zoomer Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 (edited) Somehow my Enterprise does not show VW's Tool Icons nor has the Options in Driver Settings (Windows 10) Did I do something wrong with my custom driver Installation where I excluded all Options/Plugins of Software I don't have or need ? I rechecked installation options but there was no VW option. Is there any way to get the necessary files to manually install or do they already reside somewhere in the VW App Folder ? Edited December 7, 2018 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
0 zoomer Posted December 6, 2018 Author Share Posted December 6, 2018 Re-installing Driver with > New Installation Option did not work. But the Driver "Repair" Option, keeping all previous Settings helped and brought Vectoworks Custom Commands back. Quote Link to comment
0 zoomer Posted December 7, 2018 Author Share Posted December 7, 2018 Ahm, the functions are there and I can assign them to my Enterprise, the display will show void then and the assignments do strangest things but not what their name would promise. So can anyone at least confirm that VW 2019 will run with Enterprise - at all ? Quote Link to comment
0 zoomer Posted December 10, 2018 Author Share Posted December 10, 2018 I got it working fine for now, function wise. All I still miss is the Tool Icons on Display. But has VW even any ? As I have never seen VW on Windows before. (It was just Bricscads Icons on the LCD that I remember having had on my Windows VMs in the past) Quote Link to comment
0 zoomer Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 On 12/10/2018 at 4:57 PM, zoomer said: I got it working fine for now, function wise. If I remember correctly, the Solution to bring back the Commands, was : In 3DConnexion's Programm Folder there was a Source XML Vectorworks plus a Vectorworks 2018. So I duplicated the 2018.xml to 2019.xml and edited content and names to point to VW 2019.exe. I also deleted all VW settings content from User App Setting's (local or roaming ?) 3DConnexion's Folder. In the user Folder I always had a "Vectorworks.xml" only, which content somehow doesn't seem to be compatible with VW 2019. Now I got a "Vectorworks 2019.xml" and my whole(Not just 12 or so !) Command List re-appeared in Driver Settings. And it doesn't disappear again from Driver Button Dropdown and Enterprise Display after I try to assign a Command. But the Icons are still missing. (While I can see them for Bricscad initially in the Driver Settings AND on my Display) When I try to find a clue if VW offers Icons on Enterprise's Display at all, in : at around 2:20, the Driver Dropdowns look exactly the same for me now. So maybe there just aren't any Icons offered by VW, so that there is no for me to spend the rest of my life searching for those ? 1 Quote Link to comment
0 Mattsaxon Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 Hi Zoomer Thanks for that, my problem is that I cannot find any .xml files in any of the 3d connexion folders and to be honest even if I did find them I'm not sure what I would then need to do to them to get them to work the way you have. But thank you very much for your reply Having just paid out over $2000 for a version of VW that supposedly fixes all the bugs, I really don't see why I should have to delve into my system files to try to fix something that Vectorworks claims to work with its software and for me up until this afternoon did. I guess this is just another Vectorworks typical case where they don't check that their software works properly with each new release. I now have a new version of Vectorworks that I can't use my 3d navigator with so I will now either have to go back to keyboard shortcuts and my mouse for 3d navigation or stay using VW 2017. The funny thing is I was about to give up on VW and try Archicad but I thought I would give 2019 a go because it was meant to fix all these sorts of things, stupid me. Anyway sorry Zoomer I'm having a rant but thanks again for your help. Quote Link to comment
0 Mattsaxon Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 OK I had my rant and a sulk and then I re read your posts very carefully and searched for Vectorworks.xml and found the files you said and edited a copy of 2018 to 2019 with the name and .exe changed to 2019 and it has worked so many thanks for your help. I don't know how you worked out to do that as a solution but I can now reprogram my Space Pilot. Thankyou. 1 Quote Link to comment
0 zoomer Posted October 12, 2021 Author Share Posted October 12, 2021 (edited) On 12/11/2018 at 6:08 PM, zoomer said: If I remember correctly, the Solution to bring back the Commands, was : In 3DConnexion's Programm Folder there was a Source XML Vectorworks plus a Vectorworks 2018. So I duplicated the 2018.xml to 2019.xml and edited content and names to point to VW 2019.exe. I also deleted all VW settings content from User App Setting's (local or roaming ?) 3DConnexion's Folder. In the user Folder I always had a "Vectorworks.xml" only, which content somehow doesn't seem to be compatible with VW 2019. Now I got a "Vectorworks 2019.xml" and my whole(Not just 12 or so !) Command List re-appeared in Driver Settings. And it doesn't disappear again from Driver Button Dropdown and Enterprise Display after I try to assign a Command. But the Icons are still missing. (While I can see them for Bricscad initially in the Driver Settings AND on my Display) I do not get it to work. Currently I try Windows. I see that my VW 2021 has still access to all VW Commands - but no Icons But I did not get it to work for VW 2022. In the best case by hiding everything Vectorworks.xml, I will get in 3DCon Setup, in "Vectorworks" Dropdown only "App Function 3" to "App Function 12" entries, not the whole Command Setup. (BTW Not sure where App Function # 1-2 went ....) So is there any 3DConnexion SM Enterprise User, on Windows, who installed VW 2022 only, without any previous VW version and can confirm that VW 2022 still, or at all, has full Enterprise Support, including the larger (about 50-70) Commands Setup AND Icons available ? Edited October 12, 2021 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
0 zoomer Posted November 22, 2021 Author Share Posted November 22, 2021 Don't try this at home ! On Windows .... 1.) Look in Folder : C:\Program Files\3Dconnexion\3DxWare\3DxWinCore\Cfg\ if you have previous Vectorworks XML. If Yes, copy that VW XML File, like e.g. a Vectorworks2020.XML, to a Folder with user write access, like your Desktop. Change everything 2020 into 2022 (file name and anything inside the XML) Save the new 2022 XML back into : C:\Program Files\3Dconnexion\3DxWare\3DxWinCore\Cfg\ (By confirming Admin password, if necessary) This will basically give you all the VW prepared specific commands back. 2.) Check : C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Roaming\3Dconnexion\3DxWare\Cfg If there is any existing Vectorworks.XML ! try to hide it by renaming, as it may be too old and interfere with your new global VW 2022 XML (at least for me). This way, when you open 3DConnexion Driver Settings and edit VW 2022 Settings, you will get a new User - Vectorworks2022.XML. This worked for me. I got back all VW prepared Command List entries. (About 50 Commands) vs the about 10 VW Commands I got by default in VW 2ß22. But still no more VW Icons on my Enterprise Display since about 3 years of VW Upgrades !? (Bricscad still works great after each upgrade including nice Icons on Enterprise Display ...) Quote Link to comment
0 Nolan W Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Sorry to drag up a nearly-2-year old thread, but is anyone having the issue of the Vectorworks folder not showing in 2023? Same resolution? Quote Link to comment
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Somehow my Enterprise does not show VW's Tool Icons nor has the Options
in Driver Settings (Windows 10)
Did I do something wrong with my custom driver Installation where I
excluded all Options/Plugins of Software I don't have or need ?
I rechecked installation options but there was no VW option.
Is there any way to get the necessary files to manually install or do they
already reside somewhere in the VW App Folder ?
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