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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?

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

Sore brain? RDF you mean! 🤓 At the Summit all was fine, back in school I learned a Reality Distortion Field has that name for a reason… Looking forward to all the future contributions of y’all — be it summit or the forum. Thanks again for hosting the event the way you did!

So subtitles will be easier, I guess…?

Actually I ment the instruction videos in the LMS… 😉

This is just SO freaking awesome!! Can’t wait to have it used by my students. Will there be an option to select subtitles to the video’s rather than translation voice overs?

Awesome location for a summit! Arrived yesterday evening after a long but smooth flight from Amsterdam. Hope to have adapted to the -9 timezone by tomorrow.

Looking forward to meeting you all. Will be my first time your side of the pond… The app is a good way of introducing attendees & finding your way during the event. Thanks again for adding the Lunch & Learn on Tuesday!

Just a little downside: what if it's not a symmetrical shape so I cannot use parallel sides as reference?

Close enough, many thanks (as always)!!

Hello, How do I rotate along line in 3D? Let's say I have two extruded hexagons that are connceted side by side (see attachment). I'd like to rotate the left one 90 degrees to the right one, like there is a hinge between the two. 2 small details: the connceted side is not and should not be aligned to the X or Y axe & rotating the left hex along the side of the white cube is not the preferred method. I'm looking for a Vectorworks 3D-function that will do the trick for me...

Wow, if that could be achieved! I now hold my students from using the tool, since it seems counter productive the way it collects all parameters, but your suggestions would help explaining it to them in a clearer way!

Your first image would be awesome to do parametrically. The second and third I do manually. They are too specific/custom to have in a tool, I guess.

Watch out for retina iMacs with terrabite-fusion. The ssd is only some 24gb, the rest is a sluggiah 5400rpm hard drive. Vectorworks, adobe etc don’t like that, so I learned…

Thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!! I now can crop two walls and save it in a viewport. Don’t need that workaround anymore of saving a viewport of it first in a design layer and then make a viewport of that in my sheet layer… AWESOME!!

If I use a custom light source I use .IES files. Here IES stands for Illuminating Engineering Society. Right? If I read this blogpost, IES is something different, Integrated Environmental Solutions. Wrong. Not? #confused

You are right, I was too much in How-Can-I-Save-On-Rendertime mode… It’d seem convenient to use if I would have a viewport with a lot of ‘geometrically challenging’ furniture that had been imported as dwg from an external site…

@Jim Wilson Thanks for answering my question about the way the 2D components are rendered! However, not having the same texture as on the original 3D part of the symbol will probably be too high a price using it to speed up render sessions. Will there be an option to choose the rendering mode in future versions so that I will have that same texture in both 3D and the 2D component?

I'd like that for both external AND rendered Vectorworks panoramas please!

This would be awesome if you’d be able to have it like a reference file in your drawing and then by making it a project file all members would have access. But why only 2D? It would make a huge benefit fot let’s say trade shows as well! Designers, builders, safety people, electricians, you name it! Or interior designers: you zoom in at your clients house and use it with point cloud and AR in Nomad! Let’s go!! 🤙

Thanks, Jim! Will that be 2pm ET or EDT? I’ll let you know if I run in any trouble watching the stream. Can you provide us with the url to the Facebook stream as well?