[Vectorworks 2024 SP2]

Guess what?

 

3.1 update:

 

#

 

This was after the updater had 'refreshed'

 

Log file:

 

Quote

[2024-02-06T12:48:45.956Z] - info: State Change
  action: {
    type: setUpdateError,
    payload: {
      Error: Unable to download the file due to an error issuing the request
          at q.<anonymous> (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Vectorworks%202024/Vectorworks%202024%20Updater/resources/app.asar/app/dist/bundle.js:2:297448)
          at q.emit (node:events:513:28)
          at q.onRequestError (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Vectorworks%202024/Vectorworks%202024%20Updater/resources/app.asar/app/dist/bundle.js:2:1340578)
          at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:513:28)
          at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:502:9)
          at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:513:28)
          at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:151:8)
          at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:116:3)
          at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)
      originalError: {
        errno: -4039,
        code: ETIMEDOUT,
        syscall: connect,
        address: 2600:9000:21d7:5800:1f:9321:eec0:93a1,
        port: 443,
      },
    },
  },
  updateStatus: {
    error: {
      old: undefined,
      new: {
        Error: Unable to download the file due to an error issuing the request
            at q.<anonymous> (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Vectorworks%202024/Vectorworks%202024%20Updater/resources/app.asar/app/dist/bundle.js:2:297448)
            at q.emit (node:events:513:28)
            at q.onRequestError (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Vectorworks%202024/Vectorworks%202024%20Updater/resources/app.asar/app/dist/bundle.js:2:1340578)
            at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:513:28)
            at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:502:9)
            at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:513:28)
            at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:151:8)
            at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:116:3)
            at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)
        originalError: {
          errno: -4039,
          code: ETIMEDOUT,
          syscall: connect,
          address: 2600:9000:21d7:5800:1f:9321:eec0:93a1,
          port: 443,
        },
      },
    },
  },
[2024-02-06T12:48:45.956Z] - info: Updater is starting step "cleaningUpErr"
[2024-02-06T12:48:45.956Z] - info: Updater is done
[2024-02-06T12:48:45.956Z] - info: Updater is done, disabling the sink at 'C:\Program Files\Vectorworks 2024\UpdaterLog.txt'

 

 

[Data visualisations in Equipment Summary Key]

I'm not sure if I'm missing a setting somewhere but I can't get equipment summaries to show a data visualisation on the symbol key like an instrument summary would.

 

Is this option available?

 

Ta

 

VW2024 update3, windows 11

[Vectorworks 2024 SP2]

I had the exact same issue for SP2

 

VSS support were unable to resolve the issue, I had to do a clean install using the latest installer (I backed up my user files first)

 

I now have the problem with SP2.1

[Cannot enter weight of curved truss]

Hi.  As the title says.  Used the curved truss tool.  Selected the correct cross section information for braceworks but when I calc the system it shows the truss as having no weight.  If I enter the kg/m in the oip it just jumps back to zero

 

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

 

VWX 23 SP5 on Windows

[Cable Path / Multi Runs]

I see from other forum posts that the cable tool is another one of those deployed perhaps too early to be genuinely useful.

 

I'll go back to powerpoint 🙂 

[Cable Path / Multi Runs]

I'm also struggling with the cable tool.

 

If I try to draw a multi cable along a path it draws the route from the distro direct to the breakout distro object then back along the path and places the connector symbol at the start of that path.  

 

Sometimes when I've drawn a cable it just ends up being a NURBS curve and not a cable.

 

Reshaping cables seems to be extremely random and snaps to random points especially when there is a NURBS point on it no matter what vertex mode I am using.

 

I'm attempting to learn how to use the tool and although just beginning, I can't attribute these behaviours purely to lack of experience.

 

VWX 2023 SP3 on Windows 10

 

 

[Prolyte truss corners no longer offer all 4 planes when connecting]

Thanks.

 

New to truss magnets.

 

Perhaps you can clear up a resultant query from the fix above?

 

I've set the magnets on a box corner to be gendered so that when I attach the ATT spacers they always sit in the correct orientation.  However, if I add the ATT to the top face of the box corner it creates a new symbol for the rotated ATT which does not have the same gendered magnet properties.  See below:

 

[Prolyte truss corners no longer offer all 4 planes when connecting]

This may be a change of workflow but the welded corner blocks in the Prolyte truss library only offer 2 planes when connecting.  You cannot for instance go 'up' from a horizontal truss.

 

Anyone else noticed this?

[Why has my workflow produced results that differ significantly from truss manufacturers specifications?]

Hi.

 

I'll do my best to get something over soon (I'm on site at COP26 in Glasgow which is a.....challenging.....site).  It might take me a few days to find time.

 

For the sake of not getting told off I should probably say this is not related to COP26

 

Thanks

[Why has my workflow produced results that differ significantly from truss manufacturers specifications?]

