Some 3d Furniture

[Kevin K]

Awhile back someone posted a request to create some 'bespoke' ( I hate that word...so pretentious !) from some images that they posted.

Of course, no real data, dimensions, etc were included for anyone to actually accurately create what they wanted.  I sort of think they were just fishing. 🙂

Anyway....I kinda went nuts and did take some time to create, although knowing full well they would not be totally faithful to their images, some of the furniture items from their posted images.

Here is a snapshot of the images  they posted....

 

......and here is a screenshot of what I created, and a few other items,  using VW tools.  

 

 

Anyway....the attached file is a VW 2022 version.

Certainly not furniture for just any interior Rendering, as the styles do vary, but there may be something in the file some of you could use 🙂

You will need to un-zip the compressed file. Did this to keep the file size a bit smaller.

-Kev

 

 

 

FURNITURE BESPOKE.vwx.zip

[Pat Stanford]

Thank you @Kevin K.  This is the kind of thing I always hope that the community offers. 

 

Good Karma to you!

[Jeff Prince]

Nice work!

 

FYI, all that furniture is actually “off the rack” rather than “bespoke” 🙂

 

Great word as long as it ‘B spoke’ in a British accent.

[Kevin K]

Hahaha…..interestingly, the person who posted that IS British….I won’t hold that against Tom W ! 🙂

Pat & Jeff…thanks for your thoughts on my meager offerings.  I simply thought it would be nice to offer up some furniture items that, with all due respect, was perhaps a cut above some of the native VW furniture .

Plus….I did have fun creating some of it!

[VIRTUALENVIRONS]

Nice work Kevin.  Perhaps we should canvas Vectorworks to create a space where models like these could be deposited in a coherent space for others to download.

[Kevin K]

@VIRTUALENVIRONSThat is a thought. You thinking it is a bit too hidden down here? 🙂

[VIRTUALENVIRONS]

4 minutes ago, Kevin K said:

You thinking it is a bit too hidden down here? 🙂

 

Yes, as soon as the thread disappears, so does the info.  What you posted is good stuff.  It was smart to post on Saturday and Sunday where it will be visible for a while.  I broached this subject once, but was more or less dismissed.

If there was such a place I would upload models all the time, including construction details just to keep busy.

 

Nice work....Paul

[Kevin K]

Paul

Yeah, you are quite correct, once the thread goes bye-bye, they do get swallowed up and become a bit more invisible and less accessible. I agree.

 

[Kevin K]

I did consider posting it up in one of the more visible forum categories, but then decided it may not have been appropriate. 

[VIRTUALENVIRONS]

 

 

28 minutes ago, Kevin K said:

but then decided it may not have been appropriate. 

I would be fine.  Anything that helps elevate the level of modelling knowledge across the board should be welcome, expectially if you included the construction curves, etc.  But, in the end it will still get lost.  VW really needs a central repository.

[Kevin K]

Yes, and related somewhat to your thoughts, I was also thinking that it may be a good idea to have a sort of “VW Store” where folks could make available to other VW users items that require a bit more complex VW tool useage that many users do not possess when new to VW. 
Over the years,  I won’t tell you how much money I have spent on the Turbosquid site purchasing some really nice, tasteful furniture items to use in my renderings. One caveat with that is that when you import those items into VW the file size is always at least 5 times larger than the original !!  Which is why I normally default to using c4d as my go to rendering program.

Plus, because those imports are usually meshes, the textures and materials can many times not map correctly to an object.

But….if these types of furniture, etc are created directly in VW, that problem usually becomes moot, and the file sizes become more manageable.

Again, just a thought pertaining to a potential “VW Store”, where those that take the time to create these items would be compensated a bit for their time.

Perhaps our friend @Pat Stanford could bring this idea up to the powers that be??

 

Maybe if I type louder he will hear this 🙂

[VIRTUALENVIRONS]

A VW store.  Yes, that would be better than a repository.  There would have to be something in it for VW's though before they would put resources on it.  The one thing I can think of for them a sort of reverse training.  Showing new users what can be done in VW's would be a bonus.  It could also be a place for tutorials, etc.

 

Perhaps some users might simply put a request in for a model and those who feel they could build it, quote the client.  Many possibilities.  Perhaps a question should be posted to the Forum on this issue to see how users feel about it.

