Jan-Burger TROOST

Hit print is exactly what we do using the laser with .ai files. Apparently it comes down to the capabilities of the ‘printing’ software, not so much the source. This functions as a hub to the laser software where material settings are done. Might come in handy for VW as well?

I’m sorry I meant ExtraGroup of course and will edit my original post. All credits to you guys for interiorcad! 😱

All screendumps in the link you mention are from a Mac (see button style on top). If the gcode generator is cross platform itself ‘most of the times’ it doesn’t matter to what platform the machine is connected. We use Cura for our 3D printers, which has gcode files as output as well. It doesn’t matter on what platform the Vectorworks model is exported to .STL from to be loaded in Cura.

SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics and is an export option from Adobe Illustrator, etc. We sometimes used it for our laser cutters, until we were able to proces native .AI files.

Well, in the real world it’s all about me having the right network when I’m not capable in doing something myself. The people I work most frequently with are the ones that understand me.

Maybe acqui…, ehr teaming up with ComputerWorks would get things rolling?

There is a plugin/add-in from ComputerWorks in Germany that’s called InteriorCad. We’re aiming to use this for furniture making at school here very soon! Works seamlessly & cross-platform with Vectorworks…

Cool stuff! We may or may not be experimenting here at my school to get interiorcad up and running for a cnc job in furniture production (or anything else that will apply). Our team Furniture Design was looking for an ‘intuitive, flexible and intelligent’ 3D app. I may or may not have advised them to choose the obvious… 😇

… or maybe have no background instead of white?

Are later viewports rendering correctly, or are they completely black? When you said ‘at the very last second’ I was thinking it might be a gpu issue, ie that the card is ‘full’…?

Hehe, I know a lot of you boat guys are very helpful, which I appreciate a lot. If I will not be able to have it done in VW, I’ll consider asking some of you to provide the flats. I still like to think VW could do the trick, it only needs to combine some existing possibilities… 😇

Hi Art, thanks for your reply. The boat itself is fairly simple (it’s a ski tow wooden boat) and has been made before, but without CAD for the production part of it. We manage to have the hull in 3D in the correct shape and all. It’s ‘just’ that we need to extract the sides in order to send it to our CNC…

Thanks for your advise, I’ll try this myself first as well… 🤓 But the main question still stands: how can I have VW do the trick of unfolding a hull? Be it #Marionette, #VectorScript or a hidden trick almost noone remembers, I can’t stand my favorite cad brand hides its hand 😇

Forget the intelligent textures, why not have our skates on and let #Marionette take care of it! Anyone in the room willing to try & complete the ‘unfold double curved surface’ challenge?

Thanks! I'll have a look... 😉 Come to think of it, wouldn't it be nice to have 'intelligent' textures that can unfold in 2D the same way they are projected on an object?

Hi Claes, this is awesome! But you leave me no other option than to ask the name of the progam you use for the unfolds…

Hi Claes, Thanks for your comment. My main concern is how to unfold a double curved surface as the hull of a boat is. I'm trying to help out students with their technical drawing and CAM files for the boat they're planning to make & was hoping VW could have the genius option (somehow) for the trick 'other' CAD programs lack...

Awesome playground indeed! @markb did you get the job done eventually?

Bump! Would it be doable to use Subdivision in making the hull & after that use Unfold Surfaces for extracting the sides?

Hello Rick, VR works fine in a browser window on both your iPhone or compuer. I do this on a very regular basis. Maybe we can meet in Rotterdam so I can show & help you with the settings? Just DM me for contact details! De groeten! JB

Hi @inikolovaThanks for your reply. Of course I should have used a browser instead of Nomad for the vr split screen… Could it be that Nomad will have the capability to do this from within the app in a ‘soonish’ update?

It seems that on my iPhone I miss the Eye and 360 buttons when viewing a 3D .vgx file in Nomad. Is this a browser only option?

Hopefully OneDrive will make it to the list of syncing services some day soon…

<wishfulthinking> Now that would make a lot of interior designers switch from SU to VW, here in The Netherlands... </wishfulthinking>

How do I use it as an HRI background when I only have an online webpage of, let's say, an empty exhibition hall? In the Resource Palette I can select .HDR, .EXR, .JPG or .PNG as downloaded file, but I'm missing the option to use a hyperlink. If this is not possible yet, please move this topic to the wishlist items... 😉 Cheers, JB