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    "Painterly" Renderings from Photo Realistic Images

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    1 hour ago, Dave Donley said:

    Another thought is that the newest version of Vectorworks Nomad integrates with the iOS Files app.  This lets any other mobile app get access to your Vectorworks Cloud Services files.  So you could stylize an image using mobile app and bring it back to desktop more easily.  

     

    I'd like to provide a few clarification points here. The mobile app used for the image editing needs to have the capability to communicate (import/export files) with the iOS Files App. Some apps can only access files from the iOS Photos app, so this workflow wouldn't work with them. If the app can access the Files app, then the workflow requirements are as follows:

    - Store the referenced image file into the Vectorworks Cloud Services folder.

    - Run the Vectorworks Cloud Services app, so that the file is synced to the Cloud

    - Install the latest iOS Nomad app and sign in

    - Open the iOS Files all and enable Vectorworks Nomad as a "Location".

    From now on, any file stored in Nomad that is modified by any app on the mobile device will sync back to your Vectorworks Cloud Services folder. So, to get the updated file into Vectorworks only requires an update of the reference. 

     

    Also, I wanted to remind you that the Cloud Services web portal has al Machine Learning-based job called "Stylize image" (available to Service Select members only). Give that a try and let me know your thoughts. 

     

    Here is a screenshots on how to find it.

    Screenshot 2021-10-04 at 13.37.33.png

     

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    Setting Cloud services to run in the background

    in Troubleshooting

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    Hi Everyone,

     

    Yes, it is true that The Vectorworks Cloud Services app did not have a dock icon until earlier this year. We will investigate the reasons why this happened, because we have not made any intentional changes in this regard. It is possible that it could have been caused by upgrading the version of one of the libraries that we use. I submitted a request to the Cloud team to investigate and try to remove the dock icon.

     

    Best regards,

    Iskra Nikolova

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    Redshift video card requirements?

    in General Discussion

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    Here are the system requirements by Maxon:

    https://www.redshift3d.com/product/system-requirements

    Also, I'd like to add that Vectorworks Cloud Services now has servers that meet the Redshift requirements. So, even if your hardware doesn't meet the system requirements you can submit jobs with Redshift render mode to be processed on the cloud. Redshift only currently works for Export Panorama and 360 path animation movies, but we are working to make it available for the other job types as well. 

     

    I hope this helps.

     

    Best regards,

    Iskra Nikolova

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    cloud publish sends back un-updated viewports

    in Troubleshooting

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    Hi @grant_PD,

    I am not aware of a known issue with this functionality at this time. I would be happy to help you find out what is going on.

     

    Would you mind sending me the .vwx file that you experienced the issue with, so I can try to reproduce the issue and investigate further? You can email it to me at inikolova@vectorworks.net.

     

    I see that you have submitted 2 Publish jobs on September 2-nd and 1 Publish job on September 3-rd. I see the first job finished very quickly (2 mins), and the other two ran for 22 and 25 mins. Did all of these return results from un-updated viewports?

     

    Your help with troubleshooting this issue will be greatly appreciated.

     

    Best regards,

    Iskra Nikolova

     

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    Do the backup files for Vectorworks sync?

    in General Discussion

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    I'd like to chime in with what the Vectorworks Cloud Services desktop app offers. Perhaps it can be used instead of the third party cloud storage app? It has a setting for excluding backup files from syncing, no matter which folder (within the Vectorworks Cloud Services folder) they are in. 

     

    The Vectorworks Cloud Serviced desktop app also uses delta sync (for files larger than 200 MBs).

     

     

    Screenshot 2021-08-05 at 11.22.43.png

     

     

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    web view not working again?

    in Troubleshooting

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    Thanks, @Christiaan! I commented on the VB issue with my findings, but I will post a summary here for everyone else to be able to see. The issue you are seeing seems related to the size of the model and this should no longer be an issue with the re-engineered 3D model viewer that we are currently working on. I sent the issue to our engineers to see if we can have a short-term solution. It seems like the current Web View viewer, when used within the web portal, fails to load when the page is reloaded under high memory consumption circumstances.

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    Cloud Services for rendering

    in General Discussion

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    Hi @LeeElston,

    On the Publish dialog, select the item that you want to publish to an image and click the Options button. In the dialog box that appears, make sure the checkbox to Update visible out of date viewports is enabled.

     

    Screenshot 2021-05-03 at 9.58.24.png

     

    Please let me know if you continue to have troubles.

