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  1. Hi @Pat Stanford

     

    Opening this old thread, as I find your answer interesting. 

    I am trying to do just what is mentioned above. 

     

    However in Vectorworks 2024, i don't seem to be able to edit shortcuts individually. 

     

    It selects the whole category. 

    Is this a feature? And how do I then access the specific menu point?

     

    See attached screenshot of what happens when I select a feature.


     

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  2. Hi All 

    I am opening this thread, as I hope anyone can help me a bit on point clouds. 

    I am quite new to point clouds. Been using smaller scans earlier, but ran into a larger project now. 

     

    We had a building scanned from the surveyor. 

    The building is about 5.600m2. 

     

    The scan exceeded the maximum amount of points Vectorworks could import. 

    Therefore I revised 5 files, containing a part of the building. 

    Each scan is about 95.860.766 points. 

     

    However the resolution seems very rough, when zooming in. 

    I made a video of a small column to show it. 

     

    Compared to the great tutorial earlier in this thread, my resolution seems way to low to actually draw from. 

     

    Apart from that, one part fills 50gb in my RAM, so my computer is really struggling, handling the file. Especially compared to the performance they get in the tutorial. 

    I received the point clous as LAZ files. 

     

    Do any of you have an idea, if this is what to expect, or if there is a problem with the scan? 

    Best from Mathias


     

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  3. Hi.

    I am opening this discussion again, as I try to import a point cloud with 498+ million points. 

    However vectorworks seems to limit at 100.000.000 points. 

     

    I dont seem to find any recent information about how many points vectorworks is able to import at a time. 

    Do any of you have the knowledge if it is possible to import larger clouds than 100.000.000 points? 

     

    I get this dialog when importing: 

     

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    Thanks in advance. 

     

    // Mathias 

     

     

  4. Hi again Tom

     

    You just answered my question. 🙂 Sorry for my confusing questions. 

     

    I work in theater and event business. Very often there are set designer who is drawing part of the work in sketch up or other 3D programs. 

    I don't know why, but very often they put their drawings some random place in the 3D space. Both regarding X, Y and Z.. 

     

    Therefore i spend a lot of time retouching their drawings, and relocating them manually. 

    This is why I thought of moving origin to locate it correctly 🙂

     

    Your help is very much appreciated! It clarified a lot for me - Thanks for that!

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  5. Thanks again @Tom W.

    Very helpful of you. 

     

    I missed your point about routers showing the wrong axis, when not in top plan. Got it now. 🙂

     

    I still don't seem to be able to change user origin in the Z axis. Is this just not possible, or am I overlooking something? 

     

     

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    If possible I would prefer not to move the entire drawing down to zero Z axis. 

     


     

     

     

  6. Hi again Tom 

     

    Thanks a lot for your explanation! 

    I did change the user origin, as my model after import is lifted about 5,5 meters. 

     

    What i am trying to achieve is to reference 2 files into a third, as my colleagues will work separately at the imported models. 

     

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    I hoped a easy solution for aligning everything could be to apply custom user origin. 

    However as i understand you, there is no workaround except to move the model manually to “0” in the Z axis?


     

  7. Hi All

     

    Some strange behavior keeps snaking into my drawings, when I import set models, from sketch up and DWG.

    My Z axis dont seem to be the same across the whole drawing.

    I have some imported set, wich is liftet in Z axis.

     

    When drawing a 3D rectangle, and place it in "0" Z axis, the rouler in at the side dont sem to match.

     

    See attached screenshot (side view), with Object info, and rulers inside.

    Do any of you experience this, or knows how to solve it?

     

    Best from Mathias

     

    Skrmbillede2023-08-28kl_14_37_38.thumb.png.746519fb4c7df61c0508f176cfd59ce0.png

  8. Hi all 

    I am opening this again. 

    I think I have the same problem. 

     

    Usually when I import a DWG file, I get lots of diagonals forming triangles. 

    The 3D looks okay, but the 2D plan gets quite messy. 

     

    Am I doing something wrong, or is there a basic understanding of DWG that I need to read into? 

     

    Here you see the floor highlighted. 

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    And here a simple I-Beam from top view. 

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    Best from Mathias 

     

  9. Hi all 

     

    I am as well trying to apply a texture to a door frame. 

    I get that I can do it by class. However I don't seem to get any class options, for doors and Windows. 

     

    What am I missing here? 

     

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    When I change the fill color my door frame changes color. But where do I apply textures? 

     

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    Best from Mathias 

     

     

  10. Hi @Mark Eli

    I will share my file with you in your mail. 

