[richardfollett]

Hi ,
working with blocks in rhino and all is good.
When I open the mxs in maxwell none of the block appear in the render window but then do render.. Is this correct? If I select the original/parent then I can see the blocks as bounding boxes but I cannot select one and then use the auto focus command..

Should I do all the auto focus in Rhino?

Thanks

Rich

[JDHill]

Hi Rich,

Yes, I would say to use the auto-focus in Rhino instead of Studio. The reason you don't see your instances in Studio is due to performance options for the display; if you right-click in the Instances window, you can choose:

- % of instances to show
- whether to show all instances, or just selected ones
- shading mode, i.e. bounding box, shaded, textured

These things can also be set in Studio's Preferences page, but I would not recommend enabling too much because it will slow down Studio unnecessarily when you open scenes with many instances.

Cheers...

[richardfollett]

Lovely stuff.. Thanks JD

[Cadhorn]

I'm curious, Richard. What do you use Studio for? (err... What functionality do you need from Studio that's not available from the plug-in?)

[richardfollett]

Hi Cadhorn,
I gues its just the way I work.
I like the auto focus function as it works well in Studio.
I know also available in Rhino but didn't use to be to it is what you get used to.

Rich