Rich_Winsor

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  1. Hey Mick, As you probably already know I have

    experienced the problem of having the content

    of some replies vanish when I hit the post button,

    but as far as I know you are the only one who is

    having the issue with unwanted "tagging" being

    added to messages. I don't get that in any reply

    window on either of the forums. You're just lucky

    I guess. :rolleyes:

  2. Geez David, you need to lighten up. I'm sorry if you took the

    intent of my post wrong and I hope the OP wasn't offended.

    I was merely trying (with the limited resources at hand) to

    communicate my befuddlement and bemusement at the

    situation. If you look at post #5 it's not a matter of correcting

    grammar or anything else. A simple grammatically correct

    statement was made by the OP and a picture was attached

    presumably to avoid any confusion. When someone goes

    out of the way to repost a clarification of their original post

    and states "this is what I would like the roof to look like" I

    simply found it amusing that what later turned out to be the

    desired roof configuration bore no resemblance to the original

    request. Go figure.  

     

    BTW, what do you have against telephone poles?

  3. As I understand it you want everything under one

    rectangular Gable roof. Use invisible walls to make

    the perimeter of the structure into a rectangle. Be

    sure to change all the wall segments (both visible

    & invisible) that run in the short direction to Gable

    walls. Build the roof. After the roof is satisfactorily

    built be sure Auto Build Roof is turned off and you

    can then remove the invisible walls. Something

    like this.

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  4. That's funny, Rich, that you couldn't find that thread... considering that it was YOUR post!

     

    http://hometalk.homedesignersoftware.com/showthread.php?19026-No-Shadows-in-quot-Final-View-with-Shadows-quot

     

    In case this link doesn't work, it's on page 15.

     

    Hey! Look what the cat dragged in. :ph34r: (I have no idea what this icon is supposed to mean)

     

    Glad to see you have decided to grace the new forum with your considerable talents.

     

    Surely you don't expect me to remember what I have posted here in the past. My memory

    is like computer RAM. Once I shut down I forget everything I ever knew. :huh: And Chief's

    search capabilities aren't much better than random trial and error.

  5. Thanks Rich , saved your angles pic for future reference , I can now swing the sun to the other side (270 deg) if needed , had tried multiple "suns" but it didn't seem to effect the lighting...

    Was beginning to think you and JoAnn had disappeared :)

     

    Where is that girl? She did a nice Photoshop illustration combining

    the Tilt Angle and Direction Angle info. It was in a thread on the old

    forum, but I couldn't find the thread with a cursory search. I hope

    she's not still in a snit over the changes to the forum.

     

    BTW, I see you have resolved your issue with the emoticons. B)

  6. Hey Keith, the easiest way to control the sun light in 3D views is with the "Adjust Lights" tool.

     

    The two basic settings that control the light are “Tilt Angle” (a measure of how high the sun is in

    the sky) and “Direction Angle” (an indication of which direction the light is coming from). I have

    prepared a little sketch (see thumbnail #1) showing the range of these angles. The default is set

    up so that a “Direction Angle” of 90° will always shine directly on the front of the building (i.e. from

    the bottom of the screen). A "Tilt Angle" of -90° will place the sun directly overhead (be warned

    that no sides of the structure are in light when the sun is directly above). Why the “Tilt Angle”

    measurements are in negative numbers escapes me and leads to unneeded confusion. Its

    easiest to experiment with a simple 4 wall plan to see how the changes will affect the view.

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  7. .....You mentioned using the "Wall Bread Tool" and yes that would allow you to change the material settings of each vertical wall segment thus made by way of its individual wall dialog box allowing only vertical strips of differing materials assignment.

     

     

    That tool is especially well suited for the Hansel & Gretel remodel job. :huh:  :)  ;)

  8. no idea why it keeps adding html tags to my posts either.<br /><br />eg .<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />M.

     

    Mick you need to run that by tech support.

    I don't have any problem with emoticons. :)  :huh:  :P  B)

  9. I think you only need to login once per 24hrs as long as you don't sign out , you can close your browser and comeback and it will sign your in auto-magically...<br /><br />it is showing me and one other member and 1 guest here tonite....

     

    What I'm saying is that I always log out when

    I'm done with a session. When I come back

    it shows me as logged in when in fact I am

    not. I can't see images or user profiles and

    the like unless I actually do log in again.

     

    Don't want to hijack Keith's thread. Just

    some strange stuff going on.   

  10. That's funny because I have the exact opposite problem.

    Today for example when I merely open the HomeTalk

    forum page it shows me as presently being logged in

    even thou I haven't logged in and am not really logged

    in. I can't access any of the features available when

    logged in until I actually do log in. :huh: Phew! Did any

    of that make sense? :wacko:

  11. Amen to that R-K. I had a similar experience with a quick

    search for that pool table you were looking for. The search

    turned up no results even though the words being searched

    for were included in the description of the library object. If 

    the search engine can't find that what can it find? Bottom

    line, if the object you are looking for is a common item its

    probably there somewhere but don't count on the search

    feature to find it for you.

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  12. I am doing a large trace over of an existing hospital I am currently working on. I have the plan @ the correct size to start. I have already done a trace over of part of the plan and was asked to go back and do the entire plan. It took a while to get the partial correct, and now I am trying to trace over the entire pdf file. In order to get the pdf to align with the angle of my already drawn plan, I need to be able to rotate the pdf "precisely" but can't seem to find anything in the help. I did try turning off the angle snaps in the edit dialogue, but when I grab the rotate handle I can't get it to rotate the pdf at small precise degrees until I match perfectly. Any suggestions aside from starting over?

    Have you tried holding down the Control (Ctrl) key

    while you are grabbing the rotate handle? Usually

    this will let you be more precise.

  13. If you have the tools you can get the results you want by

    using the cad tools to draw the shapes and then use the

    "Convert Polyline" tool to convert the shapes into slabs.

    From there you can assign a brick material to the slabs

    and use the "Adjust Material Definition" tool to change

    the bricks characteristics. Also if you have it you can use

    the "Reflect About Object" tool to create mirror images.

     

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