There are various wishes about this already but I thought I would bring together various thoughts into one thread. Every year I give the VW Cloud workflow a try to see if it would help my productivity. Every year I come to the same conclusion - not yet. Here are the issues I see when trying to use it in my own workflow and some thoughts about solving them -
The main reason I'd like to use the VW Cloud workflow is to render viewports. Offloading this task onto the cloud makes sense if it saves me time and allows me to work on something else. Unfortunately if the VW Cloud doesn't give me back a VW file containing rendered viewports it doesn't save me any time. The viewports in my VW file still need to be rendered for checking and to do annotations and dimensions. In practice this means I still have my machine tied up and using VW Cloud services saves me no time. The best solution here would be for the VW Cloud to save back a VW file with rendered viewports. I'm sure there's a concern about writing over a user's file so ideally the cloud would save a backup copy and then overwrite the original file. It needs to overwrite the original file or the whole process creates an ongoing file management issue.
VW Cloud services is clunky. So many different interfaces - from within VW, from the Menu bar icon and through the web portal. All of these interfaces work in different ways and much of it is unnecessary. Please unify and simplify the interfaces. There are also too many "are you sure" type of dialogs for a process that's inherently non-destructive.
The sync and PDF generation process needs too much management. My workflow, like many others in the entertainment industry, moves quickly. Syncing and initiating the PDF generation needs to be able to be linked. Much of it could be replaced with a new save command - Save, Sync and PDF. Having to initiate it manually after waiting for the file to sync isn't efficient and the time based options for automating the PDF process only make sense in a slow process.
There needs to be a way to control the naming of the PDF. The VW Cloud currently uses the same name as the source file. At a minimum it should be able to append a date to the file. Ideally I would also be able to define a path.
Overall there is potential with VW Cloud Services but it needs to be much lower maintenance to be an every day tool.
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There are various wishes about this already but I thought I would bring together various thoughts into one thread. Every year I give the VW Cloud workflow a try to see if it would help my productivity. Every year I come to the same conclusion - not yet. Here are the issues I see when trying to use it in my own workflow and some thoughts about solving them -
Overall there is potential with VW Cloud Services but it needs to be much lower maintenance to be an every day tool.
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