Rendered Walkthru?

[Pitkru]

evening all!

i've just started learning autocad R14 (or any cad program for that matter) and really appreciate the tutorials available on the site. ive just done the perspective/walkthru tutorial, but have one question:

how to make my walkthrus rendered (or at the very least shaded? - i've figured out how to render my viewports, and saved them via the mslide command. but when i run the script, i only get the viewports playing in wireframe. i tried rendering the views into the render window and saving as sld (instead of bmp) files. although they appear in my root folder as sld files, i cannot access them thru vslide (cannot see them in the folder) so i assume that saving the image in the render window as a sld file is not a valid command? ???

any suggestions or tricks? many thanks!

by the way, thanks for creating this super resource dave, and all who contribute to the forums!

[CADTutor]

OK, there's some bad news and some bad news :-/.

You can't create slides of rendered views in AutoCAD :(.

I know, if only...
Actually it does work for shaded views but that's not much better than wireline. To be honest, I gave up using the slide and script method of presentation some time ago. My current simplest method is to render the images I want to file and then display them using a PowerPoint presentation. This works really well and is much less effort than writing script files etc.

[Pitkru]

many thanks CADtutor.

"To be honest, I gave up using the slide and script method of presentation some time ago. My current simplest method is to render the images I want to file and then display them using a PowerPoint presentation. This works really well and is much less effort than writing script files etc. "

...and there i was last night going WOW! AutoCAD's so cool! :)


another question please:

when i use the ddview command and save a new view, where/which folder does autocad r14 save it to?

[CADTutor]

When you use the DDVIEW command to create a Saved View, the information about the view is saved with the drawing file - it's not written to an external file. It simply enables you to go back to that same view quickly without having to set it up again.

[BenGoble]

Hiya mate! Well basically i'm new to CAD too mate however I can tell you that if you can get your hands on a later version of AutoCAD i.e. 2007 that I'm using, you can do walkthroughs!!! whoooo! CAD2007 does the well impressive walkthroughs, however.... and its a big however! You need NASA to Create the video for you as its caning my CPU!! Of course you could lower the resolution and create a decent walkthrough without ageing a year!

[BenGoble]

Oh and finally should have added in last message.... AutoCAD is amazing don't lose the faith lol.