Kevin K

What, more specifically are you looking for? What sort of objects? I often use Turbosquid to download any mostly very good 3d items. But....if you do buy something from their site, you need to be cognizant as to the file format you will be downloading... To my knowledge only .obj and .3ds are the formats that will import materials / textures, etc. So keep that in mind.

Tom I thought you may have noticed my post. I was surprised when making the cabinet wider that those items did not center themselves to align with the new cabinet width. Perhaps @Stephan Moenninghoff will shed some light on the issue 🙂

@Stephan Moenninghoff I have two InteriorCad inquiries pertaining to the screenshot below: 1) I don't believe there is an option in InteriorCad xs to address bypass sliding cabinet doors? I created the two doors by using 'custom parts'. Is there another way? 2) With the two custom parts doors and the two holes used as 'pulls' in the doors, created with the 'drilling' option......, if I elect to say make the cabinet 12" wider, the custom parts items don't move in concert with the new overall cabinet width. Is there an option to allow for this? Thanks -Mr. Greek Salad 🙂

Tom Kinda late in your location, but you may read this tomorrow. Yep, 2” wider….everything adjusts accordingly. It is parametric. Also, all surfaces can have different materials and thicknesses, as you noted. Definitely devote some time to those videos. They touch upon your questions, and then some. A few other features…..some of which may be a bit over the top, but are really cool…cabinet backs and door panels can be shown with dado’s or rabbited connections…also drawers with hardware and drawer slides! …hinges of all kinds… as I said, most of these things would not be needed to show for our daily work.

@Tom W. Not to blab on about all this, but check out the cabinet example in the screenshot. It is not the best res, but zoom in a bit and note a few things: 1) In this example, one cool thing that InteriorCad dos is that it can add any object perfectly placed on any of those shelves within this cabinet! So the books, vase, etc were just placed with one click! 2) Zoom in and notice the profile detailing around the door and drawers frames! You may need to click on the image to get a better resolution view. 3) You can set a reveal for both inset and overlay doors and drawers, etc. 4) Notice the holes drilled in the upper part of the cabinet to accommodate adjustable shelves. That is pretty cool too. These are just a few items that are achievable using InteriorCad.

@Tom W. to my knowledge there is only one guy on the US who is a distributor for InteriorCad. His name is Tom Pearce. Tom@Coronal.net He can answer any of your inquiries. The webpage for InteriorCad is https://www.extragroup.com/ They just came out with the version for 2023. I believe the cost for xs is around 375.00 USD. That is what I paid for my 2022 version. Hopefully this is some good info for you 🙂

Tom Also, just for a closer look at InteriorCad...have a look at some of the tutorials. Just so you are aware of what InteriorCad can do...even though it may not be necessary for your particular workflow. https://university.vectorworks.net/course/index.php?search=interiorcad-basic-workflow-2021

Tom Ok, that explains your cabinetry situation. As you mentioned, it probably involved a bit of time to create all your cabs, but well worth it in the end, I imagine. InteriorCad is great. There are two versions...one, which I use is called 'XS' which is much less expensive than its older brother. The full version includes all the bells and whistles that, unless you are an actual cabinet shop, you would never need. InteriorCad allows very customized cabinet creation, very quickly, with a ton of options that the native VW cabs do not offer. It allows for custom door and drawer profiles, for example, and control of reveals and on and on. Honestly, I couldn't live without it. That is the crux of it. I am not having anything fabricated, to respond to your inquiry. I simply use InteriorCad for all my basic kitchen, bath, etc cabinets.

@Tom W. Good solution. I use InteriorCad for all my cabinets, in most cases, as opposed to the native VW cabs. Just curious.....you mentioned the you do not use the VW cabs....so, do you just create your own cabinets, or do you also use InteriorCad?

Paul I primarily dwell in the arena of high end residential design. At the most basic level, I just love designing stuff...from the dark recesses of my brain.... and then have it manifest in the digital world, then sometimes in real life 🙂 I am pretty sure that most here on on the forums embrace that paradigm. I know we all get into the weeds here regarding tool usage, or lack of, using VW, but at the heart of it all is our love of design! Has nothing to do with why the stair tool never quite works as advertised !! There ya have it...

@VIRTUALENVIRONS No, I did not offer my services for several reasons. Mainly because the request to complete all the work in two days, which was only partially previewed from their list of items in their post, was ludicrous. I just modeled those items to practice my VW chops .:-) I too use c4d with Redshift for many of my final renderings. Hey, nice chair!!!!! A piece of art, to be sure! You should be proud! My real 'chair' skills are proudly featured below! https://www.dropbox.com/s/k19j6ry561quk1q/LAGOON UMBRELLA CHAIR-540p.mov?dl=0

Here is another 'flying blind' interpretation attempt from the example photos of the various furniture items posted. I constructed it a bit differently, as you will note. I added a piece of wood trim on top of the wicker back and used different wicker and cushion textures. I prefer my wicker texture in lieu of what was shown in the example photo 🙂 Also, I did not include the slight angle of the wicker back, as seen from the front.... Ok, I am done! Bedtime in Tahiti!!!