     

    I found out, it changed when turning up the quality in the preferences. 

    It happened a couple of times after that, but after changing the quality up or down all objects came back. 

     

    I got your point about using layers. For this project we are currently sketching. So making 81 layers every time I import the objects was quite time-consuming. 


     

  11. Hi all

     

    Thanks a lot for all your great and inspiring reply!

     

    Thanks @bbudzon for another great explanation on how to manage in Vision. 

    It seems that I need to pay more attention to materials. 

    I would believe my systems are beefy enough to run in high quality, depending on the amount of fixtures. 

     

    However I work mostly in stage lighting / theater, but now as well do some museum / installation lighting and trying to find a workflow to fit both needs. Maybe it is impossible. 


     

    Great point @Wesley Burrows am very happy about your inputs. 

    I have the same experience when rendering in Vectorworks, but as you describe it might very well be my lack of knowledge.

     

    @EAlexander i have been following your work for some time now! Your work is super inspiring! 

    I have been looking into leaning Cinema 4D. The last couple of weeks I tried a bit in Blender. But the workflow between Vectorworks and blender don't seem as semles as between Wectorworks and cinema 4D. 

    Do you have any experience in that? 


     

  12. I made more tests. 

    To me it seems like there has been some changes to xForm? 

     

    When trying to move an object, I t disappears. 

    Have a look at attached screenshots. 

     

    Here all DMX settings are made, except Delta X / Y / Z. 

     

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    When entering a delta value. The element diapers completely. 

     

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    Do any of you experience the same behavior? 

    And have a solution for this? 

  13. Hi Tom and Jesse

     

    Thanks a lot for your reply.
    I am a frequent user of Vision, and enjoy doing previs. with it. As well a am a Grand MA user, and bought the viz-key from MA, to be abto to pre-vis when not at my console. 

    However I am not super impressed by the rendering quality, compared to what Renderworks can do. 

    I miss being able to export more photorealistic renders, including the calculation of bounces, and reflections. 

     

    If it is my lack of knowledge please let me know. 

    However I tend to see people post renders like the ones attached. I struggle a bit on getting the same amount of detail with Vision. 

    I mostly do theater work, and enjoy checking my angles and sketching directly in vectorworks. 

     

    Best from Mathias 


     

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  14. Hello

    I am having some issues moving Martin Sceptron fixtures with the X form function. 

    I tried a bunch of objects, and fixtures, and they all move fine. However the sceptron 10 don't seem to. 

    For reference, I tested moving my floor, and a Mac Viper. They both move fine. 

     

    Fixtures are imported via MVR, from Vectorworks. 

    However I also tried to place one directly from the vision library, and had the same problem. 

     

    I tried to put them into the layers, and move the layer above. But the same issue. 

    Did any of you experience this issue? 

     

    I attached some screenshots, and my showfile. 

    Best from Mathias

     

     

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    Sceptron array.vsn

  15. Hello all 

     

    I am trying to do some renderings with Entertainment fixtures, moving lights. 

    However I am struggling a bit on getting the right workflow. 

     

    Is there a way to get different positions, zoom / fokus / color / gobos? 

    I am looking into scenes, but they don't seem to change the positions of the fixtures. 

     

    How do you work with moving lights, and renderings? 

    All is very appreciated

     

    Best from Mathias 

  16. Hi @bbudzon

    Thanks for your responce, and sorry for my long responce time. 

    I ended up drawing it again in Vectorworks, instead of using the Sketch up import I got from my set designer. 

     

    However I am very happy that you looked into it! 

    Thanks a lot! 

     

    I always transfer my file from Vectorworks to vision via MVR. 

    Primary because of the better quality. 

     

    Best from Mathias 

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  17. Hi all

     

    I am having a problem, importing a element of my set design into Vision. 

     

    It contains multiple symbols, some textures and meshes. 

    The model is imported into Vectorworks from Google sketch up. 

     

    Every time I try to import, Vision crashes. 

    Do any of you have an ide about what is happening here? 

    Don't vision like to import object symbols, containing other symbols? 

     

    I am out of ideas 🙂 

    Dollys for support.vwx

  18. Hi @bbudzon

    I have read through the thread here, and i might get the same issue as @ajpen

     

    My renders makes a black square in the top right conor of the image. 

    Do you think there is a relation? 

     

    I made my model from a MVR export from Vectorworks. 

     

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    When i go MAX quality, and match my resolution to my monitor, i get this resault: 

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    Have you found out moere about the problem? 

     

    Best from mathias 

     

     

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