Neil Marshall Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Any one know of a way to achieve split screen view in VWA? would be very handy and should be added to the wishlist. Quote Link to comment
0 J. Wallace Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 I agree Neil. That would be wonderful... Quote Link to comment
0 Bruce Kieffer Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Let's get this done. I think it was last century when I first asked for this... or maybe it was when I had hair! Quote Link to comment
0 Ethan R. Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 so simple and needed. Iso & Plan view at the same time anyone? Available in all cheapy programs. Quote Link to comment
0 Neil Marshall Posted May 16, 2013 Author Share Posted May 16, 2013 Our work round is a second workgroup referenced file open at the same time, its a bit of a pain continually updating it but solve a bit of the problem. Come on VW Get it Done.. Quote Link to comment
0 michaelk Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 For simple drawings you can do it with DLVPs and unified view turned off. Whatever the bottom DLVP layer is can be rendered in open GL. Once you get a lot of design layers, that get's old. mk Quote Link to comment
0 Christiaan Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 I'd like this too but I'd prefer not to have more windows to manage. A unified interface would be my preference (with a separate windows option) Quote Link to comment
0 AndiACD Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 For me the option to place a view where you need it would be better. Single as is now, but the ability to choose a split view and to grab and resize to taste each view and place it where you need it, on a second, third or forth screen, depending on what you have available. That would be preferable. Quote Link to comment
0 NorCalLights Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Yes please. This is standard issue on just about every other software package that offers 3D modeling. It's getting ridiculous that it doesn't exist in VW. I'd take options for 2 or 4 views split in one window, but an option for multiple views in multiple windows would be great also. Quote Link to comment
0 James Russell Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 I was asked this question earlier this year and had a go at it late one night. I mainly wanted an isometric rendered preview pane, and it was quite effective for the most part. See attached now. Two Vectorworks windows open. One main file, design layers and all, this is the 'Working Document'. Then a second document open, this is the 'Preview Document'. Within the Preview document I referenced the Working document, and created a Design Layer Viewport using data from the Working document onto the Preview document's design layer. Anytime the reference file link is updated in the Preview document the flow-on effect update the Design Layer Viewport, meaning it's like a isometric preview panel. The point I stopped is when I hit a little issue of self updating time periods. I tried to alter the reference settings from the Organisation panel to auto refresh every minute, (I tried 0.1 mins but it wouldn't take it, Darn!), but it seems that this function isn't instantious anyway. It relies on saving of the source file... so I set the autosave to 1 min also for the Working Document. This has a flow-on effect, (depending how quickly you could open the two files respective to each other), of creating the required kick to force the update. All would be fine, except for the unavoidable dialog asking if you would like to update the references that are out of date, (no lovely do this every time check box here!). So is it possible, sort of. If there was a script that could run in the background and force an update of the reference file, which it should be noted when done manually applies changes even though the Working Document hasn't been saved, every 10seconds or so with no questions asked you'd be set! Anyways, good luck getting this implemented as a feature, I'm doubting VW has the power to support multiple windows in this capacity. Perhaps a preview pane style maybe. Cheers, J Quote Link to comment
0 bcd Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 I think the multiple screen views in whatever form will be implemented only after multithreading is implemented. Quote Link to comment
0 AndiACD Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 OK, so still no multithreading in 2013 but does VW still not support multi core processors then? Quote Link to comment
0 VincentCuclair Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Not VWs but the Cinema 4D rendering engine does..... Quote Link to comment
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Neil Marshall
Any one know of a way to achieve split screen view in VWA? would be very handy and should be added to the wishlist.
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