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This workstation should do quite well. The only potential issue I see is that the Radeon Pro 560 would handle a single 4K display just fine on it's own, but might struggle if you added a second one in the future. If you don't plan on that anytime soon though, it would work just fine for what you want.
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Students in the United States can request a free copy of Vision, yes. We don't have it available on the Student portal yet, but didn't want to let that delay us getting Vision into student's hands. You can request a copy from @MDier directly for the time being.
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On 11/28/2018 at 6:13 AM, Chloe Allen said:
@JimW Hi! I'm having the same issue with my student extension of license. I applied for an extension numerous times but still get an expiry notice when I open the program. Could I get some help with this? thanks!
Your license is now approved, let me know if it gives you any more trouble.
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Normally two business days on average, however I looked up your account with the email you registered with on the forum and I didn't see a pending request, did you have an account under a different email address? I can usually expedite the approval without issue.
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Oh man the output from Lumion is stunning, even right out of the box. This really does seem to be the drop-in solution for users who want a degree of control, but want the engine to handle the majority of the complex work.This was me slapping around some of the default settings in one of their test scenes and then rendering all within 5 minutes:
Lovely sheen on the glass, nice clean reflection on the bulbs, quickly displaced stacked stone and nice variation in the various tone on the light sources, all within a minute due to their EXCELLENT (and GPU-based) render speed. Time to see what I can do with my previous best renders dropped into it.-
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Get that file over to tech@vectorworks.net along with this from your machine please:
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2 hours ago, Kevin Friddell said:
It is ridiculous that I have to restart every time I want to do a new render.
Are you seeing that the renders do not update at all with new changes,or that the viewport is reverting to black after the first render works? This is in 2018 SP1.1?
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Sorry yeah, was thinking of the windows one.
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We will likely break out of this dicussion into new specific threads as development continues. However, there will always be fundamental differences that can never reconcile, the colors issue for instance. I highly doubt we will ever remove color entirely, perhaps rely on it less, but not go completely monochrome.
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5 minutes ago, Charlie Winter said:
Am I the only one mildly frustrated with the current process of updating. Please direct me to a post about the updater if it exists already.
I may be missing what you mean, Check for Updates is in the Help menu in Vectorworks directly, the updater itself at the moment has essentially the same buttons it always did, except now it can confirm if the app is still running or not. In previous years it couldn't do this and could cause problems if vw was still up.
There will be fewer buttons going forward, like the removal of the one that says More Info but really just takes you totally he updater.
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Just now, Stephan Moenninghoff said:
Jim, with the Resource Manager, users were not given a choice though. They *had* to use it. And while it's better than before, the UI does still not allow for the RM to be used in a docked state. I do tech support once a week (because I want to) and whenever I Teamviewer into customers' screens, I see the RM floating and collapsed. Why? Because its options are not visible in a docked and hence narrow state. This is a pure UX thing and I think it needs to be addressed. I have detailed how it could be addressed in my prototype. I am not proposing that my graphics be used (I think they are just next year's old UI and some young, talented designers will do a better job, no doubt) but the way it *behaves* isn't right. It's a usability bug if nothing else.
SOME things we can leave the old system in along with a new one, but some larger components like the RM we weren't able to. I suspect that with the enhancement of the beta program we will be able to identify failings like that much earlier on and end up with better day 1 quality/usability.-
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For instance, we completely reworked the Resource Browser into the Resource Manager, and plenty of users have had time to acclimate. I think our eyes are on the OIP and Nav palettes next. If we had done all three at once though I suspect there would have been much more discomfort.
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Just now, Jim Smith said:
While I would welcome an improved interface, I'm also cautious of how steep a learning curve this might represent. I see this each autumn when each new iteration of VW allows for little trip-ups creep into the software, quick key changes are one example. I'd be willing to work with a new & cool interface and the learning curve this would represent if the programme was limited to minor changes & improvements for a 3 year window.
I would think it very unlikely that we would dump a large number of changes all at once, for exactly this reason. Relearning new (and ideally, much better) UI elements over time is much less painful. I recall the jump around Vectorworks 10 through 12 era where the "Classic" workspace was still used by many and quite a few users didn't finally make the transition until they absolutely had to.
