Cloud Services: rendering progress

[Christiaan]

I have some good news on the Cloud Services rendering front since this thread:

http://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=170360

Server software and hardware has recently been updated and the good news is today it rendered the most complex file I could throw at it.

The bad news is it screwed up some textures and skipped some section viewport data. See attached screenshots. The first one is a section viewport and should be showing a section through a building, but it only shows some polygons I added to the Annotations layer. The second one is a elevation viewport and that blue green colour should be a yellow brick.

[CipesDesign]

Thanks Christiaan for the update! I actually have never gone back to try it since its disappointing initial release. Your info is good news/bad news? But it seems that things are at least improving somewhat, which is good, I guess. Please let us know when it actually "just works". Thanks again! P

[Christiaan]

Mea culpa. This turns out not to be a problem specific to cloud services but rather a class/texture/workgroup ref bug with the files, maybe triggered by a file conversion.

I'm trying to fix problem with files and I'll try again.

[Bas Vellekoop]

The looks of your drawings are great!

I think a lot of people can learn from it because of the scale of the project

Would love to see more?

[Christiaan]

So I managed to fix the file (in a sledge hammer kind of way + submit a bug)

And I can happily report that cloud services is now able to render our biggest file.

Thanks Buzz, attached is a screenshot of the street elevation (you can see at the bottom right, ground floor, where I haven't resolved the texture problem in one part of the model).

[SonnyLuong]

The big question is, how long does it take to from the time you uploaded the file to the time you actually get the images back? How much faster compare to rendering them on our machine?

Peace,

Sonny

[Tim Harland]

Hi Christiaan,

Do you have to render your viewports before you upload them to cloud services? I have been testing it and despite having Bcckground Render set to RW & Foreground HL set my pdf's come back with wireframe rendering in the viewports?

I don't understand the benefit if I have to render all of the viewports before I put it in the cloud, I might as well just export it locally?

Tim

[PVA - Admin]

Hi Christiaan,

Do you have to render your viewports before you upload them to cloud services? I have been testing it and despite having Bcckground Render set to RW & Foreground HL set my pdf's come back with wireframe rendering in the viewports?

I don't understand the benefit if I have to render all of the viewports before I put it in the cloud, I might as well just export it locally?

Tim

Cloud Services SHOULD be performing those renderings for you. If the PDFs come back wireframe and the rendering modes for those viewports weren't set to wireframe, contact us at tech@vectorworks.net (or your local distributor) and we can have a look.

General info for anyone coming across this thread:

http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/998/Vectorworks+Cloud+Services+FAQ+

[Tim Harland]

Thanks Jim,

I have been in touch with our local distributor via VSS - no solution yet though.

Tim

[Tim Harland]

For Info - issue was that I hadn't installed the desktop application so it hadn't authorized my serial number. Sorted now.