Presentation Mode Showing ONLY Walls and Shadows No Cabinets

[JohnLashuay]

Here is an office that I have previously rendered in the presentation view with lighting and it came out just fine.

I'm in the process of adding on to it. I just added some lighting to it and then rendered it in presentation mode and all that shows up are some walls, the floor and the shadows of everything. No Cabinets!!

Thanks,
John

[JohnLashuay]

I am unable to upload the file. I zipped it and now it is 18mb. Is this too big of a file to upload?

John

[Kerry Fullington]

John,

If you have done several Presentation View renders or have been using eCabinets for a long time without a windows and eCabinets re-start, that can happen. Try shutting down and re-starting and see if that fixes it.

Kerry

[DanEpps]

Here is a program from the Windows Resource Toolkit from Microsoft that allows you to clear memory without rebooting.

Run it four or five times in succession and it will clean out any allocated but unused memory segments. This might free up enough to render without rebooting.

[JohnLashuay]

Thanks Dan & Kerry for the info!!

I had just previously rendered it in the presentation view and it worked just fine. Then I realized I needed lighting so once I placed that in, it rendered in the presentation view with the shadows only and a few walls. I did rebooted the whole system, even restarting, and came back in and it did the same thing. I'll try it out this AM and I'll let you know if anything is different.

John

[JohnLashuay]

I just tried it for the first time and it still does the same thing. Is it possible that the size of the file has anything to do with it? The file size is 30mb.

-John

[Peter Walsh]

John,
Everytime I screw up on eCab it is always something simple, like not having the num lock on. DUH>
In this case, have you somehow inadvertently set the "Hide/Show" setting to hide the lights AND the cabinets?
regards,

[JohnLashuay]

Peter,

I thought of that as well. That is something I usually do I did look at that and everything is shown.

Thanks anyways!!
John

[JohnLashuay]

Here are two jpg's of the office that I am having problems with. One is just rendered and the other is in presentation view.

[JohnLashuay]

Here is a program from the Windows Resource Toolkit from Microsoft that allows you to clear memory without rebooting.

Run it four or five times in succession and it will clean out any allocated but unused memory segments. This might free up enough to render without rebooting.

Dan is there a way to gauge how much memory is being used?

[DanEpps]

Dan is there a way to gauge how much memory is being used?

Microsoft has a suite of tools that let you see just about everything that's going on in your system. Originally developed by a third party, the Sysinternals suite was purchased by Microsoft a couple of years ago.

Go to Sysinternals Suite and download the entire suite. Then use the Process Explorer to see exactly what resources are being used by any running process.

In the attached image you can see the process information dialog that is displayed when you double-click a process (in this case I double-clicked the eCabinets process).

Most of the tools are targeted toward developers and are not much use to users, so read, understand and follow the directions for each utility before using it. Some can perform destructive actions to your registry!!! Process Explorer doesn't do anything to the registry so it is safe to use.

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[JohnLashuay]

Thanks Dan!!