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Bart Rammeloo

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  1. "It begins". Maybe he just meant the buzz around VW 2015? I don't know, as long as NVW doesn't publish anything officially labeled VW 2015, I'd take this with a grain of salt. 64 bit looks like a real thing, but that design? I didn't hear him confirm it really.

  2. So someone posts a picture of a facade design and OpenBIM, and you automatically assume that it's about Vectorworks 2015? I think I'm gonna ask you guys to fill in my lottery slips from now on, you seem to believe you're clairvoyant. Or how people always read what they want to read, and not what is written ;)

    Good news concerning 64 bit!

  3. It appears the worksheet's 3D symbol images were grabbed from the Resource Browswer, as openGL renderings. It would be interesting to know if the images in the worksheet can be updated, if the symbol changes - especially for resized windows and doors. Also, I don't know how plug-in doors and windows fit into the mix - perhaps they have to be made into symbols, too.

    No, they're not. They might look the same, but if what you say were true then you wouldn't be able to make a window take off in the spreadsheet (windows don't appear in the RB)

  4. Nicholas,

    Are you running both 2012 and 2013 on the same computer? I want to install it and check it out but the office is not ready to roll it out until next week. In the seminar they told me that I could not maintain my installation of 2012 if I installed 2013. I am on a mac as well.

    So they say that having 2012 and 2013 installed gives problems? Can this be confirmed please?

    We've been running them alongside each other for months now (yes, beta versions). No problem whatsoever.

  5. And how can speed be a feature anyway? Every progam just need to try to do things as fast as it can, it can't be a feature, it's one of the basic things.

    First you complain that Vectorworks is not fast enough. Then NVW spends time on that. And now you say they cannot communicate the news about improved speed to the user? Hmm...

    If you want to complain about NVW's speed claim, then you're at the right place. If you think the speed up is bogus, then by all means illustrate the problem you're experiencing. But discussing wether a speed up is a feature or not... there's no added value in that.

  6. * Walls are drawn clockwise in the new convention. In the past, this was counter clockwise. So when you think clockwise, the outside part is the top component, and the inside the bottom one. The wall in the preview part is drawn from left to right, walk this line and you'll know wich side is the left side and wich the right one.

    I don't think there was an actual convention in the past, it was more of a local thing: some people drew in one way, other people in the other. But with 2011 and slabs, there definitely is: you do have to draw clockwise, otherwise your slabs will never work.

  7. Is any CAD/BIM software that sophisticated? My experience of other platforms is too far behind me now to know the current state of affairs.

    I don't find that relevant. If you provide a tool to draw walls and slabs in 2D / 3D, it should work in all cases. Yes, there will always be exceptions, but when you can only manage 90% of your daily routine with these automated tools, and you then start losing time trying to find workarounds, then you simply stop using these automated tools alltogether. And you start doing it the old fashioned way again, with separate 2D drawings and 3D models, because it appears faster.

    The wall networks in VW just might have reached their limits, it might be time to start looking for a different paradigm.

  8. (...) every time I cannot do something in relation to the walls, floors and storeys, I will post them here, because there are still many problems with walls in 2011.

    Please do - and keep it up. NVW can only try to solve a problem when they are aware of its existence. That's not a guarantee that it will be solved quickly (a problem might have hooks all the way into the core of the software), but if you don't give them real examples, the problems will never go away.

  9. Too bad they (still) strip PDF functionality out of Fundamentals, as well as batch printing, DLVP, and a handful of other relatively basic features I'd expect from a software package that is still described as "professional" in the brochure.

    (I suppose this is really another conversation...although it's one I've never gotten much response on when I've tried to start it in the past.)

    Fundamentals is a professional solution. It's not a toy, the people who use it do so in a professional context. However, it is also an entry-level solution. Nothing more, nothing less. If you need to output a PDF, use one of the free PDF printer drivers. The PDF support in the market-specific versions is much more elaborate - it allows batch processing, for instance, and that is not something I associate with entry-level work.

    And, as is typical for these discussions, it's really about "I think I deserve more features for my money". Well, you get what you pay for. If PDF export is so important for you and you think the lack of it hampers your workflow, you should upgrade to a more complete version. That's all there is to it. And once you have a more complete version, you will quickly discover lots of other tools and featues that you can't actually live without if you're using VW on a daily basis.

