[Login Prompt]

Ran across this searching for something else.  Not sure why nobody responded to you, it's fairly simple.

 

The "Auto Find Servers" functionality uses mDNS, so if your server is on a different subnet, that function won't work unless you setup an mDNS proxy.

 

As far as pre-populating the license info, I don't have a Windows machine with VWX handy right now to check, but on OSX that data is stored per-user, and it sounds like it's the same on Windows.  Creating a login GPO to write the file would probably be your best bet.

 

As an example, here is what our config XML looks like.  (Stored on Mac in: `~/Library/Application Support/Vectorworks/$YEAR/Settings/SeriesG/LoginDialog.xml`)

 

```

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<LoginDialog>

  <Days>1</Days>

  <AutoFindServer>0</AutoFindServer>

  <AutoFindMaxTime>1</AutoFindMaxTime>

  <DontShowAtStartup>1</DontShowAtStartup>

  <Servers>
    <Server>mylicenseserver.mydomain.com:5053</Server>
  </Servers>

  <Modules>
    <MainModule>spotlight</MainModule>
  </Modules>

</LoginDialog>

```

 

[Service Pack 2 for Vectorworks 2019 released]

Where are the offline installers for both Windows and OSX?  They don't seem to be live on your downloads page yet.

[VM Accessing Site Protection Server]

20 hours ago, MediaArtsDad said:

I am having this exact same issue, any resolution? 

I contacted Vectorworks support and their response was more or less "Vectorworks won't run in a VM.  Go pound sand."

[Crash: Refresh instruments 2017 SP3]

Sorry Mickey, can't reproduce it on my machine either.

 

Try moving all your settings files somewhere else temporarily perhaps?  Maybe it's something in your workspaces borking things.

[VM Accessing Site Protection Server]

I have Vectorworks installed inside a VM which I can't activate using our Site Protection Server

 

The host is Ubuntu based Linux and the guest is a clean install of Windows 7 x64.  I'm using VirtualBox as my VM host.  Vectorworks installed fine, but I can't for the life of me get it to contact the license server we have setup.

 

• Other machines can access the SPS server and activate Vectorworks just fine
• The server has no IP ranges blocked (No ISV options are set whatsoever)
• The server is pingable from the guest VM
• The server web interface is accessible on port 5054 from the guest VM
• The server has plenty of licenses available
• The guest VM has no firewall
• The VM host has no firewall
• I have tried setting the virtual NIC to both NAT and Bridge modes.
• I have tried both connecting via both hostname and IP address
• Port is correct.  (Default 5053)

 

 

No matter what I do I get a "Can't connect to the server" error.

 

Thoughts?

[Command line interaction with Vectorscript]

We have both Mac and Windows machines.

 

Batch Converting a folder at a time isn't really an option; those 75,000 files are spread out over probably 25,000 folders.  We really just need to pass the root directory to a script and have it convert files as it finds them.

[Command line interaction with Vectorscript]

Hello everyone,

Is there a command line interface for Vectorworks/Vectorscript at all?  We have about 75,000 VWX-2016 files we need to upgrade to 2017, and we would like to do this via a shell script.  (The builtin batch convert function has been iffy in the past, and the quantity of files we have tends to choke it.)  Is there a way of doing this?