Wesley Burrows
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Still busted for me as of SP4. Though now I can occasionally get 2 exports before I have to restart. Also as of SP4 most of the failed files are as @RafaelPernia said @ 26kb in size.
@JimW has there been any further information regarding: VSS-60589 ?
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Yup, I'm experiencing the same stuff. It's hands down the slowest starting program I have, which becomes 1000 times more irritating because of how many time's over the course of a work day I have to restart it, due to beach ball hangs, it no longer wanting to export to Cinema 4D, and a myriad of other stuff. Some tools are more awful at it than others. My expectations for 2019 are in the toilet just so that I could *possibly* be pleasantly surprised.
to the tune of Free Fallin' by Tom Petty:
I have a deadline, coming like a freight train
I just want, to, draw a poly-linebut the program, it stopped responding
time to force-quit, restart and we'll see...
Cause I’m BEACH
Beach Ballin’(Beach Balling, Yeah I’m, Beach Balling, Yeah I’m)
Yeah I’m BEACH
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I really enjoyed that article Evan. I've been using Corona exclusively the last couple of months after talking to you and seeing your work. I totally agree with your observation on how it handles lighting. It was also cool on a personal level too, as your thoughts about being more interested in the 3D/Rendering element than the actual design process mirrors my thoughts lately. Even the work/life balance of having a wife/kid, I often duck out for a bit around 3pm to hang with my daughter while my wife is working and then resume work after she's in bed. Thanks for sharing! Your work is top notch and the bar for which I strive.
I would love to see Vectorworks do some advanced tutorials/webinars/classes whatever, that go into detailing your workflow and drawing organization for shows of the scale you do and with the many outside designers you interface with, to tips and tricks for creating "lean and mean" 3D models of stadiums and such from DWGs and Revits.
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@JimW This may be broader than entertainment only so feel free to move this to General if that makes more sense.
Basically, why does the Visibility tool work differently on Design Layers vs View Ports as it pertains to what class get's highlighted when hovering over Symbols and PIOs? For example.... when I use it on a Design Layer over a generic run of P&D with the Softgoods Tool, it will highlight whatever the assigned master class of that layer is. IE: Scenic-P&D, so the item level. However, highlighting that same piece of P&D on a viewport it highlights 4-SGTS-Drapery (the pieces level) why is that? The same thing seems to happen with symbols. As @C. Andrew Dunning would say the Macro vs Micro.
Class Breakdown from Softgoods Toolset.
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Thanks @Selin for your transparency regarding this! I know there are a couple different issues that have been talked about in this thread. Is the CineRender crashing what delivers the Black/White Viewport? Just missing geometry? Or tied to all of them in some way?
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@JimW I'm sure you guys are closed today, just hoping all of our friends at Vectorworks are ok. Saw the news about the flooding, looked like Ellicott City isn't super far from you guys.
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21 hours ago, SCParker said:
I hope so as well. I'm working on a drawing right now that has over 270 10' sticks of truss. I have quotes for rentals and the vendor who carries another brand has a wicked price, but I'd have to change everything. Not that a direct replace function would work, they have 8' sticks for me.
Right, a 1 to 1 replacement isn't always going to work, I think there is still a very real place for the truss PIO's in the workflow (I am often running calculations in early stages in ballrooms to make sure we aren't designing ourselves into a corner). But even with that, if you change the PIO from say, 12x12 to 20.5x all the motors disconnect, and off you go reconnecting... I understand the argument that the PIO doesn't have cross-section info (which also isn't included for most US manufacturers anyway). (though I think you can add it), but provided the person doing the preliminary truss layout/rigging drawings isn't a complete idiot, I don't see how rigid is completely useless, if you understand the loads (center point and distributed) allowed on various spans of different sizes of truss, how is a rigid load calculation that much different than using something like Harry Donovan's rules of thumb? Which a lot of people have been using for years? I'm usually looking for ballpark #s anyway to help determine if things need further investigation by people more qualified than I. More of a starting point, than the law. Feel free to correct me if I'm being dense.
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I really hope 2019 makes Braceworks more usable in real world situations. Stuff like truss substitutions is not an uncommon occurrence. It doesn't take much for motors and connections to break/disconnect and you spend almost as much time tracking down all the ridiculous errors, re-inserting, re-attaching crap as the time it would take to calculate point loads manually. When it works it's great, but man when your in the thick of it trying to knockout updates and recalculate, it sure doesn't take much to send it all sideways quick.
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I also work with a shop that has a lot of Applied Electronics truss. Any updates on this?
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1 hour ago, JimW said:
the only option would be to try to make the newer engine work in 2018
I assume that this means that the engine VW 2018 uses is from R18 rather than R19? IE: One version behind? Just curious.
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1 hour ago, JimW said:
Progress yes, but I am concerned it might never be fixed in 2018. It's looking more and more like a problem with the Cinema4D engine.
