Ethan R. Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 I can't seem to find a straight forward tutorial on how too use the cloud rendering? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you Ethan Quote Link to comment
Markvl Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 I would be interested in this as well. 1 Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 16 minutes ago, Markvl said: I would be interested in this as well. ^+1 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted February 2, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 2, 2018 Will do! In the meantime, these are the bullet points: 1) Cloud Rendering will render all viewports on all sheet layers that you submit to it. 2) You submit sheets for cloud rendering under Cloud > Cloud Publish. 3) Select all sheet layers and saved views you wish to render, select on the bottom left what format you want them to be processed as (PDF or Images for rendering) and click the arrow icon to bring them from the list on the left to the list on the right. 4) With the items on the right selected either individually or in multiple selection, choose the desired File Export Options for that format, and then click Publish. The data will be uploaded and your Cloud Services icon in the menu/task bar can be clicked and if you select Status, it will show you the current stage or progress of a cloud job. Renders will be completed and placed in your cloud storage folder as the images or pdfs you selected for output. Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 I have two elementary questions to begin with: Does it matter where the file you're working in is saved? Does it need to already be in the Vectorworks Cloud Services folder? Is File<Publish the same command as Cloud<Cloud Publish? The dialog box I see seems to be the same in either case. Quote Link to comment
Wesley Burrows Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 (edited) 46 minutes ago, Andy Broomell said: I have two elementary questions to begin with: Does it matter where the file you're working in is saved? Does it need to already be in the Vectorworks Cloud Services folder? Is File<Publish the same command as Cloud<Cloud Publish? The dialog box I see seems to be the same in either case. My experience has been: Yes they have to be in your cloud services folder, or allegedly dropbox if you have it linked to cloud services, but I haven't had much success with the dropbox link. You'll also need to upload any fonts to vectorworks cloud that are special. For now I've just added aliases from the dropbox folder I want to my cloud services folder, and that works. Publish is the same, you just have to change your storage dropdown to one of the cloud folders: (and your output file needs to be saved to a cloud storage location) Edited February 2, 2018 by Wesley Burrows Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 On 2/2/2018 at 7:44 AM, JimW said: Will do! In the meantime, these are the bullet points: 1) Cloud Rendering will render all viewports on all sheet layers that you submit to it. 2) You submit sheets for cloud rendering under Cloud > Cloud Publish. 3) Select all sheet layers and saved views you wish to render, select on the bottom left what format you want them to be processed as (PDF or Images for rendering) and click the arrow icon to bring them from the list on the left to the list on the right. 4) With the items on the right selected either individually or in multiple selection, choose the desired File Export Options for that format, and then click Publish. The data will be uploaded and your Cloud Services icon in the menu/task bar can be clicked and if you select Status, it will show you the current stage or progress of a cloud job. Renders will be completed and placed in your cloud storage folder as the images or pdfs you selected for output. Thank you @JimW Quote Link to comment
Guest RMcK Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Is cloud services a separate cost, or, part of vectorworks 2018 package? Can you continue to work on the vectorworks file while the sheets/images are being rendered in the cloud? Quote Link to comment
Wesley Burrows Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Just now, RMcK said: Is cloud services a separate cost, or, part of vectorworks 2018 package? Can you continue to work on the vectorworks file while the sheets/images are being rendered in the cloud? It's part of service select. Yes, you can continue working while cloud rendering is occuring. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee inikolova Posted February 16, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 16, 2018 Hello, The Vectorworks Cloud Services Help contains a lot of the information that is being asked for here. Here is a link to it: https://cloud.vectorworks.net/portal/help/ - This page shows only featured articles. The full set of articles are on the side navigation menu. Each article has tabs, which allow you to read on a particular topic for each component that applies. You may want to read all of it, but the specific articles that refer to cloud processing are: https://cloud.vectorworks.net/portal/help/pages/prepare-vwx-files-for-cloud-processing/ https://cloud.vectorworks.net/portal/help/pages/generate-3d-models/ https://cloud.vectorworks.net/portal/help/pages/generate-pdf-files/ https://cloud.vectorworks.net/portal/help/pages/publish-files-from-vectorworks/ https://cloud.vectorworks.net/portal/help/pages/export-rendered-panoramas-from-vectorworks/ https://cloud.vectorworks.net/portal/help/pages/export-web-view-from-vectorworks/ I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any questions. Regards, Iskra Nikolova 3 Quote Link to comment
toby4571 Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 On 2/5/2018 at 2:29 AM, mjm said: 1) Cloud Rendering will render all viewports on all sheet layers that you submit to it. 2) You submit sheets for cloud rendering under Cloud > Cloud Publish. 3) Select all sheet layers and saved views you wish to render, select on the bottom left what format you want them to be processed as (PDF or Images for rendering) and click the arrow icon to bring them from the list on the left to the list on the right. 4) With the items on the right selected either individually or in multiple selection, choose the desired File Export Options for that format, and then click Publish. My renders settings are stored in the viewports on sheets. I do this to control the DPI of the output. However when following the above for a PDF output the viewports do not update when exporting. In other words the render in not processed on the vectorwoks server. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee inikolova Posted July 20, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 20, 2020 Hi @toby4571, Do you have this setting turned on? If this setting is not turned on, the Cloud will just export the out of date viewports without updating them. Please let me know if I can help with anything else. Best regards, Iskra Nikolova 1 Quote Link to comment
drfoulk@gmail.com Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 How do you get the dark background on your pallets? I have windows 10. Is it possible? I use high def black as my OS background, and cannot read any of the VW pull outs in high-def black. It is okay, been using VW since MiniCad days so I know what pulls out, but it would be nice to have an actual dark background workspace. Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 AFAIK VW Dark Mode is still only available on Mac. (And it is bound to Mac System Mode Settings) Quote Link to comment
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