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Maybe the Server is just down ? Recently again, from time to time I have large lags to access this Forum from Germany. Maybe more of VW Servers or even the AI Server or EU to US routings are overloaded ? BTW The AI works also well with german prompts.

For Foundations I also use 60 cm wide Walls. I think some also use Slabs but I think connected Walls and assigning individual Wall Styles is the most flexible way for later changes and adaptions. And you can individually overwrite heights.

Or maybe we will have an AI App that watches all that AI generated content for us.

I am really impressed. There are other user examples of an italien Spaghetti recipe or the german Grundgesetz that sound great. Or more serious 70ies funk approaches. I am excited and frightened where we will be in 5 or 10 years.

Suno.ai can sing the MIT open source license. I like it : Permission is hereby granted

I used that in the past too. I think nowadays you could do that already with Finder's rename features. Not sure about (thread starter using) Windows, as default functionality, but there should be affordable solutions available too. But I think the @loic.jourdan is already aware of ways to batch file renameing. I think his wish is to make VW to finally offer an option to stop it from adding those suffixes .... 🙂

I use them here too. I think these are pretty safe. Can't imagine how possible network problems should cause macOS to crash/reboot.

Looks like Cinerender does not load. (Does your Mac Pro 4.1 run Sonoma 🙂 ) Macbook Pro 2021 should be a M1 Pro/Max. That should be able to run C4D engine. I would try to restart VW and Mac, if that does not help I would start the Updater from VW App folder and do a Repair.

I think that diagonal grid is just 2D Points that are off scale (?) These 2D points often exist in PIOs like Windows to mark the opening or in Symbols. Usually these are on the "non-plot" Class.

Seltsam. Ist die VW Cloud aktuell. Ich glaube es gab hier auch schon den Rat bei Problemen oder Abstürzen das AI Plugin raus zu nehmen (?) (Wüsste aber gar nicht wie die Datei heist oder wo sie stecken könnte)

I also realized that lately. The last 8 years I had my Selection/Drag Tool in Mode 2 only. I never changed that again nor did I miss something from Selection Tool that way .... When trying to explain the Dragger to other users I played with the 3 Modes again. (Tried and played with it but still don't get the benefits of Mode 3) But I also wondered why, when Dragger has its own 4th Mode, why it appears in the "lowest" 1st Mode !? (I assume as it can, as Dragger basically prevents from using any extra Features of Modes 2-3, but not from Mode 1 as it just does not have) So for me it looks like that Mode 1 and 4 are basically just the same (?)

Didn't expect it to understand German. Seems it even adapted the UI language. No Image, just prompts ....

Yes. And in the past I had to do that each time after an import. Either my camera viewport was clipped or even showed nothing (when the model was also slightly off from origin) and I thought the import failed 🙂 But I think that got much better since FBX scaling options and such.

Als erstes mal in den Windows Einstellungen schauen dass VW oder generell explizit nicht in irgendeinem Energiesparmodus läuft. Dann schauen dass VW auch die GPU und nicht nur irgendeine potentielle CPU onboard Grafik zugewiesen wurde. In der GPU Treiber Software kontrolliert man das ebenso. Dann die GPU Treiber. Ich habe eine AMD GPU und fahre mit dem AMD Creator oder Pro Treiber mit und VW, Bricscad Modo, Blender, C4D bisher gut. Allerdings hat der seit 2 ca. 2 Jahren kein Update mehr bekommen. Ansonsten, 32 GB VRAM hört sich nach Pro GPU an, hat ggf. by default einen speziellen Pro Treiber der VW nichts nützt. Dann wenn möglich mal den neuesten Gaming Treiber testen. Wenn es aber bei VW 2024 bis SP3 noch gut war und erst seit SP 4 auftritt, würde ich mal direkt an den Support wenden.

C4Ds beloved standard unit is centimeters. In VW I usually work in meters. But AFAIK a VW send or export will result in a millimeter C4D. Maybe that can cause such camera clipping issues. In the past, not sure if before VW or before VW Exchange, I was used to always have camera clipping issues with imported geometry in C4D. Could be that I had the whole geometry off scale sometimes but more likely (like in Modo) only parts like camera sub settings or texture sizes seem to miss the scaling. I also export the first C4D. But through the last years I was very happy to have a reliable and lossless Exchange for design changes in VW. So I could not live without "Send to C4D"

If you need RW Rendering, Cinema Render Engine is needed and I am not sure if it is a good idea to try to pull it out in general ..... I noticed that lately Cinerender stalling too here, but not every time. Usually for me it stalls "checking license" .... And am not sure if you can really trust the loading screen infos. I haven't even installed VW 2024 so far on Windows. So I do not know how long it starts. But generally VW for me was always one of the slowest starting Apps. In an office in the past I was told, first you boot your PC, start your CAD and then you go and grab your cup of coffee ....

Thanks for your clock in the video. Now I know that VW 2024 here on my M1 Mac Mini takes 36 seconds until the Home Screen appears. Do you have large workgroup files on a slow server connection ? And I saw it stalling loading Cinerender for about 20 s ?

Great ! And good to know. But when you do some VW changes and try an Exchange by send to C4D, I assume C4D won't react again. So at least, by your last experiment, it looks like the C4D File version that VW up to 2024 exports, is still compatible with my old C4D R21. Which is great. But why at all doesn't VW/C4D Exchange work anymore. And why do we both seem to be the only persons on earth experiencing this problem ?

Thank you very much for testing. But would VW 2022 work with R23 ? (In case R21 was too old for me)

But please also try to export as C4D. I am pretty sure that should work. But it would be interesting to know if not. (Beside, VW's FBX is pretty good and works great for imports in a lot of 3D Apps. Also I never noticed much if any quality difference between c4d or fbx exports to C4D)

I am not sure, but it is likely that I tested my VW file in an earlier VW than 2022 at that time. And can't remember that I had ever managed to run Exchange on Windows again.

Does this on the other side mean that R21 can still read/exchange with VW 2024's C4D exports ? And on another thread I can see you are using Windows, not Mac. As said, VW 2022 and C4D R21 worked, at least on Mac. If C4D too outdated for VW'S exports ... and that manifests on Windows a year earlier than on Mac !? If C4D R21 does no more work with VW 2022 for me, maybe it makes "sense" that R23 does also no more work with VW 2024 for you ?

Oh, yes. Reshape Tool. The call it "Modifizieren Werkzeug" on the german forum ....

Interesting Point. I am sure that I would definitely not be able to use a Wall Closure dialog that is more complex than the current ...

I would have to test that all again. I don't even really know what Mode 1 or 3 can do or are meant for. What I do is usually to move or copy 1 or more things and I may resize (move an edge) of a single rectangle, extend a Wall or other PIO. For everything complex multi object editing I use the Modify Tool. Like editing multiple DTM source polygons at a time, or editing Slab boundaries and such. Maybe I just don't do any sophisticated things in VW 😉