REndering Wood

[FREEFORM]

Can someone advise me how best to render wood. Can model in 3D no problem. Using Concepts unlimited to view curved items without the tessellation lines. Or can you turn these off in Autocad?

[Groutie]

For rendering wood, why not one of the wood options in the materials library. As for tesselation lines, TOOLS, OPTIONS, DISPLAY see Display Performance and check the box SHOW SILHOUETTES IN WIREFRAME. When you HIDE, the rotten mad lines have all disappeared, yippee.

[FREEFORM]

Oh My God, if you were local I'd buy you a pint!! That's saved me hours of clean up time. Maybe I should a revision course in the basics.

On the wood aspect I just find Autocad very'Clunky' for material application. Using COncepts Unlimited which is great for quick visualisation though having difficulty with my mapping.

Many thanks again.

[Groutie]

You'd be surprised how long it took me to find that. After all, it doesn't say SHOW/HIDE TESSELATION LINES or something equally helpful, does it. As far as the rendering patterns go, you can change the scale of these.
RENDER, MATERIALS - Modify - Adjust Bitmap. There you'll get in bottom l/h/s SCALE. Fiddle around with that, may be of some use.
I could do with a pint too, bloody hot ain't it

[FREEFORM]

I'll give that go. Yep but doubtless hotter down south than here - roll on Friday!!

[Ako]

FYI
The check box for SHOW SILLHOUETTS IN WIREFRAME changes the dispsilh variable so if you want to reverse it more quickly than going through tools/options/---etc just type it on the command line.

Dave

[FREEFORM]

many thanks.