[Change Cablepath/Cableroute Layerchange Icon]

2 hours ago, Thomas R said:

Hello Conrad, 

 

I hope it is ok if I place an idea here. According to EN 60617, the following symbols are used a lot in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. We supplement the symbols “cable upwards” or “cable downwards” with height information in relation to the storey height.

 

Thank you very much and have a nice day.

 

Best Thomas

Sweet!!

[New Mac Silicon vs Old PC Workstation]

20 hours ago, zoomer said:

 

Ha, I had that in my trash can Mac Pro 2013.

My basic M1 Mini 2020 was faster in CPU and GPU.

Not sure about the old Titan 12 GB, but I am pretty sure the basic M4 is noticeably faster in CPU and GPU. And it runs macOS.

 

 

I don't think so. Usually VW renders using CPU (have not yet seen Redshift using my GPU or being any faster) and especially there the M4 will be so much faster.

 

But I would also try to get as much shared memory as possible. It should work with 24 GB though, but there is not much reserve in case of rising demand.

My 32gB unified memory M1 Max MacBook Pro stutters regularly under heavy render load (but hey, sometimes blur is essential for clarity, lol) & I regret nearly every day not jumping to 64gB unified memory @ purchase. It's not a surprise anymore seeing the ram usage shoot up to over 100gB, which means swap-city. 

[Showcase Pan/Tilt Invert]

5 hours ago, jschulman said:

Hi @pfalviThis is great feedback. We have discussed including inverting pan/tilt per fixture in the past, and this adds to the argument. Thank you! 

Just to add that it's the rare show I don't have some pan | tilt inversion going & this addition to Showcase would make it much more appealing

[Perimeter mapping seems to be gone from VW2023.]

18 hours ago, Andy Broomell said:

Bumpity bump 🙃

 

VE-104236

 

18 hours ago, Andy Broomell said:

Bumpity bump 🙃

 

VE-104236

Bumpity bump bump BUMP!!

[Feature Request: Command Line]

4 hours ago, Matthew S said:

For fun/reference, here's a stream deck profile I was fiddling with yesterday. It's still very much a work in progress.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hIxA-QSWRfBunfaaBgCOxlMb5tZxgGKw/view?usp=drivesdk

All that sounds pretty awesome - but sounds like you don't travel with the XL?

Guessing without a stream deck, that file is un=openable

[Feature Request: Command Line]

29 minutes ago, Matthew S said:

 

I do the same. When I started, I was on PC and used a Razr Tartarus v2. It was a great tool for me but when I switched to Mac I found out Razer Synapse 3 wasn't compatible with Mac so I then switched to a stream deck XL.

 

Stream deck opened up a whole new world of macros and shortcuts! 

Creating a custom workspace and updating the shortcuts has done wonders to my workflow.

The Stream Deck option seems like a great end-around, offering plenty of flexibility without having to get into the weeds of forcing something into a place it just won't get in politely. I guess the question that raises is - what are the main limitations of that solution, esp for us on the road designers?

 

[Trees over time]

In the resource browser, locate your trees, duplicate them, make the dupes the big size & stick them on diff layers & or classes

[Cancel Reference Update]

Sadly I sometimes choose "force quit" in these situations, because…time

[Image Fills turned Black with OS 15.4 update]

4 hours ago, Gunther said:

We're working on a couple public notifications.  It appears Apple has broken some aspects of image handling in macOS update 15.4.  We have reported the issue to Apple.

@Gunther—If you have the time it'd be great to understand what those aspects are, as they relate to VWX files.

 

[Database]

1 hour ago, shorter said:

Just import the xlsx into a worksheet?

 

1 hour ago, shorter said:

Just import the xlsx into a worksheet?

MAybe reference the sheet into the VWX,. so you update the XLSX then re-calculate the sheet, as I remember

[Polygons fill is out of sync?]

12 hours ago, MattWhite said:

Thanks for your thoughts Benson,

Both the design layer and the view port were in Top/plan.  I copied the objects into a new file and made a new viewport.  The 2d poly tool now bucket fills the objects correctly without any strange offsets.

 

I then went back to the original file and made a new viewport on the original sheet layer...  which is VP #2.  And it fills correctly.

So, retested VP#1 and it still didn't fill correctly.  I then copied VP#1 and Made VP#3 and found that I also fills correctly.  I then went back to my original VP#1 retested it again, found that it now fills correctly as well.  It seems that the simple act of coping the VP caused something that was stuck to unstick itself.     

This is the way

[When switching to the Normal perspective 3D view everything vanishes.]

