dskogg Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 I made this LED mirror symbol with led lighting behind, it will only show in pbr not in wc , why is this? Also i tried making a hole inside a circle sold and ca wont let this happen, Ie i made a circle turned it into a solid at 1/4" thick and then had a smaller circle i wanted to make a hole in the first solid and ca wont let this happen? I am trying to make a donut led light instead of just a circle led light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 Not sure about the rope light although they are different than regular lights. There should not be an issue with the solids but you can do that just fine with psolids so it is not necessary to use solids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 1 hour ago, dskogg said: it will only show in pbr not in wc , why is this? Maybe the lights setting ? ....How many default lights do you have on in the WC Camera ...8. 20 , or 100? 8 and 20 likely aren't enough ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskogg Posted March 24, 2020 Author Share Posted March 24, 2020 All the lights show when on pbr and not with wc, I upped lights to 200 i have never got ripe light to work using wc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskogg Posted March 24, 2020 Author Share Posted March 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Chopsaw said: Not sure about the rope light although they are different than regular lights. There should not be an issue with the solids but you can do that just fine with psolids so it is not necessary to use solids. That’s what I did, I made a circle 1” dia, turned it into a poly line solid 1/4” thick and then tried cutting a hole out of it.. would not let me do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdyck Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 5 minutes ago, dskogg said: That’s what I did, I made a circle 1” dia, turned it into a poly line solid 1/4” thick and then tried cutting a hole out of it.. would not let me do it. the hole needs to be a p-solid before it can be a hole. Did you do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 5 hours ago, robdyck said: the hole needs to be a p-solid before it can be a hole. Did you do that? Actually, to be more precise, it just needs to be converted to an actual polyline. A circle is not a polyline. It can either be converted to a multi-segment polyline or to a couple arcs. Converting to a polyline solid does the trick, not because its a polyline solid but because its a polyline. During the convert process, it's just broken into 2 arcs automatically. Semantics? Maybe,,but I think it's good to understand whats actually happening. You can get to the same end any number of ways. No matter what you do though, a true CAD Circle object cannot be used with boolean operations. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskogg Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 2 hours ago, robdyck said: the hole needs to be a p-solid before it can be a hole. Did you do that? When converting in x11 it used to ask if you want a a polling solid then you could make it a hole now it doesn’t give you an option it gives you hole option I will post plan tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlesVolz Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Good one! Michael 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdyck Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 I think @dskogg was using the "solid hole" choice as opposed to the 'hole in polyline solid" option after choosing polyline solid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskogg Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 4 hours ago, robdyck said: I think @dskogg was using the "solid hole" choice as opposed to the 'hole in polyline solid" option after choosing polyline solid. HI Rob thanks for video, your polyline solid has no thickness, mine is .25" thick and when i do all those steps it does not allow me to make it a hole? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdyck Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 1 minute ago, dskogg said: HI Rob thanks for video, your polyline solid has no thickness, mine is .25" thick and when i do all those steps it does not allow me to make it a hole? Yes, it has a thickness, the default thickness of 1". Your definitely doing something odd. Is the larger circle already a polyline solid? Can you post your plan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskogg Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 Here is the plan, the round polyline solid below mirror i am trying to make the circle inside a mirror so the led looks like a donut and then re insert it back into mirror above. LED cube mirror.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 You don't need to use that Hole In Polyline Solid setting. Just use boolean operations (polyline subtraction). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdyck Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 3 minutes ago, dskogg said: Here is the plan, the round polyline solid below mirror i am trying to make the circle inside a mirror so the led looks like a donut and then re insert it back into mirror above. LED cube mirror.zip For the rope lights to show up in a WC renderings, they'll need to be much brighter. I'd suggest making a copy of the rope lights on their own layer for WC pics and use separate lighting sets for WC. In the pic below, the rope light is at 2000 lumens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskogg Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said: You don't need to use that Hole In Polyline Solid setting. Just use boolean operations (polyline subtraction). I tried doing a subtraction but I could not get it to do anything? Can you suggest steps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskogg Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, robdyck said: For the rope lights to show up in a WC renderings, they'll need to be much brighter. I'd suggest making a copy of the rope lights on their own layer for WC pics and use separate lighting sets for WC. In the pic below, the rope light is at 2000 lumens. Ok, that is really dumb, so in pbr it works but in wc you need to up lumens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdyck Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 1 minute ago, dskogg said: I tried doing a subtraction but I could not get it to do anything? Can you suggest steps? Click the big circle. Click polyline subtraction tool click small circle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 1 minute ago, dskogg said: I tried doing a subtraction but I could not get it to do anything? Can you suggest steps? Select large p-line, click the subtraction tool, and then click the shape you want to subtract (smaller p-line). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdyck Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 1 minute ago, dskogg said: Ok, that is really dumb, so in pbr it works but in wc you need to up lumens? Exactly. It's not that dumb, is it? The rendering tools work differently. You need different lighting sets for PBR and Raytracing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskogg Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 Just now, robdyck said: Click the big circle. Click polyline subtraction tool click small circle. Ok that worked, thanks apparently i don't know some basics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskogg Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 Thanks guys for your help, here is final product... still trying to figure out how to make rope light go vertical to put on either side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdyck Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 3 minutes ago, dskogg said: Thanks guys for your help, here is final product... still trying to figure out how to make rope light go vertical to put on either side. Use an 'added light', copy the light settings from a rope light, and replicate it vertically (z-axis). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdyck Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Rope Light Vertical.calibz Play with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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