PhotoWorks 2007 configuration problems

Hi All,
I seem to be having a lot of trouble trying to render the
following cabinet as shown here.

http://picasaweb.google.com.au/mlynn69/RenderWithConfigurations

I have detached the materials and tried to apply the custome materials
in the top most assembly, i have also gone right down to the lowest
part and attached materials but for some reason they seen to keep
falling off. As you can see from the 3 images the front of the drawer
unit is defaulting to polished aluminium and after trying to apply the
material i have achived one of the drawers to the correct material,
while the others are not? The front of the drawer is the same part
file just 3 different configurations, if i have the part file open in
the background whichever active configuration seems to stick.
This is getting rather frustrating, has anyone come across this
or have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Michael Lynn

 

Hi Michael,

I am having the same PW problem like you. This glitch goes back for long
time. The reason for this misbehavior of render matierials seems to be due
to multible configurations. PW does not have an option checkbox for
material related configurations.
"Workaround": You would need to reasign the same material to every
configuration of the part unless you first asign a material and the derive
the
different configurations. Also helpful is to apply textures directly on
parts
and not in assemblies.

HTH

Jo

 

The configuration dialog box has been added to the material property
manager in 2007.

 

Yes it has, and it seems to be buggy? I had a cabinet al set up and
rendering fine, i then suppressed the door and hinges to render the
cabinet and shelves and the side panel which was fine a minute ago
dropped the material and rendered polished aluminium. The worst part
about all of this is it doesn't seem to be consistent which makes it
really hard to trouble shoot and at the end of the day it is most
probably user error

Cheers,
Michael