Michal Zarzecki
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On 5/8/2021 at 10:25 PM, jeff prince said:
I wish this wasn’t the case, so much potential.
Unfortunately I must agree. This is very disappointing as it would have made life much easier and streamlined work.
At least I know it's nothing wrong with my settings.
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I would like to explore the GeoImage topic a bit further. Is there something wrong with my settings or the quality of any GeoImage when exported to PDF is really poor? The colours and pixelation look really dreadful on the pdf exports. I am not sure if I can present such output to a client or local authority.
Can you advise what settings to use to optimise it? Or, perhaps that quality is the limitation of Esri's licence?
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I have had this problem as well. Fortunately, it switches from backup to overwrite the original file, so mostly not much is lost (no more than 10 minutes). My guess it's the culprit no. 3 that @Benson Shaw mentioned:
On 6/8/2020 at 11:17 PM, Benson Shaw said:A vwx crash/relaunch fails to renew the pref?
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That's an interesting topic.
I have been wondering about the correct workflow as well.
I have moved my annotation exercise from DL to SLVPs, however, I keep struggling with at least those two aspects:
- Data tags react differently in DL and in SLVPs - when I annotate plants in SLVPs, the data tag picks up the entire bounding box, rather than the outline of individual plants or landscape areas. This makes annotation really difficult.
- I cannot figure out how to annotate coordinates - when using stake tool, different coordinates are produced in a SLVP.
Have you guys got any experience and advice on those aspects? I would love to hear what others are doing - perhaps I am missing something important.
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In my case, the Undo very often only goes back to the last view rather then reverting the last command or action.
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@Poot thanks for referring to that thread. I searched for something similar using the Search tool, but didn't come across it.
It is disappointing that this is yet another bug. I was hoping I missed something. I wanted to issue it as part of my site model, but it seems it needs to wait until this is fixed 😕.
I did observe that the deeper the components, the higher the plants float over the surface.
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Hi All,
I am trying to build 3D components of Landscape Areas in my BIM project, but for whatever reason my plants seem to levitate over the slab. They hover 250 mm above and I can't seem to identify any parameter dictating that. Any ideas?
Looking at these generated plant models, I would love to be able to define custom profiles or parameters of these, to indicate the shape of grasses, some perennials etc. - to be in control of the massing and visual qualities.
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Hi guys, has anyone got any idea why a geoimage may not be visible in a Sheet Layer? I keep having the same problem.
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@Tamsin Slatter, after a year I managed actually to try it out. I followed your instructions and it worked. Thank you.
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I used to have exactly the same thing.
I did some trial and error and it seems it starts working when you geolocate (i.e. using the Geolocate Tool) your site. In my exercise I didn't need any specific location so I just clicked in the middle of my area of interest and that did the trick. Try it out and let me know how it went.
Small update and query:
I noticed that the Geoimage is not visible in Sheet Layer. I checked visibiliies of layers and classes and can't figure out what I did wrong. Any thoughts?
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I did some dog's dinner of my last posts so ignore this one.
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Thanks, @Boh My file is over 50 MB whilst the ifc ends up as 150 MB, so there must be something seriously wrong there.
Do I need to attach IFC to all objects I need to export? These are mostly walls, some custom-modelled objects, plants, slabs and the site model. I tend to assign most objects to Site storey whilst a roof terrace I have in this project is in Storey 1.
I will have a look at these resources @Wes Gardner posted.
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Hi guys.
I wanted to give it a try and see how one of my projects would look exported to IFC. I ended up with a large file which I struggle to import anywhere. I followed the set up described on the hep pages, but perhaps there is more I need to take into account.
Would you be able to direct me where I can find some more guidance and understanding of the settings?
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Thanks, @JuanP. I included my main machine's info in my signature. I used to use MacBook Pro from 2015 during most of the lockdown, but this is a bit too far behind for VW 2021, unfortunately.
The issues I experience tend to come and go, but when they come, it's always when I am under enough pressure. Files sometimes go nuts in the middle of a task - sometime software restart is enough, more often the whole system requires a reboot. I try to save after every action - just in case. I don't have crash reports, because it's mostly freezing rather than abortion. I tend to quit after some prolonged Wheel of Doom spinning.
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I moved to another, more powerful machine, but most recently I have been having hard time with VW freezing every time I want to assign newly drawn objects to a new class. Nightmare. I sometimes think it knows that I want to get something done badly.
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That's true indeed. Thanks for highlighting that, @Christiaan.
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I have had the same problem - sometimes it works, sometimes doesn't. More profound mathematics behind it, I suppose.
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@jeff prince I agree entirely.
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@bcd Thank you for that.
@jeff prince, that is one way to do it before it can be considered and implemented by the software developer.
The idea of the BS is to show the shadows to illustrate the potential constraint and how to do it in a simple way, but it can be more than that - the software generates shadows [in 3D] on a particular day and time, so useful for understanding how shading changes during the day. And what about massing models? Showing shadows cast by buildings would be so useful too.
It wound be wonderful to have these possibilities available with a few clicks in such a comprehensive software, rather than resorting to sandwiching viewports.
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Yes, I think this confirms my observation. But what about Landscape Areas?
Anyway, I have one VW file open now. It seems that the criterion of Plant Record is present does the trick. No change if I untick all boxes. But if I tick both Symbols and Plug-in Objects then the count gets doubled.
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20 hours ago, Pat Stanford said:
It probably is my magnetic personality.
I also seem to have a magnetic personality - whenever I turned up at my mentor's lab at the uni, everyone's computers started to freeze or otherwise malfunction.
I prefer your end of the spectrum though.
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20 hours ago, bcd said:
3 stacked VPs is not that unusual
I can imagine - since there is no other way to do it 😉
However, I shall resort to that for the time being. Thanks for advice. Any tips on the contents of these viewports, from your experience? As I mentioned before or another way?
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It sounds to me like at least three VPs: One for everything below the tree canopy, the one with the 3D view with shadows and the trees in plan on top. I will try to try it out when having a spare moment (which is unlikely during work hours).
I really wish this works without workarounds. Hence posted here, I suppose.
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It seems it's something wrong with that particular file. I have worked in a couple of other since and they were mostly fine - sometimes crushed completely, i.e. aborted VW.
Is there a way to diagnose where the source of corruption might be? I tried to move the contents across to a fresh file, but it does the same thing.
Also, for my sanity, I would like to understand what level of computing is needed to switch between layers etc. I can't believe that a slow graphic card would have much to do with problems with selecting objects and switching layers.
Is this something VW Tech Support Team can help with or perhaps a 3rd party diagnostics software?
Text Size Problem
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Hi All,
One of my colleagues who works mostly in AutoCAD challenged me recently with a difference in text size seen in our drawings produced in AC and in VW.
We have a number of text styles set up and let's say we are looking at 2.5 mm text. When I measure a capital letter in AC at 1:100 it says 250 and 2.5 in a Viewport/ Layout. I have a 2.5 mm text style set up in VW as well. I create my text/ annotation in SLVP Annotation mode. It's assigned to a class that uses my 2.5 mm text style. When I measure the same text in a SLVP, it reads 177 at scale 1/100.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?