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Chain Link Fence

Chain Link Fence

Chain Link Fence

(OP)
Has anyone worked with the chain link steel appearance in solidworks?

I applied the chain link appearance to a fence but whenever I render it, the entire fence disappears.  

RE: Chain Link Fence

Do you mean that you applied the appearance to a chain link fence or that you applied the appearance to a solid wall?  If the wall disappears then you may have to adjust the scale of the appearance.

Dan

www.eltronresearch.com
Dan's Blog

RE: Chain Link Fence

(OP)
I applied the appearance to a solid wall.

I tried adjusting the scale, but after rendering the whole thing disappears regardless of the size. We have the rendering quality pretty high. Does it need to be higher?

RE: Chain Link Fence

(OP)
Rockguy,

Could you post an example of what something you made looks like with the chain link steel appearance? I'm just curious about how its supposed to look.

Thanks.

RE: Chain Link Fence

OK.  A couple of comments on this one.  I am seeing what the OP is seeing.  This is true of my own files as well as Rob's.  I checked the knowledge base and there is a SPR #
455755 (Summary:'chain link steel' renders completely transparent in photoworks render) which is supposed to be fixed in 2010.  Not very helpful right now.

I tried adjusting the scale up and down with no result.  RV is on and I'm on SP3.  Maybe I'll upgrade to SP4 later this week if I get the time.  Interestingly, the appearance does render in PV360, but the scale is off from the SW model.

Dan

www.eltronresearch.com
Dan's Blog

RE: Chain Link Fence


It seems like it's fixed in SP4; see attached JPEG.
 

Trevor Clarke. (R & D) Scientific Instruments.Somerset. UK

SW2009x64 SP4.0 Intel Core i7 2.94Ghz, 12Gb Ram, NVIDIA Quadro FX3700 Driver: 6.14.11.8246
SW2009x64 SP4.0 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.17Ghz, 8Gb Ram NVIDIA Quadro FX3700 Driver: 6.14.11.8246  

RE: Chain Link Fence

(OP)
I downloaded SP4 and tried it again but it still doesn't work. We've also been having trouble getting Realview to start up. Could this have an effect on the Photoworks appearance?

RE: Chain Link Fence

I'm on SP 4.  Even if RealView isn't working it should still render correctly in PhotoWorks.

When I have RV on or render in PW I recieve the results SincoTC does.  With RV off it's just a gray solid block.

PV360 works independantly of the SW files (it has it's own materials data base) so it's not surprising it works there even if it doesn't in SW.

This was created on Vista 64 and SWx64.  I didn't try it on my 32 bit machine?

Rob Rodriguez CSWP
www.axiscadsolutions.com
www.robrodriguez.com
http://www.robrodriguezblog.com
Eastern Region SWUGN Representative www.swugn.org  www.nvtswug.com
SW 2007 SP 2.0
 

RE: Chain Link Fence

(OP)
I couldn't find my specific graphics card on the testing site but it is a NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT. I have the most up to date driver as well. I think it should work.

I'm using 64 bit vista with 64 bit solidworks.

I'm guessing that its a software problem but if anyone has any other suggestions that'd be great.

RE: Chain Link Fence

You couldn't find it because none of the GeForce series cards are recommended as suitable by SW. Some people can use them successfully, others (most) have some form of graphics problems.

RE: Chain Link Fence

(OP)
Oh. Well if its a graphics card problem, will I be able to see the fence if I create a video with a photoworks buffer or will the problem apply to animations as well?  

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