As we saw in the keynote samples, many of the changes being experimented with are either extensions of, or additions to existing systems and likely wont require more than a few hours of drafting to grow accustomed to. In any case, new UI elements should be attractive enough on their own from a usability standpoint that they should make users enthusiastic about trying them out, rather than wary.-
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4 minutes ago, rjtiedeman said:
The document "steve kitchen 3d v2019" takes hours to preview and longer to render
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But anecdotally, when I first started here I thought "Well no one cares what it LOOKS like, as long as it works." and with seasoning and experience and interaction with professional designers, I have learned that this is absolutely not the case. Form and Function should ideally work together, not be subservient to one another.
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6 minutes ago, Kevin McAllister said:
What I like about the demo videos you've shared is almost entirely about how the interface you're proposing *feels* and *functions*. I recently asked elsewhere on the forums what NV considers the UI -
9 hours ago, Stephan Moenninghoff said:All good and well but please let's not create the standard excuse for not caring about the aesthetics of the UI here. This thread is and has been about how VWX *looks*. Perhaps also a little bit about how it *feels*. But not about how it *functions*. A modern appearance is completely separate from functionality and what this thread is about is mostly aesthetics.
I think that the concern is we would focus on one to the exclusion of the other, which we will not. Theres also the ever present "X shouldnt be worked on until Y is complete" but again, that doesn't apply since these systems that seem to all be part of a single unit are worked on by very different teams and one is rarely waiting on the other. A lot of the time it can appear as if we had, say 200 engineers, and users will think "Well all 200 should be working on the UI until its great" when in reality, only a dozen or so have the skillset to work on our UI, and then a subset of that group[ are all who can work on it at a given time.
Don't let yourselves fall into that mental trap (I do on occasion), we can do quite a few things concurrently and we do not let any engineers sit idle. We are definitely focusing on UI in general at the moment and will continue to for 2020, but the Quality initiative isn't ended as of 2019, it will be carried through. -
9 hours ago, ThreeDot said:
but Vectorworks cannot even display a blank drawing.
This happens to you in 2018 SP1.1 and 2019 SP2 still on Mojave, currently?
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On 11/23/2018 at 12:17 PM, natb said:
Hello! I think this may have happened to me as well? However, I am unable to find anywhere on my account (my account homepage or elsewhere) to request an extension. I am hoping you can help me!
You should now be good to go, try activating again and let me know if it gives you any more trouble.
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14 hours ago, Kiah3 said:
I want to switch from autocad to vectorworks. Why buy a used license. If I buy the license do I need anything else?
Help please
Used licenses are normally sold at a discount compared to the brand new ones. It's perfectly fine to buy one from another user here, the only extra step is contacting sales@vectorworks.net just before the purchase so that they can confirm the previous owner and transfer ownership of the license to you.-
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11 hours ago, slhealy said:
Hello how are you.
I downloaded the student version today to try your software, but i can’t use it because it is saying that the license or something has expired. I received the welcome and student license confirmation email, but still not working...
It is asking me to activate it over internet, i clicked YES and then it keeps telling me that my software licensed has expired…
Can you assist me?.
Thank
You should now be good to go, try activating again and let me know if it gives you any trouble.
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10 hours ago, SaraL said:
Is it normal that when I used that link it goes straight to the site where I can update my user info? I have updated them few times now and loaded a new proof of enrollment but is that how I request extension to my license or some other way? Getting helpless....
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Reply back with the following from that machine please:
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What I am asking is that for any users who experienced this issue (however frequently) prior to 2019 SP1, have you seen it since SP1.1 or since SP2 at all? If it was frequent, did the frequency change after either of these patches?
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Pertinent to this thread, a sample of the Summit keynote, time index 38:20 - 43:08:
@Ian Lane discussing things we are taking into consideration for UI redesign, not just as far as something like dark mode would be concerned, but more in depth as well.
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Can VWX 2017 run on OSX 10.14 ?
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It is unsupported, and I have had numerous reports of users encountering severe problems with it. I have had one or two users claim it worked acceptably for minimal tasks.