Amorphous - Julian

I wonder if, for us Mac users, there can be an option to ‘live sync’ or ‘direct line’ from our Vectorworks on Mac to the Lumion / Twinmotion that runs on virtual machine (on the same computer terminal)? I understand Virtualisation is not officially supported by both Lumion and Twinmotion. But being about to cross the Virtual Machine border like this would just make life so much easier.

We use this tool for cornice and baseboards. Gives you the ability to customise your profiles. Advantage is to not end up with silly bunch of lines in Plan and RCP (Why do we still have wireframe objects in Top/Plan view? What on this planet is 'wireframe'?Is there even a use for them in Top/Plan view?)

I'm having the same problem. I use VW2019 SP5.3A. Spinning beach wheel for over half an hour now since I placed a detail callout on my sheet.

@Kevin K couldn't agree more. We would love Vray integration into VW too. We tried exporting our Vectorworks models to C4D / Sketchup to render using Vray. However, the exported models become too polygon-heavy and it is near impossible to work with in those programs (even just for simple navigation and assigning materials). Would be so much easier and much more efficient to work in the Vectorworks model to assign Vray Textures. @JuanP if I may ask you to help me follow up my emails enclosed with Chaos Group? (I can email you the full chain of mail) I emailed Chaos Group in early 2018 about Vectorworks integration. They told me to check their forums. There was nothing so I emailed again late 2019 year. No response still. I'm thinking the Vray integration issue is perhaps an issue that is best taken up by Nemetscheck Vectorworks instead of a loose bunch of Vectorworks Users like us. Or do you have some insider knowledge on this you can share? Vectorworks users are in a bad bit of limbo when it comes to rendering- Revit has Vray, Revit has Lumion Live Sync, Revit has Twinmotion Dynamic Link.... The Lumion link we have in Vectorwork doesn't really help Mac-based offices like mine. It would be so helpful to have a render engine roadmap to help VW users out of the current limbo: - Does Nemetschek/Vectorworks plan to give us Maxon Redshift integration in the next few releases? If so, how many years from now? - Can Vectorworks talk to Chaos Group about Vray Integration? Has this conversation taken place? Are they interested? How quickly can this happen? - Talk of Twinmotion Direct Link has been going on forever, where is that conversation at? Is it abandoned or still actively pursued? I'd like our office to focus on one rendering platform. The software cost and labour investment to explore each rendering package is too great. We can't jump from one to another, and want to invest time money and effort into one. A roadmap gives us guidance towards which rendering path to pick.

@Matt Panzer I'm now hopelessly signing off from work, unable to complete what I needed to do for tonight. I can squarely blame this on Vectorworks being stuck in a cycle of intensive conking-out with 'Edit Section in Place'. In other words. Vectorworks has defeated me tonight. I have been forced to give up by the program that should be helping me. Had we had the ⌘-period shorthand, I would not be in this position. Also, if VW was more like revit, with instantaneous sectioning (see post below), I would also not be in this position. I just wish some of these wishlist items can be granted to us users sooner than later, so on a night like tonight, Vectorworks can feel like friendly helping hand, instead of a nemesis, for my work.

30minutes into this conversation... at 10:30pm here in the evening.... I'm still waiting for VW to get out of that 'edit section in place' cycle There is no way for me to get out of it. We need that ⌘-period shorthand By the way- if anyone gets stuck in this cycle... The only way to get out of it is ⌘-5 (top plan view) or ⌘-shift-W (wireframe).... I learnt this the ward way through experience. We really need that ⌘-period shorthand

@Matt Panzer what is worse, since I have 'autosave' turned on, VW autosaved the file state once inside 'Edit Section In-Place'. So, even though I 'force quit' because of the slow/laggy operation. When I reopen, it reopens in the 'Edit Section in-place' state. We really need that ⌘-period button. Please...

After 8 minutes, my 'edit in place' section finally loaded. But any operation within it is so laggy (including simply to 'return to viewport') I had to force quit it.

@Matt Panzer Funny you mention that. I just accidentally pressed 'Edit Section In-Place' and I am have now waited for 7+ minutes without an ability to stop this process. I really need to STOP this process. I can't afford to 'force quit' because I'll lose so much work. I really need the button in the post below for situations like this. ions

I would like to revive this post, as this is an important topic in the workflow of documentation. Creating tens or hundreds of wall types based on 'buildup' or 'finish type' is untenable. We need to use BIM as a design tool during the design process, so the team at Vectorworks needs to think about how do we quickly change the interior finish of a room, without a complex process of creating new wall types to accommodate this. I hope someone can call Matt Panzer's attention to this issue.

