Wesley Burrows

I have done curved LED walls drawing a line curved how I want, extrude it, convert to a nurbs surface and then do a surface array of an extruded rectangle that is the size of the LED module. You have to make sure you use fixed spacing so it doesn't distort your module size.

That's for checkin! I'll definitely get with VW Support. This crap always shows up when I'm staring face first at a deadline for submitting something. Never fails. Say Hi to Mark C. Audra, Mario and others! (I worked at TMS years ago in a previous life)

Update: After multiple profanity laden tirades that probably changed my 3 year old daughters life forever. Smashing some inanimate objects, and pacing around like a psychopath, I discovered if I save in a 3D view (num pad 5 in this case) and re-open it holds the correct rotations. If I save in Top/Plan, it all goes to hell. what. the. actual. F.

Has anyone run into 2019 losing the rotation of these DLVPs after closing and re-opening the drawing? (saving before closing of course) Happens every time and is about to send me on a homicidal rampage. If I load from a recent backup file in VW Backup, it regenerates correctly. But again, opens wrong even when re-saving the backup over the master drawing. See below. These were vertical towers before closing.

I'm curious what tips and tricks people have for maximizing their efficiency with their template file. Default design layers/sheet layers/viewports etc.

@scottmoore Do you draw your plan view in position on the drawing? IE: If you had a vertical truss tower, would you draw it laying down in position, with the pivot point where, ever it would stand up? VS drawing the plan view in some arbitrary location in the document?

If any of you guys are on Service Select, there is a good video tutorial of DLVPs for truss raking from @C. Andrew Dunning (I don't know if it's available elsewhere)

I'm on 2019 and the revision clouds don't seem to offer any type of linking functionality for tieing into the revision system. They are just a piece of cloud shaped geometry.

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Right, I don’t know that I would use Renderworks as the hardware performance bar. As already noted by others Corona (which I use) and other solutions, can be worlds faster, even using the same hardware.

Following up on the core limit. 🙂

Has the CPU core limit been lifted?

I’m not in front of my computer at the moment but there is a class called Truss-Simplified (I believe, or something similar), if you turn that off it’ll look more like truss.

Gotcha, I think I must have misread your original post. Reading it again it sounds like you've had the same lower performance under both configurations..... eGPU driving external display, and it just driving the internal display.

I just tried a 2018 file in 2019 that was giving me all sorts of problems with push-pull and to me it feels like there is some improvement, but it's still quite laggy/beach-bally.

Is the eGPU driving both displays? Or just the external, with the integrated driving the internal display?

I have been playing with an eGPU off and on for a couple of years now. Due to some updates to tools that enable this on TB2 macs, I decided to try again the other day. (I have a 2013 nMac Pro which doesn't "officially" support them) but I have gotten my NVIDIA GTX 980TI to work fine. I realize that card is several years old, but it shows a MASSIVE improvement in Cinema 4D versus my FirePro D700s in OpenGL, but I can't really notice a difference in Vectorworks, and I'm not sure why that is. It seems like the 980TI should rail the D700s in VW too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe I'll temporarily try pulling my Titan X out of my PC and see if that changes anything.

I actually use a script to toggle it off and on depending on what I'm doing but for example: Base Setup: (3 - 10' Tomcat Bolted Truss Pieces w/ a Distributed Load running the length of) If I double click to edit the load, choose path, it shows this when the show other objects during editing preference checked (by default): It shows this with the same settings but in a top/plan view: And if I toggle the preference off it shows this (just a line): giving me no reference to downsize it and snap to a different truss location. It would be amazing if it had reshape handles to remove/change/add vertices in the design layer. I currently have to delete and redraw them when things change.

My template has a mountain of classes in it, sometimes when I want to assign an object to a class, I'll type the class name little by little in the class search field, say I get to the end of it and there is no result because I realize the class doesn't exist. So I click on new class, which then just shows "Class Name 1" or similar, I wish "Class Name 1" would populate to what I already typed in the search field.

I wish you could reshape distributed loads with the reshape tool rather than trying to edit the path which won't allow you to see the underlying objects to snap your adjustments to.

I'm a big fan of the way @C. Andrew Dunning implemented this in his plugins. Would love to see something similar happen across the board.

Yes please, grapples and such.

Yas!

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I have said this too.. SP0 = Beta 1, SP1 = Beta 2/Release Candidate 1, SP2 Release Candidate 2/Release etc. I agree, and really hope they expand. It is pretty amazing to me the number of bugs/tools not working I have found within an hour of using a release, many of which I'm fairly astounded no one found. This latest 2019 SP1 update definitely felt more like a hotfix style/less intrusive update, which I like, it also felt like it came out much faster than previous SP1s, I'm pretty sure the last two SP1s at least were around Thanksgiving each year.