Ross Harris

What @Tom W. said... it looks like your objects are an insane distance from each other and the internal origin and isnt how peoplework in VW Revit imposes an artificial limit from the internal origin (16km), whereas VW does not... leading to odd behavior when things end up thousands of kilometers away. As @Jeff Prince noted, good working practices resolve this - try and keep things as close as possible around the internal origin - can't stress this one enough. You can turn on the internal orgin marker in settings to keep track of the 0,0 point and I often use the sheet outline preference to make sure what I'm modelling/drawing in my layer scale fits the page ao when i viewport it to a sheet layer I don't need to change the viewport scale which messes up text/annotation size.

AF Design's plugin suite which includes gutters and downpipes in the "Install Partner Products" link in the Help Menu - worth every cent, but doesn't negate the fact that this stuff should be part of the program. Link here their website

By fidelity I mean clarity and realism - I'm watching closely, so if Visualser ticks that box I may switch too. I've found model elements generally render well, but things like grass, trees,vehicles (mostly enscape assets) look a bit ho hum when compared to Twinmotion or D5 (I never clicked with Lumion). The AI enhancer has massively improved this and I've just upgraded my seat to a bundle so i can give Veras a spin. I've had Enscape since the VW version came out (had an NFR license since I worked for a VW distro and we heavily promoted it in VW training sessions - especially to the interiorcad/interior designer crowd). When that distro lost VW, the NFR lapsed and for a year I didn't have Enscape...I sorely missed its unique workflow and ability to get excellent visuals insanely quick. I usually dip into Twinmotion when I need something more 'final quality`, but I find Enscapes AI enhancer is pretty darn good now. I'm fairly ambivalent on the Enscape proxies... it would certainly be a game changer if they hade VW objects in them.. there was talk of that some time ago, which obviously never bore fruit, but if this Maxon product develops this aspect, it would be a game changer! Everything has a varying trade off at present, for me Enscape has the lowest in terms of work required to acheive a result and for continual reproduction throughout a project.

This is an odd wording... no disrespect intended, but they all operate at different levels of compatibility and effect on workflow. In terms of bi-directional capabilities, Enscape is the only one currently that does this the best - put an asset in Enscape, it appears in VW - this doesn't happen in any of the others; TM, D5 and Lumion is all one way - add a renderer asset, doesn't appear in VE, move something in the renderer - doesn't move in VW. Enscape's only issue is fidelity when compared with TM, Lumion and D5 and probably why Chaos have bundled up Enscape with Veras. Redshift rendering in VW doesn't belong in this sentence as you can't create a scene like you can in any of the others, with the ease of use, speed and rendering fidelity. The one hope I have with Visualiser is that it will have a higher level of bi-directional functionality and compete with TM, D5 and Lumion out of the box without being reamed on 'bundles' to get there.

Ugh... At least Enscape's proxies actually look somewhat like the object they represent. Hopefully this is just a 'beta' thing.. More concerning though, the comment 'you can send to redshift'. So, another cost on top of visualiser? Sounds like more bundles, more $$. Will be interesting to see how Chaos responds to this once it moves beyond VW - especially with the option to take a scene further in C4d.

In your wall components you need to have one component set to "core".

For bulk class renaming I use the Find and Modify command

Try modeling the shape as a 3d extrude and the use the edge offset tool to create the web and flanges - that's what I did for these tapered welded beams.

You really need to get to grips with VW before spraying the forum with 'xyz feature from my favorite other software should be implemented.' By learning the software, it becomes apparent which things are fundamental to its operation and will be a big ask to change. If you spend any time on the forum you'll see many longstanding requests for better functionality across many of the tools. A number of them are getting better, but it's a trade off of allocating engineering time and not upending longstanding existing workflows without a really good reason. VW simply aren't going to allocate engineering time to requests like these unless the use case is compelling... and it isn't. The fact that there isn't long threads asking for this is proof that it's not going to get any traction before making the assumption that VW are not receptive to customer requests. There are a pile of things I like and equally hate about revit, just as I do with VW; but i get the job done so much better in VW. I have a grad working for me that used Revit at Uni and this is the first time on VW and she loves it... and no qualms about learning new key commands. Anyway, wouldn't getting the Environment plug-in have been cheaper than paying for VW if you already have Revit?

Super keen to get some intel if anyone is going!

Just stop. None of us care about this, and its completely irrelevant to just about every topic on this forum, or why we all hang out here. Respectfully, those of us in this thread have tried to get you to see why we geek out over the Enscape workflow, you've derailed it into 'what I do with C4D', youtube links and misguided statements like 'you need to be an expert to use hybrid tools'. Seriously, have a whiskey or something, give it a day then reread this topic and just try to look at it objectively to see why and where the frustration level starts to ramp up. I've seen it time and again where you try to validate your responses by namedropping Nasa, Spade Station etc. We don't care. In fact, there are people on this forum who do mind blowing stuff that touches millions of people - I've not seen any of the spotlight peeps brag about the stuff they do.. It's great that you use VW for NURBS modelling and you have loads of spare time to do it in, but bear in mind that the majority of us here us VW to earn a living for what it was made to do - buildings. landscapes and lighting/set design. Please read the room before coming in like a bull in a china shop. So, lets get back to geeking out on the new Maxon thingy and hope that it gives us an enscape on steroids visualizer! I really hope that VW users get something like an open beta to test it like Enscape did when they developed their VW integration.

I would 100% disagree with this. If you are using Twinmotion, Lumion or D4 then yes. The livesync the these products as a partial one way process - you activate the live sync tool and it exports your VW geometry to the renderer - any change you make or asset you place in the render engine stays in that program, any change in VW will sync back to the renderer, but that's all. You then have to save your work in that render engine as its own file. Any further work on the VW model then needs to be live synced again running the risk of duplicate geometry and reapplying textures, so by virtue you would save any work to be done in in TM, Lumion or D4 as close to the end as possible. I'm assuming this is also how send to C4D works. With Enscape you use it any point of the design process to see a rendered view, placing assets puts proxies into the VW model, textures from Enscape get mapped to become Renderworks textures so your workflow does not get split across a VW and render engine file. The VW file is always the single source of truth - which is what makes the Enscape workflow so compelling. I can open the same project after a couple of days work in Enscape and there are zero issues. It looks the same, 3d assets and textures load every time. It means I can send a render to a client while they are on the phone or on a teams call sharing a screen.

Good greif.... Just no. I'm super quick with the key commands I've committed to muscle memory over time, just like you have gained familiarity with the software you are intimating Vectorworks be bent to. It took a bit of time to mentally bed in smart options when it was released, but now I can't live with out it and to be honest, 💩s over a command line because all the commands I need are right under my cursor and is implemented way better than ArchiCADs pet palette. If you want unfriendly key commands, Revit is prime example with its two letter commands... but i bounce between Revit and VW fine. VW's shift/alt/ctrl modifiers work great; every program has its own flavour of modifiers, just learn them to get the best of the software. As someone who has developed and ran training sessions for a VW distributor, Jeff's advice above is spot on. As an alternative to the streamdeck, the 3dconnexion spacemouse pros are awesome and configurable.. I'm so hooked on them, I feel like I've lost a limb I don't have one handy for 3d modeling.

C4d is a completely different animal... If I want an archvis render done in literally minutes, Enscape does this without disrupting my workflow in Vectorworks.

@VIRTUALENVIRONS Enscape pricing