Fuzzy Tips

Copying Texture Maps

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:13:44 +0100

On 7/9/06 2:56 PM, "Anthony R

In 4.2 I used to copy bump maps (and other textures) from one texture and

pasted in another. I can no longer do that in 5.0. I've tried and the "paste"

function is dimmed, unless I'm doing something wrong.

Importing Wings model with Colour to Strata

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:57:31 +0100

On 6/22/06 9:50 AM, "Tim Walsh" <timw@kvadisplay.com> wrote:

I am using strata 3d cx v 4.2 I believe. I can open the OBJ but still no

color. Do you think it might be a stupid pref. setting?

These instructions are specific to Strata 4.2 and OBJ. Strata 5.0 has more
sophisticated OBJ support..... read on

Importing - Strata Units

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:57:47 +0100

Here's a secret you may have missed: Strata's internal unit is the point,
which is 1/72 of an inch. This comes from Strata's historical tie-in to
desktop publishing applications, specifically Illustrator.

"British" English

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:13:50 +0100

I can only assume that since America is the biggest World Power and that they are going for total world domination, their corrupted version of English is set as the default on a Mac even after having installing OSX for the first time and telling it you are British it still uses "English" (ie American English).

Read on to find out how to fix it....

Strata 5 - Scripting

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:07:07 +0100

On Jun 11, 2006, at 12:15 AM, richardsan wrote:

thanks for taking some time to field inquiries.

i'll start with an easy one...

is there a list of specifics that this scripting will do?

and maybe more importantly, what it can't?...

Stereo Anaglyph Images - Another way but similar

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:29:25 +0100

by Nicholas C W

How to activate the Special Menu

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:32:23 +0100

How to activate ArchiCAD's Special Menu check this out here

Turn off ArchiCAD sounds

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:30:43 +0100

How to turn sound off check this out here

Mighty Mouse Problem

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:10:57 +0100

Do not install the software that comes with Apples Mighty Mouse as it stops the scroll wheel working with ArchiCAD

The file that needs to be deleted is explained here

Server disconnected error

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0100

AC 9 for OS X 10.4 when opening a file located on a server will on some machines display an error saying the Server has been disconnected even although it hasn't.

3d Model Sites

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:05:08 +0000

On Mar 22, 2006, at 9:51 PM, Christian M wrote:

Besides Turbosquid, what other sites would folks recommend? Looking

for something, and couldn't find it up there.

Christian

Windooze on a Mac

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:48:06 +0000

Click on the link to read the XP on a Mac

Also checkout this link

Restore a corrupted AC file

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:33:03 +0000

background
About two months ago I had some problems with linking from PM to AC because of a "magic wand" hole in a slab that had as a result that both AC and PM crashed when either generating a section or updating files. At the time I uninstalled AC and PM and kept getting the error even doing the forward merge solution. Found the culprit (slab) and everything started to work fine again,BUT
A new error started to pop up with files created before the reinstall of AC. The error was that when opening the exiting pre_reinstall file AC would stop loading and I had to open the library (under the file menu) reload it and then the AC file will finish loading. The other error was when updating PM to the same AC file it would cause BGAC to hang and PM would hang as a followup.
solution
It has been documented that using the forward merge trick will clean an AC file but you would have to recreate the views since the views would not merge.
Today I had the AC problem with an older file. I had to add a new text label to one of the views, I copied one and edited it and noticed that the layer info said that the layer was off, but since I could copy and edit it I did not think it was a problem. When I went to update the layout I got the BGAC hang, so I reopened the file in AC and got the frozen file situation, resaved the file, relinked the file in PM, BGAC and PM hung up. Before resigning to use a forward merge and redefine the views I decided to try the following:
1) Open the problem file
2) Save the file as an archive (.pla)
3) Open the archive- with the read elements from archive option
4) Resave the file as a PLN (all views are present) with a different name
5) Relink file in PM
6) Update
It Worked. I noticed that the new label that I had included in the file was gone (apparently there was a problem with it). I opened the file in AC put the note back in and updated the file in PM without problems.

I don't know if this has been discussed before or if it will work with other corrupted AC files but it is an option to try.

eduardo r

Shadows masking technique

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:44:19 +0000

At 3:52 AM -0700 12/15/05, G.D.Speer wrote:

A little tweak with the shadow and highlight tool?

Oh no! I stay as far away from that as I possibly can. If you're not
extremely careful with that tool you can easily ruin your pictures.

It seems a little extra contrast and detail appeared in the rock face

and the water.

Yes, that is what I worked on. I did several rounds of selective
sharpening. Different portions of the image required different levels
of sharpening in addition to the overall sharpening I did previously.
This helped pop the detail in the rock face, river banks and trees.

Wall Accessories glitch

Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:24:59 +0000

The Wall Accessories has a glitch in the GDL 3d script which needs a tiny tweak to get em' to work properly read on.... (thanks to LiHigh for sussing this one out)