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Hi Kevin thanks for the swift response. I haven't tried that, tbh I have tended to steer clear of the architectural tools as they have felt like overkill for stage making. I'll check it out, and try and simplify the wall components to see if this gives me a wee bit more control. Cheers for the advice 🙂

Hi Folks I am trying to apply a texture to a solid object. This works as expected and is appropriately scaled (photo 1) until I cut a door way in the object with solid subtraction (photo 2). I have tried extracting the surface but it the texture behaves in a similar way. The tower on the opposite side of the stage worked fine both as a solid and as an extracted nurbs surface so I am at a loss as to why this one is behaving differently (photo 3 & 4). The only perceptible difference between the two is the working tower's base polygon shape is made from two arcs describing a section of a circle whereas the glitching one is an arc leading to a flat surface. Is there a way to fix this or a better way to create the base geometry? Cheers Simon

Hi I’m trying to use google cardboard to view models and check audience sight lines however the view does not rotate or display properly. When cardboard is activated the view distorts and there is no motion detection. Im using an iPhone 8 and safari (although I have tried chrome as well)

Brilliant thanks Kevin, fixed now. I had changed the attributes to "class attributes" but the changes wouldn't take effect until I hit "colour by class" in the colour pallet. Thanks for looking at it.

File attached Open Gl Error.vwx

Hi Folks So I sometimes use the stitch and trim tool from the 3d power pack (out of laziness?) It was used to check out the large timbers to the shape of the small grey former. The grey objects are reading as generic solids with the correct class and use at creation is selected (has been since the creation of the class). Still stumped.

Hi I'm stumped by whats going on here. The frame below was made from extrudes with a yellow coloured class. The grey beams were also extrudes with the same class until the stitch & trim tool was used. When selected the object info pane still reports them as generic solids and still have the yellow class, however its not showing up in open GL. Changing the class doesn't make a difference, they stay a stubborn grey colour. The small curved object involved in the stitch and trim operation had a different class (brown). Why can't I change the grey objects attributes? (use at creation is selected)

Hi Alex test flight version installed and initial testing seems positive with no issues. I'll load up some other models and run it for a while. Cheers for all your help with this.

Sure I already have test flight installed for some other apps and would be happy to help

Just a wee addendum, putting the Nomad app into the background does temporarily alleviate the problem but it quickly stutters and freezes until you send it into the back ground again.

Hi Alex Thanks for the speedy response 🙂 Its an iphone 8 running IOS 12.12 Nomad 6.4.2 I have had a colleague test it on their Iphone 5s and they are encountering similar issues using the test models in nomad. Standard model viewer works perfectly its just the AR viewer that has been misbehaving since IOS 12 update. I have removed and reinstalled the app, cleared the dropbox folder and transfer the vwx. and then submitted the models for processing again but with out any improvment.. Any help is greatly appreciated Cheers Simon

Hi Inokolova The models in question used to work brilliantly but but now even with simplified models the app stutters and dies in AR. I have attached one of the drawings as an example. Any help on this wouldbe greatly appreciated. Cheers Simon Cabaret Nomad.vwx

Hi I used to use Nomad for displaying Vectorworks models in physical venue model boxes. This worked a treat and on a couple of occasions I scaled the model up and was able to walk a director around the set in the actual venue. However since IOS 12 nomad stutters and ctds within seconds of starting up an AR model. The standard viewer still works perfectly with no issues however. I have trawled the forums and web and can find very few references to Nomad let alone any solutions and to date there is only one review on the app store (mine). Is anyone else using this successfully? Is this a known issue? is it just my setup? Any help with this would be appreciated as its driving me nuts.. Cheers Simon

Brilliant! Thanks Pat I have it fully working now and with a minor tweak to the required layers I can rapidly report on materials rather than manually working it out. Its going to save hours of grunt work, as well as making the technicians happy as they will have a reasonable approximation of the weights for flying. Thanks again for your help 🙂

Hi Pat Thanks for the reply, much appreciated. I managed to get the majority of this working correctly following your guidance but I think I have missed something. I couldn't find the create report option but the advanced criteria dialogue box opened automatically when I clicked Database in the row header so i just used that. If I have understood your instructions correctly there are more options available on the create report dialogue box, which is why I can't control the sheet in the same way you suggest. I also cannot for the life of me work out how to Summarise the materials in to a single row. I did find Create report in the spotlight menu but it only listed records or symbols as the possible columns but there was no advanced button. Any Ideas where I went wrong?

Hi There I am trying to create a worksheet that will generate a report on the quantity, cost and total weight of an item of theatrical scenery drawn in multiple classes over multiple layers. Each Material class is reported on using the formula: =VOLUME((C='Materials- Timber- Dar- 25x70') & (L='Flats- SL'))/1750000 I don't want to update the material (class) formula for every layer. Is there a way to use a reference cell to set the criteria and then use the cell number within the formula so that only the reference cell needs updating? Can a single formula contain multiple references to multiple layers? For example I have a Doorway Flat (timber frame) on one layer and door on another to make the drawing easier whilst building the 3d model. However the construction drawing on a sheet would contain viewports from both layers showing the wall and the door . Ideally I would deploy the worksheet onto the sheet layer and generate costing/tech data from there. Any help with the syntax of the formula would be great The only other possible solution I can think of would be to turn each finished model into a symbol and the use the INSYMBOL command but this comes with its own additional considerations. Are there any obvious pitfalls with this approach? I have tried to attach a sample .vwx showing my layer structure and worksheet but keep getting a -200 error Cheers Simon

Perfect thank! this fixed it.

Hi all Is there anyone who can help me with some work sheet questions? I have created a worksheet that will report the linear metres of timber and number of sheets of ply wood in a model using volume by class: =VOLUME_LEGACY(((C='Materials- Timber- Dar- 20x68'))) However there are a few flaws with this approach and I was wondering if there are any worksheet commands that could be used to help quantify materials on different layers in complex drawing? Problem 1 This method will report the total amount on all layers, which is useful for a total costing, but no use for quantifying an individual multi material component within the lager model. Consequently I also need it to be applied to individual layers, preferably by being able to drop the work sheet onto a given layer and having it report the volume by class for that layer only. Problem 2 I appear to be using a Legacy command, does anyone know what the correct command would be for 2017? =volume does not return results. If it helps I can attach a sample drawing with a typical layer/class structure that I am hoping to run the worksheet in. The end goal is to have a worksheet that output a quantity and attach a cost to the items modelled whilst I am drawing them. Any help here would be appreciated

Sorry Jim Spoke to soon.... problem has manifested again. I have attached a video. it only seems to occur when one particular layer's visibility is altered, resulting in everything turning invisible (but still intractable with if you can find it). Interestingly the problem can be resolved by making that layer visible again. i have attached a wee video of the behaviour, any thought would be appreciated. Vectorworks_Designer_2017_-_[Street_Scene_Construction_Drawings_D1.vwx_-_WATERMARKED_FILE]_26_02_2018_14_52_06.mp4

Thanks Jim, Driver update fixed it! I should have checked that first.......

Sorry Text file attached now DxDiag.txt

Thanks Jim

Hi does anyone have any ideas whats happening here (see attached video) Objects disappear when zooming and during flyover, but only at a certain level of zoom. Changing view causes the objects to reappear. Is it a bug or related to plane views? Vectorworks_Designer_2017_-_[Street_Scene_Construction_Drawings_D1.vwx_-_WATERMARKED_FILE]_14_02_2018_13_46_41.mp4