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    AutoCad Users ?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Larry

    Thank you for that sage advice 😉 

    One take-away was that the precision was a big factor in translating the data, as you had alluded to.

    I got my client hooked up with skype so we could screen share, and after a few trial and error attempts we accomplished the task at hand. 

    Man, it was more than painful watching what he had to go through in AutoBad to procure the simplest of operations.  Everything he did, as I watched, was command line driven. It made me appreciate being in the Vectorworks universe as opposed to existing in the black hole of the AutoBad universe. I know nothing of AutoBad, so perhaps you can make choices from a shortcut key or from a menu choice, but I surely did not see that happen during our little skype session.

     

    For example, after we were successful in creating a sweep (revolve in AutoBad parlance) it took him 5 minutes, with a LOT of typing, to slice the object.  I shared my screen with him and proceeded to demonstrate to him how, in two clicks, using the split tool, I could slice the object anywhere I wished. He kinda sighed after witnessing that.

     

    Anyway, again, thanks for time you spent in your post. If you ever find yourself in Tahiti, lunch is on me!  🙂

     

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    AutoCad Users ?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I hate to even bring this up in a VW forum. 

    I am working with a Client who uses AutoCad and perhaps because of his knowledge, or lack of knowledge in AutoCad, is having trouble with my DWG exports, opening correctly in Autocad.

    Cutting to the chase, one example is he mentioned to me with total impunity that if I sent him a closed polyline he could sweep (revolve in AutoCad vernacular) the shape into a solid.  Well......apparently he was wrong.

    So......If anyone out there is an AutoCad Pro, I would love to see if you could 'revolve' the polyline into a solid object, in a dwg format.

    I attached a screenshot of the shape.

     

    Thanks in advance.

     

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    Sheet Data.Sheet Title anomaly

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    FYI, I sorted it out.  Very sneaky   🙂  To have the sheet title data be in all caps,  you need to name the sheet layer IN ALL CAPS!  It derives the data from the sheet layer name and if you used lower use or title caps it will reflect as such.  

    Renderworks - is it worth the effort

    in Rendering

    Posted

    Looks to me that in the top image I am pretty sure that the RW Camera 'look to' height is a bit lower than the eye level, which will produce

    the vertical elements producing the flaring out at each end of the wall behind the cabinet. Many times why I do is to decrease the perspective slider in the OIP to mitigate this effect. Or....just slightly lower the camera height and the look to height just a bit.  That usually helps. You are right though, it is a bit tricky to get close up view to looks natural. It is interesting, that when I import the VW cameras into a Cinema 4d scene the basic camera view looks much more believable.

    Worksheet Data

    in Vectorscript

    Posted

    JB

    Thanks for responding.

     I love math, but never even considered the fact that nurbs are sort of their own animal.

    I do appreciate your mini math lesson and explanation. You are definitely in a different league than I, and it is 

    obvious you had probably been hangin out with Stephen Hawking 🙂

    Yes, all this does relate to a construction Project. My associate and I are working with someone who is going to fabricate this

    ceiling dome. No doubt sending the data to a CNC machine, I imagine.  I am not directly in the loop so I do not have all the details and have not actually communicated with this person. I am mainly in charge of doing the 3d modeling, renderings and presentational graphics  for the Project.

    We will be relying on this person to make sure he builds the ceiling dome with accuracy, as intended. So....we ( I) was hoping to create a worksheet or document that could describe and define the data for all the nurbs curves, etc. and send that info to the fabricator to verify we are all on the same page. 

    There ya have it. I was racking my tiny brain as to how to best procure all this, which is why I was considering the potential use of a worksheet to do so. I am certainly open to any other thoughts.

     

    Thanks again

     

     

    Worksheet Data

    in Vectorscript

    Posted

    I posted this inquiry in the General Discussions Forum, but that may not have been the best choice.

    So....perhaps directing this to Julian Carr or Pat Stanford,  the smartest guys in the room, you guys may have some ideas?

    Without getting into a lot of explanation, I am working on a Project that has a very organic domed ceiling. (Note the attachment) Presently it is made up of several nurbs surfaces.  What I was HOPING to do is to create a worksheet that can describe the curved nurbs geometry for each of the edges of the shape. In reality, I only need data for 1/2 of the object since it can be mirrored. So, the data I was wanting to obtain would include, typically, the radii of the curves, lengths of the segments, etc. I tried messing with this a bit by extracting the edges from the nurbs surfaces, which worked splendidly, and the data in the OIP for each nurbs curve sort of arcanely explained each nurb, but produced no curve data. Anyway....this is way above my pay grade, and it may not be possible to get this information into a worksheet  but I thought I would put it out there if you guys have any feedback on it.

     

    Thanks

    -Kev

     

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    Worksheet Data Inquiry

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Ok, here is a good challenge.

    Is there a way, within a worksheet, to obtain data relating to radius and length dimensions, etc

    for the sections of the attached nurbs surface object?  I can certainly procure this by extracting each edge of

    each nurbs surface section, but i was looking for perhaps a quicker, slicker way  🙂

     

    Thanks

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    Fitting objects/moving a page to objects

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    i would highly recommend NOT moving the page but rather just copy all the objects and move or paste them to your default page.  

    There will most likely be hell to pay if you don't do this because it messes with your 0/0 page origin. This always happens, btw,

    when you import a dwg file.

    I would also counsel you to import the dwg into a blank VW file....modify any classes, etc, 

    THEN copy and paste that into whatever file you are working on. Hopefully this makes sense. I create many 3d site models

    for my Clients from dwg survey files and it is always the case where the data comes in about 10 miles from where you want it  🙂

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    Where to upload some 3d Furniture I created

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Yeah, I thought of doing that, but i figured that may complicate things.

