Administrator Popular Post JuanP Posted August 20, 2019 Administrator Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2019 For this week’s #TeaserTuesday, we’re excited to share with you a powerful new feature: Schematic Views. This feature addresses the complex nature of documenting rigging objects. Until version 2020, to present rigging plans, users would have to create design layer viewports with the Create Plot and Model View tools, a workflow that can substantially affect the software’s performance. Many users felt that this workflow limited their creativity. With 2020, it gets easier. You can create 2D schematic objects that correspond to the 3D model. When you change one, the other automatically updates. This workflow is not only more efficient — it also means you can present 2D plans and documentation better than ever before. 6 1 Quote Link to comment
Popular Post Lars Tuxen Posted August 20, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2019 Looks fine but I just pray for the next Tuesday Teaser to show news of stair, window and door updates...please 15 Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 15 years as a user of Vectorworks. This is the one thing I, and most other entertainment lighting pros have been asking for. This looks great. Thanks. 3 Quote Link to comment
Sebastiaan Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Finally! I too have asked for this many times. Thank you very much! Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 (edited) Are the lights auto rotating to the truss angle when they're attached to the lighting position, or are they manually rotated in 3D? In a past show, we attached 1) 2-way mirror foil to 2) scenic cladding to 3) raked truss. There was a 1" margin of error fabricating the mirror film in Austria to be married up to the cladding in LA. Everything came together for the first time at rehearsal with no time to ship a different size before show load in. Because we had to hit the right angle for a televised Pepper's Ghost effect, we did numerous elevation studies from 45 to 70 degrees. Plot and Model View worked great because I was able to draw everything in plan view, using the exact make/model/lengths of truss and corner blocks, snap to lines, adjust the size of the return, and then rotate the model view in 1deg increments to find the sweet spot. Trying to draw all of those objects raked in 3D, aligning, grouping, and rotating them together did not work at all, so how would that process work with the new tool? There have been other issues with attaching, aligning and distributing lights to raked truss, pipes, torms... especially when adding focus points. Have those issues been solved too? Edited August 22, 2019 by Mark Aceto 1 Quote Link to comment
mgries Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Seems promising, but does this relate at all to working through schematic options of an entire building concept, or is this just for prototyping individual components and assemblies? 1 Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 (edited) Watched this video again on a larger screen, and noticed that most of what's being shown is a design layer split screen: 3D front view pane on top 2D plan view pane on bottom What I've really been hoping for is: A simpler way to plot torms, towers, goal posts... which this might do? Sheet layer drawing #3 seems to suggest that Sheet layer drawing #2 is a mess (hybrid symbol 2D truss geometry is flattened/extended while lights shifted to actual XY) Last year's teaser, 2D Components for Hybrid Objects, would fix that Sheet layer drawing #3 is just a front view which, ironically, is what Plot & Model View is designed to show A simpler way to draw raked objects/assemblies... which this doesn't seem to do. On that note, I hope we don't lose Plot & Model view to accomplish that Maybe this video doesn't do a great job of highlighting all the awesome sauce but I'm left with more questions than answers. Are there additional screenshots of other menus, palettes, dialogs... that show what it's capable of doing (and how) that could be added to this discussion? On that note, the live-streams last year were great because there was a Q&A at the end to answer all these questions with screen-shares or straight from the engineers' mouths (which was super cool to meet and interact with those folks). BTW it looks great for plotting where lights are hung on each position but I don't really see how this would be used in the example of a rig plot (there aren't even any points in the drawing). Edited August 20, 2019 by Mark Aceto Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 (edited) 6 hours ago, Lars Tuxen said: Looks fine but I just pray for the next Tuesday Teaser to show news of stair, window and door updates...please Guessing they would have led with that if there was good news but here's hoping... Edited August 20, 2019 by Mark Aceto Quote Link to comment
Matt Overton Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 (edited) Sooo..... does it work with just plug-in objects and symbols or is just Entertainment objects? Have I just spoiled teaser tuesdayVW 2021 - Schematic views for everyone. I mean Hybrid objects in every direction would still be a game-changer. Edited August 20, 2019 by Matt Overton 4 Quote Link to comment
Haydenovative Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 This looks very promising, this is something that has been required for quite some time. Good work team! Quote Link to comment
willburgher Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 I have been hoping for something like this since i started drafting lighting plans in 3d. This looks very promising! Quote Link to comment
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