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3 hours ago, Christiaan said:Can somebody post a screenshot of MiniCad 1.0 so we can reminisce about where we'd be if the user interface never changed?
I think the point is two fold, the evolution from MiniCAD 1.0 was most just that 'evolutionary.' I think there was one other major exception. The other thing I point out is that one of the key sales points for VWX is that it is very customizable. The new GUI is not. The users asked for incremental change and got revolutionary change. I have been using the new GUI since the first beta. Maybe even an alpha version.I still hunt for things and find some of the icons inscrutable.
I am frustrated with some of the placements. I have all of the typographic controls turned off, but that leaves unused real estate and I can't move things I use around.
It can only get better and hopefully it will
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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,
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There were many requests, mostly involved larger type in the OIP and elsewhere.
Many of your comments were brought up by the beta testers.
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I don't know how or if VWX can handle the printing, but I am sure many folks could use this.
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22 minutes ago, rDesign said:
You’ll have to figure out a workflow that works best for you because the ability to import EPS files into Vw is not coming back.
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.
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import and export of AI file format. Required
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Is that a curtain/softgoods object? Increase the visual fullness.
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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.
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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?
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I think the arrays would;d have to be saved as symbols
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Not if that projector is a hybrid symbol, I do not think, but if it's 3D only, should be fine.
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2 hours ago, inikolova said:
You have two accounts - one is VSS and one is not. It sounds like you are using the wrong one. You should use kallen3.
actually, I think I have four, three too many
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7 minutes ago, inikolova said:
Check the About page in the Vectorworks Cloud Services desktop app, it should be on version 13.4.2742. If not, you should see a button to update. This restarts the app. After this, restart Vectorworks and the AI visualizer should work property.
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?
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21 hours ago, Iainy1961 said:
@Kevin Allen @JustinVH I tried that. It cannot be this difficult to add an image to a video screen. In gave up trying to an an image. I followed the instructions to the letter. So I tried adding it as a texture and now I can't resize it. Ridiculous. I have altered the pixel size, the scale. Wasted three hours trying to solve this, just put it into Light Converse. Popped right in. Don't understand this at all.
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
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I usually duplicate one of the textures in the stock content and then change the image in the texture definition.
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2 hours ago, NickSolyom said:
Thanks! I checked your book (page 366) buy my preformatted reports on ly look like this
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.
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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?
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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.
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try the theatre row PIO
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2 minutes ago, klinzey said:
Containers do not automatically resize
that would be a good VE
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12 hours ago, Tom W. said:
Edit the Cell Layout + select the 'rectangle' that surrounds the cell: it's called a 'Frame in Graphic Legend' + you can edit the size of the margins in the OIP to make it bigger/smaller:
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.
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Although Batch Render Ould use some love, use each camera to create a batch render job. Then use batch render to render them all
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well, the color temperature of the 'candles' is too cold
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Perimeter mapping seems to be gone from VW2023.
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links would always be great