    As you mentioned, there should perhaps be an easier more direct way to upload stuff like that....like how DropBox works.

    Upload.....Done.  

     

    Here is an example of the kind of furniture I was going to share.

    Don't pay any attention to the image.  I actually built that in my furniture making days about 100 years ago  🙂 

    But check out the Spanish Vargueño up against the wall and the Plant stand as well.

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/h7a1sx6sotd7277/AAAZDdUWZyeKW0UusWtetYQ5a?dl=0

     

    It seems like it would benefit VW folks that are occasionally looking for not-so-easy-to-find symbols and such.

    Having all of it in one place.

     

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    Where to upload some 3d Furniture I created

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Mike

    I imagine there may be a size limit.

    I tried uploading a 4 meg file just now and I get that an error message saying it failed.

    You know what they say, "no good deed goes unpunished"   So much for me trying to share 🙂

    Maybe it is a security setting on my side that is preventing it. It starts the upload then fails about 1/3 the way through.

    Oh well....

     

    Thanks Mike,  for responding.

    Where to upload some 3d Furniture I created

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    In the guise of 'giving back', just wondering where the best place would be for me to offer up some

    free 3d furniture items I have created over the years.  Some of the items are fairly basic but other items are a 

    bit more detailed and may be of value pertaining to including them in an interior Rendering, etc

    These are items you won't find in the VW library  🙂

    I tried to attach an image of one of the furniture pieces, but I keep getting a friggin irritating error message saying 

    "There was a problem processing the uploaded file. -200"

     

    Any thoughts on that error message and how to resolve the issue??

     

    Thanks

     

    -Kev

     

     

     

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    Freelance draftsperson wanted for Residential Architecture in the San Francisco Bay Area, California

    in Job Board

    Posted

    As a very long time VW user I would counsel you to pretty much forget about 2d drawings. It is all about a good 3d model of whatever it is you are doing.  Once you have that, as I am sure the other VW Pro's here will attest to, construction docs and working drawings are just a downhill slide to produce. The older way of drawing elevations by hand and sections by hand using 2d tools is a total waste of time......and money.  and we all know time is money  🙂

    Anyway, I won't prattle on about this but simply wanted to give you something to think about.

    If you wish, and to support my suggestion, perhaps take a look at my webpage , on the right side of the page under the category of "Plans Available For Purchase" and you will glean a good idea of what is possible by not drawing in 2d but rather creating a good 3d model which will enable you to do some nice interior and exterior Renderings of your work, which is usually very necessary in communicating to your Clients exactly what you are designing for them. I am not at all  promoting my residential designs by mentioning this, but rather maybe inspiring you a bit to head over to the 3d side of things  🙂

    -Kevin

    kskeys.com

    Multiple grade limits

    in Site Design

    Posted

    I believe this issue has been brought up in previous posts, but I could not determine if there was ever any resolution

    to the issue. 

    Basically what I want to achieve is to create a 2:1 slope grade from a pad and then generate a 6:1 grade slope from where

    the 2:1 slope terminates.. Hopefully that makes sense. I tried a few things to facilitate this, but had no success.

     

    Any thoughts??

    worksheet function

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Ok, here is the VW challenge of the day....because I am going nuts trying to sort this out.

    In a nutshell, I need to calculate the surface areas for applying stone to different objects.

    Think of a patio slab that would receive a tile or stone surface on the top of the slab. There is a worksheet function that will give results for the overall surface area for all faces of that slab extrusion, but I am only interested in the top portion of the slab, which will give a square foot quantity of only that face of the slab.

    Any worksheet script masters out there know the magic formula? 

    I could achieve this by using the extract tool to peel off just that face, but that would be a LOT  of extra work in my case.

     

    Renderworks - is it worth the effort

    in Rendering

    Posted

    Cinema 4d ( and Vray) does allow for some stunning photorealistic renderings.  I personally use c4d with Vray, in conjunction with VW primarily for interior renderings.  I won't elaborate why in this missive.  That said, VW Renderworks does do a more than adequate job for most Rendering projects. In a perfect world I feel it makes sense to have C4d and VW.  Just my two cents.

    Regarding Renderworks, check out the attached Exterior Rendering I just created featuring a home I am currently designing.  I live in French Polynesia,  so I placed the residence into a local environment scene that I created.

    -Kev

    DESIGN 44 View 1.jpg

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    Wishlist Fixes

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted

    Two requests.  One is minor but the second is, to me, fairly huge, and has been for years.

    1) the minor issue is that when using the clip cube tool on a 3d site model the site model/topo is always hollow.  Meaning you can see just the 'skin' of the object.  Seems to me it should read as a solid object.

     

    2) This is the major item that I have brought up for YEARS. As it turns out, I do a LOT of 3d modeling and Rendering.  The issue is that for doors and windows, especially trim, if you use a wood grain as a texture on the trim it ONLY goes in one direction, which would never ever happen in reality. Meaning vertical trim the wood grain would go vertical and the horizontal trim pieces the grain or texture of the trim would go in the horizontal direction. It must be very difficult for the programmers to achieve this, is my thought, because it never gets resolved in any versions of VW. To me, as fabulous as VW is, this one thing really cheapens the product. There are workarounds, but they take a very long arduous time to create. Obviously, if one uses a solid color, etc for trim there is not issue because it does not utilize a texture. Again, it is the pesky grain direction of a wood texture that becomes the issue.

    So....I am pretty sure this is a moot point, but it would really be good if this issue could be resolved.  Really good  🙂

    Any thoughts?

    -Kev

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