Vectorworks Cloud Services should Render Referenced Files

[Tim Harland]

We often reference multiple models together for out final renderings - to test variations and add people and lighting without making our core model files to cumbersome. However we cannot render files with referenced elements using the cloud referencing service, only the elements that are in the actual file are referenced. It would be good if cloud rendering recognised that elements are referenced and copied them over to the cloud too - doing this manually is too cumbersome.

[Kevin Allen]

While I agree, I think the user will have to save the referenced files to the VCS folder, otherwise VCS can't 'see' the files.

[inikolova]

Hi @Tim Harland,

Vectorworks Cloud Services supports rendering with referenced files, as long as they can be found. One requirement is that the master and the referenced files must be in the file version of the latest version of Vectorworks - currently 2024. The other requirement is that the Vectorworks file and the referenced files must be uploaded to the same storage - either Vectorworks Cloud Services or an integrated cloud storage such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or One Drive.

 

If you have your Vectorworks file stored in another location (such as a local folder on your computer), you can still do Cloud Publish, and the file is uploaded for processing in the background. I guess your wish is for the Publish command to be able to look for all referenced files and upload them along the main file, is that correct? 

 

[Tim Harland]

On 10/18/2023 at 7:37 PM, inikolova said:

Hi @Tim Harland,

Vectorworks Cloud Services supports rendering with referenced files, as long as they can be found. One requirement is that the master and the referenced files must be in the file version of the latest version of Vectorworks - currently 2024. The other requirement is that the Vectorworks file and the referenced files must be uploaded to the same storage - either Vectorworks Cloud Services or an integrated cloud storage such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or One Drive.

 

If you have your Vectorworks file stored in another location (such as a local folder on your computer), you can still do Cloud Publish, and the file is uploaded for processing in the background. I guess your wish is for the Publish command to be able to look for all referenced files and upload them along the main file, is that correct? 

 

Hi, yes exactly that is what we would like - otherwise we need to manually upload the referenced files and try and keep tabs of whether they have been updated.

[inikolova]

Thanks, @Tim Harland,

I'll talk to the team to see if that would be possible.

Best,

Iskra Nikolova

[maxevequoz]

Hi,

Any news on the feasability of this feature? (as it would not only benefit cloud renderings but also anykind of cloud publishing)
 

Thank you for your involvement.

[inikolova]

I am sorry I did not respond timely on this. I found the record where I asked the team and the response was that we are already doing what is being asked here. If you have an example in which this is not working, please send me a direct message and we can investigate further.

[Tim Harland]

Yes since VW 2024 this is now working for cloud rendering which is great!.@inikolova could it be that there is a similar issue to the vgx export in that when the local version of vectorworks is not as current as on the server the referenced files won't be rendered? I haven't tried a cloud render from VW 2024 since VW 2025 was released.

[inikolova]

Yes, the rule about file version applies regardless of whether it is Publish or Export VGX, or another cloud job type. It comes from the fact that newer versions of the Vectorworks application can't read older version referenced files.