VW 2024 SP3 Crash when editing 3D .OBJ

[Vincent Scalbert]

Hello, 

I did a capture of a room with the Nomad app, and I imported it on Vectorworks 2024 sp3. I double-clicked to edit the 3d .OBJ to delete some thinks in the drawing.

And when I leave the editing mode, Vectorworks soundainly crashed.

I thought first that's is perhaps a problem with the file on the Vectorworks Cloud, but I duplicated it on my computer in local mode.

Do you have any idea of this problem ?

 

[Jeff Prince]

Vectorworks sometimes does that when editing meshes.

You might have better luck importing and editing .USD.

[zoomer]

But honestly, as great as Room Plan is,

the Meshes are such a mess.

 

I mean a Walls Top Face may only have 4 vertices around its 4 Corners.

But there may be 2 or more (why at all ?) Wall's Face Edges touching that

Top Face.

For me it is mandatory that an Edge sharing more than one neighbored Face

is divided by extra Vertices, wherever other touching Faces have vertices.

And of course such shared Vertices have to be welded into a single Vertex.

 

If you ever try to convert such a VW Nomad Room Plan Mesh Wall into something

useful editable, like to a generic Solid/Acis Solid in Bricscad,

such Wall side will still offer 2 or more Side Faces for Push Pull Tool.

If you try to pull one of the Faces, it is either blocked or will result in a corrupt Solid.

 

Or Nomad produces single Meshes containing multiple independent/non touching

Mesh Volumes !?

(That is fine and a feature in 3D Apps like Modo, but not for Solid Convertion in

CAD Apps)

 

 

OK,

in your case,

The geometry looked OK.

(Simple Furniture Cubes Meshes from Nomad where always OK for me too)

So this crash is very likely a bug to fix.

But it may also have to do with trying to Edit crappy Meshes in VW Edit Mode.

 

So I vote for Nomad producing clean watertight Meshes though.