Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Jim Posted September 16, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 16, 2015 Today’s the day! First, the slick overview commercial hitting some of the biggest and flashiest features, some of which you’ve already seen in the previews: http://www.vectorworks.net/2016/ The more specific feature videos can be found in the above link under the New Features section. There are more features than we could cover in the above videos, a full list of what is included in Vectorworks 2016 software can be found below: (I have grouped these features by general interest, NOT by which software package they are in, just because I put something in “Architectural” doesn't necessarily mean it ISN'T in Landmark, for instance. Also some of the names are a little ominous, please feel free to ask me to explain any of them.) Architectural: New Options for Corner Windows Roof Components and Styles Energos Energy Analysis Door Hardware Position Control Rotate Configuration Label Control for Electrical Symbols 3 and 4 Panel Sliding Windows 3D Modifiers for Slabs New Slab Style From Unstyled Slab Contextual Menu Item Eyedropper and Select Similar Tool Architectural Attributes Roof Framer Alignment to a Roof Component Updated Functionality of Door Hardware Library File BIM Collaboration Format (BCF) Import Support Increased Wall Component Auto Joining Control Wall Style and Slab Style IFC Data Datums at Slab Bottoms Horizontal Section from Clip Cube Persistent Y-Joins for Wall Replacement Add Resource Thumbnail List to Architectural Features Louver Windows Z Offset for Door Threshold Add Window Option for Fixed Glass No Sash Glazing Thickness for Doors and Windows Improved ODBC for IFC Story and Style edit menus Show Prefix in Elevation Benchmark Consolidate Wall, Slab & Roof Component Classes BIM Worksheet Functions Landscape Design: Slope Dimension Tool Improvements Improve the Plant Data Presentation Site Model Option to Collect Modifiers on Custom Set of Design Layers Site Model Flow Arrows Enhancements Bank Slope Support for Site Modifiers Site Modifier Contouring Options Hardscape Improvements Tight Integration of Plant Definition and the Plant Database Paving Options for Hardscapes New Lines in Landscape Area Tags Stake Elevation Units Control Saved Settings for Site Model Dialogs Create Grade Limits Slope Definition Landmark Workspace Update Create Solid Section from Grade Objects Grade Object Entertainment: Align/Distribute Improvements Improved Create Stage Command Specify Curved Truss by Diameter Remove Items from Lighting Inventory User default controlled class for the Focus Point object Improve Symbol Selection for the Lighting Instrument and Accessory tools Label Containers Shown in the Label Legend Improvements to the Lighting Device Hoist Tools Improvements to the Photometric tools Add ESP Symbol Libraries to Spotlight Symbol Libraries Spotlight Classing Structure Linked Markers Rendering: -Renderworks Grass Shader -Ambient Occlusion Renderworks Camera Effects: -Depth of Field -Vignette -Bloom -Exposure -Chromatic Aberration -Renderworks CineRender R15 Upgrade: -Physical Rendering Engine -Fullscreen Preview -Non-blocking Auto-cancelling Rendering for Design Layers -Renderworks Camera Usability Improvements Miscellaneous Renderworks Improvements: -Caustics -Environment Reflections -Portal Indirect Lighting Improved Indirect Lighting for Backlit Textures Improved OpenGL Antialiasing OpenGL Draw Edges Thickness Control View Bar Projection Menu OpenGL Panoramic and Physical Sky Backgrounds OpenGL Auto-update of OpenGL Options and Ambient Lighting settings JPEG and PNG Panoramic Backgrounds Opacity Control for Image Mask Transparency Shader Elapsed Render Time in Progress Bar General: Marionette Project Sharing Full Wall, Slab, Space, Door, Window, and IFC Functionality in All Design Series Products Walkthrough Tool Gamer Mode Direct Editing of Worksheet Cells VS/SDK Support for creating IFC Custom Presets Compact Mode for Radial Dimensions Integrate Vectorworks Cloud Services with Vectorworks Mac Palette Docking Migration Manager New Worksheet Formula to Run Scripts OBJ File Import Subdivision Object Replace Deleted Resources Replace Symbol Class Improved DWG/DXF Export of Classes from Design Layer Viewports Improved DWG/DXF Export of Sheet Layer Viewports Map VW Classes/Layers to DXF/DWG Layers MVD for IFC Import / Export New Vectorworks Installation System Publish Usability Improvements VPM Improvements Mac Code Signing Improved Support for High Resolution Displays on Windows Eyedropper Support for Dimensions Script Editor Code Collapse and Color Expand/Collapse all Groups in Resource Browser Auto Scale Option for Markers in Viewports Option to Disable In-Place Editing of Referenced Resources Purge Coincident Duplicate Objects Reshape Tool support for Arcs and Lines Point Clouds Inside Vectorworks Add Resource Thumbnail List to the Symbol Tool Add New North Arrow Configuration Standardized attribute names in Custom Tools, Eyedropper and Select Similar Preferences dialogs Use Resource Thumbnail List in Symbol Replace Dialogs Import STL Files Export 3D PDF (3D only) Export PDF Subset Fonts Extended Shoulder in Callout Tool Flattened DLSVPs show as Hidden Line in Wireframe The above ordering/grouping is not official by any means, I just tried to sort them for forum readers by area of interest. 