Archives for April 2010

Finished the VRML to IFC converter. We can now export VRML files out of V6 and then convert them to IFC for direct import into Revit and Tekla. This was requested on one of our projects where they were looking for a way to import our work into Tekla. The DXF files out of V6 would work, but they wanted to be able to cut a section and see our actual extrusions and the DXF export does not have that sort of definition when it comes out of V6.

As we are looking to implement V6 at our other branches, we took a laptop out to Las Vegas and LA to see how V6 would perform over the network. Our SQL server is in Fremont (San Francisco bay area). Over the WAN, performance was less than stellar. We took one of our large quotes (360 quote items) and ran time trials in each location. A full save in fremont was running 6 minutes. Over the WAN it was over an hour. This obviously wasn’t going to work.
So we tried using the Microsoft Remote desktop that’s built into windows. We installed V6 on a server in the Fremont office then accessed it remotely using the same laptop. All time trials were the same as being local. Next I tried it from my very underpowered netbook using a Verizon wireless card. Again, exact same opening and save times!
If you are looking to use V6 in a distributed environment with one central server, this is definitely the way to go.