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Importing into Cinema 4d
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Hi all, does anyone here use Cinema 4d for rendering & animation? If so I'd like your advice on a few things. 1, importing large models2, applying materials to instances (symbols in VW)3,…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Gerard Jonker May 20, 2010.

Changing materials
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Don Marquardt May 20, 2010.

Building Information Modeling (BIM)
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Can anyone point me in the right direction for a VW tutorial on BIM. Its the only area of VectorWorks that I'm lacking. Plus I don't want to be told off anymore for making mistakes in window…Continue

Tags: vectorworks, (BIM), Modeling, Information, Building

Started this discussion. Last reply by Bill Mar 11, 2010.

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Gerard Jonker replied to Paul Craig's discussion 'Importing into Cinema 4d'

Hi Paul, 1 Just export from Vectorworks as normal. 2 Make sure you have the model file in C4D open and active 3 Drag the new .vw4d file on C4D to open 4 Choose to Update a folder and select the folder that has the name of the export file. Despite…

May 20, 2010

Paul Craig replied to Paul Craig's discussion 'Importing into Cinema 4d'

Hello Gerard, How do you update a Cinema 4d file if you change the symbols/model in vectorworks? Do you re-export the Vectorworks file to Cinema 4d and then merge the existing Cinema 4D file with the new exported file? Thanks, Paul.

May 20, 2010

Don Marquardt replied to Paul Craig's discussion 'Changing materials'

On individual projects I use separate layers for the walls, ie, an Exterior wall-Stone and Exterior Wall-Brick. Build the model in one, copy/paste in place to the other. This lets me spin the whole model for each version. Perhaps this is too…

May 20, 2010

Paul Craig replied to Paul Craig's discussion 'Importing into Cinema 4d'

Thank you Gerard for your in depth reply. I still have quite a bit to learn about Cinema 4D and will experiment with your suggestions. I will let you know how I do. I maybe asking you a few questions in the near future if thats OK. Thanks…

May 12, 2010

Gerard Jonker replied to Paul Craig's discussion 'Importing into Cinema 4d'

Hi Paul, Please use the Exchange plug-in Maxon provides for Cinema 4D, it will cost you about 100,- $ US . The free Plugin that comes on the installer DVD of Vectorworks has a few draw backs. 1. Maxon's Plugins give much better and faster…

May 12, 2010

Importing into Cinema 4d

Hi all, does anyone here use Cinema 4d for rendering & animation? If so I'd like your advice on a few things. 1, importing large models2, applying materials to instances (symbols in VW)3, crashing....plus a few other things.Ho yea, in VW how do you tell it to reduce the number of polygons in your model, e.g. reduce the roundingness (is that even a real word) of circular/curved objects? Is there even a way? Things maybe a bit more blocky but will work faster when imported into rendering…See More

Discussion posted by Paul Craig May 6, 2010

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Cris Dopher replied to Paul Craig's discussion 'Changing materials'

Paul, Tamsin's suggestion will be easiest. And it is entirely possible to build up a whole terraced view of a street of houses (even though they're all looking at the same model on design layers). Your Crop objects may have to be somewhat…

May 5, 2010

Paul Craig replied to Paul Craig's discussion 'Changing materials'

Hi thanks for the reply. I dont want to use classes as if I had a street elevation with about 30 houses on it, and used the same house type symbol in many of them and changed the class it would change all of them. example;.using the same symbol,…

Apr 29, 2010

Tamsin Slatter replied to Paul Craig's discussion 'Changing materials'

Hi Craig I would use viewports for this. Ensure that all your textures are set using classes rather than applied directly to the objects. Create your view on the design layer and then create a Viewport. Duplicate the viewport on the sheet layer.…

Apr 29, 2010

Changing materials

Hi all,My question is; If I had a house elevation and needed two versions, say, one clad in brickwork the other in a render finish how would you change the material by setting up something in the obj info under data. In other words without using a symbol (within a symbol) or using classes.It would be good if there was just a button to select for each symbol.Many thanks,Paul.See More

Discussion posted by Paul Craig Apr 29, 2010

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Bill replied to Paul Craig's discussion 'Building Information Modeling (BIM)'

There are three BIM example files on the NNA web site: http://www.nemetschek.net/bim/projects.php I found them to be really helpful in figuring out how best to set up a "BIM" file in VW. NNA also has a video of Francois Levy discussing…

Mar 11, 2010

Paul Craig replied to Paul Craig's discussion 'Building Information Modeling (BIM)'

many thanks Paul

Mar 5, 2010

Bob Holtzmann replied to Paul Craig's discussion 'Building Information Modeling (BIM)'

I recently participated in a webinar, of which Wes Gardner presents the BIM aspects of Vectorworks Architect in this movie: http://download2.nemetschek.net/www_movies/webinars/BIM_and_Vectorworks_Architect.mov

Mar 4, 2010

Jonathan Pickup replied to Paul Craig's discussion 'Building Information Modeling (BIM)'

I have a manual that might help : http://www.archoncad.co.nz/training/vector-workout.php#introBIM2010

Mar 3, 2010

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Discussion posted by Paul Craig Mar 3, 2010

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Paul Craig commented on Jonathan Reeves's photo

Hi nice render, you you have trouble lighting, or getting enough light into interiors? Its the vain of my life! Cheers, Paul.

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Mar 3, 2010

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Job Title:: Architectural technician

About Me:: I'm an architectural technician living in the UK, I have been using Vectorworks for over 9 years. I render and animate my Vectorworks models in Artlantis but have recently started to render in Cinema 4d, it struggles with large complex architectural models mind!

CAD System used:: Mac, Vectorworks 2009, Artlantis, Cinema 4D

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