[Morpholio Trace]

Now that Vectorworks supports the usd file format, I am curious how that could improve the file exchange between VW and Morpholio. Did anyone have the possibility to try it it yet?

[Mac M2 Render Speed Test]

10:48

 

Mac Studio M1 Max 64GB macOS Moneterey

[Data Visualization does not affect Pen Color or Thickness for Materials in Wall Components in Top / Plan View]

Hi. Is it possible that you have pen colors and thickness for the inner masonry wall? I think the line for the inner component is in front of the GWB Wall. And the outer line is from the wall and not from the component. You have to turn off the pen thickness for the wall in your classes.

[AI integrated Rendering]

Am also all for it! Saw something similar for Blender with Stable Diffusion.

[Having fun with ChatGPT]

On 1/2/2023 at 4:26 AM, JBenghiat said:

The logic of the AI-generated script is actually sound, but it's almost as though it wrote what *should* be the API first. 

Seems like it's a general thing for chatgpt. Found this on reddit about chatgpt and dynamo/revit:

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It's a bit rubbish. Too little learning on the API for it to function well. Had a good laugh the other day when someone posted some AI python code on the Dynamo forums that was way off track from what they asked it to do, invented its own API calls that don't exist, left out necessary inputs on actual API calls.

 

[Data Manager : does anybody outside the german-speaking area really USE IT?]

I have a similar feeling about it. 🤔

[Having fun with ChatGPT]

It's crazy what ChatGPT can do. I saw someone ask it to write an ifc file with a cube inside. And it worked! 😲

[Solibri Inside fpor Vectorworks]

Hi,

 

came across this announcement. https://www.solibri.com/inside?utm_campaign=Solibri Inside&utm_source=Press-Release-Solibri

It sounds very interesting and might create a type of "closed" BIM inside the Nemetschek Group. The only downside is the SaaS. Another subscription to maintain.

Nice to see though that Vectorworks is immediatly mentioned and not an afterthought.

 

What are your thoughts?

 

Regards!

[Can not map IFC Material properties]

Hi,

 

sadly my experience with questions regarding ifc and the data manager has been less then stellar in the international forum. Somehow it's not a big topic.  Our german forum is more active in those topics. Maybe because OpenBIM is more important in the DACH region.

 

Cheers,

 

elepp (pappadam1984)

[Central Setting for Vectorworks Cloud Storage Location]

Hi @Lyuben,

 

thanks for your reply. The way I usually do it, is in  the login window for VW 2022. I click on the create account button, if the colleague is new and not linked with our organisation already.

 

An organisation cloud storage would be very useful. I could see some use cases there. One of the annoying things for me is that i need to invite each account to our shared workgroup folder. An organisation cloud storage would allow for default sharing of these folder, when a new colleague setups up an account.

[Central Setting for Vectorworks Cloud Storage Location]

9 hours ago, BartHays said:

@Matt Overton

If I understand you, this is already possible.

 

We created a 'Workgroup" folder in our VW Cloud folder and modeled the folder structure after the standard User Library.

Then we added the local VCS sync folder to our user Workgroup list:

 

 

Libraries are Sync'ed to the cloud and each users local machine, all of the resources are available in the Resource Manger.
Is that what you are looking for?

 

Bart

That's how we use it as well.

[Central Setting for Vectorworks Cloud Storage Location]

Hi,

 

we can now choose the location of the sever hosting our files on the Vectorworks Cloud. Our pain is now that I can't set the standard location for our office. Each account I create for my colleagues has San Francisco set as the standard. I would like to define an office standard location for us. This way our files get send first to servers that we have no interest in using as european customers.

 

Regards!

[Vectorworks abandoning perpetual licences]

https://architosh.com/2022/10/the-revit-open-letter-through-the-lens-of-qwerty-nomics/

 

Here is another interesting read about our overall situation in the aec industry relating to subscription models and available trained human resources.

[can you batch append classes?]

