Matt Overton

The situation is worse with revit as there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to downgrade the model back if you find it would be better back a year to keep everyone together. I remember having a conversation with a senior VW engineer about versionless files and it was noted as one of the key drivers for .vwx file format. Seems odd it still isn’t a thing.

I assume this other software isn’t revit. but full support any improvements to revision bubbles and drawing issue speed such automation might bring

Odd it’s completely against code around here to change configuration in a flight.. it creates a massive trip hazard by breaking the walker’s rhythm

Take credit for the teams work? not a great plan for Vw let the team work on lean not features. that would be great.

Sorry yes I’ve been out of Vw for my daily driver (and missing it)* and couldn’t think of the right term. Also remember in VW you can use a different background for lighting as you are using as a background image. Great for camera matching or indoors where the scene behind the camera is often very different to in front of the camera. loving all the tips and tricks here.

Agree and would start with lighting options. if the OP gets that right then how much set dressing required will reduce a lot. I think the image would have a big win with the right global illumination to get a proper dynamic range and logical shadows. your eyes always want a proper white point and a black point. No white point and your brain reads it as gloomy or fake. Glare can be your friend to push the eye to what you want to them to see.

Voting should work like that. a company should be able to give proxy votes.

This is why it would be great as a universal UX across the program. Any long list of stuff should be able to display as a hierarchical folded list if we want.

I still content better layers and layers groups would do more to allow effective management of complexity and would have allowed materials to do the job well.

Take timber, which has a direction that works effectively in structures and different appearances along the structural line verse across the structure. Your brain understands this even if you don't and flags it as an oddity or worse as a sign the structure is unsafe. If you want a render to be well received you either have to get that right or make it more sketchy. Materials offer no benefits to classes because they don't expand on the classes' ability. To bring it back to topic. What would have really helped reduce class complexity is layer grouping and viewport styles that understood layers that repeat within different groups, because materials didn't.

Did I miss some massive upgrade to how materials work because they don’t actually create a model that looks right unless the material is uniform.

Trying to find an old thread on this. There is a previous commitment* do remove modal dialogues from Vectorworks generally truely unless needed and the Home Screen would not block other interface elements after that. Edit: found it it was meant to be fixed in 2025

To me having a legacy name or internal structure name that uses dash separation doesn’t stop also having a more active interface for classes, layers and sheets that allows drag & drop to dynamically rename the containers as needed to obtain the desired location. It keeps it backwards compatible. and 3 interfaces get upgraded and become consistent in one move.

The story system already sets layer names up to work like classes with the dashes so all that is needed is to collapsible ui which from the classes list.

There use to be a 2D only version of MiniCad aka Vectorworks called Blueprint but I think I’m showing my age as that was before the industry packages.