[Selling Vectorworks Architect 2024 licence]

curious.. are you moving to a different CAD/BIM package?

[legends best practice - graphic legends or worksheets?]

I recently used graphic legends developing a kitchen project... worked very well for what I was looking for, the layout took a bit of fiddling

and it's hard to eliminate unnecessary white space as seen below the vertical size of each cell is keyed to the cabinet that's' tallest...

and the layout for the others isn't ideal. Does anyone know a workaround?

But I'm really liking the convenience..

[Best bang for the buck renderer...]

27 minutes ago, grant_PD said:

@dtheory looking through your website you'll probably be happiest heading into twinmotion/lumion/enscape.  They are all fast gpu style renderers and pretty easy to get used to.  I would think the complexity of C4D or some other 3d modeling program+renderer will be too overwhelming for what you produce.  

Thanks for the feedback, I was a user of C4D in the past, and yes, it's really not justifiable for what I'm doing now. I'm currently exploring TwinMotion.

[Best bang for the buck renderer...]

Pardon me if this has been covered.. seems like the subject is in flux.

Anyone want to chime in with recommendations for a supplemental renderer for VW Designer.. anything from free on upward..

I'm a solo operation, so probably biased toward low cost and speedy renders.. (pick two.. cheap good or fast!).

 

Thanks all..

[worksheet question re: cabinets]

 

3 hours ago, michaelk said:

If you're actually building cabinets, you might want to check out

 

https://www.extragroup.com

I'm familiar with Interiorcad.. I've been an owner, but can't really justify the purchase since they've raised prices..  I do design build, and cabinets are a part of what I do, but not the main thing, hence the need for estimating..

[worksheet question re: cabinets]

Thanks for the input and sample files, some good stuff to try, though, by way of a comment, seems like area of doors and drawer fronts, in categories by material would be a good ones to be available in the basic built-in criteria..

[worksheet question re: cabinets]

Hi All,

 

Is anyone aware of a worksheet criteria that would allow the extraction of square footage (or square inches, whatever) of cabinet doors and/or drawer fronts?

I can ballpark this with cabinet width and height, however, on this project, I have a significant number of "two sided" cabinets, and it would be convenient to extract the 

square footage of those parts for estimating purposes, also possibly extract numbers for different door materials such as solid slab, shaker, or glassfront..

 

Thanks!

[Apple macOS 14 Sonoma Compatibility - Feedback]

M1 Mac Studio. Not run into any major issues, there have been a couple of graphic glitches that resolve by restarting VW.

[Mac M2 Render Speed Test]

Mac Studio M1 Ultra 64Gb RAM 6:45..  substantial difference from @Don Seidel

An earlier test performed on VW2023 came in at 6:33

[Accurate Sheet Legends Using Data Tags]

this is a good one.. should be very useful

[2024 - New Parametric Cabinet Tool]

been waiting for something like this for quite a while.. I design cabinets, but not often enough to justify the expense of Interiorcad.

[2024 - Viewport Styles]

@JuanP Is it anticipated that 2024 will come with some viewport styles premade?

[old copies of Vectorworks]

Hi.. I've been a user for ages, and I have a number of old installer disc sets.. is there anything that can be done with these:

donate, give away etc, that would adhere to the licensing agreements?

Apologies if this has been asked before...

 

[Mac M2 Render Speed Test]

M1 Studio Ultra 64GB RAM:

 

6:33

[VW 2022 on macOS 13 Ventura]

Hi @zoomer thanks for chiming in.. I’m on the Ventura PB and 2023 as well.. at least so far, it’s been completely normal.

[VW 2022 on macOS 13 Ventura]

@Christiaan Still on Ventura? Have you had a go with 2023? Impressions?

[Mac Studio & M1 Ultra]

just to comment, I’ve been using an M1 mini, over a year, set up dual monitor for quite a while.. no issues of any kind..

[Mac Studio & M1 Ultra]

How are folks feeling about the Max vs Ultra question at this point? 

More RAM more important than the better processor? ornot?

[Mac Studio & M1 Ultra]

it’ll be interesting to hear about RAM usage during a long work session.. 

[Is my Apple Imac good enough now?]

Hi Ed, David from Seattle (bike group) my bad if this is a different Ed Wachter.. Chiming in on 2022, performance is far better on my M1 mini, invisible object bug seems rare.. I did get some locking or crashing, but that was on early builds, that seems much better with the updates..

[_c_ sells VW 2022 Architect licences for VW with serials starting 2004 + BIM Management tools]

Is your firm shifting away from Vectorworks to another package, or just selling spare licenses?

[Bring back separate snap palette please]

UPVOTE..  on a 30" screen.. the snapping palette is really out of my field of view.. it'd be really nice to have a movable/dockable palette available again.

[Ability to adjust viewport Layer and Class visibility from inside Annotation Space.]

I actually had the command in "object context" right click..  I've moved it, now works as you describe..

I've noticed that you can select any viewport to modify visibilities. That's a nice touch.

[Ability to adjust viewport Layer and Class visibility from inside Annotation Space.]

@Jesse CogswellThank you for making this available to our community! 

This is a great tool.. definitely should be core functionality of VW out of the box. Completely non-modal would be even better,

but I don't think that could be done with scripting, unless I'm mistaken..  but I digress..

I'm using it in my document context right click, and I've found that when I'm in a viewport annotation

it'll appear only if an annotation element is selected.. not when simply right clicking in an otherwise "empty" part of the viewport.

Is this expected behavior?

Now... how about restoring the snapping tools to a palette.. is that a possible customizaton?

[Mac Silicon OS and VW]

I (probably) agree with you.. but I can't help but hope that the rumor mills are on to something..

An M1 Max Mini would be a super hot seller.. so there's that..

4 minutes ago, Gilbert Osmond said:

 Unfortunately that probably won't ever happen as it would severly undercut Apple's high-end price points on the new M1Pro/Max Macbook Pros while also pushing the Mini in the wrong direction (from Apple's perspective) toward the performance tier(s) of forthcoming MX-powered Mac Pros.