This is disappointing to hear. As a Cinema 4D user, and someone using it to do the lion's share of my rendering work I've never had any of the described issues with it. I don't know the mechanics of interfacing VW to C4D's render engine, but I assume there is some sort of behind the scenes format conversion/translation to get it to something C4D wants to see. If that is the case I wonder if the missing geometry updates and black screen output are in anyway way related to the bug where VW can only Export/Send to Cinema 4D once, maybe twice successfully, before the resultant file starts missing most or all of the expected geometry? Requiring a restart of VW. Perhaps both functions use the same conversion/translation functions? Just a shot in the dark... I know you have a team of people way smarter than me working on it.
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2 minutes ago, ubybc said:
is there a workaround in place for the time being? Previously, the order was determined by the order within the data record?
The new update seems to have randomized the order. Would be nice to have some way to order the entry fields as they appear in the titleblock.
As far as I can tell, you have to delete everything up to the point the order is correct, and then manually add new fields in the order you want them to appear. Tedious for sure.
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I have also run in to this when mirroring. I don’t recall this being an issue in 2017 but I could be mistaken. But it’s one of the reasons I’ve all but written off the seating tool for now. Instead opting to use duplicate array, move by points and working planes.
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I share files with a freelance LD (who is also on 2018, and we've been on the same SP's when working together) and he has said in files that originate from me, he is unable to 3D rotate a lighting device to be a floor fixture. I simply do the below and it works fine for me. And when he originates a document he can rotate them this way too, but not one from me. Just curious if anyone has any ideas.
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On 2/23/2018 at 7:24 PM, zoomer said:
Send to C4D imports empty file.
This has been interrupting my workflow for almost a year now.
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Evan beat me to it. Also, your screenshot looks like you have the whole object selected. You can also use the tools in my screen shot to select a specific face or part of a face to map a texture on.
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2 hours ago, Andy Broomell said:
Do you mean you can't find the Record Format in the Resource Manager? The 2018 tool works differently than previous versions, and no longer relies on a separate Record Format. Instead, all of the records are sort of 'built-in' to the tool itself, under the Project and Sheet tabs of the Title Block Border Settings dialogue box. You can create and modify records directly there.
If that's where you're looking but it doesn't let you edit the fields, click the "Convert to Unstyled" button at the top and see if that let's you do you want.
My understanding (and experience) was, say I have a template file where I've made changes to my master title block, I've added some fields for example. re-ordered them etc. If I were to copy that newly updated title block to a file that had an older version of the title block without those fields, and paste it into the document with the older version, the pasted title block's design will update, however, the added/updated fields from the master title block will not carry into the this document. It will retain the old title block's fields. When you paste "Master Title Block" into the document needing updating, there is no records merge/replace dialog prompt, and the error occurs if you do the cut and paste method, OR import the "Master Title Block" style into the drawing that needs to be updated via the resource manager. The net result is the same.
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You sound like your experiencing the same thing I posted about a while back.
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On 3/23/2018 at 11:11 AM, JimW said:
Anyone who was experiencing this issue, please retest after installing 2018 SP3 and let me know if the issue was resolved or if you are still experiencing it.
Update, geometry updates still fail to render correctly in SP3. IE: Changes are reflected in Open GL, but aren't in FQR.
Open GL: (Correct)
FQR (Nope):
Closing the file and re-opening the file as it was above and hitting cmd + shift + F yields a completely black screen.
And of course, re-launching and re-rendering causes it to work as expected. (Until it doesn’t)
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50 minutes ago, B Cox said:
Bumping this--Nemetschek are you creating a bug report?
I'm on a Mac and SP3 and unable to replicate. Could you post a screen record to show the problem?
FWIW The "official" bug report channel is here:
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43 minutes ago, cberg said:
I guess my question is whether it is better to modify the user plugins or the application plugins? VW provides two areas for these to reside (at least on the Mac OS). Is one place better than the other?
By default VW puts new plugins in the user plugin folder. That's what I usually use. I then have a program called Resilio sync that syncs my user plugins, workspaces, and a couple of other things from my main Mac Pro to my Macbook Pro for site surveys, so when I make changes to my main machine, install a plugin, change my workspace my laptop automatically has them.
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On 4/2/2018 at 8:48 AM, JimW said:
For anyone noticing a sudden negative performance impact (this goes for any SP update from us, not only this one) you should close Vectorworks down entirely, back up your preferences as described below, and then reset them to their defaults:
Restart your machine, relaunch Vectorworks and then try working in the same file to see if the same issues remain or if the behavior has changed.So, I just tried this. And so far it's working. I gotta be honest though, I am just about sick of resetting my preferences. There has to be a better solution. I've lost count of how many times I've had to do that with 2018.
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Same for me. Constant force-quitting, hangs on the simplest of tasks. More beach balls than spring break.
Vectorworks is REALLY SLOW lately!
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