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Hmmh, I read about Cineware loading issues in the past. So in case I watch VW start welcome window, I usually keep an eye on Cineware. But usually that doesn't take exceptionally long for me. I am more used that the License check is slowest. But when I started today and accidentally watched the welcome screen, I had to notice that VW looks stalling quite a while with the Revit plugin (!?) Overall start time of course much longer than agreeable as usual, but Revit took definitely longer than Cineware here.

Yes, doesn't make much sense to have it in there. On the other hand, for testing I first expected and searched it there too. I even extra selected one of the accessible objects to reach the object context menu .... When not finding force select I startet thinking ..... and found it in the standard context menu pretty much on top of the list .....

Strange ..... (I just tried Classes - Active Only, as I only had a single Layer visible) I did recreate my Template Files for VW 2022 or 2023. But not completely from scratch. The custom workspace is just too much work. But I think it could be much less tedious. Then I would recreate it too, as I would like to get rid of my old colored old Icons for Tool Sets .....

Have you tried to take the menu entry out of your custom workspace and add it again from the list ? Maybe they changed it or an internal number (?) As I see, Force Select works for me in my custom WS. And I just migrate them since decades ....

Yes, I think more would be mandatory. E.g. switching with your laptop from home office to office, VW may be confronted with completely different monitor resolutions that may not allow the former configuration .... And if you attach it at a client to their Monitor for presentation, VW would need to detect a new configurations, throw a (suppressible) warning and ask what to do, - single monitor config, monitor A.B. or C ? - try if best suitable setup could work ? - start monitor setup AI Assistent, trying to setup your VW Windows and Palettes according to your recorded habits during the last 2 years ? - let VW decide what UI setup is best for you ?

Not necessarily. As you can add 3D Polylines, or Segments of it, after you created your DTM too, to proposed or existing, as much as you want. 3D Polylines are more of a help for the user to better understand what is happening. For the DTM these Polylines don't even need to flat on XY. You could place them free in space if you want. Basically the DTM just cares about their Points. You could also just spread Stakes or 3D points.

I think that was fixed (in two steps ?) long ago ...... But I can imaging getting similar looking artifacts when your geometries ist too far from "internal" VW origin or you have lost objects far away. Can you exclude this ?

From time to time I play with VW Nomad App on iOS. Point Clouds and Room Plan so far. (The Mesh export is horrible) Room Plan data can be saved as OBJ Just a single large Mesh containing independent volumes and no hierarchy or naming. Nevertheless the better option for VW for "reasons". (Strange but in Bricscad I can access each Object separately) And you can save it as USDZ, which you can see and rotate already in Apple Preview. For fun I unzipped the USD. This will offer you USDA files for each object in a nice folder structure and proper naming. (Similar to Datasmith but with hierarchical order) So imported in Blender you will get the perfect hierarchy and naming in Object Tree. In VW USD import, unfortunately that hierarchy is done by nested Groups (I would prefer Classes) and not exactly in the same order. Which makes Object navigation and selection super hard. So yes, we are not yet there with USD. Or still behind FBX but I am sure that will change. Maybe Apples Vision Pro release will bring more attention to USD. But an open 3D format, supported by Browsers and even recognized by operation systems makes sense to me.

Not the way it should work but less annoying for now. On the other hand, this seems to only happen for VW. Aren't there other VW users making also use of iCloud ? And does it work for them or do they not yet notice the swap files (because they have 8 TB SSDs). 🙂

Maybe I did some 3D sketching in Blender or C4D and at one point think it would be nice to have that in Vectorworks or Bricscad. Or an older Project done in Modo only, to bring over to CAD. As I usually architecture-Mesh-model quite accurate, I am sure major part could be converted to Solids in VW easily. Or to import some Entourage items or Materials that clients want to see in your VW Elevations too. (As for C4D, Material import into VW works quite good) Very few 3D Apps speak IFC. And if they do like Blender with Blender BIM AddOn, it would mean some extra work to tag all objects first. But IFC imports to VW are cumbersome and IFC is missing most 3D App features and Material duplicates are a nightmare. As VW in general or VW Viewport is quite tolerant to Meshes, it would be quite handy to get some of that stuff easily in. I would say, since a while we have reached a state where exporting CAD to 3D works quite lossless. A oneway Exchange is still a bit harder and only worked for me with VW to C4D only. But the other way, 3D to CAD, was always lossy and tedious and still is. (I think Archicad has a C4D import ?) At least a 3D to CAD import would be nice. And I finally would really welcome a real 2-way Exchange between 3D and CAD. And the only hope for me that this one day happens is USD. Browsers do/will support USD for presenting 3D Models in the web, in Apple's Preview you can already view and rotate your USD files. In XCode App (Beta) you can edit and create USD environments (meant for Vision Pro of course). Apple helped Blender with USD support, which is one of the best I have sen so far. I am sure that USD will become a standard in 3D Exchange. and maybe finally CAD/3D Exchange, as it will be capable of so much more than FBX.

