Wesley Burrows
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I use that same machine, but with a 27" thunderbolt display. Only 2K but I still love it. I tried a 55" 4K TV for a while, that was pretty comical. I couldn't get far enough away from it :-)
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58 minutes ago, Projx_CA said:
Is there a correct way to attach a soft goods Border or Teaser to a truss in Braceworks?
I am able to attach a full length drape (and calculate successfully) if the height of the drape is the same as the truss (i.e. 30' trim, 30' drape).
When I shorten the drape to be a header (30' trim, 20'drape), THE LOAD IS NOT CONNECTED
If I change the drape to a border, THE LOAD IS NOT CONNECTED
If I draw a new border, THE LOAD IS NOT CONNECTED
Is there a workaround other than extending the item to the ground, calculating, then shortening the item again?
I too am getting very mixed results with this using the Truss PIO converted to a Hanging Position. Curtain is really the only one that works right, border sorta works but it inserts with it's bottom Z @ the bottom Z of the truss so the border goes UP 19' taller than the bottom of the 12x12 it's hanging from. When I adjust the Softgoods PIO to correct this the calculation no longer see it as connected.
I typically just use the Insert Load (distributed) tool for stuff like this because of the strange results I've encountered.
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On 11/3/2017 at 7:44 PM, scottmoore said:
I do pretty much the same thing. If it is a complicated layout (circular, lots of angles) I generally work out aisle placement based on the aforementioned 14-16 wide maximum rows. That then creates some polygons into which I place my chairs. At this point, rotating your working plane becomes a fantastic feature.
One ither note regarding really complicated floor layouts; they can be time consuming to draw, but our end results can look fantastic. Keep in mind, however, that someone has to actually install those chairs and a lot of change-over crews are going to be in well over their heads with a bunch of radial angles. Because of this, I class my polygons and then use the rigging tool to install points in the corners of each. I then arrange a rigger or two and a few stagehands to layout the points and have found that the additional expense for these personnel is well worth it in time savings and avoided issues.
Do you use a custom hoist symbol for these points or just use one that you typically don't have in the rest of the rig?
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I had this problem with 2018, I had to delete my user preferences folder to fix it.
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Added my vote. I agree with all of the above points. I've had to resort to Cinema 4D with Hantmade's Stage plugin to get nice looking volumetric lighting renders. (And easy fixture fanning/focusing etc.) But I wish VW could do this internally. It kinda blew my mind that it didn't when I first starting using it.
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Does anyone here have any links to good reading information this subject? I'm always trying to find ways to better what I'm doing. But for those of us that (which I assume is most) have to submit, Seating Layouts/Revisions to the Venue, Venue Deck Plans to the Venue, Lighting Plots, to the Shop. Scenic Plans to scenic, etc. Do you maintain different revisions/issues etc for each specific trade? Just use a master revision # that you update when changes occur and re-issue the entire production package (what I do more or less, currently), or just publish the specific sheets relevant to the trade/recipient? I appreciate any insight.
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I'm almost certain this is a stupid question but for the life of me I can't figure out why when sorting ascending negative values (X on a motor X,Y sheet). Why I get this:
Logic would dictate that -45 is less than -15. it seems like it should sort as, -45, -15, 15, 45. What am I missing? (This was generated with Spotlight > Reports > Create Hoist Worksheet.
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Does anyone else find the service select portal significantly slower than the rest of VW's site/forums? I average around 7.6 seconds between clicking a link on there and and having the page delivered. I'm on a hardwired 1gbps ethernet connected to a 1gbps Google Fiber connection to the internet. (this is at my home office so I'm not sharing my connection with an office full of people) so I'm pretty sure it's not my internet :-) . The forums and main site are super responsive though. Just curious.
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Just now, RMcK said:
Is cloud services a separate cost, or, part of vectorworks 2018 package?
Can you continue to work on the vectorworks file while the sheets/images are being rendered in the cloud?
It's part of service select. Yes, you can continue working while cloud rendering is occuring.
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6 hours ago, Nina Ivanova said:
Thank you, Wesley!
Yes, this is a known problem for SP2, which is already fixed for SP3. It appeared after some restrictions done in the third party library, which we use for reading and writing DWG files. We had to adapt our code to follow the same restrictions. This problem appeared in a very special case - export of negatively scaled symbol instances with attached to the symdef record format - which usually happens when you have an imported DWG.
There are 3 such symbols in your document - 01PSBB01, 01PSBD01 and 01P054. Detaching record format from mentioned symdefs fixes the problem (and there is no loss of data after export to DWG - see images).
Thank you for reporting and sorry for the inconvenience.
Nina
Thank you for the info!
