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    Corporate propaganda re IFC

    in Architecture

    Posted

    In the meantime, users outside of Finland have stepped up and are working to create IFC models to engage their consultants on other platforms.

    I see? Things are moving fast? Only a few hours ago

    To date, we have not yet received ANY user project models using IFC to communicate with other project team applications in the design and execution of a project.

    Corporate propaganda re IFC

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Ohh, I've had countless discussions with Ultirender re IFC and NNA's actions in relation to it.

    I've also reported various bugs in the beta-testing of VW 2010, but with no feedback of any kind. For my efforts I have received absolutely nothing ? not even a free licence.

    Being a consultant, I have always been available to help you, but I don't work for free. So far I have only been asked to provide free help, especially by Mr. Anderson, who even wanted one of my users to tell him what my Space tool does.

    Breaking the vicious circle starts by a commission?

    Corporate propaganda re IFC

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Indeed? Quousque tandem abutere, NNA, patientia nostra?

    Mr. Anderson proclaimed in late 2006 (over 3 years ago) that one can generate perfectly good IFC data with VW there and then and that one can also write IFC-compatible VectorScript add-ons if one just knows the nitty-gritty.

    Both statements were totally untrue.

    Corporate propaganda re IFC

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Jeffrey,

    Thanks for the clear reply.

    I gather that NNA has not asked the local distributor to help in this. I'm sure they would have told me? You will need to talk with Ultirender.

    However, a Finnish project cannot be modeled with the tools provided by NNA, so someone would have to remodel a project with them as a mock-up. You will appreciate that no VW user here uses IFC, because VW is not certified. Instead, they use Revit or ArchiCAD in jobs where IFC is required.

    Corporate propaganda re IFC

    in Architecture

    Posted

    This is what they tell:

    Vectorworks Architect Software Now Compliant with GSA BIM Guide Series 02

    But what does this mean?

    Compliance with the GSA BIM Guide for Spatial Program Validation

    Nothing, I'd say. Without full IAI IFC-certification (& without alchemy), VW is at best a wannabe and the corporate propaganda by Robert Anderson and his little helpers is laughable.

    Whatever some GSA does, is of no relevance in the real world. Especially in NNA's Real World, in which the U.S. users are a tiny minority and seem to be only be doing McMansions.

    http://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=134865#Post134865

    Image Fills & Gradients

    in Entertainment

    Posted

    Decal? No. What's a decal, except over-priced decoration of automobiles for hair-dressers?

    (A decal (pronounced /ˈdiːk?l, ˈdiːkəl, ˈdɛːkl/) or transfer (chiefly British usage) is a plastic, cloth paper or ceramic substrate that has printed on it a pattern that can be moved to another surface upon contact, usually with the aid of heat or water. The word is short for "decalcomania." The word Decalcomania is derived from the French word "decalquer," and was coined by Simon Fran?ois Ravenet about 1750. The "mania" was added during the Decal craze of the late 1800s.)

    Unable to use the radial dimension tool on cylinders in plan view

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    You are asking a lot?

    The cylinder is not necessarily an upright citizen of the 3D-world. You might not want plan dimensions ? which, should the cylinder be rotated in 3D be dimensions of an ellipse ? but the dimensions of the circle that formed the ellipse.

    Maybe an inference mechanism is possible, but should you decide to put your cylinder in rake, what would you expect the dimensions to do?

    Don't get me wrong: if you are able to articulate how (arbitrary) 3D-objects should be dimensionable, I believe NNA is all ears!

    Meanwhile, you can enter the extrusion and copy the circle, then paste it in place (hmm...) and dimension it.

    Image Fills & Gradients

    in Entertainment

    Posted · Edited by Kool Aid

    I find it very difficult to understand

    (i) how gradients & image fills could be applied to arbitrary 3D-objects: where'd they start from, where'd they go, how'd they behave in between;

    (ii) why is is not possible to apply an image as such on a 3D-object, at the user's risk & discretion and to his or her frustration.

    With the time & effort spent in the development of (mostly, but not entirely, useless) image props, surely image mapping/draping could have been implemented?

    EDIT

    I decided to try with a gradient as a texture. No-go zone. Hopeless.

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    3d component of symbols disappearing

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    The 150.4 million euros I think is for the whole group

    So how many software appliactions is that?

    What percentage of that is generated by VW?

    So, Nemetschek has only 270000 users and a revenue of 150 million euros; that is 550 ? per user.

    (I'm saying "only" because at one stage VW alone was supposed to have more. Lo and behold, the VW page tells us that More than 450,000 designers in more than 85 countries rely on Vectorworks technology. So, based on averages, VW generates some 167 % of the total group revenue. Now, since AllPlan costs 10 times as much as VW, the average is not applicable, but you get the point.)

    However, Autodesk reports having 9 million users and an annual revenue of roughly 1500 million ?, ie. 170 ? per user. Whoo-ee! Autodesk's revenue has dropped by a third in a year; Nemetschek's by 11%.

    Not that I'd understand anything about quartal capitalism.

    Fractional Text

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted · Edited by Kool Aid

    Should VW actually & really support Unicode (I see no signs of ANY support!), this would be easy, as there are typefaces & character sets for this.

    (Of the said lack of support: a month or so ago I was hoping to use the name of a famous Czech automobile manufacturer (of world history significance for its earlier product lines) in a mock-up of a sky-sign. Instead of getting ?koda, I got ?koda.)

    EDIT

    The posted issue would go away should you Americans follow the lead of 95% of the world's population and go metric. The U.S. of A. is the only Medieval country left!

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