I've just worked on a project which involved a moderately complicated indoor truss structure supporting an LED screen.  I worked with the project manager to choose the correct truss products, spans and hoist types.  My resulting braceworks report indicated that none of the trusses were above 50% of their load limit even after applying chain shortening to account for the rigid nature of the LED screen.

 

The venue asked that a ticketed rigger look over the loads involved, a perfectly reasonable request.  Their default was to look at the weights and check them against the manufacturers load table.  The configuration was as near as damn it 5th point loads and the table indicated that two of the trusses would be 110% of the safe load.  My rig was therefore rejected.

 

I then had a very experienced rigging engineer and another very experienced rigger look over the drawings and they were all in agreement that even before the dynamic loading factors were applied, the system was beyond or close to the edge of the capabilities of the truss.

 

This has raised a lot of questions for me. 

 

Have I been over reliant on braceworks as a proof of concept, should the manufacturers tables have been my first point of call?

 

Is the truss system here too complicated for braceworks to reliably calculate?

 

Have I over stepped the abilities my moderate level of rigging experience gives me?

 

There's a screen grab of the system below.  I can't share the file at the moment but will attempt to re-produce it in a simpler form.

 

The problematic trusses were the two larger spreaders and the end solution was to add two more of them so the load was (roughly) quartered between them.

 

I'd be interested in peoples opinions/advice

 

Thanks

 

[Cantilever Pipe Not Supported?]

That's sorted it thanks.  It's not an option I've ever used though so perhaps it is default on by mistake?

[Cantilever Pipe Not Supported?]

Hi

 

I'm coming across the same problem here.  If I use the insert connection tool to add a pipe, it draws the pipe and connection at a different height (in the picture below the truss Z value is 0mm, it has inserted the pipe at a Z of 1835mm

 

 

When you change the trim height, the connection symbol adjust to the new height but the pipe just moves up by the amount entered.  See below:

 

 

After the trim height is adjusted:

 

[Prolyte H40V box corner - struggling to configure correctly]

Awesome!  Thanks for your help.  It would appear that that value is zero for all Prolyte truss in the library, I guess this doesn't matter on trusses with a value for length but will for corners like this.

 

 

[Prolyte H40V box corner - struggling to configure correctly]

Hi Justin

 

Thanks for the quick response, file attached

 

I'm also having problems using the same corner in braceworks if you are able to assist with that. H40V box corner try out.vwx

[Prolyte H40V box corner - struggling to configure correctly]

I'm trying to correctly configure this box corner.  I have all faces behaving as should apart from the face which is coincident with the insertion point.  It will not offer this as a connection point.  Pictures below show the maximum number of faces I can occupy plus the corner block settings (VW 2021 SP4.1)

 

[Gobos not rendering]

I've had the same occur in the past few days but with VW2020

 

In my case (and this has happened a couple of times) the gobos came back when I un-hid a certain class in the viewport.  The fixtures were NOT in this class. I duplicated a sheet layer including its' viewport, changed some class visibilities to hide some video screen objects and rendered - no gobos, no fixture geometry BUT the light was 'on' and casting shadows. I checked that the lights were not in the hidden class in the design layer, moved the video screen objects into a new class, enabled the original class in the viewport and the gobos and fixture geometry rendered.

 

very strange

 

 

[Prevent objects from auto attaching to truss objects]

I believe if you hold 'ALT' whilst dragging objects it will prevent them from attaching to rigging objects

[Seating tool is so slow]

The seating tool is basically dead now I think.  Way way to buggy to be useful.

[Before I submit a business case to add ConnectCAD......]

I like what I see in the demo version.  I have question as to the future development of the plugin.

 

There are some noticeable omissions from the current release such as automatic classing of objects, the ability to manipulate text size etc.

 

Is there a list of planned developments or a pathway for further integration?

 

I had a hard enough time convincing my company to invest in braceworks when I had to tell them all the things it didn't do and I don't want to go through the same process!

[Triangular truss will not connect properly]

Thanks for the pointers

 

The problem stemmed form some symbols I created in a previous version of VW (Prolyte 30D configurable corners, no longer in production and quite rare anyway).  I needed to set the connection rotation for each face to 180deg for the apex down symbols

 

 

 

 

[Triangular truss will not connect properly]

Whenever I try to build a truss using prolyte triangular truss symbols the first connection always rotates the truss by 180deg and forces the truss to draw 3D only:

 

 

Both symbols are apex down

 

Anybody else experiencing this?

 

VW2020 Windows 10

 

 

[Changing Text Size - Hoist Symbol]

Most text seems to operate best at default size if you are working in a 1:50 screen scale

[LED screen Curving]

Hi

 

No there is not.  You will need to create an extrude the same shape as the screen and map a glow texture to that

[New camera object is fussy and does not play well with interface]

I too find that 'Fine Tune Camera' does not work.  It doesn't jump like above but the controls do nothing and the whole tool slows down VWX

 

VW2020 Windows 10

[Stage deck text fill offset]

I've noticed in VW2020 that the text fill in the stage deck tool is offset

 

 

Bug or something I'm doing wrong?