big files) that my viewport goes grey(so I can't see anything anymore). This happens when I use the type tool or when I use the transform tool. When I go out of the editing mode, everything is visible again.
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The drivers of my graphics card are up-to-date(Catalyst 12.1). The version of Photoshop that I work with is Photoshop CS5.1 Extended.
I didn't have this issue a couple of years ago(when I still worked with CS3, CS4, CS5).
I've googled this issue and only found people having problems with older drivers(Catalyst 11.3).
When I scale a viewport, I normally type in the scale I want into the Viewports toolbar. So if I want the viewport to be 1 to 25, I type in "1:25". I have done this for years. Now all of a sudden, I have started a brand new drawing, setup the company border as A1. Then typed in "1:25" into the toolbar, and it zooms RIGHT in so you cannot see the drawing. But when I use the old fashioned command:
zoom - scale - 1/25xp
It works perfect. Why this is happening with the toolbar?
I'm pretty new to AutoCAD, I've been self-teaching myself for about a month so that I can do some floor plan drawings for a company I work for.I've been drawing in 1:1 scale in model space, but when I plot/print to check my work, I print on A4 paper.
My question is, on A4 paper my 1 drawing unit : 1 mm scale plots perfectly. But obviously if I were to compare that scale to real life, it would not be 1:1. How do I figure out the scaling on the viewport to compare to real life?
Okay, so there are two parts to my question:
1. Any way to pan within a locked viewport? Everything I've tried has led me to believe that this is not possible.
2. Is it possible to limit a viewport's scale to one specific value? In my case I need all of my viewports, on multiple sheets, to show my model space in 1:100. That said I don't want to be able to zoom in this viewport, just a straight up "pan-only" space--hence my first question.
Edit#1: So to further explain my situation, this particular drawing set that I'm putting together is only used to focus and display what is in my modelspace --nothing more. It seems as though I'll need to continue unlocking, panning, zooming, scaling, and re-locking my work for now.
In the end the final goal was to send this drawing template to a client to allow them to adjust what areas of the drawing the wanted to display without them needing to play with the scale.
I'm working on a model which has a few models imported. When I press the 'F' key for the Front viewport, it now shows underneath the model and it's rotated (i.e. its certainly not the front view).
I'm guessing this is because I have a few models that have different alignments and it's getting confused somewhere, but how can I get the 'front' view to go back to actually showing the front of the model?
The UI method to pan down the viewport (e.g. Front view) is to use the hand tool and drag. This much we all know. However, I am drawing a shape with the line tool and, because it will be a large shape with many vertices, I am zoomed in and need to continually extend my line out of the viewport. I can't zoom out because I need to see the detail. Is there a keyboard shortcut for this panning? Obviously I can't use the hand tool without letting go of my line.
In Photoshop, the viewport pans with you if you extend your lasso tool (for example) way outside the viewport. Max does not do this..
I`ve noticed the background image (from environment slot) is extremely slow in the viewport. I`ve tested this without any geometry and the only speed-up I can achieve is by turning off the image filtering (to `none`).
Spinning the viewport with an environment image always use to be instant, now it`s anything up to 10 or so seconds before update.
I accidentally turned it on, but now I cannot do anything about it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI couldn’t find the realistic option of the viewport. I am using 3dsmax 2012. Here is the screenshot of my viewport options URL....
View 1 Replies View RelatedURL....the concept is that the colours will change with the distance from the camera according to the mip map level(?).i am trying to render it in viewport and render it as image through mental ray.. It wont work.. it wont change its mip map thingie in viewport or render.. I changed to d3d, opengl same issue..I made mip map look at linear nearer no change.
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