Cabinet Solutions, Inc.

Enhanced 3-D! (Enhance This 3-D!)

Presentations is a free Enhanced 3-D tool to allow you to produce extremely high quality (life-like) pictures of your jobs to show your customer.

To open Presentations:

1. In the menu bar, find and click on the Tools menu. Or click "Enhance This 3-D!" in the 3-D Room View Tool Box.
2. In the drop down menu, click on the Enhanced 3-D! menu item.
3. The Enhanced 3-D! dialog will appear. This dialog has the following features:
4. • Image Options: Click this button to open the Image Options dialog.
   • Camera Options: Click this button to open the Camera Options dialog. From there you can select the type of camera to use when rendering the Enhanced 3-D. Selecting Standard will give you a lineal or plain view of the room. Selecting Wide Angle Lens will give you a "fish eye" or more realistic view of the room, as if you were standing there in the room. By default, the Wide Angle Lens is selected.
   • Color Options: Click this button to open the Color Options dialog.
   • View/Edit Last Image in MSPaint: Click this button to open MSPaint with the last picture you rendered. From Paint you can edit the picture or save it by clicking on the File menu, and selecting Save As.
   • Print Last Image: Click this button to print the last picture you rendered. A message box will appear asking you if you are ready to print, click YES if you are ready. If you clicked YES, another message box will appear asking you if you want to print in landscape mode. If you choose yes, it will take a few moments to rotate the image width-wise to fit more of the picture onto the paper. The picture will be scaled to one piece of paper.
   • Render the Enhanced 3-D!: Click this button to begin the rendering of the enhanced 3-D picture. This may take several minutes, please wait for it to finish before doing anything else on your computer. The larger megahertz processor you have the faster the image will render.
   • Note: The produced picture is not an exact representation of the job, rather an estimate of what it would look like.

Rendering/Displaying a room in the enhanced 3-D:

1. Click on the Tools menu. In the pull down list that appears, click on Enhanced 3-D!.
2. Click on the button labeled "Render the Enhanced 3-D!".
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4. • A free program called POV-Ray for Windows (you selected to install this upon installing Cabinet Solutions) will be launched to render the picture. (POV-Ray can be obtained from www.povray.org) Because this process is very CPU (Central Processing Unit) intensive, meaning it is going to use all of your computer.s resources to make the picture as best as it can, we highly recommend closing any unnecessary programs before clicking the "Render the Enhanced 3-D!" button. Don't close Cabinet Solutions, of course.
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   • During the rendering process, we recommend you to not use your computer until the Enhanced 3-D is Finished! window above appears on your screen. From this window you can view or edit the image in MSPaint or print the image scaled to one piece of paper. Click the Done button to close the window and continue using Cabinet Solutions.

Tips for Using the Enhanced 3-D

1. Have at least 2 connected walls (like an L). This will help the camera position the room in the middle and zoom to fit the screen size.
2. Always use the highest quality setting when presenting the 3-D to your customer. There is a dramatic difference between fastest and best quality.
3. Use the faster quality settings to help position and test what your 3-D will look like. Then when satisfied, choose the highest quality setting and let the computer run until finished.
4. It is recommended that you only use the Enhanced 3-D after you are finished with your job and have rotated the Basic 3-D to the position you want.
5. If your job is large, or your computer speed is slow, start the Enhanced 3-D before you go to sleep. This will give it plenty of time to run and you won't be needing to use the computer.
6. If for some reason you want to close the Enhanced 3-D while it is rendering, you may close the window by clicking on the "Closing This Window Will Stop the 3-D!" button on the yellow window. This is highly unrecommended, however.
7. The Enhanced 3-D is extremely high in quality. The faster and more powerful your computer is, the less time it will take to render your jobs.
8. When the Enhanced 3-D has finished rendering, you are given the opportunity to print the image (scaled to one page) or manipulate the picture in MS Paint. This is a simple program that is very common and anyone can use. You can save the picture to your hard drive, type text, draw, and much more. The default picture format is BMP (Bitmap), however you can save it as a JPG or any other supported formats.

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POV-Ray Credits
POV-Ray is Copyright by POV-Team(TM) 1991-2002.
POV-Ray is a FREE program that can be obtained from www.povray.org.