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1 hour ago, Tyler Forsberg said:
I'm not running a super computer or anything, but the difference in this update is palpable.
Tyler
AGREED
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1 minute ago, Jeff Prince said:
From a business perspective, the profit is found by being excellent at the “mundane”, as you put it, parts of design/problem solving. When you are great at making things work prior to bidding, you save your clients and contractors time/money. If you screw that critical part of the work up due to broken workflows and tools, nobody is going to celebrate your AI generated mood boards.
That’s why I wish Vectorworks would fix the broken before bringing us more eye candy. Ideally, we would have it all, but I would prefer tools and enhancements like irrigation, ADA compliance, specification integration, better walls, etc. It is frustrating to see these interface redesigns, AI rendering, color picker changes, etc…. These all coming at the expense of developing better profit making tools while incurring losses in efficiency due to retraining staff/having to become refamilar with the interface. It’s terrible bouncing between 2022 and 2024 due to the interface & icons being so different.
@Jeff Prince Thanks for that analysis, opinion and wish. fully supported here.
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51 minutes ago, Christiaan said:
…I don't know the best way for VW to respond to things like this, but if they do, I'd like to see them target those mundane aspects of design and documentation while maintaining the designer's ability to be creative.
@Christiaan O yes O yes please
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14 minutes ago, Dave Donley said:
@Iainy1961 You might start a thread in Showcase group about your file. We should be able to replicate what you want, with pre-viz as well.
https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/clubs/
Super! Looking forward to seeing the solutions offered there
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21 hours ago, Iainy1961 said:
@mjm @kevin K @Andy Broomell Thank you everyone. Still trying to figure out the nuances of this program. There are a lot it appears.
@Iainy1961—something I fail to remember regularly is that renderworks is not (very sadly) a previz program. Things which can be done in a few clicks in Capture or LC or similar just cannot be done quickly in RW.
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20 hours ago, E|FA said:
I'm a "design" architect, yet so little of my time is generating the actual design. The bulk of my work is resolving problems and technical issues. I don't want VW to use development resources chasing AI, while so many tools I need to use every day could use fixes and improvements
This is exactly correct. I'd love to gain back the hours and hours spent resolving the above-mentioned problems and technical issues. I mean, I need to restart VWX at least four times a day under normal load to lower the number times of app locking up, crashing or just plain refusing to render. When I don't:…just yesterday, double clicked on a VWX file during a zoom mtg, app opened fine, but as soon as the file started to load the machine crashed to a black screen followed by machine restart. That was a fun meeting moment…😬—some guffaws around the virtual table about my professional vertical market application.
Minute it rebooted, file opened fine.
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35 minutes ago, Andy Broomell said:
It seems to be due to the 53 Lighting Device objects on the "4 Vic LX-Tubes 3d" class. If you turn that class off I believe it's closer to what you expect.
To fix, you might select those devices, click Edit, and change the Brightness to a lower value.
Agreed @Andy Broomell. I opened the file, turned those fixtures off, set all the ROBE beam angles to narrow, added fog to them and voila.
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3 minutes ago, Kevin Allen said:
Not if that projector is a hybrid symbol, I do not think, but if it's 3D only, should be fine.
So therefore you might choose to dupe the symbol, delete the 2d representation, rotate to suit, re-autohybrid if desired, et voila!
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20 minutes ago, Jeff Prince said:
you need to select the viewport.then look at the OIP (object info panel)., not your navigation panel.
Find the class button there and set it accordingly.
@Greg Rosenke-yes this is the likely culprit - I still every once in a while forget and have to 'oh yeah THAT class or layer' button.
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On 3/8/2024 at 1:35 AM, Kevin K said:
Another way….that I often use to quickly, easily, dimension to face of studs, is to simply make invisible the other wall components.
Give it a try 🙂
So simple thanks
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3 hours ago, LarryO said:
The only reprieve I have had from this issue and it doesn't always work is to change to wire frame.
It is like forcing an update in a viewport when trying to dimension in hidden mode and the snaps stop appearing.
I have found the same over here
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9 hours ago, VIRTUALENVIRONS said:
It appears we are all Mac users. There is another quirk I see every so often. Does anyone else see this?
If I choose the "Flyover" tool for example, the icon on the screen remains the Arrow Cursor. It still works, but a clue that I should save my work and "Revert to Saved".
SAME!!!
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3 hours ago, Scott C. Parker said:
I think the parts of the array may have come from the libraries, but the symbol is a collection of parts. It's the overall saved array symbol that is causing the copy/paste issue.
Actually @Scott C. Parker, I think the offending item was the sub woofer. Can’t confirm currently.
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@Scott C. Parker thanks for your advice.
Near as I can recall, that speaker came directly from one of the built-in audio resource folders, probably version 2022, possibly 2021.
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to anyone curious enough; I sent the info requested to @JuanP and then thought to share the brief movie of the issue: VWX completely and silently locks up, not even allowing access to the apple menu, upper right corner.
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6 hours ago, JuanP said:
Could you share the 24 DWG file to try to replicate your issue? Thanks.
Hello @JuanP—lol, it's been three days since my post and I have moved so far past that, but let me see if I can dig it up.
tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-to…
Welp, I found a backup which displays that same behavior, so after I force-quit VWX, restart the machine and re-open said file, deleting any NDA stuff I'll DM it to you.
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2 hours ago, Kevin Allen said:
try the theatre row PIO
A big thumbs-up for that plugin
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As I follow this topic I note that is an excellent feeling to receive VWX employee feedback and information in this space. Feeling heard is a good thing.
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So twice now VWX 2024 has locked up - no sign of that except no part of the UI is responsive. This occurred when I tried to copy/paste two audio symbols from one '24 dwg to a fresh one. The app threw up a 'no data record for that symbol' after which clicking ok the whole thing froze.
And of course neither time did I save the new untitled document, so there's no autosave file to refer back to for work completed.
yay
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3 hours ago, Amanda McDermott said:
Have you got it installed on an SSD? I have yet to test it in earnest, but I think that uninstalling (from HD) and installing to the SSD on my laptop has made a difference to issues I was having.
just to comment that I am finding VWX 24 quite a bit slower than I remember 23 being.
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1 hour ago, Tom W. said:
I always search for Forum posts in Google. I've never had much luck doing it in the Forum itself.
And so much faster to get the result in general
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My general feeling about being held hostage by every software vendor's* subscription model is that retirement can't come soon enough.
My day is not made replete by having to negotiate with this or name-your-software on it's inevitably shifting terms (crashes, pricing, bugs, workarounds, crashes, etc), in order to achieve some semblance of productivity.
* this is a rant about the subscription model in general, and my sense of not getting what I'm paying for.
* I once overheard one ballerina say to another 'well, better than bad…'
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3 hours ago, michaelk said:
Hi @MartinBlomberg. I made this for theaters, but it should work for an arena: https://www.verysmallgroup.com/theaterow
Great tool, Sometimes wish. I had more opportunity to use it!
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thanks for those Dave and Claes