[Improve Replace Symbol Process]

It would be great to improve the Replace Symbol process. There are way too many clicks right now and the first dialog only seems to be there to allow for the "replace class" option. It's all very cumbersome if you use it regularly. It also seems to hang briefly when you click to see the symbol browser.

 

Wishes -

 

- Replace Symbol should instantly open the resource browser style selection window.

- When you right click on a symbol there should be the current "Replace" and a "Replace Again" which uses the last replacement symbol with no dialog at all.

- You should also be able to have a symbol selected, open the resource browser and right click on a new symbol to get the "Replace" option.

 

Please look at this command with the lens of simplify, simplify, simplify 😊

 

Thanks,

 

Kevin

 

 

 

[Suggestions for Solo Object Viewport Creation]

Sheet layer viewports need to be able to look at symbols. I and others have wishlisted it in the past. @Matt Panzer has acknowledged the need here in the past but I don't think its made it onto the roadmap.....

 

Kevin

 

[Sweeps coming out as squares/diamonds]

I've seen a bit of this (not lighting fixtures) in the current SP. Rendering seems somewhat buggy in this particular SP release.

 

KM

[Graphic mess on screen]

I've seen something similar with 3d models - random triangulation into space from all the geometry. Also in the latest SP for VW2023. The graphics of this SP aren't particularly stable.

 

Kevin

[Can anyone suggest a reliable method for 3d scans of venues?]

14 hours ago, Mark Aceto said:

 

It's an absolute nightmare. MP is designed for real estate. I've had countless MP scans from professionals that provide that service, and the scans were more trouble than they were worth. I could get a more useful scan myself with an iPhone and a giant selfie stick (iPhone LiDAR lens is limited to 5m).

 

Good to know 😮

 

Kevin

[Can anyone suggest a reliable method for 3d scans of venues?]

Has anyone ever managed to integrate a Vectorworks model with a Matterport model? Lots of theatre companies have virtual tours using the Matterport front end. It would be interesting to integrate a set design into one of these venue scans.

 

Kevin

 

[Support for WebP Files]

It would be great to have support for WebP files. I've been getting them from clients and Vectorworks sees them as graphic files but they cause it to crash. I'd like to prevent the crash if I could, so if they're not supported, they shouldn't be available. I've gotten all the way through the process of creating a new texture with a WebP file, only to have Vectorworks crash when you click ok to create the texture.

 

(Part of the challenge is that if you convert a WebP file to a PNG in Photoshop it still crashes Vectorworks. You need to convert it to a JPG.)

 

Kevin

 

[Dividers for Layers and Sheets]

13 hours ago, Matt Overton said:

No we want folders....

not formal dividers 

😉

make love not war

 

oh if you use storeys you can have the divider be part of the storey created layers. 

Informal dividers

 

I'd use folders too.... if you can expand the list like a nested class a folder is the same as a divider....

I could also use both of these for sheet layers too....

 

Kevin

 

 

[Dividers for Layers and Sheets]

I use divider layers all the time. Formalizing it would be great.....

Kevin

 

[Vectorworks Server Issues?]

Hello all,

 

Are there known slowdowns with the Vectorworks servers? These forums have been incredibly slow to load over the last fews days and I'm also having trouble upgrading to the recently released service pack. The updater is very slow to download the update and I've given up a few times. It reaches about 30-40 percent and then slows to a crawl.

 

I'm guessing everyone is off on Thanksgiving and hasn't noticed.

 

Kevin

 

 

[Preset dimension offset(s)]

18 hours ago, bcd said:

Offset 1> 12"

Offset 2>+8"

Offset 3>+6"

4th & subsequent offsets>+4' or whatever you'd like

 

We so need this consistent offset. It would make things so much faster.

Kevin

 

[Sent to front not working Vectorworks 2023]

11 hours ago, Pat Stanford said:

I don't think Send to Front/Back work with 3D objects, only with 2D.

 

To clarify, it doesn't work in the same way. There is, however, a stacking order to 3d objects, especially hybrid objects. You'll find it most often shows up with line weights in sheet layer viewports of 3d objects or in Top/Plan view for hybrid objects. The 3d objects themselves never jump to the front like they do in 2d as Pat says.

 

Kevin

 

[Is this a bug - missing rungs in Ladder Pipe in Schematic view?]

Email support directly, don't use the form until it's fixed and provides a ticketing receipt. See the other thread about the support issues.

