i'm trying to create a custom shaped viewport. Instead of using just a rectangular viewport I need to make it polygon shaped. I know I've done it before but for the life of me I cannot remember how. I'm using ACAD MEP 2011.
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Product Design Suite 2014
Inventor 2012 SP2, Vault 2014
HP Workstation Z220
Intel Xeon 3.4GHz
16GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro 4000
Windows 7 Professional (64bit)
how do you create a viewport within an existing viewport ?
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Today's challenge was to create an artificial reflection beneath an irregularly shaped object.
In the past I've been asked to add reflections where the reflection is simply a plane that cuts horizontally across the entire object (example 1), and where the object to be reflected is skewed (example 2) - both operations are pretty straight forward...
Example 3 is the object (a duvet) to which I had to add a floor reflection. I did come up with a solution, which I am reasonably happy with, but would love to see what methods other people use! I guess my attempt is OK because the texture and shape of the duvet is fairly forgiving!
Do you have a better method for these irregular floor reflections?
Example 4 is perhaps the trickiest I can imagine as the entire object is curved and the texture uniform so a bodge job will be very obvious!
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Xara file here -> IrregularReflecions.xar
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I'm trying to create a new layout and then adding text and a view port. The add text works but the add view port method, written in AutoCad's Developer Guide, doesn't!
Sub MyLayouts(ByVal LayerVal As String) '*********************' '* Create Layout *' '*********************' 'Declaration' acDocs = Application.DocumentManager acDoc = acDocs.MdiActiveDocument acCurDb = acDoc.Database Dim acLayoutMgr As LayoutManager = LayoutManager.Current 'Notification' acDoc.Editor.WriteMessage(vbLf & [Default].MyApplication & " -> Création d'une présentation. ") 'Transaction database' Using acTrans =
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I'm working on a UDK level for a college assignment.
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Here are 2 sketched up designs of the elevator, what I want to create.
1st image: [URL]....
2nd image: [URL]....
I am very new to 3DS Max so I would prefer a list of steps to follow to create this elevator with a a fence,
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Here are some images to illustrate the issue.
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I have a series of drawings that are currently in modelspace. What I have to do is
1) Insert a new border in paperspace.
2) create a viewport and place the view in modelspace into it.
I am trying to use the command -vports but get an SPPROCESSQUEUE error wghen I use lists such as this:
(command -vports (list 0.625 23.59375) "" (list 35.4375 2.625) "")
I'd like to run one command that allows the user to draw a polygon viewport then sets that VP to 1/8"=1'-0".
It can be nearly accomplished with a macro, but falls just short because the polygon vp requires an unknown number of clicks, so there is no way to know how many pauses for user input in the macro.
Having trouble with diameter and radial dimensions since upgrading to 2013.
For example, draw two concentric circles and Presspull (or Extrude and Subtract) so that you get a hollow cylinder. Then create a viewport of this solid in a layout, and try to dimension the inside and outside diameters.
One of the two dimensions will work properly (seems to vary which one). The other will magically "jump" when placed (ex. the OD dimension will jump and become the ID, or vice versa).
How to resolve this? Our guys are having to do absurd things like redrawing the circle in paper space and dimensioning to it with a scale factor. Is this some sort of 2013 bug, or a setting?
Inventor 2013
Windows 7 64 Bit
We like to allow user to select a rectagular area in modal scpace. Then the code creates a paperscace viewport in a spcified layout. The viewport will show the selected area. find the old VBA code that achived this and the .net code I am trying with. .Net code always gives some exception.
VBA Code
'Lets find the center of the viewport in paperspace.
Dim center(0 To 2) As Double
center(0) = newWidth / 2
center(1) = newLength / 2
center(2) = 0
Dim lay As AcadLayout
For Each ent In ThisDrawing.layouts
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I have been trying to research how to create a custom surface. I found this article [URL]...... about how to to create a surface from a jpeg. The article says to "expand color on the top left." of the style editor. However, when I open the dialogue there is no "color" that can be expanded. The only thing in the top left of dialogue box is "lighting." Is there another step that the article misses, or is there another way for me to create a surface from a jpeg?
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___x_______x____x -------AFRAZ---------afraz----------
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