     

    Best regards,

    Iskra Nikolova

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    Is the 'Nomad' app still alive and does anyone use it?

    in General Discussion

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    @line-weight,

    I really appreciate the time you took to describe your workflow and the way the new 3D model viewer in Nomad should work. It does help a lot!

     

    Regarding the difference of appearance, it seems like you have draw edges turned on in Vectorworks and not in the web view. If you use the export Web View menu command in Vectorworks to generate the 3D model, there is a setting for Draw edges. Try turning it on and see if you can get a closer appearance. Unfortunately the automatic generation of the 3D model on the cloud doesn't allow you turn on this setting. So, I think your feedback also indicates that the Cloud 3D model generation should be configurable the same way as the local export.

    I notice a slight color difference as well, but I think this is due to the lighting conditions. Light sources that are available in the Vectorworks model are ignored during the export to web view. Instead, a default overall lighting scheme is used for basic visibility of the rendered objects. So, preserving the light sources also seems important to you, as it affects basic appearance.

     

    Best regards,

    Iskra

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    Is the 'Nomad' app still alive and does anyone use it?

    in General Discussion

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    Just now, Kevin Allen said:

    I have also experimented with thee VCS Presentations, but I'm usually wanting to include links to video, documents and the like. The end result being a virtual meeting or trade show.

     

    Good to know why you are not using it. We can add other supported file types to tour slides the next time when we release enhancements to Presentations. I have already heard this wish, so it is already on my list. 🙂

    Is the 'Nomad' app still alive and does anyone use it?

    in General Discussion

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    @line-weight,

     

    This is a link to the Help article: https://cloud.vectorworks.net/portal/help/pages/create-presentations/?app=WEB

    Also, when you sign into cloud.vectorworks.net, go to My presentations on the left panel. You will see a Sample presentation. Click on it to view the slide view. Click on the Tour example slide. Click on the pins to move from one panorama to another.

     

    Please leet me know what you think about this functionality.

    Screenshot 2021-04-13 at 15.06.35.png

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    Is the 'Nomad' app still alive and does anyone use it?

    in General Discussion

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    9 hours ago, line-weight said:

    but it's the least bad out of a choice of bad options

     

    Have you tried creating a virtual tour out of linked panoramas, using the Vectorworks Cloud Services presentation feature on the web portal? I think it is a great option to deliver a walkthrough experience without complex navigation. I have only heard good things about it so far.

    Is the 'Nomad' app still alive and does anyone use it?

    in General Discussion

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    Hi Everyone,

     

    Nomad is an app that is regularly being released with new features and fixes. 3D model viewing is one of its first features, and while we have been improving and adding new features into it, it has reached a point where it needs to be entirely reengineered in order to achieve good performance for big models and complex geometry, and to resolve many usability issues as pointed out here. We are actively working on this reengineering, but don't have an official date when it may be released. Stay tuned!

     

    Best regards,

    Iskra Nikolova

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    Shared Cloud Folders

    in General Discussion

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    5 minutes ago, Christiaan said:

    thanks for engaging openly like this on the forum.

    My pleasure. Besides being a QA, I am also involved in the design of every new feature we produce on Vectorworks Cloud Services, so knowing what our customers want and how they work is very important to me. I am filing the wishes that I can distinguish from our conversation in our planning queue 🙂 .

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    Shared Cloud Folders

    in General Discussion

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    @Christiaan,

    We are currently discussing the possible ways to support Publish on the cloud in a Project sharing environment. Right now, you can only publish on the cloud from a regular .vwx file. And yes, unfortunately, the viewports in your local file would not be updated. This is a long standing wish that we have, but it is a very hard engineering problem to solve. Since the Cloud is doing the viewport update on a copy of the file that you submitted, how do we merge the updated viewports back to your copy? What If you changed something that affected these viewports? We can easily save another copy in your storage named "_rendered", but then you end up with different files after each rendering, which I think is not ideal also. The best way in my opinion would be if we can find a way to hook up cloud processing to the Update viewport button right within Vectorworks. 

     

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    Shared Cloud Folders

    in General Discussion

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    1 hour ago, Christiaan said:

    We never use this because it doesn't update the viewports. It only produces a PDF.

     

    @Andy Broomell @_James @Christiaan 

    If you are doing Publish, there is a PDF export setting "Update visible out of date viewport prior to exporting. You must have had this setting turned off. The Cloud is definitely doing rendering, not just export. If this is not working for you, I can help you. 

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