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Been playing with MidJourney (free trail then $10/month for coupleGPU hours) over the break which can take feed images. So I've been able to feed it both a feed image from VW and then recycle the image it produces to add new prompts. There are a few around that seem good.
It really seems promising. Seems like something VW cloud could add maybe with mood boards as part of the feed to let us quickly explore look and feel with clients.
I think it would need to be cloud based so all VW users are training and retraining the same model. That would mean certain keywords produce different tweak to the look. We can create styles of image output that would quickly be geared towards the work VW users do instead of the more general public tuning of the open engines.
Edit to add couple of samples these are pure text prompt images
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17 hours ago, yasamandavachi said:
Moving from Archicad to VW, and also having previous experience with Revit, I cannot believe this option does not exist already in VW 2023! Help me out please if I am wrong!
Nope not wrong. Not even on the roadmap. So maybe 2026.
Still workaround works well just a be manual. We don't even have 3D in annotations so you need management of it as well.
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Be careful of that option as there maybe hiddens like version history or trash and suddenly you are syncing many Tb of data.
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On 12/9/2022 at 5:06 AM, Mark Aceto said:
Would kill for 2-point perspective as an option:
Oddly the icons for the views are 2 point perspective, given that isn't an option in the program but someone in the development teams gets that is most readily understood view.
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Seriously we now have to have an account with you to get the app to load.
What are you asking here that you don't already know.
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On 9/8/2022 at 2:43 AM, Tom Klaber said:
With the new subscription model - they might be moving away from yearly releases. Maybe it will be pushed out as part of 2023 SP.2.
Oh we can dream but hope only leads to heartache.
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No we want folders....
not formal dividers
😉
make love not war
oh if you use storeys you can have the divider be part of the storey created layers.
Informal dividers
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On 11/10/2016 at 12:44 AM, Wes Gardner said:
Hi All,
To clarify, I don't think the framing member tool is path based. Therefore, you'll need to do miters at the corners (which it CAN do fairly elegantly). I'm still going with EAP and popping on end caps as required.
Wes
Thanks to the bump on this post it reminds me to ask.
Why doesn't the Structural member tool have a path based counterpart?
Wouldn't it just be the Handrail based base counterpart but with structural members. Would be useful in many situations so would end caps for that matter for adding bolting or nailing plates to the members. well and end caps on gutter.
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You also have sweep and exude along path as options both let you use the same profile.
But having played too much cities skylines I'd suspect Vectorworks (or skylines) aren't the best tools for it.
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or name space them so we could have the same name across a set of related resources.
I personnel could use the following resource types all called - "Brick"
- Hatch
- Image
- Line Type
- Material
- Texture (render works)
- Resource Folder
- Slab Style
- Tile
- Wall Style
Without any confusion. Indeed brick hatch, line and image would be in use in Material, Texture, Slab and Wall Styles.
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But then you'd miss SP5 2022 which was released after VW2023.
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On 10/26/2022 at 11:53 AM, inikolova said:
@mjm, the Cloud is able to produce final renderings in a form of panoramas, images and PDFs. It sounds like you think it can't.
My question was more about whether having a copy of the .vwx file with "Saved viewport cache" is more valuable to you in some way compared to getting the final rendered viewports in an image or PDF file
I thinks it's important we are human(s) pushing deadlines bring in late information often effecting the stuff around the viewport not the viewport.
To be fair most often we just clip the output PDF down and switch out the viewport but agree with others would be able to pull the file back to make those changes even if they are simple things like someone deciding they wanted a different revision note.
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Company libraries on cloud would also be great as well.
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There is no user interface advantage to doing it. We use the hierarchy to keep everyone on the team applying objects in right locations for various drawings produced over life of the job without back tracking.
helps with handling multiple buildings on same site with level changes.
not to dissimilar to how stories handles layers
having the UI take that and apply the same rules and features as classes hierarchy does would be massive.
by ready I mean we are working like it exists even if it doesn’t.
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Our standard layer naming works with dashes and groups.
we are ready for this.
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On 10/13/2022 at 11:13 PM, Christiaan said:
Check out Biplap's presentation here, he talks about Project Sharing at 1:47:21:
This video doesn't inspire confidence.
Making it works as it should is not an "improvement" but minimum viable project.
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On 10/13/2022 at 1:29 AM, Christiaan said:
Yes, but Biplap addresses this in his address:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxaJ2miPWyol2rAI4nt6FidlqrztF-1Srx
I'll repeat what I said above and somebody at VW can correct me if I'm wrong:
If a feature/fix is ready and doesn't require a file format change then it will be released in a monthly service pack. If a feature/fix is ready and requires a file format change it will be released in an annual major release. With, I'm sure, the odd exception.
