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






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Dan
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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?
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Rob Rodriguez CSWP
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SW 2007 SP 2.0
RE: Chain Link Fence
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.
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Just and FYI. The appearance won't show unless you render the screen or turn on RealView. It does not display in Open GL mode.
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
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
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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
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Dan
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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
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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.
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Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
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