Hey there @Andy Broomell, curious about why you use the renderworks camera. What upside is there to that tool the video camera doesn’t have?

[Vectorworks 2025 Update 4?]

23 minutes ago, Bruce Kieffer said:

I suggest you call to support on that one.

between posting & returning now, I did that very thing. Full Disk Access was clicked off for VWX 2025 & VWX Installer 2025 in Mac OS 15.3.1 system settings

Re-asserted - things seem fine for now

Thanks to VWX tech phone support

[Vectorworks 2025 Update 4?]

I am having repeated problems trying to install it - this is the third time the update has failed. A reboot immediately prior to the latest attempt did not help

 

[Existing tree renumbering]

1 hour ago, Zsombor said:

Hello, 

I've placed hundreds of existing trees, then I realised that there are some duplicates. After removing them, there remained a gap in the numbering. Is there a prompt for renumbering them? Or how can I fix it easily? I've tried it in the worksheet, but it takes a lot of time renumbering them one by one.

 

Thank you,

Look at the Savvy Sequencer plugin by Josh Benghiat: It'll number pretty much anything, including filling record fields—might do what you need.

[Why do fixture requests take over a year now?]

@JustinVanHassel I do appreciate your lengthy reply as it fills in many data holes & clarifies the many moving parts , individuals & groups with input on the VWX side alone

[File size reduction PDF sets for email attachment]

30 minutes ago, E|FA said:

Regarding the sample file @Tom W. sent me.  Neither PDF Expert nor PDF Tollkit+ could compress the file.  I'm attaching a screenshot of the PDF Toolkit message indicating the problem with vector graphics.  I then exported the PDF to a PNG to get rid of the vector graphics, created a PDF back from the PNG, and then compressed.  This worked with Preview, PDF Expert, and PDF Toolkit+.  Not the greatest option if you have a lot of sheets.

 

Based on this, I think that when possible it would be better to replace vector (and hatch) heavy underlays like maps with a rasterized PNG or JPG when feasible, keeping the vector data only in the portions that are needed.

Thanks for your research @E|FA

[File size reduction PDF sets for email attachment]

3 hours ago, Tom W. said:

 

I have a PDF generated from VW - a map - that looks like this:

 

It is 26.5MB. When I save it with Quartz Filter set to 'Reduce File Size' the resultant PDF is 39.8MB in size 🙂

I get same results w/ the Apple Quartz filter.

[File size reduction PDF sets for email attachment]

I ♥️ PDF web site: free, great compression—generally better IMO than Adobe's. and their other products on the same page are also awesome. PDF convert to Excel is my second most used feature there.

I should perhaps point out that a multipage PDF is compressible for free, but multiple files at once are not.

 

[Cursor size/presentation.]

On 5/4/2024 at 9:47 AM, zoomer said:

 

I used that for years.

Even at times when my eyes were still good.

Same same

[Horizontal Softgoods]

I guess I'd start with a nice catenary curve, probably drawn with the excellent catenary plugin tool from @Paolo.

From there I'd extrude the line to the dimensions required. 

[Method for individual numbering of lines]

2 hours ago, JBenghiat said:

Shameless plug: my Savvy Sequencer plug-in will sequentially number any existing object. You can store the number in the object name or an attached record, or you can automatically place text objects on each line.

 

https://benghiatlighting.com/software/product/savvy-sequencer-2/#description

Shameless approbation of same! This is a tool whose utility has no bounds. Try it. Scary good and simple in application. It is literally the first re-installed plugin on every VWX install I've done since discovering it.

[Spotlight Fixtures and Fog & rendering fun]

7 hours ago, mjm said:

Hello again @markdd—thanks, that worked a treat. Have an excellent new year

 

here're a couple quick renders post-fix, with those old old posing figures which I still use alarmingly frequently for the ability to simulate interesting/thematic movement & to fake costumes (that not shown).

 

[Spotlight Fixtures and Fog & rendering fun]

13 hours ago, markdd said:

The website is a subscription site.checkout the home page if out the link in my signature below.

 

Remove the point check mark from the record.

Hello again @markdd—thanks, that worked a treat. Have an excellent new year

[Spotlight Fixtures and Fog & rendering fun]

26 minutes ago, mjm said:

@markdd Much appreciated—It does appear that page requires a login.

copy thx  - however I must be missing something. I copied the original point source, moved it down to where it belongs, leaving the original in place. The new beam position works well, yay. however, the body now separates from the yoke upon focus -see the screenshots.

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