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46 minutes ago, Andy Broomell said:
I have two elementary questions to begin with:
- Does it matter where the file you're working in is saved? Does it need to already be in the Vectorworks Cloud Services folder?
- Is File<Publish the same command as Cloud<Cloud Publish? The dialog box I see seems to be the same in either case.
My experience has been:
Yes they have to be in your cloud services folder, or allegedly dropbox if you have it linked to cloud services, but I haven't had much success with the dropbox link. You'll also need to upload any fonts to vectorworks cloud that are special. For now I've just added aliases from the dropbox folder I want to my cloud services folder, and that works.
Publish is the same, you just have to change your storage dropdown to one of the cloud folders: (and your output file needs to be saved to a cloud storage location)
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Also here's the original DWG.
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1 hour ago, Nina Ivanova said:
Hello Wesley,
Would you, please, attach an example DWG so that we can investigate?
Thank you,
Nina
Attached is a fresh DWG (just received this morning) imported into a blank drawing. Crashes everytime I try to export a DWG.
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Does anyone have any good camera symbol resources? On sticks, on skates, Jib. etc? I've typically gone to 3D warehouse and made my own 2D geometry on top of the 3D, but thought I'd see if anyone already had some nice ones they'd be willing to share :-)
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Has anyone else run into this? Happens everytime. Isn't file specific (happens across different ones) and if I save the VW file as VW2017 and export with 2017 it works just fine.
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Stupid question, but have you restarted VW? I've had viewports that render all black after 6 or 7 successful renders. In 2017 it happend all the time. I can't speak for 2018 as much as I usually render with Cinema 4D now.
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I've run into this scaling chair symbols asymmetricaly. The 3D geometry has a tendency to completely fall apart using something like Chair 4 in the library as a base.
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7 minutes ago, CETLV said:
I made this conversion in DWG, you can import it and it may work ok. Note: I work in 1:1 all the time to make cross platforming easier, so you may have to scale it.
Its an upgrade since anything from atomic will be all wireframe with no meshes anyways.
This is great! Thank you!
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Does anyone have a 3D drawing of these? I reached out to my contact @ Atomic Design on Friday but haven't heard back yet.
Sidebar. It would be rad if the Atomic stuff was included in our libraries :-)
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I wish you could call this command via Vectorscript.
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1 minute ago, klinzey said:
We are seeing the issue when you use a Hanging Position that contains a Vectorscript Parametric object. Till we can get the issues resolved when converting a Straight Truss, Curved Truss or Lighting Pipe to a Hanging Position choose the "Create Symbol" option when converting the objects to a Hanging Position.
Bummer, according to Moritz Staffel @ Vectorworks Design Summit to avoid potential Braceworks calculation issues he recommends converting as geometry. So I guess it's one or the other.
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Thanks for sharing your workflows and experiences. I find it very insightful! From a code standpoint, (USA based)
I too have often found the 14-16 seats (size dependent) to be max in a row to meet this IFC requirement:
"Aisle accessway travel distance - The maximum length of travel along the aisle accessway shall not exceed 30 feet (9144mm) from any seat to the point where a person has a choice of two or more paths of egress travel to separate exits. (IFC 1017.4.3)"
I rarely run in to any client/producer, etc, pushback on that from a theatre seating standpoint. I do however run in to pushback on seating for banquet rounds. Does anyone have any sources for code (I know it varies somewhat by municipalities) regarding rounds?
I usually use this as a reference:
https://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/cs/groups/public/documents/document/dhn0/mdax/~edisp/tst001962.pdf (I live in Kansas City, and we do events all over the US, but this seemed like a good starting point)
For rounds, we are usually seating 72" rounds of ten, and that document shows ~6' table edge to edge if any seat is back to back, which is typical in a round configuration. So I usually start my round layouts @ 12' centers. Then people want to try 11', 10' etc, to squeeze more people in. I know that a lot of places will set this way, without saying a word, but if the fire-marshall gets a wild hair and wants to shut it down he could.
Does anyone have any clear sources that either give me a leg to stand on @ 6' edge to edge, or somewhere that shows that 4' or 5' edge to edge is ok in certain circumstances? Or just general best practices that are a good starting place for code compliancy.
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I saw it too.
MacOS 10.13.3 Supplemental Update causes very slow and unreliable performance with VW 2018 SP2
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Posted · Edited by Wesley Burrows
I too have encountered stability problems and performance degradation with 10.13.3 recent supplemental update. I've crashed and had the spinning beach ball of death in Vectorworks more the last two days than the last two months. I've also had some custom workspaces keyboard shortcuts stop working at random. Vectorworks seems to be the only application that has had this reaction post OS update.