2020 Architect Open GL Rendering ...

[Allen Brown 11]

... on sheet layer viewport, unchecking Use Colors in Background Render works intermittently in Mac Mojave 10.14.6.

[Andy Broomell 921]

I'm still on High Sierra:

 

I'm finding that once a Viewport is created, toggling either "Use Textures" or "Use Colors" under OpenGL Background Render settings seems to have no effect; the viewport just keeps rendering with the settings it had when it was created. If I want a white model viewport I have to make sure it's set that way before making the viewport... This is the first substantial bug I've seen in 2020 that severely interrupts workflow.

[Andy Broomell 921]

Update: OpenGL viewports seem to randomly switch between rendering with color and without every few times I update them... And not even consistently across a sheet.

 

Very frustrating.

 

 

Edited September 18, 2019 by Andy Broomell

[Allen Brown 11]

Same experience.

 

[Andre Mandel 1]

Same here.  Causing me hours of production time revising viewports to hidden line over renderworks.  All my models are set up with openGL viewports.

[JuanP 748]

This issue was filed under VB-165157 will keep you posted on any updates. 

 

thank you for your reports.

[JuanP 748]

Good news - Our R&D team is working on fixing this issue in a future SP. In the meantime. I've attached a file which has a workaround for this issue. If you double-click the "TurnOffVPDuplicates" script in this file, this problem will be resolved. The "TurnOnVPDuplicates" script will make this issue show up again.

 

 

VPDuplicatesSetPref.vwx

[Andy Broomell 921]

21 hours ago, JuanP said:

Good news - Our R&D team is working on fixing this issue in a future SP. In the meantime. I've attached a file which has a workaround for this issue. If you double-click the "TurnOffVPDuplicates" script in this file, this problem will be resolved. The "TurnOnVPDuplicates" script will make this issue show up again.

 

Thank you for the workaround, Juan! I have no comprehension of what it's doing, but it works  🙌

[Allen Brown 11]

18 minutes ago, Andy Broomell said:

 

Thank you for the workaround, Juan! I have no comprehension of what it's doing, but it works  🙌

 

Haven’t tried it yet but noticed the problem viewport was duplicated to the right when toggling settings. Because if the patch name, must have something to do with that.

[Andy Broomell 921]

BTW it seems this script has to be run every time the file is re-opened.

[Andre Mandel 1]

On 9/18/2019 at 12:50 PM, JuanP said:

Good news - Our R&D team is working on fixing this issue in a future SP. In the meantime. I've attached a file which has a workaround for this issue. If you double-click the "TurnOffVPDuplicates" script in this file, this problem will be resolved. The "TurnOnVPDuplicates" script will make this issue show up again.

 

 

VPDuplicatesSetPref.vwx

Thanks, Juan.  I'll give this a try.  I also found that if you go into the viewport, design layer (or camera) and edit the render settings there, then back out again to sheet view, the correct render settings are applied.  But we look forward to vWorks fixing this in a more official manner.  Best,

[Andy Broomell 921]

Will this be fixed in SP2? It's still a problem in SP1, and even with the workaround is a pain in the butt. I shouldn't have to think about this 10 times a day...

[JuanP 748]

13 hours ago, Andy Broomell said:

Will this be fixed in SP2?

It is my understanding. However, I will confirm as soon as I get the complete list of issues fixed in SP2.

[drelARCH 42]

Yes, I am having myself some issues with open GL...if I uncheck 'Use Colors' in Render Settings most time it will not take effect after VP update. It seem to me that it behave randomly...

 

Please FIX it soon!

Pavol

 

[MartynHowes 2]

Hi, we are having this same problem with VW2020 after SP2. The annoying thing is that the problem persists when saved back to a VW2019 file and there is seemingly no way to fix this. This has now affected around 10 of our most recent projects which is hugely frustrating.

 

Furthermore I tried to download the workaround above and the link is no longer active.

 

Is everyone else still having this problem and is there something that can be done about it?

Martyn

[JuanP 748]

@MartynHowes I verified and this issue was fixed in 2020SP2. If you are still experiencing the same issue please contact our tech@vectorworks.net please? 

[Allen Brown 11]

5 hours ago, MartynHowes said:

Hi, we are having this same problem with VW2020 after SP2. The annoying thing is that the problem persists when saved back to a VW2019 file and there is seemingly no way to fix this. This has now affected around 10 of our most recent projects which is hugely frustrating.

 

Furthermore I tried to download the workaround above and the link is no longer active.

 

Is everyone else still having this problem and is there something that can be done about it?

Martyn

Here's the download workaround just in case..

VPDuplicatesSetPref.vwx