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  1. @sbarrett good morning

     

    I seem to remember that some time ago I asked you something similar. But I'm not sure. The problem lies in easily defining the quantities of materials from objects such as walls or slabs with many components. For every single design layer. Each component has a material. The worksheet couldn't (and I still can't) merge the names of the materials to quickly calculate everything.

     

    It is a very important project, it could be a good thing to show. May I ask you what you think? Did you get to do some rehearsals?

     

    Thank you in advance

  2. 22 hours ago, Pat Stanford said:

    I think we will be able to get you what you want.

     

    There is a Criteria of Material <Any> is present.  Using that you should be able to get all of the objects that have materials. Add a Layer Is criteria and you will get only the materials that are on a specific layer.

     

    Check the Search Within Symbols and Search Within Plug-in Objects boxes and you should get all the contained objects on the layer as well.

     

    If this is not enough, please post a file with some objects so I can work on getting you what you need.

     

    Using any material is present, I need to check the quantity inside component wall etc. By this way, the quantity are not merged and see every single wall. Can I send you via PM a message with a dedicated link? thanks

  3. 18 hours ago, Matt Panzer said:

    @gfebres@gfarch.ca, @zeno, @station, @GregG, Et al,

     

    Do you know if you were using project sharing when this happened?

     

    Good morning Matt.

     

    I am still currently using a CW window with other objects modeled and converted to autohybrid all togheret in a symbol in walls which in turn have inserted beam objects as symbols.

     

    The problem had been resolved, but I had to reinsert the windows AFTER making the update.

     

    Unfortunately, project sharing has never been used. I don't know people who have the ability to handle complex projects with VW.

     

    Thank you

  4. I apologize in advance. For some things I'm interested in deepening, for others I'm not.

     

    If I may, ask a question. I have a M1max with 64GB of RAM. Sometimes I see that I struggle to do navigation and, above all, sheet layers and section viewports operations.

     

    Does it make sense to spend almost 8000 euros to take an M1ultra and wait for it 3 months, in the meantime comes ultra m2 or m3, extreme, planetarium, extramporalis, super Sayan level V processors?

     

    I know it's a simple question, maybe from newbies, but sometimes simple things are the best.

     

    (Obviously if you want to tell me which trades is best for and for which it wouldn't change much)

     

    Thank you

     

    @zoomer @Mark Aceto

     

  5. I suggest to create  a hybrid symbol who you model auto hybrid object near parametric object. You can reference everything on the symbol x y z parameter. Then you can create a big symbol when you manage also the 2D hole. If there are part between wall and symbol who don't get well you can adjust them by continuingmodelng and autohybrid. I suggest to use material, so you can have the right representation on sections. Is not very smart but works

  6. the time factor is crucial.

     

    There are importan mac youtuber in Italy who in the absence of other software ready for apple silicon show Revit Benmchmark emulated on windows. The opportunity should be developed soon. The thing is simple to reproduce: it would be enough to duplicate objects on many design layers. Ore something needs high CPU/GPU processes But I recommend: do not put any structural elements, which could be a bad boomerang

     

    I wouldn't just focus on rendering. I wouldn't call it an exclusive field.

     

    thank you

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  7. On 3/26/2022 at 10:40 AM, GatRed said:

    Hello, I'm sorry for what I'm about to write but it's quite unbearable to see how nothing is changing on the side of doors and windows tools despite the many comments made on this forum and to distributors (design express in my case).
    I really do not understand.


    Doors and windows are important elements in architecture and they are also industrialized elements. Because of their variable dimensions, parametric tools are necessary to avoid modeling them one by one.
    Why is Vectorworks failing to make this tool?

     

    I note that many distributors have created their specific tool and I have tested the following:
    American, (former) French, German/Italian, Belgian/French/Dutch, Australian.
    NONE allows to have both a correct use and a correct representation in advanced phase of study.
    By arguing local specificities, energy was spent for nothing by developing several tools when only one would suffice.
    Having worked in Great Britain, Germany and France, no local specificity justifies different tools.

    Please stop this.

     

    Would it be possible to concentrate development efforts on a single tool to have a tool that works?

    From my point of view, but it is debatable, the express design tool (belgium, france) is the most advanced in terms of options and representation, but it is unusable because badly programmed (long time to draw each element ) and because it doesn't have a style option.
    The American tool behaves well, but it does not offer enough representation and drawing options.

     

    Vectorworks, for architects who design spaces and need windows to bring light into their buildings, when are you going to seriously upgrade these tools?