  10. Also still no 64 bit support, 3 out of the 4 cores still go unused unless rendering.

    I beg to differ. A lot of the processor intensive operations in VW are carried out by Parasolid (both 2D and 3D). And AFAIK, that code operates under 64 bits and is multi-core (when the processes can be split at least, since not all operations can be split, but I guess you know that). So no, the interface isn't 64 bit, but you're not going to gain a whole lot of speed with a 64 bit Ressource Browser, are you?

  11. I'm not sure if you noticed, but Machine Design has been discontinued since version 2011. Your suggestions and requests make sense, but there's not much of a chance that they will be implemented. I actually doubt if NVW will do anything else but maintain the status quo.

  12. Sketchup is just incredible well concieved for architectural modeling.

    I beg to differ. Sketchup is great for surface modeling, but can simply not do volumetric modeling. As a result, Sketchup offers no straightforward way to model "the other side" of you design. Either outside or inside, but both: that's a different pickle. And I my book, for architectural modeling you need both inside and outside. For presentation purposes, this might be something else, but for modeling as in "supporting the design process" I think Vectorworks' solid modeling is better suited to pull it off.

    Concerning the perspective view and OpenGL support: you hit it right on the head. Vectorworks needs an overhaul in that area. I actually almost got into a fight with an NNA representative 7 years ago when "discussing" that very topic. So it's not new, and they have been aware of it for a long time, it's just that there's so much to change (like in every software, BTW). The fact that people say things like "I don't understand why they didn't change this yet" just shows that they don't realize what else has been done instead.

  13. In "Final quality renderworks" with now indirect lighting i don't see a 500% increase so far.

    I don't remember Nemetschek specifying that you would get an increase of 500% with direct light (raytracing). The C4D render engine calculates indirect light faster than the Lightworks engine, this is where you will see the difference.

    The reason why the Lightworks engine was not up to par, is not because of its raytracing capabilities. It was because you could not use it *at all* for radiosity calculations.

    As Dave pointed out, the noise you get is because you use an HDRI without any GI calculations. You have to use at least one bounce to make them go away. You had the exact same result with the Lightworks engine, BTW: if you used an HDRI without radiosity, you would get a grainy image too.

    One last thing: when you make a render, please don't use the ambient light option. It makes your rendered result look fake.

  14. cit: "Free-Form Design uses very simple and intuitive modeling techniques, based on pushing and pulling vertices, edges, or faces of a mesh. These operations are done through direct manipulation of the mesh, and some other commands like extrude and split. The modeler then has the ability to smooth the mesh, making an approximation of a curve with different levels of complexity. You can smooth a mesh primitive or smooth different entities like existing solids, closed polylines, etc. The beauty of this method is that at any time you will be able to convert a mesh into a solid, and then apply any operations allowed for solids (like Thicken, Shell, Boolean operations in general, etc)."

    (original article)

    LOL! That's a whole lot of marketing speak for something that has been around for ages in polygon-based 3D-modeling applications. :grin:

  15. Yes you can do a lot in other apps like
    or
    too .

    But you will get mesh with dozen of vertices which is difficult to work with in VW ... and the surface will be faceted not smooth like NURBS.

    It is possible to convert such a mesh into VW solid but you can not convert this solid into wall, roof floor atc objects..

    At least NNA could add .3dm (open NURBS) importer :)

    I know you get a mesh. That's what you get in ArchiCAD as well (when you combine it with C4D), and as far as I can tell you get a mesh in ACAD as well. I didn't say it was a good workflow, only that it seems ACAD is using this method to create blob-like geometry. As far as I can see, they are NOT using NURBS to make that blob. I know DWG is a carrier for NURBS, but I think that they're using Subdivision Surfaces for this blob-thing. Of course, I might be mistaken.

    ACAD cannot convert the geometry to a wall either. Even ArchiCAD cannot. They can integrate the geometry in the model, but it's not a wall object in its strictest sense. At least Vectorworks allows you to substract from / add 3D objects to a wall object (since VW 2010).

    Why would NNA have to implement .3dm (assuming that McNeel indeed offers it as an open format)? Vectorworks supports IGES, X_T, and a couple of other NURBS-enabled formats.

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