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Andy Broomell

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  1. Just echoing what Pat said - it seems to have to do with it being a Lighting Device for some reason. There's nothing wrong with your render settings or sweep settings. While I have no idea why it's doing that, if you'd like a workaround, just edit the 3D component of the Symbol, navigate to the knobs and select them, then do Modify > Convert > Convert to Generic Solids. Hopefully this helps.
  2. Clicking that Modify button shouldn't be changing the view. When I click it the view doesn't change. Has this always been the case for you or has the behavior recently changed? What about trying it in different files?
  3. @unearthed - what Design Layer scale are you using?
  4. You could still choose one of the most common scales and gain some advantage. You might try turning down the "overall speed" within 3Dconnexion settings. For example, I default to 1/4"=1'-0" scale for my design layers, and have my overall speed setting like this:
  5. I think most of your hunches are correct. The precise positions of the little handles in the OIP beam angle widget don't mean anything, they're just a way to interactively adjust the Spread & Beam fields, which are the only two values which have an affect. "Smooth" & "Realistic" falloff are just names that someone came up with, sort of like presets. I'm sure each correlates to some underlying value that we don't have direct control of, but regardless, all three options are just varying "amounts" of falloff. The "look to" handle on the Light object itself doesn't control anything other than the general direction of the light. I too have issues with adjusting Lights directly in the drawing window. The interface for working with Lights is indeed generally awful and antiquated. As far as I recall, Lights haven't been touched or improved in my 15 years of using Vectorworks. The rendering output is fine, but it's a pain to get them set up since we're dealing with an ancient GUI.
  6. Crazy - I never noticed that you DO get the option when double-clicking Flipped Symbols. I agree it should be available when double clicking any Symbol in the drawing.
  7. Sometimes we use Vectorworks to ‘present’ a design to someone, whether it be a colleague, boss, head designer, design team, a group on Zoom, etc. When presenting, we’re mainly just navigating our working file, pointing out things with the cursor, discussing elements, maybe selecting objects to see OIP properties, etc. But we’re not ‘working’ or doing any heavy editing. So the problem is that there’s potentially a lot of distracting gak on the screen that isn’t needed in a presentational context, and which sometimes pulls attention away from the focus of discussing the design. It’d be great to be able to quickly switch to a temporary “Presentation Mode” whenever you know you’re only going to be using Vectorworks in this simplified way while others are watching. I suggest that under the Window menu there could be a new option to toggle “Presentation Mode” which would automatically turn on and off certain existing settings with one quick command. This would be customizable, so there would need to be a place to set up which settings you want to be affected. Under Presentation Mode Settings there would be checkboxes for the following: ☐ Suppress all auto save pop-ups. ☐ If using full-screen cursor, switch to simple pointer cursor. ☐ Hide Light glyphs, green constraints, red unlinked indicators, loci, and other various glyphs. ☐ Hide red viewport “out-of-date” borders. ☐ Turn off snap indicators, smart cursor cues, acquisition hints, red smart points, etc. ☐ Turn off pre-selection highlighting and other highlighting, keeping only selection highlighting. (This one is where the idea started for me. I want to point at something with the cursor and not see giant orange pre-selection boxes popping up all over the place.) ☐ Turn off "Use Sound." ☐ Suspend snapping ☐ Hide enabled palettes (that is, the setting that already exists in Window menu). ☐ Disable Smart Options Display’s idle trigger. ☐ Switch Floating Data Bar to be only show on Tab (if not already). ☐ Deselect all objects across all Layers (for example, when you’re flipping through Sheet Layers there wouldn’t be viewports already highlighted from previous work.) Upon engaging Presentation mode, all of the checked items would be affected. Upon disengaging Presentation mode, settings would return to the same as they were before (I suppose with the exception of object selection state). When in Presentation mode, perhaps there’s a colored border around the screen to be clear that you’re in a special context, or maybe a bit of text in the status bar at the bottom. Maybe Presentation Mode is actually a Quick Pref button so you can quickly pop in and out of it (for example, perhaps in the middle of the presentation you need to do some real editing, so you toggle it off, make the change, then toggle it back on.)
  8. Unfortunately, yes, there's been an issue for a number of years where having Image Effects checked for a viewport causes the issue you describe, but seemingly only when the viewport bounding box changes sizes. I have a bug report filed for this with repeatable steps, so hopefully a fix will make it into a SP at some point. For now, you have uncheck Image Effects, render again, then re-check Image Effects.
  9. Yes, along with switching between a few other builds (and betas of future builds), but that didn’t seem to affect anything. I think today’s file is particularly problematic so I attached it to a bug report.
  10. I think this thread cursed me. After saying I hadn't experienced the issue in 2023, I've now encountered it 4 times today.
  11. But it's been broken for a while in regards to when you're inside certain containers (like Solid Additions).
  12. @hollister design Studio – There's two different things being talked about. One is the "animation" which causes a very slight delay whenever SOD is activated. Many of us would like that removed so that the quadrants appear instantaneously. The other is the setting that makes SOD appear automatically after 10 seconds of mouse idle. This setting is on by default, but I can't imagine a scenario where any user is just sitting there, and then after a while the four icons appear and the user is like "oh yes this is what I wanted, thank you." I've actually seen numerous people complain about the four icons constantly appearing, and when I show them the SOD Settings where they can uncheck "Show after mouse idles" it makes them very happy. I wish this were unchecked by default. It's just a silly feature to even exist, IMO.
  13. Unfortunately I don't think you can go beyond that range. I've wished for this limitation to be removed (VE-101327) but no traction yet...
  14. I agree with all of those points, @line-weight. My favorite thing to hate on is the phrase "New Styled Plug-In from Unstyled Plug-In" – does an average user really know what the heck that means? At least call it "Create New Plug-In Style" if not "Create New Door Style."
  15. I'd be curious to hear if a single soul actually uses this idle feature. And yes, zero latency please!
  16. This would probably be something @Nikolay Zhelyazkov would be most familiar with. Nikolay, is this something that could be refined in the Title Block Manager, so that sheet layers with only one TBB are displayed as a single line without the flyout? Or is there additional reasoning behind the flyout that we're not aware of? Obviously it should be kept for any sheet layers that have multiple TBB instances.
  17. Unfortunately true BIM is a bit beyond my needs in the world of Film & TV, though I'm sure I utilize features that exist due to BIM (such as Data Vis). I haven't really touched the Data Manager, though I feel like I remember hearing other folks on these forums saying they rely on it, so hopefully you get some feedback. Good luck! (BTW I think the "Forum" forum is for posts about the forum itself, so you might get more visibility elsewhere. Perhaps a moderator could move this post or your other one into General Discussion. Also give it time...)
  18. Indeed, Design Layer scale is immensely important. Even if you annotate within Sheet Layer Viewports, setting up your Design Layers to a scale that matches most of your viewports will let you preview what things will look like at said scale. For example, hatches, line types, text sizes, etc are all affected by Design Layer scale, allowing you to make more informed decisions as you're working in a Design Layer. I tend to 'set it and forget it' at 1/4" scale, which is what a majority of my viewports are set to. If you're not using it, you probably should be. It's one of the best things about VW, in my opinion. (It might be better thought of as "Annotative Scale").
  19. Workaround: use the same number of dashes, but with varying number of spaces afterwards 😉
  20. To visually break up a long list of Layers into groupings. Which is different than hiding Layers from the list with filters.
  21. Not exactly, but there is now a command called "Batch Rename" under the Tools menu that should let you accomplish the same thing fairly quickly.
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