122-ish features! It’s more than that this year honestly, but I cleaned the list of things like “xx tool converted from Vectorscript to SDK (Re-engineering)” since they are not important knowledge for a user and won’t change workflow at all for the time being. Additionally, this year the trial is available RIGHT NOW! So if you don’t have a Service Select subscription and thus haven’t gotten your new version automatically through the portal, you can grab a trial immediately, here: http://www.vectorworks.net/trial/form The entire trial process is explained here: http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/1339/Vectorworks+2016+Trial+Installation I am now free to discuss any and all subjects regarding the Vectorworks 2016 release. Ask away! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Jim Posted September 16, 2015 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 16, 2015 We have also updated the Getting Started Guides, which if you’ve never looked at, you should: http://www.vectorworks.net/getting-started-guides We did the Renderworks one in particular very differently this year with a more casual tone, if you prefer it over the more traditional instructional style, or if you hate it, please let us know! Also, you can find installation instructions here: http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/1344/Vectorworks+2016+E+Series+Installation and the 2016 system requirements here: http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/1338/Vectorworks+2016+System+Requirements Quote Link to comment
Kizza Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 some nice features, roof components and slab addition and subtraction. Still no Live Sections and materials/or section attributes via classes. Why? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Jim Posted September 16, 2015 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 16, 2015 Not everything can make it in every version, some things take a long time, also the implementation of a feature doesn't necessarily begin at the moment it is requested, some requests are on a waiting list of a year or two, if not more before they being implementation. Theres really no "why" to a specific feature other than it just wasn't up in the list yet. Quote Link to comment
fabrica Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 are there going to be any video tutorials for energos, marionette etc? The GSG guides are good and I liked the new render works one. I don't think I'll ever understand marionette scripting but willing to watch a video first before conceding defeat! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Jim Posted September 16, 2015 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 16, 2015 Yessir, for both. They're on my plate as we speak, I suspect you'll see the first ones within a week or so. Glad you liked the Renderworks one specifically! We are trying out the more casual tone to see if its more comfortable/easy to work with than the others. Quote Link to comment
Kizza Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 No love this time Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 cannot find export PDF 3D Quote Link to comment
Jershaun Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Hi Jim, Has there been any changes to the send to cinema 4d feature. I'm more interested in the user control of how the model is exported to c4d. Renderworks features don't interest me as I'm a c4d and vray user and I find that vw is always over riding my changes done in c4d. Eg. Materials are replaced in c4d by the original vw ones. Eg. My vray light tags are lost it i update lights. Etc. Etc. I can only work in c4d once all work in vw is completed. I would like to be able to control the way textures are exported. Eg. At the moment vw does what it wants and sends 2 textures to c4d although there is only 1 texture in the vw document. Is there any possibility of bringing back the old export to cinema 4d command? Thanks, Jershaun Quote Link to comment
Chris Gentry Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Do you have to add it to your workspace? Haven't downloaded yet so just a guess. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Jim Posted September 16, 2015 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 16, 2015 Did you do a Migration? It may have been missed, you can add it in Tools > Workspaces > Edit Current Workspace > Menus > Left side, All Menus > Export 3D PDF (3D Only) Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Jim Posted September 16, 2015 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 16, 2015 Not in this version, but the plan is to have all the functionality the original export plugin did, and more in the future. Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 i did a migration. i just added it to my work space. now i have it. Quote Link to comment