Since a decade or so this was probably the best and least lossy CAD to 3D export and often best 3D to 3D export and import we had for exchange. Compared to what we had before. Similar to VW to C4D Good geometry, Scale, Object hierarchy, Naming, Cameras, Lights, Materials, Animation, .... But now the future is open USD from Pixar. USD is neutral and open source, it is already quite capable and I think future proof. It is already widely adopted and used in 3D and gets heavily pushed by Apple because of their (former AR/VR ambitions) Vision Pro environment. And USD export and import is already supported by VW. (Although IMHO at an early a bit rough state so far) So as long as I work with Apps with no or weak USD support, I still use FBX for CAD to 3D. And also would like to bring in some FBX from 3D Apps into VW.

I would also welcome FBX Import. Beside that I am all for better USD 2-way Exchange.

As long as VSS conditions stay agreeable and you want to stay with VW, everyone should keep VSS running. When things change, there may be alternatives too.

I also have a USB or Bluetooth NumPad for my small Apple BT keyboard (As all beloved old Apple aluminium USB keyboards meanwhile died after being cleaned up a bit too humid ...) I read about using a NumPad on the left of the keyboard in the past and found that's a cool idea but forgot about it. After this post I tried it for the first time. 🙂 But that does not work for me. I still had no chance to check if I could type numbers left handed. It already starts when I accidentally try to left hand type text on the NumPad and do some harm because it has also forward+backward Delete keys ....

I think VW should automatically throw a warning from the App when it recognizes such geometry ... Pardon me, your geometry and/or lost objects are far from internal Origin. This can cause many (accuracy) issues. Learn more .... And my next recommendation ... You have Unified View deactivated ! Are you sure what you are doing there ? Don't show this message again [ ]

Very good idea. And much more. As Walls already are, I want Stair, Slabs, Roofs, .... to be fully Parasolid Modeler supported and producing 3D compatible watertight geometry.

I have an old 27" Cintiq. I think the Huion and specs look quite good. Like for Photoshop I also like more competition for Wacom.

Mine went up 25% two years ago. One year before the Subscription only announcement. But that is controlled in Germany. A few others said they also increasings but faaaaar less than 25%. I think this is CAD-like pretty intransparent and I think every one pays its own individual price and individual fee increase or not. But generally I think finally VW want's 100% subscriptions and that can only work by making these continuing VSS/perpetual contracts conditions lesser attractive than Subscriptions.

I also think this should work. The majority of users may go that route. Fair enough, I would do the same if I would save any data locally. Although only 512 GB in the M1 Mini, even with Unreal and all trying to push GB's into my User and Documents Folders, but with some counter acting I still managed to keep the system about 320 GB ..... So I am happy I can keep my 3D Backups on System Drive.

Why don't you had Autosave location set to your local drive ? As this is usually the fastest place. I have a kind of universal Backup Folder in my User Directory (which I do not use to save any real data) with Subfolders for all CAD and 3D Apps. This way I can also cleanup all Backups every few months quite easily. Not sure but for me it looks that you get those swap files because you are saving your data in cloud drives. Not sure for what or which operation exactly VW creates or needs these swap files or if they are part of the cloud folder synching process. I would think these should be cleaned up automatically after need for swap is over .....

Beside, I sometimes tumble over locked elements. I myself use this feature very rarely but could get them from imports or client files. You also can't select or edit these. You have to hover it, then right mouse click menu, "unlock". Then you can edit or delete them. And yes, "VW Floors" are inofficially deprecated and not working well in many aspects. I only use the Slab Tool.

In VW you always draw 1:1 according to your desired units. (Design) Layer Scales are just a WYSIWYG mode that allows to estimate your Text, Dimension and Line Type or Weight Scales. And it has to do with View Navigation, like when switching from Sheet Layers backt to Design Layers. Therefore you should set Design Layers to your most used Sheet Layer Viewports. Really important gets the Scale for Viewports. As this is the place where Scaling happens. So if you do not yet know the scale of your DLs. Set something reasonable according to project size. Like 1:100. Once you come to a point where you think it would fit better on your Plans in 1:50, in Organization Palette just switch all DLs from 1:100 to 1:50 and you are good. Beside that you may now check in DL WYSIWYG if your text sizes, hatches and all that stuff still looks reasonable or maybe adapt it.

Yes ! Autocad or Microstation Layers were 1 dimensional. With VW's Classes (ACAD Layers) AND additional VW Layers, there is no more need for former ACAD Layer duplicates. And I do not use VW Layers for separating Stories, I may also separate the surrounding, existing vs new, further separating a Story in Floor/Slab - Walls - Ceiling or extra Furniture Layers. It just means you have a single essence of ACAD Layers by VW Classes, but by adding a few VW Layers you will get exponentially options to separate things and control or switch visibilities.

Not for me. I opened an old large VW project, migrated to VW 2024 and saved. Activity Manager : VW needs 10 GB, memory pressure gets brownish and macOS uses 2 GB of Swap. But no swap file in CloudDocs. Likely because I do not save any CAD files in a Cloud (?) I have all my data locally on an external SSD. I am sure macOS currently does swap parts of my VW memory, but I can't search/find any *.swap files. I think that is managed by macOS, not VW, somewhere in background.

You have basically the same M1 machine. Or do you make much use of VW Cloud Services like online publishing or Rendering ? I do not use VW that much or heavily but do not have a single swap file in your path. Even no hint about VW in CloudDocs at all. All my one letter Folders in Session are empty. But I rebooted yesterday.