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    Energos - Space Volume is Zero

    in Energos

    Posted

    I'm doing some testing with Energos to see if we'll be able to use it for our energy assessments, instead of OpenStudio or DOE2 software--we'd really like to use what's already there and keep everything in Vectorworks.

     

    @JimW Are there any new webinars or training videos coming out for Energos in v2018? The latest I can find are for v2016.

     

    When I model a single story restaurant--very basic layout--I get a pop up window that says "The Total Space Volume is zero."

    I can't find much about this in the app-help documentation.

    (My model uses spaces built from walls; all spaces, walls, doors, slabs, etc.. are included in calculations.)

    VW vs Archicad BIM

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Their proprietary "GDL" scripting language is a major turnoff... http://gdl.graphisoft.com/reference-guide

    and they also talk about database connectivity in a really deceiving way--they refer to text files as databases. (I was looking for ODBC functionality)

     

    From their documentation: http://gdl.graphisoft.com/reference-guide/gdl-data-io-add-on

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    Description of Database


    The database is a text file in which the records are stored in separate lines. The database can be queried and modified based on a single key.
    The key and the other items are separated by a character (specified in the OPEN command).....

     

    I disqualified them as a potential CAD solution, because of their "we, and only we, run your CAD-life" attitude and product. (Also the VW forum has a dark theme now 😃)

     

    Our business deals with Building Automation, Monitoring/Controls, Energy Assessments, Green Stuff.....

    VW is most definitely a BIM application, and so flexible (especially thanks to python/marionette and ODBC/externalDB support) that we are able to use it to streamline and automate workflows without relying on out-of-box features or toolsets from VW. 

     

    The Vectorworks team is very different from what you experienced over at Graphisoft.

    We were coming from Google SketchUp (NYS was requiring us to do modeling in a Sketchup plugin called OpenStudio). The enthusiastic VW sales team only boasted about their product, and didn't go further than mentioning that a dataless model in Sketchup is very clearly not as helpful as a model that's loaded with data, that's got all kinds of integration potential.

     

    We were accommodated so well during the free trial, and brief trial extension, that we started feeling guilty about taking up support resources. 

     

    Best of luck to you @CARMELHILL

     

    Vectorworks Design Summit - 2018

    in News You Need

    Posted

    @JimW

    Super! I'm getting some info together for my employer, and want to confirm a few details.

    Is the pre-early-bird waived resort fee referring to the $199/night fee for accommodations, or is there another resort-related fee that is waived? 

    Any news on extending the conference for an extra day of marionette? (This is particularly exciting to us.)

     

    Many thanks!

     

    Renderworks Issue - Geometry Not Updating / Viewport Turns Black

    in Wishes Granted / Issues Resolved

    Posted

    On 9/23/2016 at 12:45 PM, MikeB said:

    VW2017

    I'm having an issue with the Final Quality Renderworks mode

    I'm working on a model and render the model on screen in Final Quality Renderworks, then I switch back to open GL and edit an extrusion.

    The changes to the extrusion show up in open GL, but when I switch to Final Quality Renderworks, the rendering show up almost immediately , but the changes to the extrude are not shown.  It appears to be showing a cashed version of the rendering and not actually re-rendering.

    If I select Final Quality Renderworks again, it asks if I want to re-render the scene, I say yes, but it still shows the old geometry.

    The only way I've found around this is to quit and restart VW

    I tried setting the Retain Rending Model in the VW preferences to Never, that didn't help

    Thanks

     

    I'm also experiencing the same issues with Fast Renderworks and Final Quality Renderworks...

     

    On 4/16/2018 at 9:58 PM, Haydenovative said:

    We have 5 VW users in a room, we all suffer from the all black or all white screens even post SP3. We all find that quitting and restarting is the only way to get it to come back. Very Very Frustrating!

     

    ... and I experienced this issue too.

    Password Locked Layers - Feature Request

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted · Edited by cxs
    I left out detail =)

    We are also looking for this feature. We'd like to create an environment where our team--not draftsfolk or developers--can work with the marionette and library content, without accidentally making changes. Version control is super important to us, because we are using VWx to manage massive quantities of technical specifications for provisioning network equipment, to track serial numbers, to auto-provision web-based dashboard views and custom objects' various records, and to populate dozens of reports.

     

    If the team accidentally modified a record format, we will run into time consuming problems--there's only a couple of us who really know when there's an issue with strings of hexadecimal data or object naming schemes. Having this functionality would take the learning curve way down, especially for the people who need to provision and maintain the objects and records in an existing model.

     

    We want to lock (with password protection) library content and code view of the marionette nodes.

    Locking/password protecting the "Object Info">"Data Tab" (to prevent record editing anywhere but the shape tab) and layers would also be great.

     

    Cheers,

    Shape Tab not refreshing on click of new object

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    The Shape tab, in the Object Info pane, doesn't update unless I toggle between design layers. I can also right click on an object and select "Properties..." to get an updated view of what the shape tab should be displaying. 

     

    Layer and Class options set to "Show/Snap/Modify Others."

     

    Any idea why this could be happening?

    Nodes not making connections to other nodes

    in Marionette

    Posted

    @Marissa Farrell

     

    Thanks for the speedy reply.

     

    I downloaded this from the forum, for use in v2018. It came to me with "v2017".

     

    I'm working on a project in a clean file, not using any nodes outside of the marionette library. I'm not having the issue now, but I did earlier today and had to delete half of the project.

    I'll be sure to send you a copy when it becomes an issue again.

    Nodes not making connections to other nodes

    in Marionette

    Posted

    Sometimes, connections between nodes are not retained when I move the nodes around.

    It looks as if the nodes were never connected in the first place, even though I snapped an output to an acceptable input.

     

    The attached PDF shows nodes from a shared resource on the forum; I've also attached the VWX file.

     

    The string input nodes are not connected to anything, but they have wires running to floating circles.  I made sure that all classes and layers are visible, so I'm certain that there aren't any hidden nodes. The wires can be unsnapped from the mysterious circles, and reconnected to a proper node.

     

    This issue occurs when I copy+paste portions of a marionette network for re-use in another marionette network, or when I relocate portions of a marionette network. The issue reappears, even after connecting to the correct node.

    marionette_issue_nodes-not-connecting.pdf

    ODBC_v2017_v2018.vwx

    Associated Lights

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted

    I'm still hoping that the Label Legend Manager will be unlocked for use with any symbol + record.

    @michaelk, have you found a way to circumvent this?

     

    I attempted to convert custom symbols to lighting instruments, but that feature won't associate the light info records required to use LLM. I tried to add the same IFC record that Lighting Instruments use, and didn't have any luck with that either--the Shape tab won't update with the lighting instrument fields.

     

    Happy President's Day

    Dynamic Record Values

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hello,

     

    I've made some hybrid symbol objects; each object has multiple associated records.

     

    There is--what I am considering--a "global record" which contains some global information for the object. In this case, I'm talking about a field that specifies the ID of the object.

     

    I looked at the docs but couldn't find anything about calling the ID field value of the global record from within the other ID fields of the rest of the associated records for that object.

     

    Here's some info about the records associated with TESTObject:

     

    Record called "Global"

    ID: [text]

    EQUIP: [number, default 1]

    POINT: [number, default 1]

     

    Record called "SubComponent1"

    GlobalID: [I want this field to call it's value from TESTObject's 'Global' record's 'ID' field]

    ...

    --other fields--

    ...

     

    Does anyone know if this is a feature of VectorWorks? I'm running the trial license right now, in case that's relevant.

     

     

     

     

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