Blocks in X-Ref

[akinlolu olugboji]

In the inserted picture. The single swing doors on the 2nd and 1st floor are the same block. While the ones on the second floor came as X-ref with the floor, the ones on the first floor came in with the first floor also as an X-ref within the floor.

In the origins files they render Ok. In the X-ref drawing the ones on the first floor do not render(door frame renders well but door itself renders as white) well. Why?

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

In general, this kind of stuff is working well. You can try and see what AutoCAD does with it-- by using the render command or even Realistic display style. If the behavior in nXt is very different than the behavior in AutoCAD, then there may be an issue.

[akinlolu olugboji]

It is different.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Can't tell very easily what's going on in this picture. Use the same view and try rendering with AutoCAD.

[akinlolu olugboji]

It is the same view.
First one is Nxt, while the second is raw autocad.
Concentrate on the first floor. The doors at the end of the stairs moving from lower right to upper left. In AutoCad it renders well in Nxt it renders as white, while the same doors(blocks) on the second floor, from lower left to upper right renders well in both AutoCad and Nxt.
The blocks are embedded in the different floors, which are inserted as X-ref in the rendered scene.
While the AutoCad scene is an orthographic the Nxt view is a perspective of the same view.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

The image is too faint to see. Render the same view so I can tell what's going on.

[Wayne Williamson]

I think this is the same issue I was dealing with a week or two ago. Did you define the materials through the style manager? When I did a small sample file for Roy everything worked well but in my large rendered file all x-ref items that had materails assigned through the style manager rendered white even though they were fine in the base file.

I'm not sure who's issue it is but so far AutoCAD hasn't responded beyond "we will look into it."

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

It's unlikely to be the same issue. I'm pretty sure akinlolu's using vanilla Acad material attachment methods.

[akinlolu olugboji]

Yes am using vanilla autocad 2010. 32 bit.