Well.....I had a go at modeling one of the chairs from @Studio Smiths long list of items....I guess I have too much free time! 🙂 The image on the right is obviously their example....the one on the left is my effort . Was a bit tricky creating those pesky radius corners. Plus, with no real dimensions or data showing the chair from any elevational views....I was flying blind and it involved a bit of guesswork, etc. I have no clue what is supporting the cushion that cantilevers a bit from the chair itself.

@Studio Smiths...well, good to know you do in fact have much more data pertaining to those furniture items. I can sleep better now 🙂 Thanks for explaining that. That said, the Saturday deadline does seem a bit tight for one person to deal with, seems to me. and, once these items are placed where you want them within the two properties you mentioned...are YOU going to deal with the interior renderings, etc, or did you want whomever takes on this job to do the renderings as well.. -Kev

Tom, sorry, yes, I meant that to go to you...spelling error on my part 🙂 I guess, under the circumstances, you are excused....to deal with all that 'private' work stuff.

Hey @TomWYou are a UK guy......It is a bit '11th Hour' and you only have until Saturday to finish this.....and I realize that there are absolutely no dimensions or any other views other than what is shown in each image for any of those furniture items..........and, as Studio Smith noted, there are many more items not noted.....It will probably take until Saturday just to create all the textures needed to apply TO each piece of furniture.... What you think Tom? You up for the challenge ??? 🙂 The only way I see this even happening is to gather about 25 of us to each model maybe 2 pieces of furniture each. I guess we all better get crackin'!! 🙂

@MHBrownok, so I did a bit of testing pertaining to using a Rendering option other than Shaded. Check out the screenshot. interesting results!

@MHBrownI use the actual c4d app with Redshift, and this file in c4d was quite good.. I will check it out using something other than shaded...I normally defer to Custom RW, rather than Realistic most of the time. Maybe some of the other pro's here can have a go at rendering Mei as well, in something other than Shaded?

@MHBrownI think I found a good source for realistic 3d people... renderpeople.com I downloaded a free sample and imported into VW as an .OBJ format.....looks pretty good... I was surprised at the file size not being too big...will wonders never cease. Here is a screenshot.....low res or course... and here is a 2022 version file... Mei.vwx

@jeff prince…what can I say…my credibility is slipping…it was inevitable:-)

@MGuilfoile, I assume you really, really want to use actual 3d people?... as opposed to image props with a very high resolution? Trouble with importing .OBJ objects into VW, is they mostly end up being a HUGE file. I still do this quite often downloading items from Turbosquid for my renderings. I often use this site when I want really high quality 2d image prop people...they look great....but, alas, are still flat 2d objects... One reason I like this site is because you can tick boxes that will get you people in any position, in any lighting conditions, etc. https://www.vishopper.com/cut-out-people I realize that doesn't really get you your 3d people 😞

@Bruno Sáwell, since you had no issues opening the file in 2022, really no reason to post it to me. Perhaps someone else here, that uses InteriorCad, can have a look at your 2023 file, if you upload it.

@Bruno SáI am visiting another island here in French Poly at the moment, so to computer access. One thought…did you try opening the file in VW 2022 to see if you have the same issues? i don’t have InteriorCad for 2023, but am happy to have a look if you upload the file to me in 2022. Otherwise, my best advice would be to check with @Stephan Moenninghoff. He is pretty much the guru for all things InteriorCad 🙂

Too many Kevins! 🙂 One thing you may want to check, are the 3d settings in the VW Prefs.... Also...you didn't mention which flavor of the 'Realistic' settings you used..'Fast' Final' act. IF you used 'Fast' it will look like hell showing the extruded circle ( I assume your extrusion was a circle?) with faceted edges, as in your screenshots. You also may want to consider using 'Custom RW' instead of 'Realistic'?? Remember, with any of these settings if you use 'Fast' or 'Low' instead of the higher settings, the results can produce those faceted edges on round items, etc. I did a test and did not have any issues with the faceted edges of the extruded shape..

In my experience, aside from any new magic that 2023 may provide, the only import formats that will maintain textures in VW are .obj or .3ds. oBJ files usually end up larger than .3ds, but they seem to be a bit more reliable. They will probably import in a view you will need to adjust, but that is no big deal. Also..do make sure you download the texture files and absolutely make sure there is an .mtl file along with the .obj file. Then, in my experience I usually need to have a folder that has both the .obj, the .mtl files and the textures NOT in a separate folder, but just loose in the folder with the .obj and the .mtl files. I download a lot of these from the Turbosquid site, so I know the drill. As mentioned, if you can’t get all this to work on your end, do upload all the files and I or someone else here can sort it out for you 🙂