Kevin Allen

For example many of us preferred the snapping controls in a floating positionable palette. But that didn't work for the programmers on Windows, so they are where they are now,

There were many requests, mostly involved larger type in the OIP and elsewhere. Many of your comments were brought up by the beta testers.

I don't know how or if VWX can handle the printing, but I am sure many folks could use this.

Does Adobe want to much in licensing fees? I am an Adobe user. Every graphic designer I know uses Illustrator. Every show I do needs a logo. converting in Joe's really good free or cheap website is not necessarily a good option. Exporting from AI to DXF, importing the DXF and rebuilding in VW is fraught with the possibility of errors.

import and export of AI file format. Required

Is that a curtain/softgoods object? Increase the visual fullness.

https://fitplot.it/vwplugins/mouldings.html

hahahaha This has been a problem for years. There is no easy solution. Create the classes you want Insert symbols in the new doc edit the symbols to only use those classes. insert the edited symbols into a working document A script or the Class and Layer mapping command might help, but that command wasn't designed for this purpose. I think the classes used by VWX were created by PRG/VER and might possibly make sense to those companies, but not to any designer I know.

This is an ongoing issue.It is harder and harder to defend, "features" are introduced and implemented to great hoopla. However, they do not work as needed. Sometimes that is they work as designed, but the design does not match the users' needs. I think this is one reason I have abandoned the Clipcube feature. It is a problem throughout the program. As one colleague (he can identify himself if he desires) often states, VWX needs a maintenance release. Apple has done this with MacOS and iOS, one release version does nothing but fix bugs. We need that version. In the meantime when I hear what if we did this or what if we add that, my thoughts go immediately to what will break?

I think the arrays would;d have to be saved as symbols

Not if that projector is a hybrid symbol, I do not think, but if it's 3D only, should be fine.

actually, I think I have four, three too many

I have and had the correct version, now I am getting a message about service select, As a beta tester, I thought I had that access?

It has to be a texture. The image fill is only or 2D objects, as far as I know. If it is one screen shouldn't be a problem, that's part of why I start with existing stock content. I will size the texrture in photoshop ahead of time if required. If you're using multiple screen objects, then you willed the Landru Design version of the PIO and the Video Tile Command. Typically you select a 3D object and can assign a texture in different ways, In this case you have to use the OIP and the 3D Options button

I usually duplicate one of the textures in the stock content and then change the image in the texture definition.

The book was written using a specific release and the Designer Package. Your mileage may vary. Page 303 gives a broad overview or creating a record format and a report. To create the report, you use the Tile Block Record, that might not be the correct name, but there is a record if you're using a stock title block, which I recommend. I thought there as also a bit about creating a record and using it to count benches somewhere, but I might have written that for some other purpose.

I have not done the comparison, but somewhere along the way VWX added the option to export PDFs as rasterized. I prefer them to be vector, so I don't look for this option. I wonder if it has become default in 2024?

The report is called Drawing List, so that might affect your search. I don't where it is and is not included, but it is simple enough to create. It just reports back the fields for sheet number and title.

try the theatre row PIO https://www.verysmallgroup.com/vectorworks-plugins

that would be a good VE

If only we could define the specific size of the frame. I use the GL to show scenic symbols and it is a huge PITA to get a uniform size when the GL might be refereeing multiple Viewports.

Although Batch Render Ould use some love, use each camera to create a batch render job. Then use batch render to render them all

well, the color temperature of the 'candles' is too cold

I believe this can be done with the Landru version of the tool.

yes, I have tried to shoot around the stuff, generally then easiest just to measure.