topic VBE in BIMx

VBE

Anonymous — Tue, 09 May 2023 11:15:33 GMT

Using the Educational Version of VBE, Can I get the walk through I created to play back using quick time, or windows media player? I created a walk through to show, and can play it back using VBE, but I would like to play it back on a different computer to show critics that doesn't have VBE. Any help is appreciated.

Re: VBE

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:59:55 GMT

The other person doesn't need their own copy of VBE - it produces a self-running .exe file that anyone can use on their machine. See the sample projects at the bottom of this page - http://www.graphisoft.com/products/virtual-building-explorer/. I can run them and I don't have VBE installed.

Another alternative if you just wanted them to send them a video of your walk-through would be to use a program like FRAPS which records whatever is visible on the screen and saves it as a video.

Hope that helps.

Re: VBE

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:32:32 GMT

Thanks for your help. I understand that anyone can play the walkthrough, but I can't find where it stores my video file. I have recorded a walkthrough, but can only watch it when in VBE. When I take snapshots, it gives me a file that I can open. But for video, I can't find the file. Also it won't allow me to do any more recordings unless I export the model from Archicad again. Any ideas about this would help a bunch. Thanks.

Re: VBE

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:56:53 GMT

Thanks for introducing me to FRAPS, this should work so I can show classmates/professors my walkthroughs. I would like to be able to skip this step and just record walkthroughs using VBE and be able to play them back. What else can I try?

Re: VBE

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:12:26 GMT

The full instructions for VBE are linked to at the bottom of the page I linked to. Here is the direct link -

http://download.graphisoft.com/ftp/techsupport/downloads/vbe/GRAPHISOFT_VBE_User_Guide.pdf

This is the relevant paragraph on page 7 that should help with locating the file produced -

Saving VBE Projects
Once the AC model is exported into VBE, you can save the project in the native VBE self-running application file format:
1) Press the ESCAPE key on your keyboard to access the VBE menus.
2) Click on the File menu.
3) Choose the operating system (Windows/Mac OS X) on which you want to open the self-running project file.
4) Select the preferred project file location and enter the name of the VBE file.
5) The VBE project is saved as a self-running application file.

Re: VBE

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:24:50 GMT

Youtube
This is a vbe presentation that i recorded in my computer and them upload to youtube. This client has and underpower machine that can´t initiliase vbe.
This form you can guide the walktrough to the most important part of your design.

Re: VBE

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:19:15 GMT

Nice video, Jose!

What software did you use to record the walkthrough and convert it to video?

Re: VBE

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:47:02 GMT

Peter wrote:
Nice video, Jose!

What software did you use to record the walkthrough and convert it to video?

Thanks,
Screenflow (mac) and Imovie to edit and convert.