 

Kevin

 

[Service Select Support - Add a Ticketing System]

I think the bigger issue here is consistent results from different support methods. I've had very mixed results and often no reply, even to Service Select forms and email addresses. If the method of support is not sustainable, don't offer it. Be clear on what you're offering and how.

 

No one would allow their phone lines or voicemail to be down for days and go unanswered. Why does this happen with email and online form support, or even these languishing forums?

 

As a customer I just want reliable support where there's a predictable process and I get a record of my own submission (so I can remember what I submitted and why). Support is not just about solving my issue, its about reporting issues so that they can be solved for the community at large.

 

Kevin

 

[Service Select Support - Add a Ticketing System]

Hasn't this been broken for months? It seems like pretty basic functionality.

KM

[How do I stop the 'nag' notifications that 2023 "is available!" when working in 2022?]

Not sure why the dialog doesn’t have a don’t show this again checkbox….

Kevin

[Duplicating sheets and drawing label numbers]

Still seems to happen in VW2023 unfortunately. 
Kevin

[Vectorworks Cloud Services: save cache of viewports when rendering]

PS. I think one of the realities here is that many of our real world workflows are different from the official Vectorworks workflow. We often omit steps (eg. architectural phases are compressed into a single day for entertainment) because of time or budget constraint.

 

KM

[Vectorworks Cloud Services: save cache of viewports when rendering]

On 10/25/2022 at 5:53 PM, inikolova said:

My question was more about whether having a copy of the .vwx file with "Saved viewport cache" is more valuable to you in some way compared to getting the final rendered viewports in an image or PDF file

 

For the cloud to be valuable for rendering viewports, it is essential to get the VWX file back with them rendered. Otherwise I may as well just render the file overnight on my own machine (that could be a feature request - render queue for multiple files). As the others have mentioned, there are other steps after rendering and before publishing. Often rendering all the viewports comes after a revision and I'm propagating a model change through to all of the viewports. Once the viewports are rendered, I still need to update dimensions etc..

 

The only instance I could see the cloud being the last step to publishing was if there was a way to universal up viewport image quality or switch viewports to a higher render setting (Eg. working in a draft mode / publishing in a final mode) for cloud publishing.

 

Right now I just render each viewport as needed to check and edit annotations, which means I wait for rendering but in small chunks. At the end I have a fully rendered, ready to publish file.

 

Kevin

 

[Vectorworks Cloud Services: save cache of viewports when rendering]

49 minutes ago, Christiaan said:

Bumping this 10 year old request.

 

@inikolova

 

Yes!!!

[VW2023 - Changing Sheet Layer Viewport View Causes Viewport to Jump to Centre of Page?]

16 hours ago, Andy Broomell said:

@Kevin McAllister – I just noticed this behavior in 2023 as well:

I filed a bug report: VB-191056

 

My case was forwarded to the engineers. Not sure what the outcome is. It happens in any file brought forward from previous versions, including the VW templates, which also seem to have been migrated. If you start with a completely blank file it doesn't happen....

 

Kevin

 

[Vw2023 - Allow 'Check for Updates' from Vw Home Page]

18 minutes ago, Andy Broomell said:

Agreed. I think all these menu items should be accessible while the Home Screen is active:

 

 

Opening files from the File menu, including accessing recent files, should also be possible from the home screen.

Kevin

[Extrapolate Arc? Or am I approaching this the wrong way?]

7 hours ago, line-weight said:

This might just be the way VW renders the curve though (in segments), and mathematically it is still passing through the point. If I use the split tool to split the extended arc where it crosses the corner of the rectangle, the new "ends" appear to be properly on the corner point.

 

Its definitely related to that. You can see the curve facets in this screen shot. In my version, I started with an arc, converted it to a NURBS curve and then used the Extend NURBS command so I didn't physically touch the points.

 

 

The highlighting behaves weirdly too when significantly zoomed in. It flip flops around the point. I don't think all rendering has been switched over to the VGM yet, which may explain that issue. It happens with both the original arc and the NURBS curve.

 

Kevin

 

 

[New Render Cameras Outdate Existing Camera Viewports]

6 hours ago, Richard Godin said:

Is the normal behaviour or a bug?

 

My guess would be that this is normal behaviour. You're adding objects and I'm not sure that VW differentiates between object types when flagging viewports as out of date.

 

Kevin

 

[DRAWING AN ICOSAHEDRON OR TETRAHEDRON SHAPE]

Amazing tutorial @Benson Shaw!!

Wouldn't it be great to have a rotate tool that didn't need the guide plane 😊

Kevin