Dave Donley

Hello @Bobby The showcase preferences DMX Provider menu is where you choose which protocol to use for DMX data stream. For sACN we know of an issue where choosing sACN is not reliable and you have to switch the menu between ArtNet and sACN for it to stick. There will be a bug fix for that issue.

This sounds like sectioning to me, lots of controls for finite distance, what about a clip cube section viewport? Or the clip cube in general?

Hello @Amarin Can you attach an image showing objects you want clipped out? There are many ways to remove objects from an image that are not camera clipping.

Hello @Lumiere if you create a viewport from a single rectangle you should see an alert asking if you want to use it for the crop, do you get that alert? Also can you create a saved view when showcase is started, creating saved views in showcase does similar things as creating a viewport in showcase.

You may also go to your video card vendor's site and make sure your video drivers are up to date.

I wanted to suggest calling ResetObject, this would be necessary to regen the rendering once you have updated texture values.

Wow I don't even remember which vacation that was in 2021. There is a lot of information that if brought together into an AI chatbot could save you a lot of googling. I think a good chatbot would indeed improve some customers' workflow and save them time. Maybe you are assuming the chatbot would not be a good one. By feeding a chatbot with all the training materials, university, forum posts, manuals, and any other sources of information about Vectorworks, theoretically you would be able to get to the information you need and/or receive new insights that you were not aware of. As these become better at meta-understanding they may go beyond comparison/competition with google searches, i.e. to help with questions about workflow not just questions about individual features. Zero connection with AI systems is not a viable long term strategy, at some point you may find AI features indispensable. There are real examples we are using in the programming world to increase our productivity and it would be great to help users increase theirs.

Hello All: This bug slipped out and will be fixed in Update 1. Huge apologies for the disruption to your workflow. I had tested with Spotlight and with Design Series license but not with Architect-only serial number. Please click through both of these alerts until a fix is put out for this problem.

A studio HDR panorama can be used to make the reflections interesting, depending on render mode you can control whether this shows in the camera view or is only used for reflections. In Renderworks modes you can control environment lighting, reflection, and/or seen by camera seperately. Example (just googled not endorsing this site): https://polyhaven.com/hdris/studio Or, you can make a cyclorama textured object that is setup up behind the camera to provide something to reflect.

@Iainy1961 If you can attach the file here we can try different things. Specular will show a halo of brightness from a light aimed at the surface even without anything to reflect. Mirror won't show anything if there is only a void in the rest of the model.

@Bart72 Join the Showcase private group to get more info about what is coming soon:

Also the thought of "design without limits" comes to mind, we are easing development for partners to provide plugins, as well as developing and improving Vectorworks' built-in features. Feel free to use any visualization tools you like in combination, truly!

@E|FA This is a tool. A new tool, that may allow you to speed up your workflow with respect to imagery you use in your design. Wherever you use raster images in Vectorworks, this tool can potentially help. It is not just for rendering conceptual designs of 3D models. Potential directions this feature can go include toward rendering workflows, helping generate texture and background content for rendering, but also for raster representations of objects in top/plan/section/elevation views, pattern fills, and also toward workflows more like multilayered image editing and may touch image effects. Since Vectorworks users often use images in their designs (even when they use it for 2D drawings only) I personally and professionally feel this new capability is important to deliver to our users. If you never use images in your Vectorworks drawings or models I suppose this could be irrelevant - Vectorworks has a diverse user base and different users get value from it through different use cases for sure.

Hello @bcd we are working on this, putting the parameters you used for the image into the metadata of the PNG, and adding a button to recall this information from the selected VW bitmap object (or viewport). We are racing to release an updated AI Visualizer ASAP with this and a couple other useful features added. HTH

The Model menu provides more informative alerts than the palette menu does, so I prefer you use that one if possible.