zoomer

Tuesday at 06:31 PM

AFAIR there was an option to "embed" DWG References when importing

in advanced settings (?)

Not sure if it is always the best solution to bring all references into the import file.

Monday at 08:30 PM

Ah, yes.

But for me it is always important to be able to assign extra buttons App specific

for all 3D and CAD Apps. So I usually need the driver suite bloatware.

It is easy if for standard Apps like browsing, mail and such.

I could even use the magic mouse for this comfortably.

But as soon as drawing on screen, I would need bettertouchtool for extra cursor

speed without acceleration. And still never reached a satisfying MMB or "scroll

wheel" click.

(I really admire all Mac CAD and VW users staying with their magic mice)

Monday at 07:00 PM

You can play with Blender and BlenderBIM AddOn, it's free.

They lately started adding (basic) 3D Duct Tools to BlenderBIM.

Have not yet played with it.

Potential workflow for a VW user :

- Export VW Building geometry by FBX

- Import in Blender

- save IFC Project from BlenderBIM

- create Ducts

-> import Ducts to VW by importing the IFC

Monday at 05:26 PM

On 10/18/2023 at 4:44 PM, zoomer said:

I already ordered one.

But it will take some time until it arrives as I also ordered some not

deliverable cables and adapters ......

(Last time when I ordered I chose only products marked as available

and some switched to not available while waiting 3 weeks anyway)

Did a quick look over all Mac compatible mice in an online shop.

Logitech's overall looked most reasonable.

Then I was a but unsure about Mac or Mac/PC/Linux version.

Or if MX 2 would be enough too (?)

Not sure why the Mac version is more expensive, although it misses

the Logi Bolt USB Receiver (Would I need that for Linux ?)

and has a USB C to C cable vs USB A to C in PC version,

while my M1 Mini has only 2 (already occupied) USB C Slots.

But I chose the MX3 Mac Version.

And therefore the USB adapters and cables 🙂

Short update,

I never got my delivery because alternating any of my USB C adapters was not available.

From time to time I got new availability/delivery updates by email.

At one point in March or April I accidentally clicked on the "cancel order" button instead

of the link to my order .... there was no way back and my money was send back ....

So no MX and I forgot about Mice because my 3DCon CADMouse currently clicks reliable

again for now.

(Might have been a special humidity and temperature window that made clicks fail)

But I still would go with a MX after your feedback.

I was just again warned about Logitech's monster driver from many sides.

As I need to keep the other monster drivers,

(Wacom for my Cintiq and 3DCon for my Enterprise/Navigator)

I am not that amused to need a 3rd one from Logitech.

Friday at 06:34 PM

I had that once for VW and Bricscad too.

But that was with 14.4.0. and not seen it in 14.4.1 again so far.

I use a M1 Mini desktop with a single Monitor.

On a Macbook with multi monitor setup or clamshell mode

it may be more likely to experience such problems.

For Macbooks, for similar issues, it was recommended to just

close and reopen the lid.

When I lost my VW Menu,

I realized that there is still the Apple and VW main entry on the left.

And when I clicked on the VW Menu, my whole VW Menu came back ....

Friday at 06:23 PM

The Gizmo only appears in 1st and 4th Mode.

When you switch to 2nd or 3rd Mode, there is no Gizmo.

In the Video you switched through all Modes already,

but you Selected in Mode 1 and 4 only, the ones with

Gizmo visible ....

Why it does appear in 1st Mode at all - no own knows ...

April 17

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.

April 12

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.

April 10

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

April 9

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.

April 9

Suno.ai can sing the MIT open source license.

I like it :

Permission is hereby granted

April 9

4 hours ago, John S. Hansen said:

If you're on Mac: Try A Better Finder Rename

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 ....

🙂

April 9

2 hours ago, Tobias Kern said:

What's also different in the office: I do not use powerline-2-ethernet adapter like:

https://avm.de/produkte/wlan-mesh/fritzpowerline-1260-wlan-set/

I use them here too.

I think these are pretty safe.

Can't imagine how possible network problems should cause macOS to crash/reboot.

April 6

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.

April 3

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.

April 2

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)

April 1

52 minutes ago, Dubman said:

Now when I select the "Disabled Interactive Scaling" selection mode, to move a grouped objects this 3D dragger is turning on

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 (?)

March 30

Didn't expect it to understand German.

Seems it even adapted the UI language.

No Image, just prompts ....

March 30

11 minutes ago, VIRTUALENVIRONS said:

You can correct the initial cameral clipping under the Project Menu,

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.

March 30

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.

March 30

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"

March 29

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 ....

March 29

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 ?

March 29

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 ?

March 29

1 minute ago, Valery said:

@zoomer Still no effect, when i've recently opened VWX2022 with C4D R21 and tried again...
Let me check thread you've sent before

Thank you very much for testing.

But would VW 2022 work with R23 ?

(In case R21 was too old for me)

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