
willofmaine
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Got it (I think...). Thank you!
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In the "Favorites" Folder in our shared User Folder in Dropbox (Dropbox > User Folder > Libraries > Favorites) I have placed a subfolder, and into that Mac aliases to our content Library Files. Unfortunately, it seems these aliases are not recognized by PCs. If I replace the aliases with the actual files, these actual files are too easily deleted by anyone that removes them as Favorites, via the Resource Manager on their own computer. Is there a way to have these centralized, shared Favorites files without the risk of their being deleted?
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Title Block Layout vs Invisible Text
willofmaine replied to willofmaine's question in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests
Ha ha, holy cow, you are absolutely right! I was more out to lunch on this than I thought. Good thing I haven't been using VW for more than a couple of weeks, otherwise this might have been embarrassing... ... ... Okay, so the improvement you're suggesting is being able to create the placeholder text directly within the Title Block Layout, rather than via the Sheet Data fields? That would be great; it's what I originally tried to do. -
Cropped PDF Disappears when Zooming In
willofmaine replied to willofmaine's question in Troubleshooting
Try as I would, I could not replicate the issue in a brand new, blank file... until I both cropped the PDF and set the Design Layer opacity to 33%. Then it would disappear when zooming in. @Jonathan Pickup turning off "Accelerate graphics" does indeed resolve the problem. At least when it comes to PDFs, there seems no advantage to using "Accelerate graphics:" it doesn't seem to facilitate faster zooming or panning, and things are blurrier when zooming and panning... -
Title Block Layout vs Invisible Text
willofmaine replied to willofmaine's question in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests
Boy, I don't know what I did. My File 01, labeled as VW 2024, is actually a VW 2025 file. My File 02 is also VW 2025, as expected, but there's no title block placed on Sht-1, as expected. I did rename a file while it was open and then tried to save it... I thought I'd successfully backtracked, but maybe not... Anyway... In File 01, the "sheet title:" and "sheet (number):" are not populated as expected. If I create another sheet (with default "Sht-1" & "[Sheet Title]") and place an instance of the Title Block there, those fields are populated, as expected. But oddly, when I return to Sheet A-1, the Title Block has entirely disappeared. If I place a new instance, it then works as expected. A corrupt Title Block instance?... In any case, when I edit the title block style in @Pat Stanford's file, I don't see any text in the "Sheet Title:" or "Sheet Number:" fields... which threw me at first... until I went ahead and added some text to those fields myself and, voila, visible "placeholder" text when I go to edit the Title Block Layout!! Which perfectly resolves my original issue, thank you Pat! @Nikolay Zhelyazkov it seems Pat indeed had the solution for my issue. I'm not sure if you maybe misunderstood my issue and maybe identified another issue? Either way, thanks to both of you! -
Fifteen minutes into using VW today I've got my PDF underlay situated and ready for tracing. I zoom in and, huh?!? It disappears. After wasting some time to see what the deal is, it looks like cropped PDFs disappear if you zoom in on them close enough to see what you're doing. The benefits of the VGM continue to elude me. VW 2024 Update 7; VWIS242
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Title Block Layout vs Invisible Text
willofmaine replied to willofmaine's question in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests
The project I'm working on is in VW 2024. The problem appears to be with Sheet data (as opposed to Project data). Within the Title Block Layout the text blocks are present (they highlight when hovering or marquee-ing) but they are not otherwise invisible. In VW 2025, the problem seems worse because the Sheet data automatically linked to the Sheet (Title and Number) doesn't even display with the Title Block when not editing the Title Block Layout. When I start from scratch within the Title Block Layout with new text (text blocks with text, randomly placed in the drawing areas of each title block) the problems persist, and I still can't seem to achieve any kind of "placeholder" text. 2024 and 2025 files attached. Thanks!... VWIS241 01-Title Block Invisible Text-VW 2024.vwx 02-Title Block Invisible Text-VW 2025.vwx -
Title Block Layout vs Invisible Text
willofmaine posted a question in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests
When working on the Title Block Layout of a Title Block Style, I wish that linked text wasn't invisible. It's really hard to layout the title block and its text when the text is invisible... -
Point Cloud vs 3D Model/Mesh from Photos
willofmaine replied to willofmaine's topic in General Discussion
@inikolova Yes, all very helpful, thank you. Based on very limited experience so far, I do prefer working with the mesh, as it doesn't "evaporate" when zooming in. I knew I was breaking all kinds of rules with my greenhouse experiment (particularly lighting rules, with the sun shining into the greenhouse and all), but I actually got what I thought were pretty impressive results. And it seemed pretty easy to set a working plane, create an extrude, and use that to reorient the mesh - though I'm sure that that process could get tedious after a while. Evidently Nomad won't work on my (old) Android phone, but I'll continue to experiment with my camera for now. Thanks! (Oh... I have an oldish iPad, which I just installed Nomad on and very easily made a (very deformed) mesh of a pan (but, again, I broke lots of rules). I see that it generated a "gravity.TXT" file for each image and, sure enough, the pan is right-side up... but, it's also 3x bigger than it should be, so not sure about that...). I'll keep experimenting. -
Point Cloud vs 3D Model/Mesh from Photos
willofmaine replied to willofmaine's topic in General Discussion
Hi @inikolova Thank you for your response & explanation. Initially I thought maybe I was completely missing something... I do have a couple of questions: I'd read that a point cloud is more accurate than the mesh. Aside from needing to be re-scaled, how inaccurate is the mesh? I'm interested in its usefulness for existing conditions documentation. Also, are there any benefits to USDZ over OBJ? The .obj file simply imported as a mesh. The .usd file imported as single-object groups within groups, redundant to about eight levels before finally getting down to what appeared to be exactly the same mesh... Thanks! -
Two years ago I uploaded photos of a barn to VW Cloud Services and selected what I believe was "Photos to 3D." The result was a Point Cloud (.pts) file, and I imported the point cloud into Vectorworks (where, in the OIP, it's indeed identified as a "Point Cloud Object"). Yesterday, I repeated the process for a greenhouse, and the only applicable current option seems to be "Photos to 3D model." I assumed I was going to end up with a point cloud, but instead I ended up with a 3D Mesh (in an .obj file). Following a little research, it seems that point clouds are more accurate than meshes, though the 3D mesh seems far easier for extracting information. And it seems that, at this point, Nomad and/or Lidar are necessary for creating a point cloud via VW Cloud Services? I definitely did not use either of those two years ago when the barn point cloud was generated; just a bunch of photos... So... it seems something has changed over the past couple of years... any clarification would be greatly appreciated!
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Worksheet of Classes in a File
willofmaine replied to Pat Stanford's topic in Resource Share - Vectorscript
Fantastic! Great script! Thank you, once again, Pat! (And, this appears to work in VW 2024 as well...) -
Beautiful! Thank you very much for this!!
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Is there any way (other than counting them in their Navigation window) to determine how many classes there are in a Vectorworks file? I tried a worksheet report on all objects and the class that each is in but somehow ended up with very many blank cells (objects not in classes??…) and also “Summarize Items” didn’t seem to apply to classes(?)… Thanks!
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@Sky l too would be interested in “Could you post screenshots of your settings for rendering style, background, lighting, etc? Also, what page size and DPI?” I feel like those renderings would take only a few minutes each on my iMac Pro…