     

     

     

    Hello. Believe me I can really understand you. I'm designing 13-story buildings with details down to the millimeter and everything has to match exactly what's going to happen in reality. I'm not telling you about the fact that I will probably be locked up in some strange hospital at the end of this job, but for the windows the only way I could go was this. I work with the Italian version. But I also spent several days figuring out which window to use. The Germans (from which the Italians derive) do important things, the USA other things. All together there is not. It's okay to get angry. But then you can understand that either you expect the tool that does everything to arrive, or you try to make a difference by trying to understand how to adapt the tools to your goal. From here a few weeks later, thanks to the German window, to many autohybrid objects, and to a lot of patience I was able to confirm that if they had ordered those windows they could throw them in the garbage because they simply did not fit in that building. Remember that the whole set can be saved as a symbol. Self-hybrid and parametric objects together. A symbol as sure as you know can go into the wall. I had prepared the base in 2021. Then in 2022 at the beginning there was a panic because for a period the holes of the old symbols did not work. Then they solved it luckily, because without the support for M1 and then M1max I don't know how I would have done it. So, in my opinion, you are right to get angry. But get angry to ask for improvements but study a method to get to the end anyway. I think it makes the difference between a user who knows how to use software and a user who takes that software, bangs it on the wall, and beats it until he does what he wants, exactly how he wants it. To do this, being angry can be helpful.

    Don't give up. Using Vectorworks need passion.

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  8. 5 hours ago, line-weight said:

     

    The files in which you have issues; were they created in VW2022 or in earlier versions?

     

    One thing I have noticed in my own files with similar problems, is that it's worst when I try to view a sheet layer that would have been created in a previous version of VW, and one that I may not have looked at or edited since converting to VW2021 or 2022.

    Work started on 2021 but 70% was done on 2022

  9. Already reinstalled 3 times. Every vw component following istructions on https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/articles.html/articles/how-to/uninstallation/uninstalling-vectorworks-r268/

    the problem persist only on a big file. But several times when I was teaching other people it happened that to continue working with vectorworks it was necessary to restart everything after several section viewports. Imemory remains busy after a complex process i think. Having a M1 Ultra with 128 GB memory can only postponed this process if no way is found to clear memory when terminating a complex viewport computation process. i was very worried about not being able to finish a job with m1max and 64GB.  I was able to find a method.  the point is that I can work with it without stressing the machine as much as it works.  but if I don't restart vectorworks, as I said, I go from 35-40 GB directly to 190 GB.  maybe it is when I have an ultra m1 I can do two sections, certainly not three

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  10. On 3/30/2022 at 6:22 PM, Sky said:

    I went back and found that my memory leak problems (exactly like yours) started in VW2017 SP4 and it seemed to continue through VW 2019. I actually don't know how it resolved itself because I didn't post a solution in that thread. But it was suggested to reset VW preferences. 

    Reading these considerations sincerely worries me a little. I thought it was a recent problem but I see that it is one of those problems that have been known for years. I have been running VB-183608 for months and it has been considered, but not fixed. It is clearly some major improvement that could be made. The biggest problem is that today it is not possible to update so many viewports during a period of user inactivity, such as overnight. Can you tell us on which files exactly this problem was happening to you? PS: I already reset user preferences hundred times.

     

    Thank you

  11. 5 ore fa, Matt Overton ha detto:

    Hai un supporto con ventole integrate per il raffreddamento?

    O il calore non tende ad essere un problema.

     

    Absolutely not a problem. I use the stand only to have a better visibility

  12. 18 minutes ago, Christiaan said:

     

    If you were to go for this configuration, for another 900, I would seriously consider going with this instead. Add a Studio Display and you have the same setup + portability.

     

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    I got the same machine with a 43" lg display. It changes totally my workflow

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  13. 12 hours ago, Sky said:

    @line-weight I used to have to do that with VW2020 and maybe VW2021 but I don’t exactly recall when that problem went away for me.

     

    I just looked at the Activity Monitor while rendering in VW2022 on my MacBook Pro M1 Max, and it looks like after each rendering is done, it releases the memory so I don’t run out. 
     

    I’m sorry I don’t have any advice for you, but I’m glad that problem went away for me.


    on my experience, section viewport rendering takes max 30-35 gb and then they are correctly calculated. If I don’t turn off vw and reopen the file to do a second render, the memory going over 50. From 50  the memory request incres up to 190 GB but every time (trust me, there are months i’m trying to find a solution) without success. So: 35 GB after reopen vw, or 190 GB with s collaps

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  14. 15 hours ago, line-weight said:

    At the moment, I have to do them in batches. Do the maximum number that I can get away with without the memory collapsing. Wait for it to complete. Save the file. Quit Vectorworks. Re-open Vectorworks, re-open file. Do the next batch. Repeat.


    welcome to the club. It’s the true. I suggest to work with more than one computer if you can. 

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