Tobias Kern

Hi, someone told me with VW 2022 it is possible!? … but with VW 2021 and if you use the new "Materials" you can also get DataVis in sections. Greetings Tobi

Hi Bruce, greetings and thnx for reply. May i ask, which new WS function you use to make the list possible in VW 2022? Greetings Tobi

Hi Bruce, greetings and thnx for sharing your file. I'm interested to investigate but, atm i only can use VW 2021 (until the German release on 20th Oct.) Would you please so kind to upload also a VW 2021 Version? … or does the list include special formulas, which are only available with VW 2022? Greetings and have a nice weekend Tobi

Hi, yes new formulas are always welcome. Hope Vectorworks can implement the most common formulas from Excel. My first wish: Sumif() But first it would be very welcome, if we can directly use the formulas with the data-subfields of a list (x.1, x.2, x.3, ..., hope you know what i mean!?) of an WS. Greetings Tobi

@sbarrett HI Sarah, greetings and thxn for your investigation. Can i get an extra calculation only for the wrappings, separate to the wall-surface/volume? If i have to calculate here in Germany, i need to separate the surface/volume/length of the wrappings, because the cost are there much higher, because of its higher build complexity, as the rest of the wall. So i think, wrappings should have their own formulas! I think it is more useful to have also separate formulas for walls Wall-surface with and without wrappings Wall-volume with and without wrappings Hope the VW-Team, had this in mind, as they develop the wrapping functionality!? If not, please give us such formulas for VW 2023! Formulas for wrapping calculation: - length, width, area, volume, thickness of wrappings, - material of wrappings - separate formulas for top, left, right, bottom wrappings - location of the wrappings: inside or outside e.g. so that i can calculate: - bottom outside wrapping only length - top + left + right inside wrapping as area and so on … Calculations so flexible as possible! … and not only for wrappings, also for the rest of the BIM-tools Greetings Tobi

Hi Bruce, thnx for reporting this. Are there any other new formulas work worksheets in VW 2022? I unfortunately have to wait until end of October for the localized german version? I want to know, if it is possible with VW 2022: - can we calculate length, area, volume for the new wrappings around windows? - can we import text via text-tool into worksheets now? - got we more/newer/better specific formulas for the bim tools (walls, slabs, windows, ....)? - hows it is now: to implement data-tag data to worksheets (better)? Greetings Tobi

… someone mentioned that the new wrappings don't work with WinDoor! … dunno if this is right or not.

Hi Zoom, greetings. I don't mean the Renderworks Renderstyles. I mean the regular predefined styles like "Shaded" (new in VW 2022, as successor to OpenGL), and … … let see this screenshot (german version): These styles are predefined. I want to have a system to define my own styles with settings as i mentioned in the list above.

Hi, @Dave Donley I think the preformatted rendering styles (shaded, hidden lines, ...) a good, but they are restricitve. I think the rendering styles should be much more customizable for us users. Lets say we have the styles VW brings with it + we can set ans save/load our own styles. The own styles should show or hide things in terms of: yes = is permanently shown with this style no = is not shown with this style - shadow yes/no - lines yes/no - hidden lines yes/no - settings for hidden lines (color, thickness, linestyle, ...) - face colors yes/no (no means all ist grey or white) - line color yes/no (no means all is black) - patterns yes/no - materials yes/no - hatchings yes/no - endpoints yes/no (you can easily check the complexitiy of a geometry) - cutline color - transparency yes/no - sketch styles + settings yes/no - line color by axis (all line in z-direction = blue, lines in x-direction = red, ...) you can easily check if you are draw parallel to the current axis. … theres so much more to control with a style system, if we think a little deeper. … such a system is flexible and flexibility is always welcome! I compare VW with Sketchup. In Sketchup i can save my own style and i love this system. Here are some screenshot of (the german version of) Sketchup, to show, how they serve us: If you guy at VW have access to Sketchup: try it out and bring it into discussion! Or look how Rhino operates! We need a overhauled system in VW, please! I think such a system is be worth to invest time and money! This year, i wrote a long and detailed wishlist to this topic to the german distributer Computerworks, hope they send it to you to the US homebase! Greetings Tobi

Hi, sorry i'm not a native english speaker. What does graphic legends mean? Do you mean something like this in tablesheets? Greetings Tobi

Hi, thnx for the new VW 2022. I have to wait until end of october, before we, here in Germany get the new localized version. I have one question, maybe someone could investigate for me. In VW 2022 we got a enhanced wall tool with new wrappings. Got we also formulas (area, length, volume, material, separatable into horizontal an vertical wrappings because often the horizontal wrapping on the bottom inside/outside is made of different material) to calculate the data of the wrappings in tablesheets? I mean, are the wrappings only for a better visual representation, or is it more of a whole bim package? Greeting and thnx in advance! Tobi from Germany

I specially want to know how VW 2022 (native Apple M1) runs under macOS now! Does anybody feel a difference between 2021 with Rosetta and 2022. … for my important because i want to buy a new M1X Macbook later this year. Greetings Tobi

Hi Guys, we here in Germany have to wait usually until end of october for our version of VW 2022. Thnx for sharing with us, your first impressions, i appreciate every mention here. … can't await my first hands-on. Greetings Tobi

Hi Matt, The new 3D wrapping looks great. … but whats with the calculation for those areas? I mean 3D representation it one thing, but for a more perfect BIM we need also the related data. Can we calculate the wrapped areas separately to the rest of the area with the same material on the wall side? The wrapping is more complicate to build, this results in higher costs. For a perfect calculation we need separate data for all wrapped surfaces: area, both length (depth AND width), maybe volume, separated into inside and outside and separate for horizontal and vertical surfaces. Hope you guys can give us also, all formulas for such detailed calculations. It would be great if the wrappings (mostly for surfaces in holes in walls) got its own formulas. Greetings and wish you a good start with VW 2022! Tobi

Hi, i don't think the the picture shown above, is a freeform modeled room. I think and hope thats are improved walls with more abilities. I looks like this year, we get wall-layers following complex forms and fully modeled direct to the inserted window (inside: red layer and outside: blue layer), which is a great success for a much better 3D presentation of the model. Hope we also get the calculation formulas (for the tables) for those complex layers / forms. / / / The direct modeling abilites for stairs are also very welcome. I hope they didn't stop to implement this tech only at the stair tool. This tech (click and drag) could also also be handy to manipulate walls, windows, doors ...