Hi, I am using the german version but to the best of my knowledge the international version has a tool for that as well:

 

https://app-help.vectorworks.net/2022/eng/VW2022_Guide/Structure/Batch renaming.htm?rhhlterm=batch classes class&rhsearch=batch classes

 

Should be able to append text to classes.

 

Greetings!

[Data Manager and Worksheet Formula Generator]

Hi folks,

 

I came across this little helpful website: https://excelformulabot.com/

Maybe some of you have a use for it.

 

But it would be great to have something like this for Vectorworks. I know plenty of people, who struggle with the right formulas. That would be a great help for them.

 

Just some thoughts!

 

Regards!

 

[Connecting ifc project data and data from Title Block Manager]

It is annoying and prone to mistakes to have to enter the project data in two different places. I wish to have one interface to manage this.

[IFC export : export only architectural elements (windows, doors and symbols) without walls.]

1 hour ago, GatRed said:

It is quite easy to hide specific ifc elements into ifc checker / viewers because if you hide ifcwall or ifcwallstandardcase, ifcwindows including in the walls are not hidden.

Yes, i agree. That would be a nice feature to have.

[IFC export : export only architectural elements (windows, doors and symbols) without walls.]

I think that will be a challenge, if not impossible. Usually windows and doors are dependend on walls in the ifc schema. It should be easy to turn off the walls in the model checking software. In Solibri I can filter the windows and doors for specific clashes between architectural model and structural model.

[ODBC Drivers / Purpose]

On 8/26/2022 at 3:01 PM, Samuel Derenboim said:

Do window sizes auto update upon selection of the record?

Hi, that project was done with 2d symbols, because the windows were to complicated to generate with the vectorworks window tool.

 

I didn't manage to play more with the functions, we used it mainly to shift the data from file a into file b.

 

I see a bit of potential for facility management with a data base you are setting up. The main tool would be the data base and Vectoworks would be for visualising the data in the floorplan. Like cleaning schedules or seating plans.

[ODBC Drivers / Purpose]

I think that connected data bases are one of the most underutilised features. We still do a lot of 2d projects and the floorplans and views are seperate files, so I used a sqlite table to syncronise the record for our window symbols. Only one colleague had to update the information in the floor plan and the data tags in the view file was updated accordingly. Huge time saver.

 

[IFC4 - Demolition]

Ah ok. Afaik it's something that Archicad and Revit do natively in there respective software and people confuse it with it being supported by ifc. 🙄 Therefor they assume all programms are supporting it. Archicad is creating a custom pset for this information in ifc2x3.

[IFC4 - Demolition]

Ah ok. I misunderstood you. You want to have the IfcTaskTypeEnum attached to your door, right? Vectorworks is indeed a bit limited when it comes to IfcTypes. IfcTime is also not supported. I think at the moment only the mvd "reference view 1.2" is supported.

[IFC4 - Demolition]

Hi,

 

To my best knowledge these 7 attributes are the official ones from buildingsmart for IFCDoors in IFC4. Where did you find the additional ones?

[Vectorworks abandoning perpetual licences]

52 minutes ago, jeff prince said:

All of this points to a ripe market for a BIM alternative.  I’m guessing the next recession, a bunch of younger AEC folks, and the growing dissatisfaction with the current BIM oligarchy will create the incubator needed for innovation.   It will be interesting to watch the next big disruptive technology in the space to emerge, sad that it probably won’t be Vectorworks, which I have grown to love and simultaneously become increasingly frustrated with.

I am not very hopeful about that. We can see that in the social media business. Rivals will be bought or copied. In the best case they will be integrated, in the worst the product will be shut down and the user base forced to move over.

[Anyone using one of these?]

We are also thinking about purchasing new hardware and Apple is not making it easy. We plan to use it for 3 years and we were considering the bigger M1 Max with 64 GB. It seems to be the best compromise for now between affordability and performance. We do bigger residential buildings with file sizes that can reach over 2GB. Usually we have Vectorworks open, a browser and a pdf reader/ preview. The lack of dedicated ram for the gpu worries me a bit about our workflow.