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Viktor
posted Mar 20 at 12:47 pm
This thread is for public discussion about the current beta phase LWCAD 2018 LightWave.
It will be updated during the beta phase with more information!
Working list of new features for LWCAD 2018
Before you begin to test, check out this LWCAD 2018 exam video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AhIayYV2Uw
Does anyone have a link to a site that gives typical standards for things like wall thickness & height, door height & width, thickness, eave overhang, etc.? I've done some searching but quickly got bogged down with too much technical & regs.
i found that the modern shingles are too large (around 600 mm compared to a more standard size between 400-450 mm). how can i edit the "d3d" files? how is the "allow resizing" feature in LWCAD working? i seem not to be able to resize the scale of the preset shingles.
pryzm
posted Jan 31 at 3:34 pm
This might be hard to explain, but here goes.
Using the Box command (other commands do this now as well), after drawing the first box it used to be (v4, v5?) that when I would right click, it would finish the tool and be able to start the next box at the same height (or depth, or width depending on in which view port I started) location as the previous box. Now, it starts the box at the origi
Crash when executing a SUB operation using the Line tool (crash report sent to NewTek)
1 - Create a simple cube with the Box tool
2 - From e.g. the Top view, enable the LWCAD Line tool, set mode to SUB
3 - LCLICK outside the mesh to establish the UCS plane and starting point
4 - LCLICK outside the mesh to e.g. cut off a corner of the cube
(crash)
LW Modeler: 2018.0.2, build 30
I have been looking at a lot of architecture videos online and wondering about adding a simple radio checkbox and value entry fields for cost calculation of basic primitives. Perhaps even a selector that could asses the volume and cost per cubic unit of a given solid. Ok thank you
Same surface, but it looks like a patchwork of dieffrent surfaces.
Is it possible to do something about this?
I am interested in the LWCAD for Cinema4D. I didn't see this in the manual or any of the tutorials, but are you able to convert your LWCAD models into .OBJ for use in other applications? Is there an example somewhere that I may look over or a demonstration?
I just want to say a massive thank you, Yeah we may pay for LWCAD, but you always go above and beyond. I'm not sure how you seem to manage it all, programming making videos, posting on forums, answering emails, solving our problems. I've just been reading through some of the posts on here. On most I've read asking for features or bug fix's your there posting away letting us know that these thing
Does anyone have a copy of LWCAD 3.61 for Lightwave 3D? I recieved it years ago and never used, but need to now. But I cant fine it to download. Can anyone help me out?
Dale Campbell Jr.
So I went through all the lightwave cad 5 videos a few times and I still can't figure out how to make a simple patch. Lofting was easy enough but I feel it doesn't give quite the amount of control I need. In one video I see a grid of splines already made ( I guess with the line tool?) and then I see patches begin drawn easily. . . I don't understand how the splines were connected in order to make
I draw out points as I used to do but all I get is a box or polygonal shape, no arc. If I add an object and then use Arc but turn on slice or add or intersect, it then becomes an Arc.
What am I doing wrong?
HI,
I've been working on my first animated sequence that involves an interior lit by luminous polygons and no lights and have discovered the horror that is animated GI.Been through a lot of threads, read Except's radiosity tutorial... to get anything even close to a clean render for an 8 second shot at 1920x1080 requires just a silly amount of time per frame -- either interpolated MC with tin
currently, when you have the shape library open, you have a slider that lets you slide through the different items.
but the items can only move according to "steps" and there is actually no scrolling at all and the steps only move after you let go of the slider.
this is very unintuitive. it would be a lot better if scrolling is not possible to implement, then just have large up arrow and
there wasn't any feedback the last time but even after installing the latest version, the round tool still seems to be broken.
Can someone please go over how to create a nurb surface, and patch surface. I don't understand this.
I would like to know how to round corners on a 2D box for example?
Rounder works great on 3D. But if you draw a 2D box, plane, anything with sharp angle corners. Is there a way to pick that corner and round it , individually or globally.
Thanks
Gary
would love the ability to disable snapping temporarily without deselecting all the different snaps.
thanks!
jin
hi,
lots of great new tools and features in 5.5 (using it in lw 2018 )! thanks!
but this does seem to be a kind of rough version without the polish that i was used to seeing in the last version of lwcad i was using (3.6 in lw 9.61).
projection snapping doesn't seem to work. i don't get projection lines anymore from second snap.
in extrude, "groupping" is mispelled. should be "grouping
When using clone to line on a line that is in the background layer LWCAD lays out clones only on the first segment of that line. If the line is in multiple segments ( Joined ) LWCAD does not use the whole line.
Trick
posted Jan 16 at 6:59 pm
I really like the shingles tool. I often use it in combination with the MultiTexture plugin to give each shingle a slightly different color. Therefore each shingle needs a different matID. So to make this tool faster to work with, please implement an option to give each shingle a different matID.
Thanks
LWCAD 5.5 ROAD LINE crashes on 2015.3 and 2018
not when using straight line tool, but when set to spline or curve mode.
Works with a straight line option.
Just started playing with cross walk and it crashed also when playing with sizing parameters.
Tried unistalling from 2015 and 2018. Reboot, then installed 2018 only..still crashed.
Tried installing 2015..same still crashes.
A question as to how to reset the volume calculation on an object.
I have made changes to an object and the volume is no longer correct but I can't clear it to re-calculate the volume.
How do I clear the volume numbers and start over. I have tried copy and pasting to a new object but the calculations come along as well.
Thank you,
Wade
i went from lightwave 9.61 to lightwave 2018 and so for me, i have not had a situation where the installer actually worked for me.
it would be cool if the installer tried to identify the directories by itself but if it can't find them, it gave the user the ability to manually select the directories and then continue auto-setup.
manually installing isn't a huge deal but it does involve a f
I installed all the plug-ins manually because installer failed and told me to. Now I am trying to load in the branches but does not seem to load branches
Title pretty much tells it all. I need to use the 4.51 Snap Move to get projection snaps. See video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1crf5CeOTLM
hi viktor,
i noticed this while i was playing with the new update and encountered it a couple of times in passing now but just figured i must be doing something wrong... but i do think it's lwcad-
when i perform a round on the top of a rectangular piece of geometry, the edges at the corners pull apart. even on corners where it's not visibly tearing as shown, the vertices end up unwelded.
hi,
so i'm still currently on the 3.x version and i'm looking to upgrade soon but was wondering if in the later versions, there's a way of changing the scale of library objects when the library objects are invoked during tools like cloning a library object on a polygon.
i forgot the exact name of tool but there is one tool that allows you to "spray" a library object on an existing poly an
Ilay
posted Dec 3 '17 at 3:26 pm
Hello
Will be possible to create Smart Element?
Smart Element - for example, it's lwcad object(file) which contains complete facade of building's side. We can place it at one of building's side. Or it will contain room(if will be possible osl room - http://julius-ihle.de/?p=2451)
Also it has any proxy features: level of detail, load at rendering and etc.
Viktor, I wanted to comment on something as a suggestion, I do not know if it's very far-fetched but I feel that this level of control is missing from the program to work much better. I do not know if you know the DesignToolBox plugin from Atelier Bump. There you can be strict with angles, reference guides etc ... all this very very useful and necessary within the architecture tools.
If you c