Shame the video sound doesn't seem to be working for me but "Ready" implies there isn't a structured plan to spread features just let them slide if they become problems. "ready" does nothing to instill confidence.
If a feature doesn't require a file format conversion as it is new or overlay on existing then it shouldn't be in the version release it should be planned for another non-version monthly release.
10 hours ago, line-weight said:@zoomer's question was why the change to subscripton should be necessary to fix longstanding issues. Issues that have nothing to do with release frequency. Issues that have been sitting there for so many years that there have been maybe 5 or 10 major releases where there was an opportunity to fix them.
5 years seems to be the minimum for even bug fixes.
Yes the only thing that is really going to speed this up is more revenue so more staff can tackle the issues, or open source parts and let the community battle test their own improvements. Even that requires an investment in better scripting and tools.
Both really require a solid push to bring more users on board and into the community and pushing pricing higher is not conducive to increasing user base. Is the program really moving fast enough at this point to be an acceptable down grade to pull customers from the "Big Guys"?
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20 hours ago, MarcelP102 said:
Here is a screenshot of the new, more frequent, update cycle as showed in the last Vectorworks Design Day:
The way it's been talked about I though it would be monthly not bi-monthly. it's only really 1 maybe 2 more than current and doesn't say anything about rolling feature updates over year so they get better testing.
calling them service packs seems more of just the same system of slamming the test team with a full year of features and expecting good coverage.
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On 10/7/2022 at 2:41 AM, Pat Stanford said:
Yep.
Sheepshaver runing OS9.0.4
VWWare Fusion running Mac OSServer 10.6. (the only one Apple licensed for virtualization)
VMWare Fusion running Windows XP
I am probably going to have to add another Fusion setup with VW2018 or 2019 here soon.
And I probably have hardware in my garage that can run all of those OS native if really necessary.
Yes, I am a packrat. 🤦♂️😂
There was a change in the license for MacOS a few years ago so you can run any old MacOS X as a VM on Apple hardware.
There is a developer API and command tools to 'help'* set them up from install images hosted by Apple** to grab and configure.
Maybe a should set up a few old vw machines while I'm doing another painful project.
* still painful enough but easier.
** might require developer account to access.
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On 9/20/2022 at 12:45 AM, MHBrown said:
"How would you unlock it"
Well, off the top of my head:
1. Menu / Unlock
2. Unlock/ Unlock All and Unlock Selected
3. Pick "All" or "Selected"
4. If "Selected" is chosen, then the now highlighted locked items (or groups thereof) are identified for selection.
5. Close menu or, if you like, use one of the little green check boxes found elsewhere.
This is just one way. It may have some faults, but I'm sure there are many other ways to accomplish something this simple.
I think the best advice, however, is to make it a different layer or class and work with the visibility attributes, as Andy suggests. Thanks everyone!
MHBrown
Yes choose action then object instead of the other way.
Would be a handy logic to many tools.
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Yes the system has a lot of odd things it wants to check-out in order to do simple things like this.
the ones I hit all the time:-
- Every title block in a file to add a sheet layer.
- Data tags in some odd random viewport annotation to move a window in a door.
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We are running project server on a local synlogy NAS set up as per guides.
We are getting getting the following file pollution in our main projects storage on the NAS, any idea how to get it to stop.
Files appear to be log files that have exceed size limit but a 100MB in an irregular period so not a scheduled flush.
100MB in what seems to be 6 to 7 working days seems like an excessive amount of logging.
Is it a sign of something wrong and how do it stop it?
Also can I just delete them?
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On 9/20/2022 at 9:29 AM, Will Glenn said:
@ndavison are the plans to drop the subscription price, since the option to purchase perpetual licenses is being taken away? Maybe a tiered license system (e.g. enterprise vs small business)? This would allow your small businesses and sole proprietors to stay with Vectorworks.
Add tiers for Students and Seniors.
the Former to make sure there is a good supply of staff coming in to the market.
The later to keep those trained and at the late stages or post career able to stay current and activity if they want to keep a tool they know for retirement hobbies and play.
but all in all get the price down and be aggressive in getting new customers to expand revenue and get faster development happening. If the plan is just to squeeze the orange harder, then we might as well jump ship and retrain.
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With great interest I kept clicking links to find nothing but 404.
Change Design Layers & Sheet Layers terminology to "Layers" & "Sheets"
in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests
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Why not then Build space not design space
Build your model in build space
or Model your model in model space
Shame DL's have been upgraded to contain some of the hierarchy and 3Dness of that part of the of the project then they could be called a "Regions"
Region or
Sheet
Class or
Material