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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…'

Great tool, Sometimes wish. I had more opportunity to use it!

It occurs to me there're a couple ways to do this already: make a 'physical' Lightbox and insert into wall (where I'd be cheating there is using one VWX light behind a backlit surface, instead of the likely many bulbs in a real lightbox. Another approach which is super easy is to texture the emissive surface as a glow texture & crank it up till you like it.

Go gettem Team VWX! this has been plaguing me for quite awhile now. MBP M1, 32 GB ram

Always a good feeling!

As can be seen in the screenshot below, the export & publish commands are displaying greyed layers radically differently, w/publish failing the challenge, and I'm hoping there's something simple I can correct to mange this issue, as publish is important to me these days.

I want to love it, but I don't.

OTG

It's great to be heard

Agreed!

Bump your Sheet Layer DPI to 300 dpi, found by right-clicking the sheet layer in the organization window or the Layer palette

The File: Import… menu offers you the choice to input many graphics formats under the Import Image File… menu choice @katebjohnson

@rDesign y'know what cracks me up — even tho being declared Legacy years ago, they're still populating the RM's Entourage section, and as we can see in the appended screenshot, & as sketchy (SNS) a piece of code-writing as they may be, the ability to set a dynamic pose, color & texture of almost every element inside VW has always been a blessing* to me. I'll miss em when they're gone for realz. [nope, the current fashion jean w/ tear @ knee is not a feature] * yes a blessing which, as much of VWX elsewhere does, can transform into a TVA-level curse, see knee note above.

This, depending on the 3d figure, is actually doable to some degree. Here's a poorly lit screencap of two figures with a version of caucasian skin texture and one with a version of African skin texture. It's a pain in the butt and attempts to edit these figures often break them unpredictably, which is sad for me as they can be relatively easily posable -realistic they're not, but adding a kinetic sense to the poses does help…

So I'm working along in vwx 24, things are going ok and then this happens and I can't get back to an orthogonal view. Even tho the UI shows otherwise. Yep, I quit the app and will relaunch…

@line-weight—super, my thanks.

Andy Broomell ……I think

@grant_PD—super cool. Would you mind to go into a bit more detail on your SubD methodology for creating these objects. Much appreciated!

Sooner rather than later would be good

Well that ain't right! MBP M1 Max, 32 GB, Sonoma 14.1.2, VWX 2024 update 2 build 731261

Super cool @markdd

The muscle memory bit is hard to shake & I do have a preferred placement for the view bar and would love the flexibility to put it where I want it.

So. here's one auto cad group (that's how it imported). It represents one ROBE lighting fixture. It's comprised of over 32,000 line segments. It's one of a couple of hundred similarly made objects, - that's just the Lighting objects, I haven't yet checked the architectural elements. The drawing can't be navigated without the BBD spinning relentlessly and stopping all progress. At 12.5 MB, the file is tiny, yet unnavigable. This file could not be loaded by AutoDesk's online viewer - it failed to load, so there's that. The question is: when these poorly made files are received, how best to actually use them? So far, a very painfully exported PDF makes navigating the drawing a smidge better, but still somewhat beach-ball-y, and no access to contained data. thanks 32,000plus segments.vwx

Just gonna say I have seen this happen with imported auto cad blocks. It may be that they've been scaled instances in auto cad

as a last-ditch option (which I use semi-frequently) this link https://smallpdf.com/compress-pdf will allow one free compression a day, with great results, in my experience. If I did more than the occasional compression, I'd consider subscribing. Also-I have never needed to use their offer of super high compression, the default always brings the pdf way way down in size without losing much quality at all.