 

CINEMA 4D

I have not rendered anything in VW's since about 2016 and that was only for a VW tutorial.  I have rendered in C4D for over twenty years.  In the early 2000's, I put together a set of "hooks' based around DXF to bring my files into C4D.  They came in as good or better than the 'Send' to C4D" button.  One day Nemetschek Germany got in touch with me and asked me how this worked.  We came to an agreement and I worked with them for about two weeks explaining how it worked and that is how the 'Send to C4D'" command came into play.  I wrote the tutorials for Cineversity on how both methods worked.

 

VW and C4D 2001

To give you an idea of how good that transfer was, this architectural project was done in 2001.  Everything except the ornate column tops was built in Vectorworks. 

 

Grand Trunk Union Railway Station

 

 

 

 

[Kevin K]

Paul

Some very good thoughts you brought up pertaining to a possible VW Store with all the fixings 🙂

I really like the idea.

 

Wow!!

I am humbled by the video example ! 

Can I have your autograph??  🙂

I had no idea you were a c4d guy.

These days I use it with Redshift...beautiful and fast rendering!

 

But....that said...we here are still in the VW universe, as are the regular users, so we also have to play in this sandbox too, hence my thought about a VW store of sorts, so folks can download VW items instead of importing other file formats, etc.

I better shut-up now....so this thread doesn't irritate people 🙂

 

One more little 'gift' I just finished a few minutes ago....for you and the world. Version 2022 per usual.

Lots of ' 3d fillets' !

 

Table & Chairs-Craftsman.vwx

[VIRTUALENVIRONS]

Beautiful table.  One of the many things I lack is a sense of design, obviously you have a lot of it.

 

Let's chew on this idea for a bit, I think it is worth pursuing.

 

regards....Paul

[Kevin K]

Yeah…..what you said !

[Flair-Studio]

I am based in the UK and ben told that if you send a request to VW UK, they might be able to draw up 3d symbols out of furniture collections from certain manufacturers and furniture design companies. The outcome is to enlarge the VW libraries (wether Premium or available to all I don't know). This is certainly helpful but it is a very time consuming process and it doesn't capture the "B-spoke" element.

 

I often find myself having to spend some time to model the "show pieces" within my model and this is now a process I quite enjoy and I am getting faster with, it also reduces the number of meshes in the file, leaner documentation & visualisation, etc. It would be great to have a place where all these resources could be shared (a 3d warehouse for VW?) as I am sure this topic has been discussed a lot before

[Tom W.]

54 minutes ago, Flair-Studio said:

a 3d warehouse for VW

 

This would be great

[VIRTUALENVIRONS]

It would be great.  It would be interesting if there was a way to canvas the entire forum and see what the response is

[Kevin K]

@Flair-Studio This is precisely why I posted that file…to offer up to VW users a few more choices relating to furniture items for their renderings, etc. 

[Morgany]

New to VW.

I was looking through this and was hoping to find some symbols to use for a current project I'm working on. It seems none of the posted files are available anymore. Do shared resources expire on this forum? What's the point of having this sharing forum if the shared stuff goes away?

 

I've not had great luck getting items from the 3D warehouse to work without maxing out my file size or doing a ton of fiddling to get them to work. Frustrating since I have a bunch of sketchup models I've made over time that are essentially useless now...

 

Is there a good place to download symbols specifically for VW? I've always shared dwg blocks I've created (for free, of course!) to various sharing websites over the years, and would love to find a place for something like that for VW resources. This (and the bare-bones nature of the cabinet tool....) is the main thing I'm finding lacking with VW. Finding items like hanging clothes for closets and the like are proving to be a significant time suck. 

[VIRTUALENVIRONS]

53 minutes ago, Morgany said:

Do shared resources expire on this forum? What's the point of having this sharing forum if the shared stuff goes away?

 

The Forum was down for a day and it appeared significant.  Possible reboot.  I "think" the server is still uploading resources, but not sure.

 

I believe you are looking for Furniture assets.....is that correct?

[rDesign]

1 hour ago, Morgany said:

 

New to VW.

I was looking through this and was hoping to find some symbols to use for a current project I'm working on. It seems none of the posted files are available anymore. Do shared resources expire on this forum? What's the point of having this sharing forum if the shared stuff goes away?

