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I've been playing around with autocad rendering, I have the bowl which is revolution of a profile but it is 'ruled' looking. I changed the options in preferences to some higher numbers and regenall and everything smoothed out but the bowl. is there another setting somewhere for this? Also the spacers on the table are chrome, but are not showing the material. :glare:

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I have no experience with these new modelling tools, but when working with surfaces, I used to set the SURFTAB1 and SURFTAB2 sysvars to higher values. Not sure if it will help in your case... :(

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I used to set the SURFTAB1 and SURFTAB2 sysvars to higher values.

That a good observation if OP had modeled the bowl as a surface instead of a solid! Only one addition - those settings will not have effect on already made surfaces; after set those system variables to higher values will need to create again the said surfaces.

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It is not new at all! In fact, it is a very old command, and... it is not even a command. You forgot to specify what software and what version do you use, but I am pretty sure that the surftab thing is useless for you.

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My bad it's autocad 2012, I was just messing with the surftab and facetres options. I'm new fairly new to acad, I just finished a 2 year tech degree where there was little focus on 3-d modeling, sometime that one setting I'm missing makes all the difference. Thanks :)

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My bad it's autocad 2012,

Ok, thanks for that info. As I suspected, the Surftab won't help you in this case.

You may update your profile with that software information, so that in the future people can write you solutions that you really can use.

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That would be helpful since my profile said I never used autocad :?

 

I went though and changed the facet resolution to 10 and isolines to 100 and it looks much smoother. When I add curtains I'll remember the surftab option.

Thanks :)

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