Mike Wright

The LED screen tool is not compatible with braceworks in similar fashion to the line array tool. With the line array tool you can create your array then create a symbol from that array which can be used to replace the default point load symbol in braceworks. This DOES NOT work for distributed loads so the only LED screen workaround is to add a load separately from the screen itself. VW are aware of this, I'd expect it to be a feature of the non beta release when it comes......

no worries, both should be compatible with video screen PIO if you drop the symbols in to the right library file

Attached file has HD14K (with rigging system that my previous employer used) and Q series 8K (less detail in this one) Christie_Projectors.vwx

I've got HD14K if that's any use

Thanks for the tip. I have a Braceworks demo (with the fantastic JimW i believe) booked next week so hope to get some answers

Windows 10 When I select an object, the OIP does not change to reflect the selection until the view is changed. EG: In picture 1 a truss object is selected but the OIP i blank In picture 2 all I have done is changed the view using a hot key and the OIP is populated In picture 3 without changing view I have selected a a hoist object and the OIP shows detail of the previous selection

UPDATE - you need to check 'use' as well as 'Show in 3D'. It's not that obvious if you are just used to clicking through as part of your workflow. Also the 'See in 3D' column is sized so that it just says 'See in...' by default so it doesn't jump out at you.

I've also observed this. Follow normal workflow, assign label legend and BAM nothing. Though it was class visibility but no.

I'm interested to see if there is a resolution to this, it looks like another limitation of the truss tool which seems to be poorly implemented at best

So the insert truss tool is just poorly implemented then which has been exacerbated by forcing the libraries to be compatible with an optional and expensive plugin. I despair!

nope - the 2016 symbols also have the same tags. I can use the symbol insertion too but it removes the 'double click & drop' functionality. Unless there is a way to prevent the truss tag selecting the insert truss tool automatically. I think an email to vectorworks is in order, whilst braceworks is a fantastic tool, to half build the functionality into a full S/W release is just strange. Vectorworks should either HAVE braceworks in it's entirety or NOT HAVE it in it's entirety rather than some crazy half way house. In effect you are being penalised for not spending an extra £5000.

So I should be able to get an older prolyte symbol library from the VSS portal and use them

Hmmm, so no vertical truss loading, no bridle calcs. Sounds like a product it's worth giving a few years to mature. Is there a way to remove the braceworks functionality altogether so I don't get connection points i don't need making a mess of truss plots?

I'm on windows. I'll see how the demo goes. So far VW 2018 has a truss tool that doesn't seem to work and has inherited a legacy rendering bug from 2017, It's not looking good unless you are building M.C. Escher trusses and rendering black rectangles!

And here showing a different corner with horizontal symbol inserted onto vertical face. The truss is the correct height but the wrong rotation. Is this a problem with the Prolyte symbols? I have a demo of braceworks booked but to be honest it's already looking very much like a $5000 white elephant

If insert a horizontal truss symbol onto the vertical face of a corner block, the truss is correctly oriented in the vertical position but it inserts at the wrong height (see below with inserted horizontal symbol selected)

Restarting makes no difference Inserting a vertical truss symbol attached to a corner brings up the Truss Properties dialogue rather than just dropping the symbol in place

Shown below selected to indicate the position of the loci in the correct place

I'm currently demoing VW 2018 When using the Insert truss tool, horizontal trusses are fine. If I insert a vertical truss (symbol - Truss Vert Prolyte H30D) the truss inserts as horizontal despite the cross showing the loci at the end of the truss being in the right place. I can connect further vertical trusses using the truss tool but they all show as horizontal. Am I doing something really stupid or is this another tool that is perhaps not up to scratch yet (seating layout anyone?) Picture attached

It's arrived. Cinebench R15 reports a CPU score of 2908 Not too shabby.

Hi. just moved to a new job and they are a sketchup pro 'house' i'd rather work with VW amd need to convince them of it's interoperability. Does anyone have experience with VW2018 and exchange with sketchup? i really don't want to learn a new package!

Thanks Jim That was kind of the conclusion I had made. I'll post some real world experience on here when I've worked with the machine for a bit

I'd read the opposite, Cinebench R15 score for the i9 (multi core) is 2194 as opposed to 3000 for the TR which is a huge difference

Hi I'm speccing a new machine for VW/C4D/V-Ray rendering. I have the choice between an Intel i9 7900X or an AMD Ryzen TR 1950X The i9 would be overclocked to 4.5Ghz Performance wise the AMD chip seems to benchmark higher on multi-thread applications whereas the i9 would fare better on single thread I've read a few reports of even high end liquid cooling struggling on the i9 when overclocked Anybody got real world experience of either or even knowledgeable advice? It's not really my field just need to make the right choice

I drew these up for a project and though others might find them useful Files contain most of the stock gobos for Alpha Spot HPE 700 as RW textures for use in fixtures including 'fudged' prism effect for some. Also the names might not be erm....standard I've not tested them all and can't attest to the function of those versions pre-VW2017 Clay Paky Gobos V2013.vwx Clay Paky Gobos V2014.vwx Clay Paky Gobos V2015.vwx Clay Paky Gobos V2016.vwx Clay Paky Gobos V2017.vwx