Ross Harris
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On 9/4/2018 at 10:48 PM, herbieherb said:
I would rather consider whether Apple is still a reliable hardware supplier.
Just look at the joke the updated Mac Pro is turning into. How does a computer take over two years plus to develop when the hardware is abundantly available? It’s probably the case that’s taking all the time.... Seriously, how does this say to professionals they are listening, considering people are grimly hanging onto the last tower models propped up by aftermarket parts and drivers, or the few brought a flower pot - the one they finally sucked it up and apologised for it being a lemon... even it’s specs were way off beam. It’s further proof that they have little investment in the desktop, despite the claims of how ‘critical’ macOS and the desktop is to them. They are a company propped up by a line of phones with the iMac as an accessory while they desperately look for the next phenomenon....
i’ve got An iMac in the lounge and I love using it and the integration with my iPhone (apart from photos - it sucks, and the rort iCloud is) but I can’t justify the cost of a decent machine in my business with their lack of interest in getting a worthwhile machine and monitor to the market and software deprecation being a major red flag.
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Yep all the time... incredibly frustrating.
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9 hours ago, NeilB said:
@Aspect_Design If you are indeed still running VW2018 SP1 as your forum signature states, it would be good to update to SP4.
I’m on SP4 ... after a long wait for it to be localised
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9 hours ago, line-weight said:
I really do hope that VW have gone some way to addressing all this with VW2019
Hopefully! Jim has commented the focus on 2019 was quality... but after 3 service packs and still the issues prevail, it points to larger issues in the software that can’t be fixed by patching. I really do hope 2019 is a stellar release... but on the flip side, Aus/NZ customers are gonna have to wait 2-3 months to update after release for it to be ‘localised’.
11 hours ago, Gadzooks said:Always a difficult call.
Certainly is - and there have been times when I’ve wondered if I’d done the right thing coming from Revit. Little things like the the callout tool, the laborious way to add additional dimensions... which become big things after a while. My right click menu has become stupidly big to get around some of the issues and save my hand (I’ve already got a trackball to combat RSI).
Having to make a decision to buy into a platform and workflow in the demo period is always a push - VW has some amazing tools that have made my life much better, but not being able to fully assess the impact of things like manual viewport updates and general instability leaves a taste in the mouth when the quirks and issues start to overtake productivity.
I’m possibly setting up an office with three other designers and a planner; two of them use Archicad, the other on Revit looking to change. There will be no question where he will go when he sees the issues I have, and as much as I‘ve talked up the good points of VW, especially when I start swearing on multiple crashes, blacked out renders and getting coffee every time I need to render viewports... So it’s looking more and more like I’ll need to upskill to be able to share the workload between colleagues- 2019 will almost be a deal breaker if it’s a lemon.
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Exactly - I’m getting frustrated with consistent freezing, crashing where it just vanishes - I’ve had to set 5m auto backup intervals because it’s so random. I moved a slab in small project today and it hung - tried the same thing a few different ways an the only thing that fixed it was saving with a new name!!
Sketch lines on forground hidden line now refuse to show on new projects... I have to turn sketch off to get hidden lines back, custom render works will all of a sudden stop working properly until I restart VW.... the callout tool that was ‘enhanced’ a version or two back was nothing short of half baked... the ‘sticky’...I could go on. When it goes, it runs great... until it starts slowing down...
i’m 99.9% certain my issues aren’t the pc... I still have a Revit license to maintain for the last Revit project nearing completion and have been using a colleagues spare archicad seat to see if the grass is greener, both softwares run great to the point of ultimately reliable...
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I was watching a video on Archicad and looking at their detailing methods - it has a very intuitive callout tool in terms of positioning and sizing, much like Revit; three clicks and you’re done. The current VW tool has an RSI inducing number of clicks and menu selections to place the object and its bubble - both the other platforms have the first click to start the rectangle, second to finish the rectangle and the third to place the marker bubble with the leader line following it wherever you place it. Altering the marker bubble location is also easy - click the middle and move it with the leader line following. VW’s tool is overtly complex to do what should be a simple thing. I’ve reverted to copying a few different shapes around - not a good solution as it is easy to miss linking to a viewport.
I propose the callout tool has a three click functionality plus easier marker placement post object insertion and just for kicks, a pop up dialogue to link the viewport - this could be a preference to allow in case that behaviour gets annoying to some users...
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I'll second all that with regards to time spent drinking coffee looking at the teapot vs. hourly rate down the toilet. I don't do a lot of rendering - most of my work is top plan and drafting in viewport over model sections, but the update times for elevations, 3d's and model changes in edit section view re-renders were grating with an i7 4.2ghz quad core - its probably the biggest single issue I have with VW; coming from Revit there was no need to update anything and is the primary reason I can't move a couple of colleagues over the light.
The reduced time in those process alone makes me more productive, which makes me feel better overall.
Plus given the VGM updates coming, more cores are worth considering.
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I used intel cpus for ages and tried the threadripper - not looking back! I would go threadripper with a Corsair AIO cooler - I have the 12 core OC’d to 3.9 ghz and it absolutely flies. I’ve read that you should be able to OC the 16 core cpu up to the same. They are dead easy to OC as well.
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Tagging looks like it will be awesome for renovation projects!
