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Just like in 2015's marketing!

There are so many variables in walls over walls, that textures rarely seem to align. I find the placement of windows and doors also seems capable of changing texture origins. What Vincent might want is a "Use world X and Y" button. It would work in some instances and in textures where the start point is critical it would provide a consistent reference point for adjusting alignment.

Another way, when the survey data doesn't all flow in the same direction, is to use negative values in the length field.

Thanks mike. And good!

I wonder if this is just a mistake, it seems weird that the new deform tool would only be available in Fundamentals and Designer. I always thought Fundamentals was just the base of all the Design Series packages, not a separate package of distinct features.

Unless you're making a change to the way Renderworks is packaged in 2015, that just aggravates scheven architect's observations. I agree that Renderworks is essential, it's also been an area in which Vectorworks has maintained an edge over the others. This year, however, ArchiCAD and Allplan have pulled no punches integrating CineRender so comprehensively within their software. To achieve that kind of polish, we're (currently) using Renderworks and then exporting to Cinema 4D. I doubt most users using this workflow would care if Renderworks actually got more expensive to bring the same full set of CineRender features inside Vectorwork. Anything that reduces or eliminates the need to export / interpolate from one software into another is a massive boost in efficiency.

Planet Vectorworks and your twitter feed are running this announcement up the pole again today. Earlier this year it was, and still is, referred to as a "partnership" between the two companies plus the twitter feed says, "Take your BIM to the next level with Synchro?s 4D integration", but the only thing I've been able to find linking the two softwares is that IFC is supported. Synchro Pro (SP) imports other proprietary BIM formats directly, or with a plugin produces a native SP file from within a BIM software without requiring IFC interpolation, is there more to this "partnership" story yet to come with 2015?

Another resource has popped up for people starting Vectorworks, Up and Running with Vectorworks at lynda.com. It's good they've taken Vectorworks on-board, hopefully they'll move on to advanced tutorials.

It's a date.

That's a recent development for ArchiCAD, so I wouldn't be surprised if 2015 saw some changes in that area as well.

I believe this is a bug Will. I've been trying to work out what I might have changed from prior versions without success. It kind of renders the eyedropper tool useless, as I strictly maintain attributes by class for viewport customisation.

What would be handy, is if the visibility tool could work within (while inside) the annotation of a sheet layer viewport to turn the viewport's classes off by clicking. That would be a far easier way to customise SLVP class visibilities than scrolling the class lists.

With the Mac Pro's dual graphics is it safe to assume that if/when Cinema 4D starts using the GPU for rendering, it would simply port into the next edition of VW?

Praise be!

That's the 64 million bit question!

As a result of a 'partnership' formed with Adobe last year, Maxon basically gives Cinema 4D Lite away for free with After Effects. We pay for Renderworks (C4D Lite?). This year both Allplan and ArchiCAD have gained comprehensive CineRender integration, so it seems likely Renderworks will also receive a big bump in capability as well.

According to Bob, it?s a semantic probe.

Funny! I guess we?re all familiar with the 50 shades of weirdness that usually accompanies VW releases. ------ So Bob, you signed a NDA and would like to confirm, or should I say "hypothetically" confirm, that you and co are both beta testers trying your "clever" ways to get around NDAs? I've got a question for y'all (beta testers) that shouldn't breach your NDAs, is 2015 going to be a well-behaved and stable release?

Back on topic, and assuming the teaser is legit, "materials quickly can be assigned and that it can be directly used in an OpenBIM workflow", is attention grabbing. Isn't perhaps MATERIALS with IFC classing and plugin malleability more the focus of the teaser, than the curtain wall tool itself??? Too optimistic? And the "out of memory" bug (mostly) fixed with 64bit, that's a few big ticket items out of the bag already.

Good tagline Vincent! Yours is good too Jim, the new company motto? For human interaction, conflict, argument, and debate to generate results, however, it's essential that the subject is transparent and able to be addressed without fear or favour. That's not the (G.) Nemetschek way we've been witnessing over the last couple years.

Yes. Edit the hatch from your resource browser. On the left of the hatch dialogue there's a check box "Rotate" for "In Wall" and "In Symbol".

Your second comment appears to cancel out the first, unless there's something in IFC 4 that takes it beyond being a generic exchange / reference format? I think GoodBye is correct, Jeffery's ?user demand? caveat seems more like a catch 22. Companies have to author their products somewhere first and logic dictates which format to use. IFC files by default, are secondary to the native format they're authored in and the inherent limitations of IFC makes the native version the superior option to Revit users. Where's the user demand going to come from?

That?s understandable and why I added it. It would be surprising though, if you guys hadn't already looked into OTOY and Octane, especially given the list of companies who have jumped in while only CUDA GPU's are supported. The Architosh article is interesting, OTOY are doing a number of things that, as the title suggests, ?will change our 3D world?.

render.otoy.com Only CUDA enabled Nvidia GPUs are supported at the moment, but their FAQ's page states OpenCL support for AMD and Intel GPUs is planned. Features: "Octane can produce final images 10 to 50 times faster than CPU unbiased render engines, or even more with multiple GPUs . . ."

There's an article at Architosh on OTOY which is partly about the Octane plugin and how OTOY allows the plugins to be built and the revenue split. It's already available for ArchiCAD and Cinema4D, ideal for Vectorworks???