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I sometimes go to 600dpi not that I want to but…

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@htranbos Sheet layer viewport or design layer? If Sheet Layer VP, make sure your Sheet DPI is set high enough for publishing - I often use 300 DPI.

[Candy cane stripe around Hardscape object]

@Cody Worthmanˆif you mean the red diagonal striped box, that tells you the state of that viewport needs refreshing

[How to stop sketches and parts moving!]

I wonder if this is due to symbols being built not on 0,0 causing them to jump away when entering the symbol container to edit

[Objects look horrible in renderworks]

23 hours ago, EAlexander said:

Are you rendering to a viewport on a sheet layer?  By default - sheet layers have an DPI of 72 (low).  Right click on the name of your sheet in the Navigation palette and choose edit - from here, up the resolution of the sheet and see if that helps.  Each sheet is independent, so if you have multiple sheets, you'll have to do this to each one.  And, obviously, the higher the DPI, the more time it will take to render. 

 

If this isn't the cause of your issue, can you post a file for us to look at?

I believe one can select all sheets in the sheet tab of the nav palette, right click and edit the sheet dpi for all at once

[2d plan vs 3d front]

3 hours ago, JustinVH said:

There are also Default Instrument Textures in Silver and White that can be downloaded in the RM and applied to the lights. Keep in mind that the geometry of shipped symbols is set to Cool Gray 90% so if you render without textures turned on the light will still look like a black blob even if you lighten the texture so you may also want to change the color of the geometry. Almost 100%(well over 99%) of the lights in the shipped content libraries will use the Default Instrument Texture-Black with a color of Cool Gray 90% unless a manufacturer has a white or silver option and specifically asks for us to use one of the other default textures.

@JustinVH—thank you @JustinVH ; I actually did not see those other default texture options.

[2d plan vs 3d front]

On 3/29/2024 at 1:34 PM, Iainy1961 said:

Is there a way to show the orientation of the LX fixtures as they actually are in the 3d view? 

Also, is it possible to get more definition in the light when it is in shaded? By which I mean, not a black blob. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you, Iain

In order to change the black blob part, one normally edits the Resource "Default Instrument Texture" to a lighter tone, such a s 50% grey.

[Water Textures]

3 hours ago, Dave Donley said:

 

Yes this file just has the two textures mentioned many years ago.  You can import the textures to your model to try them out.

 

thanks for those Dave and Claes

[2024 Update 4 SO SLOW]

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

[AI BIM?]

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.

[AI BIM?]

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

[Would someone be so kind as to tell what I have done wrong please?]

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

[Would someone be so kind as to tell what I have done wrong please?]

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. 

[AI BIM?]

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. 

[Would someone be so kind as to tell what I have done wrong please?]

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.

[Projector angles]

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!

[Dimension class visibility not toggling to show off]

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.

[VW 2024 Update 3 crashing when not on home network]

Ouch

[Snap to Face of Stud]

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

[Snapping stops working when editing deeply nested objects.]

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

[Snap cues disappear!]

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!!!

[Quiet Crash]

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. 

[Quiet Crash]

@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.

[Quiet Crash]

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. 

 

 

[Quiet Crash]

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.