[Link renderworks camera to tv monitor]

4 minutes ago, TomWhiteLight said:

I rendered out a camera view and made a screen texture.

 

 

That has been my workaround, BUT if I am showing something and there is iMag, it would be ideal if the screen updated as the design evolved. Pretty much a first world 'problem.'

[Link renderworks camera to tv monitor]

On 4/25/2023 at 7:48 AM, Pat Stanford said:

I read the question differently. I thought Dendecko wanted to have the camera view show up on a "monitor" object in the VW drawing. And I don't know how to do that or that it can be done.

 

 

That is how I read the question as well. I agree it cannot be done, BUT it would be nice. 

[Is there a way to seperate a solid into two solids via solid subtraction?]

try the split tool

[Rotating LED Screen]

4 minutes ago, markdd said:

What do you reckon......?

Well, it is in no way up to me. Above my pay grade, but it would be sweet.

[Relocate UPDATE button in OIP]

and perhaps, like the Update Viewport button, it ought to turn red when an update is required?

[Realistic Strip lights]

3 minutes ago, Mickey said:

multiple emitters

 

not for the weak of heart

[Drafting/Rendering the appearance of a blacklit/glowing plexiglass "box"]

1. use a Reflectivity>glow texture  or Reflectivity>Backlit and add a red Area Light behind.

[Sheet Layers - Sheet Numbers - Change standard naming]

Sounds like options would be nice. I generally use 01, 02, etc

[Masonry Arch -- How ?]

1 hour ago, Matt Panzer said:

Do feel free to submit a VE and please detail the issues you have without it so we can think about the best way to solve them.  It could be that brining perimeter mapping back is the answer but it might result in us coming up with an even better solution.

Pf course, I remembered a video that described how to make this very thing. A quick search and I find that @Matt Panzer made the tutorial and used Perimeter mapping.

 

Is there a VE to bring that back? I'd like to up vote.

 

FYI:

 

 

[Texture creation]

I'd be curious to see that hexes tile on a flat surface.

 

have you tried using the brick shader and bump in the VWX texture definition?

 

What are those cabinet faces?

[Texture creation]

I'd be curious to see what you're after. Not sure these all correspond to how VWX defines a texture.

 

Not thinking of 'limitations' but of differing approaches.

 

[Game-like navigation through 3D models]

On 3/27/2023 at 9:41 AM, Christiaan said:

I do forget that people are actually running practices working in 2D.

 

I was recently asked to teach VWX in 2D. I was flummoxed. I've been a user since MiniCAD v3 and tried to do more in 3D than that version was designed to accomplish. Why use a computer in 2D?

[Soft Goods - Adjustable Length Field]

3 minutes ago, klinzey said:

I think I can see a control point in the screen shot.

 

Yes, seems like a slip of the mouse. There is an extra point. When deleted the adjustable length is shown.

[Project Sharing: Dropbox vs Google Drive]

why not Vectorworks Cloud?

[Import and edit .eps or .svg files?]

10 minutes ago, Piotr Karczewski said:

For now on I have to use Inkscape to export it to .dwg and than import the file in Vectorworks. It may cause some errors as @Kevin Allen mentioned. 

Adobe Illustrator exports to dwg, but I find that export/import process often imperfect. This is especially true of the deign includes elegant curves that DWG converts to many short lines.
 

 

[Import and edit .eps or .svg files?]

5 minutes ago, Vlado said:

@Kaare Baekgaard @Piotr Karczewski Can you send an example file? I'm not sure I fully understand the problem, as Vectorworks does support Bezier curves, and it does support editing it via handles [Reshape tool]. It sounds like the problem is with PDF importing these curves, right?

I am sure I have a VE on this or similar somewhere along the way. VWX used to import the native AI file format as vector art. Somewhere along the way VWX lost that ability. So, once upon a time, I could design a logo in AI, import into VWX and manipulate/detail for signage, as one example.

Currently, I have to retrace any graphic creating an opportunity for error.

 

[Pot schedules]

I am not a Landscape Designer, but I do use some of these tools. This is really a universal need and solution.

I have been, however, generally amused but the subject heading.

[3d rock render]

12 minutes ago, zoomer said:

Looks like I have no access to all these Tools here.

 

 

what 'package' are you rocking?

[3d rock render]

5 minutes ago, jeff prince said:

I miss Bryce 3D for creating and texturing random landscape features.  That was my go to 20 years ago.

that was some sweet tech

[3d rock render]

8 minutes ago, zoomer said:

Texture Pads may be the easier and faster solution for large scale

 

Not sure where Foliage ships, it is more of a rendering device than a planning tool. Foliage provides no plant inventory, it merely spreads, somewhat randomly, images/textures.

 

I generally find it in the Visualisation Tool Palette.

[3d rock render]

On 2/21/2023 at 6:53 AM, zoomer said:

What about the Plant Tool ?

 

Do you mean the Foliage tool?

[Colleges and Universities teaching Vectorworks?]

I have taught at Montclair State and have several students from there working professionally and using the software. I have and am teaching at Rutgers MGSA. Not sure about the last batch and these are all freshmen.

 

 

[Ceiling sloping in 2 directions]

won't a simple 3D object work? Then auto Hybrid or add a 2D component

[Softgoods, v2022, and Class Over rides]

yes, Data Viz would probably work, but I think they are just now getting the idea of clasing.

[Softgoods, v2022, and Class Over rides]

3 minutes ago, TomWhiteLight said:

In the design layer the soft goods object responded to the line type. For viewport overides I had to stipulate the curtain class. That is inconsistent to be fair.

 

I guess my problem is I have curtains that touch the floor.They should have a solid line, I have curtains that trim out at +18' and they are above the cut plane and should be a long dashed line.