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Just imagine how fast rendering will be with this puppy in the socket... 🤩
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How’s “waylaid ‘till wednesdays’ for us on the bleeding edge of the date line? 😁
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Yes! I paid mine and got in reply a big thanks and ‘2019 is looking exciting!’ So not fair 😉
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I've had a run of part upgrades to try and get something that has the best of both worlds in terms of 2d & openGL performance, render speed and stability. I use a iMac on and off and it just seems way more stable.. but there's not much to pick from for fast rendering...
Anyho, I built a water cooledAMD 1920X Threadripper 12 core ( my shop ran out of 16 core versions at the time) OC'd to 3.9ghz (would crash during high res renders at 4.0ghz !), Corsair H115i AIO, 32 gb Ram and a GTX1080 Ti and the thing absolutely flies and is mostly stable - I think the main issues now are around Windoor as adding or eydropping a door/window every now and again will make VW vanish. At its stock clock speed it was noticeably glitchy on good perf and compatibility - but once OC'd it flew - these CPU's are dead easy to OC as well..
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Erm - its early next month now 😁😁😁😁😁😉
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Check out https://www.revitcity.com/downloads.php this was my go to resource when I was working at a Revit practice... all user submitted content and some really cool stuff and great community feel like this place - the autodesk forum is pretty hostile...
Being in NZ, the Revit library is next to useless - there is some really cool stuff submitted by NZers at Revit city that really saved the day and time.. something like this for VW users would be awesome and would help with localised products or standard 2d details like cladding corners/junctions, spouting extrusion symbols - so much stuff.
I try to model something I use frequently once a month too improve my modelling skills, so I’d be keen to upload stuff and happily let others with better skills improve improve them if they felt like it.
An export to routine could be added to the resource manager - when you export a spiffy 3D/2d symbol to your local liberty file then upload it to the online resource.
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I’ve bounced between my 12 core threadripper (now overclocked to 4ghz) with 32gb ram, 1080gtz and my wife’s 27" iMac with a core i5 3.4ghz quad core with 8gb ram and a 4gb video card and it is considerably more responsive and stable than the pc. Aside from the sluggish zooming the oip flashes like a disco when you update something or even just selecting some thing - and then eventually it’ll just vanish like it was never open (if anyone was a Cubase user circa v3 it was dubbed a ‘poof’) 9 times out of 10 doing something with Windoor. The Mac doesn’t do this, crash and is considerably snappier - it’s low end by comparison. Overclocking the pc only made a marginal difference.. so I’m of the opinion after a/b-ing things the Mac version is more refined in using system resources. Now if Apple can just hurry up with those (fingers crossed they match imacs) monitors...
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I've had instances in the last version (2017) where my windoze desktop would hang and crash performing some operation - i think the last one was a roof - and it would crash every time I went to do the same edit. I learnt from other similar issues to have a crack at it on my wife's elderly 2009 iMac to see it that would get around the issue - it worked like a champ. Finished the roof and popped back on windoze and continued on...
I also find the palettes don't blink like they do on windoze and the interface is generally better behaved; so when the new iMac Pro or Mac Pro comes out with some great specs, I'll be jumpin' back on board the ol' apple wagon.
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While they’re at it, could they squeeze in a valley gutter tool that subtracts from the roofing/tile and purlin/batten components of a styled roof? That would be great 😁
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This has almost always been an origin issue - looking at at the rulers in your screenshot, its miles away from 0,0. I reset the origin on next mouse click bang in the center of the model and its all good again.
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I find myself constantly clicking the wrong button in the OIP - I'm putting it down to brain rewiring from Revit (thats my excuse)!
As a general workflow enhancement is it possible for the cooks to tab this dialog box with the preference to the front tab given to the button clicked in the OIP. You could do all your class/layer operations in on dialog rather than having to exit and open the other.
Is it also possible to subgroup like the OIP dialog when you select a viewport to edit class info? It would certainly help being able to turn on/off groups at a time like design layer operations - tabbed would be great here too.
Cheers!
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Unfortunately that issue seems fairly prevailant no matter the specs. If you’re really needing rendering grunt, then multi core CPU is the way to go. Everything else needs a high per core clock speed which is generally a quad core i7 - i’ve Got the i7 7700k 4.2 ghz quad core processor with a GTX1080 and have the same issues. I think is a best of both worlds cpu - the program generally flies along, but there is a hit in the rendering time - or coffee time
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I’m keen to investigate or hear if anyone has one of the new AMD chips - the ryzen 7 1800x 8 core or the threadripper 1950x 16 core - they.ve both got good single core clock speeds ....and loads of cores for pumping out renders. I’m finding myself doing more and more rendering these days... so it looks like another pc build is on the way
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Its looking darn great... as usual things I could have used in the last project lol! Yes sigh... roll on sometime in November for the Aus/NZ version.... With the new features vids I've hopefully convinced a colleague to come to the light from the Revit dark side! If only one of the new features was an on request extended trial... its a huge amount to take in in one month when you're a sole operator.
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Yes - that tool and the site modelling capabilities totally sealed the deal to move away from Revit. But I like new stuff to play with....
lol
I hope that if ozcad ever decided to shut their doors, VW would pick up and integrate Windoor or pimp that e door and window tool to be as good or better...
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On pc - it’s completely random and impossible to pinpoint, force or replicate. Works as it should and the next switch... nup. Restart the application- very frustrating.