Jershaun Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Ok thanks Jim. Can you please add it to the official wish list? And thereafter I guess it will be a race between vw and revit to get a workable link to c4d. Cheers, Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 YAY!!! 3D PDF Export. Fabulous. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Jim Posted September 16, 2015 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 16, 2015 Ok thanks Jim. Can you please add it to the official wish list? And thereafter I guess it will be a race between vw and revit to get a workable link to c4d. Cheers, I certainly can, but its already a little further along than that, it was accepted as a wish, only a matter of time now! However, ill go ahead and link your post to the current task. Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Excellent work team. This is very exciting I can't wait to play with the new features ( & fixes) Love that 3d PDF has finally made it in. Project Sharing Roof Styles & Components Caustics Hoists Worksheet cells & Component Specific data from Walls etc. .... Quote Link to comment
Markvl Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Looks like some nice upgrades but still disappointed there are some architectural features that are still on the wish lists. Export to 3D PDF is fantastic. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Jim Posted September 16, 2015 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 16, 2015 There will ALWAYS be pending items on the wishlist, hopefully, so that we can keep advancing. Although I guess if it was ever completely empty, we could all retire... Quote Link to comment
barkest Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Export 3D PDF would be nice for students but I guess you cannot give all the functionality. Its just very useful for them when they send their portfolios for job applications (which in turn benefits everyone as there are more VW users on the ground). I know our students (2 x courses which equals around 150 students in total) would love to be able to do this. Any chance you could revisit this decision? (I know you got the export to collada reversed last time so I have my fingers crossed) thank you Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Jim Posted September 16, 2015 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 16, 2015 Export 3D PDF would be nice for students but I guess you cannot give all the functionality. Its just very useful for them when they send their portfolios for job applications (which in turn benefits everyone as there are more VW users on the ground). I know our students (2 x courses which equals around 150 students in total) would love to be able to do this. Any chance you could revisit this decision? (I know you got the export to collada reversed last time so I have my fingers crossed) thank you I'll add that to my request on regular PDFs being unlocked for students as well, thank you! Quote Link to comment
barkest Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 much appreciated. btw we can already export to regular pdf thanks again Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Jim Posted September 16, 2015 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 16, 2015 (edited) Wait, do you mean that you simply don't see the Export 3D PDF option? It may just have to be manually added to the workspace via Tools > Workspaces > Edit Current Workspace > Menus, another user had that issue this morning as well. I had thought you meant the exported 3D PDF was locked like the student PDFs are? EDIT: But if you don't even see it to add it because its an educational version, then yes I'll go ahead and submit a request that it be included. Edited September 16, 2015 by JimW Quote Link to comment
Jim Smith Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Looks even better than what I saw in Philadelphia! I look forward to getting into many of the features especially project sharing & Marionette! Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Yessir, for both. They're on my plate as we speak, I suspect you'll see the first ones within a week or so. Glad you liked the Renderworks one specifically! We are trying out the more casual tone to see if its more comfortable/easy to work with than the others. I liked the more casual tone and that the videos seemed more conversational in pointing out things that might happen unexpectedly and how to fix them. I know you can't make everyone happy with each new release, but it looks good to me so far. Keep up the good work Team NV! Quote Link to comment
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