 

 

Yes, unfortunately occasionally posted files do disappear from the forum; There’s not always a clear reason for why (the fact that the forum was down yesterday has nothing to do with it). I have noticed that some users like @Kevin K have had their files disappear more than others, I have no idea why. I don’t think it’s anything they have done…
 

But generally speaking, files posted directly to the forum — not through an outside file sharing service — do not have an “Expiration Date”. 

Edited September 5, 2025 by rDesign

[Jeff Prince]

2 hours ago, Morgany said:

New to VW.

I was looking through this and was hoping to find some symbols to use for a current project I'm working on. It seems none of the posted files are available anymore. Do shared resources expire on this forum? What's the point of having this sharing forum if the shared stuff goes away?

 

I've not had great luck getting items from the 3D warehouse to work without maxing out my file size or doing a ton of fiddling to get them to work. Frustrating since I have a bunch of sketchup models I've made over time that are essentially useless now...

 

Is there a good place to download symbols specifically for VW? I've always shared dwg blocks I've created (for free, of course!) to various sharing websites over the years, and would love to find a place for something like that for VW resources. This (and the bare-bones nature of the cabinet tool....) is the main thing I'm finding lacking with VW. Finding items like hanging clothes for closets and the like are proving to be a significant time suck. 

have you used your resource manager inside Vectorworks to find models? There is a ton of useful stuff bundled with the program.  You can also import your sketchup stuff to use in VWX.

 

1 hour ago, rDesign said:

I don’t think it’s anything they have done…

 

Just for historical clarity… Kevin tried to start a website to sell VWX models.  When he did that, he deleted a bunch of the files he posted here and elsewhere.  Then he got upset and went into self imposed exile for some reason.  Hopefully he is floating around the islands on his boat and swimming with the dolphins still.

[Morgany]

1 hour ago, VIRTUALENVIRONS said:

The Forum was down for a day and it appeared significant.  Possible reboot.  I "think" the server is still uploading resources, but not sure.

 

I believe you are looking for Furniture assets.....is that correct?

Since I'm starting basically from scratch with building a library (after well over 20 years doing everything in Autocad) I'm looking for pretty much everything. The built-in library is decent for a lot, but not for soft stuff (clothes, towels, bedding, etc.) and not great for some of the appliances, and limited plumbing fixtures. @Jeff Prince Soft / curved things from the 3D warehouse are ridiculously big and meshy so that's not great.

 

I do mostly custom millwork design, so I need the appliances beyond the faces to be accurate for sections and gap alignments....I put an SZ refrigerator drawer unit (from the native VW library) in a garage gym I'm working on, and had to pretty much re-build it so the toe kick set back was accurate and the front panels had the right gaps. All of this stuff I have in an extensive 2D cad library, but going 3D is proving to be a complete start over. I went to Hafele to download a few things like loox LED channels and closet hanging rails (and then fuss over them to get them to work properly) since there are NO Hafele assets at all. Seems strange since they supply pretty much every shop in the US. 

 

I need SOME easy assets. I can't afford to spend a whole day figuring out how to model a towel to drape over the towel warmer I had to model from scratch. Or model some shoes and hanging shirts for closets. aaaaahhhh! I can't be the only person who needs this stuff, right?

 

There's a definite learning curve, but I was hoping it would be smoother than it's proving. I saw all the great features like being able to work with so many other file types and so many built-in features, but it seems everything requires a bunch of fussing.

 

I will say, this forum is an excellent resource, and there are SO MANY helpful people on here. I love the potential for (eventual) time savings with automatic schedules and not having to re-model in Sketchup to get renderings, but the set up is exhausting. 

 

If there is some kind of community symbol / asset library, I am happy to add to it. Like I said above, I've now got a Loox channel and TAG lit hanging rail symbols built. 

Hafele LOOX.vwx

[Jeff Prince]

11 minutes ago, Morgany said:

I need SOME easy assets. I can't afford to spend a whole day figuring out how to model a towel to drape over the towel warmer I had to model from scratch. Or model some shoes and hanging shirts for closets. aaaaahhhh! I can't be the only person who needs this stuff, right?

You have to accept that you either largely use the built in resources and limit customization for efficiency OR invest some time in developing your library.  There is no easy button in any program for this kind of stuff.  The best course usually involves converting your assets from your old platform to the new one.