I also wish the renderings "popped" more. I REALLY wish VW was more "drag and drop" friendly. It seems to take me forever to do interior renderings. I need a new computer first, but then I have to investigate the program. But after 9 years of being a VW user, I am starting to see the limitations of this program. But if your right, and it's not that good of a drafting program, then that's a major problem. They also have monthly oject librarys that you can download and add to your system. Ialso noticed that Chief Architects yearly upgrades are half the cost of Vectorworks. Surely there should be a way to set this up with Chief alone by now? I tried creating a folder on our shared drive and redirecting my own User Library there, but it didn't update itself when I scanned after having a coworker make a change to one of the libraries I had created and re-export it to said folder.I understand people are fiercly loyal to whatever they are currently using, but I have to get the most bang for my buck. OneDrive is a potential option, but again, we'd like to avoid the extra programs involved in that solution.
The specific solution i'm thinking of was set up for OneDrive, too, so i'm not sure it would even work for us. Our company is extremely strict about what we install on our machines, so we can't guarantee they would approve a small program we download from what they may consider to be a questionable site. I've searched Google and the forums multiple times over the last couple days and have found that it should be possible, but the "solutions" are either for a much older version of Chief, the people involved don't describe how they set it up, or they use an extra 3rd-party application to help. This way if one of us creates new items in our own library, it will update for everyone. Kind of like how Chief will automatically check for updates to the library catalogs you can download from the website. Our desire is to have a shared User Library on the host computer that we all have access to, that will update itself without us having to constantly export and import the libraries for each other.
We do work for 40-50 facilities, and they like to change up their materials and colors relatively often, so keeping all of it coordinated and organized can be difficult. Our primary desire is to share the libraries we've each created for materials and color swatches, as well as custom models. Our computers have Chief set up individually, with our own libraries and data directories currently. Our current setup has one computer hosting all of our project files, with each of our individual computers having remote access to the file directory.
I work in an office setting with two coworkers, and we are trying to figure out a way to have one shared User Library.
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