Christian Fekete Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 What is the process to migrate a 2020 renderworks style into 2021? Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 (edited) I would convert the VW 2020 source file. (Open in VW 2021, save as VW 2021) Open another new or target File in VW 2021 and Drag/Import the Render Style over in Resource Manager. Ahm, this was meant if you want to import a 2020 RW Style from any old file into a VW 2021 project. If you want to go on working with an old file that includes resources, of course you can just open the old file in VW 2021 and save it. Edited December 29, 2020 by zoomer 1 Quote Link to comment
Christian Fekete Posted December 29, 2020 Author Share Posted December 29, 2020 I tried that but the resource is not available in a new 2021 file. I think the render works file need to be in the renderworks style folder of the 2021 library defaults and moving the 2020 style to that folder does not work. Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 44 minutes ago, Christian Fekete said: I think the render works file need to be in the renderworks style folder of the 2021 library defaults and moving the 2020 style to that folder does not work. It works for me here. I created a new 2021 file from my Template. It already contains my custom Render Style Folder. I opened a second VW 2020 file (without even saving to 2021) I switched back to make my 2021 file active. In Resource Manager I dragged a Render Style from 2020 file tree over in my 2021 Render Style folder. I got the common question about a linked Render Background with same name, chose my existing Background and the Renderstyle came in. I also tried annother RW Style by "import", was asked for my Render Style Folder and the same question about the existing Background and the second RW Style came over. I'm on macOS 11 Big Sur, Intel Mac, latestSPs of VW 2020 + VW 2021 1 Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 @Christian Fekete - Were you able to get it to work? Quote Link to comment
Christian Fekete Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 Yes I did by opening the file in 2021 but I was not able to have the styles part of the new file with the others which load automatically. I will fiddle with that a bit more. Style is great though. thanks for following up Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 (edited) I have never seen a RW Style going corrupt so far, but if it is in this case when everything else imports fine (?) would it be so hard to create it from scratch ? As said in my case, usually imports always worked fine so far. I think I created mine always from scratch, when not coming already with the file. (Like I do my VW Settings from scratch with each new VW version, as there aren't that much settings, opposed to e.g. a custom Workspace) Edited December 30, 2020 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 I think I understand now what you're trying to do. Open the file in 2021, then do Save As and navigate to your 2021 User Folder > Libraries > Defaults > Renderworks - Renderworks Styles and save the file in that location with whatever name you like. Then restart Vectorworks and those styles should appear in all files alongside the defaults styles. (If you don't know where your User Folder is you can go to Vectorworks Preferences > User Folder category) 2 Quote Link to comment
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