Christian Fekete

Can someone advise me how to organize, format, breakdown, or else, a house drawing file with 2 levels so that it does not take 10 mn to render a perspective in hidden line mode? I would really appreciate that. All my settings are low, antialiasing etc... as suggested on the knowledge base section. I can;t believe how long it takes on a macbook pro to render a simple kitchen view, no light yet! Thanks

I am with you, literally. I spent all last night on a few renderings. Here is my experience with vectorworks cloud rendering service and then a couple of questions. 1/ Cloud service is ok. I had a couple of miss with the same file and an ok earlier. I think it has to do with the type of rendering and the setup of your file. In my case I had maybe 20-25 viewports to render and the VW cloud was not able to do it. Again I think it was more my setup but who knows? 2/Viewport rendering issues: - There is a background rendering and a foreground rendering. The foreground render will move from viewport to viewport rather quickly, the background rendering will continue to process while you can get back to work. 3/My question is rather annoyingly simple but got me into a real funk last night, here it is: The background render has all kind of rendering options, one being the hidden line option. It is also much slower than the foreground rendering which does not have all the render options. It does NOT have the NONE option though and requires therefore the use of a render mode which is generally quite slow. On the other hand the foreground rendering has a NONE option. I needed to render in regular black and white line work for architecture drawings but could not use only the foreground render because the background render must have a selection also. WHY? it takes so long to render! In general I think that VW is way to slow for any kind of real life architecture rendering work. Unless maybe you reduce your files to one room at a time like in all the examples that you can see online. I tried to render a kitchen with tables and chairs, cabinets walls and windows as part of the whole house design file and I have to force quit, it takes way to long. I don't think it;s practicle to break down the drawing each and everytime you need a rendering, it will take as much time than to let the process finish in the full set. What do you do when you need rendering of each and every room? Is this not feasible? Every video online leads to believe that this should be possible. Am I the only one to believe this? I would really appreciate some suggestion on this. I would hope that VW would actually explain this point. Good luck to you CF

What type of objects do you apply the tiles to? Do you draw in 2D or 3D?

I reinstalled VW, was able to open an earlier version of the file but after saving a few times and closing the program, the same thing happened all over again. Cannot open my file and crashes on VW startup. I had setup VW to reopen the previous file automatically and therefore I am on a loop. Stuck without being able to work. What a major PAIN that is

It did it again, damit! Crashed after rendering on OPEN GL !!!!!!!

Thank you very much, that worked great, was able to import most of the information back.

Thank you very much everyone for your help. I think I found the answer on the knowledge base section. I followed the reset actions recommended and at least VW restarts now. My latest file and its backups seem to have issue though. Here is the link with the knowledge base article (nice to at least get back working): http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/1099/Resetting+Vectorworks+Preferences#OSX%20107-108 Again, thank you to everyone for your time trying to help, very much appreciated. Best to all

Thanks for your help Can't find application support folder, I have an "applications " folder but it's empty I don't think I have so much valuables anyway that was modified from the original install. Can I just reinstall VW? How Should I do that?

I think that the issue is with the file that VW tries to open on startup up. It tries to read file " and then "verify file" and back and forth and then crashes. Is this a template? Any idea where to look for this file?

I can't even start VW which crashes after trying to load a startup file. It looks like I need to reinstall it and see if the file will reopen. Could VW be corrupted?

I cannot open my file, VW just crashed and will not open anymore. It tries to find a backup file and hangs up during initial setup. I tried with the latest file and just restarting VW w/o opening a specific file but it looks for something that it cannot find. Please help Thank you

I cannot open my file, VW just crashed and will not open anymore. It tries to find a backup file and hangs up during initial setup. I tried with the latest file and just restarting VW w/o opening a specific file but it looks for something that it cannot find. Please help Thank you

@Dworks: Can you obtain the same result without leaving VW?

I have the same problem in regular drawing session, the screen stops refreshing after a few minutes. Any idea? Thanks

It works Great, Thanks again

This is the second time this happens to me, when I insert a window VW sets it up at the end of the walls, half way in the corner Any thing I am doing wrong?

Thanks Jonathan, always helpful Best Christian

I would like to render my floor plan with shadows, cutting the walls at about 3' high but it seems that the doors disappear showing the full wall height. Is there a way to do that? Also, is there a rendering style for a quick white board rendering that I can use just to get the shadows on a floor plan?

VW tells me that I am current. Just closed properly, go figure. Thanks

Thanks to all for your helpful responses

I tried with the architect template that comes with VW and windows insert properly. Would I have created a constraint in my template? Where should I look? Puzzled

Can I ask why you're selling VW?

Have you looked at the tutorials online? Let me know if you don't get any answer. I am not in NYC but upstate and could be interested in helping you. Let's talk, my number is 845-625-3189

if I understand correctly the layer height gives the story height but you can change them in the Layer setup also

My windows insert in the end of the walls, nowhere else! Any suggestions? Also, I cannot create any other type than fixed glass windows Any Suggestions? Thank you See attached file