With the introduction of Vue renderer Bentley in their wisdom have not replaced the old luxology history variable.
This is seriously bad practice. By default the render history outputs to the project/exports/Vue history folder. this is bad for several reasons:...
Firstly it means that all users on that project share the same history folder meaning peoples actual history is mixed with others
Secondly, it means that over time, project folder sizes become huge, storing several GB's of render history files. This data is then picked up by back up software, attaching a cost to both initial cloud storage and then to back-up.
The location can be set manually in prefs, however this relies on users to set the correct location, and also has to be set independently for every different project they work on.
Ideally, I want a Variable that will enable me to direct Vue history to a central location, and then create a folder per user, and additionally create sub folders within the users folders for each project to segregate the history per person/per project. ie USTN_VUE HISTORY = $(USTN_HOMEROOT)/Vue history/$(USTN_WORKSETNAME)
I will reiterate that with the introduction of Vue this variable being removed is a regression in capability.