coplanar faces and etc...

[EricCamper]

Ok..I may be doing this WRONG...but I have been doing this forever......

In Arch Desktop.... Let's say I have a set of windows....3 windows that make up a bigger assembly. the bottom is 6w x 2h the middle is 6w x 4h and the top is 6w x 3h. Which should make up a 6 x 9 assembly..All I do is make these three windows and stack them...but I overlap the top and bottom frames accordingly. So I get those black spotches and coplanar faces things.....without changing my process, do you have any tips...

Thanx all

[instinct]

secondary ray bias to 0.002 or similar (default is 0.0) usually helps with coplanar issues. You might wanna try that.

Thorsten

[Clifton Santiago]

Where I must have coplanar faces, like maybe a curtain wall with intersecting mullions and transoms, I just offset them slightly so that they are not actually coplanar.

[Syclone1]

Where I must have coplanar faces, like maybe a curtain wall with intersecting mullions and transoms, I just offset them slightly so that they are not actually coplanar.

That's what the secondary rays bias does... I find that 0.001 usually works

-dave

[EricCamper]

Thanx guys...I shall give that a shot.....

Later

[Clifton Santiago]

Its in the Global switches rollout, bottom right corner, under the label Raytracing.

[EricCamper]

damn.....I only had that edit up there for like a minute....hehe..then I found it and deleted it.....Thanx anyway man.......I saw someone at the poker tables the other night with you avatar......Well...It looked like your avatar........perhaps it WAS you

[Clifton Santiago]

Ha, no I stopped playing online poker a couple years ago, when I realized how bad I was. Fortunately never lost too much money.