UPDATE 28/11/2019 After tech support from the VW team and the latest SP release (many thanks to the Vectorworks team especially Tolu who made this possible). Vectorworks worked really well for almost one month for us. But since yesterday, we had problems with 'Save and Commit'. The operation taking up to 20-30 minutes. Enclosed are a couple of screenshot sample 'process' files showing times (NB the actual start and finish were much further before and after these times). @Tolu I'll send you the VWXW VWXP and Sample files directly

Amazing!!! Completely solved the issue for me thanks @Nikolay Zhelyazkov I don't complete understand what the two asterisk next to the A in *A* does, can you explain a little? Also, what if I would like the '*A*' part of the formula to read the value of a particular cell in the worksheet, how would I go about pointing it to the value of a cell? Thanks again.

Often, we ‘create a symbol’ to isolate an object from its context. It would be great to be able to create a view of this isolated object from within the symbol. An example of this is- you model a piece of joinery, and turn it into a symbol. You then want to create a hidden line render of this symbol on a sheet. It would be far easier to create this viewport from within the symbol, than to try to isolate it by class or other means outside of the symbol.

Hi @Nikolay Zhelyazkov I want to create a Document transmittal (drawing revision list) with a worksheet. I can successfully call up the drawings with a certain 'Revision Number' (say '2A') in the 'Current Revision' with the formula: =IF(('Title Block Border'.'Current Revision Number')=('2B'), 'Y', 'N') However, I cannot call up Revision Number that is NOT in relation to a titleblock's 'Current Revision' Number. For example, if I want the above formula to (instead of reporting on the 'Current' revision results) return any results that have ever had Revision Number '2A', how would I go about doing that? Thanks.

Hi Klvanov, We had to revert to 2019 for above PS issues. In 2019- we have the same problem with some tags displaying text and others not (see screen shot) Yesterday we issued a set of documents - which looks fine with text in tags. But today we have to modify this document, and it will not show the relevant information. Unfortunately these drawings can't wait until version 2020 SP2. And that release would not help us in 2019 anyway. @Tolu sorry to bother, but would you be able to help on this issue too?

wonderful- thanks Kostadin

[UPDATE 4/11/2019] We worked all day, and now faced again with the dreaded 'this file is corrupt' message again.

[UPDATE 4/11/2019] We seem to be having some issues with Data Tags for: - Doors -Windows - Walls Some numbers in the Tags are showing on one user terminal but not others (inside the same viewport). See screen shots.

Yes thats right... And we can only achieve 15 levels of the above.

Hi Bruce, thanks for your message. I have sent this file to Tolu earlier, you can get it from him.

Good to know about this. Hopefully the engineers at Vectorworks will change this for the dual-platform users. On the note of the IF function, we find that this logic test only works for 15 levels. Anything behind that doesn’t work. Has anyone managed to go beyond 15 levels of it?

In Project Sharing, we are often blocked from an operation, as the operation requires items 'checked out' by another user. In the current workflow, we must ask the other user to 'release' in order to proceed. The other user would suspend their current work, navigate to, and select the relevant object (or multiple objects) and then 'release'. Since this can involve a large number of objects, and take a long time to navigate to each section for 'release', we find it easier for both users to perform a full 'save and commit' instead. This workflow is very disruptive to both users. A better way is for relevant 'checked out' items to be requested within the 'Operation Cannot Be Completed' error window (ArchiCAD has this). See mockups below. If we can 'Request All Listed Items' for a quick and limited 'save and commit' on the relevant items only, then both users get back on with their work quickly.

@Klaus Koch (apologies in advance I am unable to help) Your cabinets look very nice and detailed (with hinges and legs, etc). Do you user interiorCAD for this?

[UPDATE 29/10/2019 @ 8pm] We have finished another 3 hours of work. Leonie finished her work, then saved and committed. This is her video which took 10 minutes. save and commit7-40pm.mp4 After she finished her work, I 'refreshed' my file, which took 3.5 minutes. 3.5 refresh.mp4 After the 'refresh', I did a 'save and commit', which took 5 minutes. 5 minute save and commit.mov This is all very slow. We can't all sit around waiting for files to Sync with these speeds.

When documenting, we constantly click in and out of 'viewport annotations'. Sometimes it is just to copy a finish tag etc, from one viewport to another. Other times it is to perform a repetitive task like dimensioning. It would be most useful to have a workflow where we can seamlessly enter from one annotation space to another. This could either be: (1) an option to access all viewport annotation at the same time (access all viewports) , or (2) be able to 'tab' between the annotation spaces on the same sheet (to perform, say, copy-paste operations between them).