Jump to content

mjm

Member
  • Posts

    1,270
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by mjm

  1. 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.

    • Like 1
  2. 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. 

    • Like 2
  3. 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.

    • Like 2
  4. 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!

  5. 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

  6. 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!!!

  7. 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. 

  8. 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.

     

  9. 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

×
×
  • Create New...