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@Jerome Anglin I've managed to make it work although for sure it's now the way it should work by default. What I do is open the Enscape viewer and the first time there will always be missing geometry. Then to correct this issue, what I do is simple click on a saved view, wait for the model to regenerate and then the problem is fixed. So, make sure you open the model a first time and then regenerate the model by clicking on a saved view and you should be fine. Ah! and always be sure that the Geometry Update Setting toggle be toggled on always.

Hi @P Retondo just reading your post... The saved view changed the visibility of many classes, not only wall classes. The real fixer for this is not the saved view but Geometry Update Setting toggle in Enscape's Upload Management dialog.

I managed to solve the issue with the help of Enscape support. The solution was very simple. Now everything is working fine. I just needed to toggle a setting that you can find explained here: https://learn.enscape3d.com/blog/knowledgebase/administer_favorite_views-win-vectorworks/#geoupdate Thanks for your interest @zoomer and @P Retondo, I'm glad that everything is working fine now.

Thanks for the prompt reply @zoomer I've tried exporting once again, I've also tried restarting Vectorworks, reinstalling Escape but had no success in solving the issue. Anyhow the linkage between Enscape and Vectorworks is real-time. There is an initial expoert phase which takes a bit but then changes are synchronized between both programs. Simillar to Twintmotion. Good that you tell me the issues you're having with Vectorworks 2025 and DWG exports, I use them all the time to send my drawings to the engineers I'm collaborating with.

Hi, I can't understand why but almost none of the geometry of my Vectorworks model is not exported to Escape. As you can see in the screenshots I attach, my Vectorworks model is full of geometry but on the Escape windows you can only see Enscape native objects and very little of the Vectorworks geometry. I've also had this issue with Vectorworks 2023 SP8 and the latest version of Enscape. Regrettably I can't work this way and I've had to downgrade my Enscape installation to version 3.5.6+204048 as it is in this version that I don't have this issue. That version is already quite an old version of Enscape but that's the only one that's working right now for me. I've tried exporting the geometry in all quality levels with Enscape 4.2.1.88 and it still doesn't work. In Enscape 3.5.6+204048 I don't have that option, but the geometry is shown without any issues. I would appreciate any help regarding this issue. Maybe it's just a bug and there's nothing I can't do but just wait for the issue to be fixed. Thanks in advance to anybody that answers.

Thanks for your reply @Pat Stanford. I wrote an entry in the Enscape forum but got no replies. Anyhow, I managed to find a solution to the issue I'm having. I explain how to solve my issue below if it's of any use to other users: Currently there seems to be a bug when having Enscape controls installed in a Smart Options Display menu (SOD). If you open Vectorworks for the first time and then via your buttons in your SOD click on any Enscape button, the button will activate but only once. Next time you try clicking on any button of Enscape, it's respective interface won't open. Even if you try opening by clicking via the default place that Enscape installs its buttons. The way I found out to solve this issue and be able to continue working with buttons accessed through the SOD or the default place Enscape installs its buttons is to: 1. Open Vectorworks 2. After Vectorworks opens, click any of the Enscape buttons via the default place Enscape installs its buttons and then close the opened window. 3. After step 2, you can open your Enscape interface windows via your SOD buttons and you will be able to continue opening them for all of the remaining Vectorworks session. Do it the other way round... via first clicking buttons of Enscape via the SOD and you will encounter the bug I explained before. Hope this helps anybody who might be having this issue and I hope Vectorworks and Enscape solve this bug soon! ------- note: The default place Enscape installs its buttons is at least in Spanish (the version of VW I currently use) is called Grupos de Herramientas, I guess in English it's called something like Group of Tools or something similar.

I'm having trouble with Enscape buttons displaying the windows they're supposed to open after clicking on them. For example, if I click on the materials or Enscape object library button, nothing happens. This also many times happens via the original tools panel... I think this error started happening after I created a custom toolset that displays my Enscape tools and some other tools via the smart options display. I leave a screenshot so it's easier to understand. Has anyone else have this kind of issue? Has anybody else placed Enscape tools in the smart options display?

I drop this also just in case someone might be interested: https://www.vectorworks.net/support/quality-tested-hardware/faq https://www.vectorworks.net/support/quality-tested-hardware

I'm interested in buying a Lenovo Thinkstation P620 (https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/think-workstations/thinkstation-p-series-towers/ThinkStation-P620/p/33TS3TPP620) Form what I can see on ISV certifications (https://www.thinkworkstations.com/isv-certifications/) is that the card I'm interested in (Nvidia Quadro RTX 5000) is supported.

But it seems that Twinmotion Direct Link will really happen at some point. Listen to Dr. Biplab Sarkar speaking about it in his 2020 Design Summit presentation (min 13:45). Also the fact that Redshift renderer, recently acquired by Maxon is coming to Vectorworks is very exciting. Listen to Dr. Biplab Sarkar at min 13:30. Also check out this article that briefly mentions it: https://gfxspeak.com/2020/05/07/maxon-actually-several/ I'm also very much thinking of saying goodbye to Apple and making the move to Windows. Hardware is just much less expensive and the ability to be able to work with Nvidia RTX graphics cards and AMD's Thread Ripper CPUs just leaves Apple hardware performance very far behind. Just go to Puget Systems and try configuring your custom PC, by paying much less you get much greater performance. I'll wait until the June 22 Developers conference and hopefully a new iMac or iMac Pro comes out and that real time raytracing is in some way brought to the Mac. But neither of that is likely to happen and that's when I shall definitely wave goodbye to Apple. I hoped that today some new graphic cards where to be announced on GTC 2020 but sadly that did not occur but Nvidia's Omniverse development is amazing.

Totally agree, I just requested the live link feature.

This is incredible. I'm learning Unreal Engine at the moment and knowing that these new technologies will come soon in the future keeps me very motivated.

Many thanks for you reply @Pat Stanford. I can find other ways to solve the issue I'm having. Actually it's not really a problem, I just thought there was a quick and easy way. There is absolutely no need for anyone to help me and spend so much time creating the script!

Many thanks for your answer. Now I can stop trying.

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