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No! - reading about it now.

Have you looked into Viewport styles?

I wish a viewport visibility setting could be transferred through the Resource Manager. It would be a much easier way to get viewport visibility from one file to another. As of now, I open the two files I need to work with and use the Eyedropper Tool to pick up and apply the viewport visibility from one file's viewport to another file's viewport. But if my coworker is working in the file I need, I have to wait until the file is closed and available. I appears that this might be almost ready to accomplish given the tools and setup that is already established. Thanks! Anna

Hi Pathick, Would you like this model? I can probably fix it up as a single go-round. Also, would a short tutorial on this was made help.

Sorry for the delay been pretty busy. Your latest looks good. for my purposes all I really need is the Bottom section around the single pipe. Its basically a girth hitch around the pipe as a fixed peice of webbing around 3' long... Ill have to dive into what a B rail sweep is. Thanks

Thank you for showing me these Just went and up-voted them all lol

You may have an object in the Annotations causing this behavior. Open the annotations and delete anything that is undesired. Why is your model so far away from the internal origin? That'll cause you all kinds of grief.

I've created a new viewport. It took me ages to find it as it was pasted literally miles away from the origin. Previous viewports have been pasted on the origin. I've not changed any settings. The viewport size is huge and I don't seem to be able to change the origin of the viewport or the size of the viewport. Has anyone else had this problem? I've restarted the PC which hasn't helped. I sent the file to a friend who was able to create the VP no problem.

Hey all, Wondering if this is possible/if someone could help me understand how to get a Z height for an object in the format of ex. 3'-6" in a data tag. I've tried quite a few things and I feel like I'm going in circles. Screenshots of what I've tried below. I've successfully gotten decimal feet to work, but I haven't been able to change to a feet-inches format. I tried looking at forums, and I assume this is similar to a worksheet conversion, but couldn't seem to find any examples. Thanks for any help in advance!

Just talking here. If I need a rendering, CINEMA 4D (also) does this without disrupting my workflow. I guess the difference would be that you apply textures in C4D as opposed to VW's. I had a chance to see Enscape in action recently and I can see why it is popular. This is one time when there are no visuals due to an NDA. The company that contacted me used A-CAD, Soft plan, Revit and Enscape. A full 3D workshop, yet it was still not enough. To compete for a new project they needed more and that was the Vectorworks/CINEMA 4D combination.

Good greif.... Just no. I'm super quick with the key commands I've committed to muscle memory over time, just like you have gained familiarity with the software you are intimating Vectorworks be bent to. It took a bit of time to mentally bed in smart options when it was released, but now I can't live with out it and to be honest, 💩s over a command line because all the commands I need are right under my cursor and is implemented way better than ArchiCADs pet palette. If you want unfriendly key commands, Revit is prime example with its two letter commands... but i bounce between Revit and VW fine. VW's shift/alt/ctrl modifiers work great; every program has its own flavour of modifiers, just learn them to get the best of the software. As someone who has developed and ran training sessions for a VW distributor, Jeff's advice above is spot on. As an alternative to the streamdeck, the 3dconnexion spacemouse pros are awesome and configurable.. I'm so hooked on them, I feel like I've lost a limb I don't have one handy for 3d modeling.

Hello, I’d like to suggest a feature improvement for how slabs interact with wall components in Vectorworks. Currently, when a wall has a component bound to the top of the slab (e.g., the top structural component), any slab components above that level are not removed or adjusted. It would be extremely useful if walls could automatically cut the slab components above the binding component, so that those parts are trimmed accordingly. This would reflect real construction logic and help in both 2D and 3D documentation, especially for section details. Thank you for considering this!

@FKA at the time we were planning this feature there was some debate about how to visualise this. The way people show vertical paths between layers will vary across the world so it would be great if you could post here the icon you would like so we can include it in content when we develop this feature. Conrad

@Brian Lawrence ah right. I didn't have enough visual context to get that.

Hello @FKA, Currently this is not possible as it is not using a symbol but basic graphics. I will log a wishlist in our database about this. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

@Tim Ardoin Hi Tim, I just got off the phone with Troy over east in Australia and we're trying to sort out 2x things. 1. We really need Intune instructions for IT Professionals so we can deploy Vectorworks out to users just like in Sean Charters post. 2. I've ran into a development issue: Please pass this feedback onto your developers as I'd just thought I'd let you know when installing Vectorworks 2025 30.5 x64 along with Update5.vwim and the LDF file causes something to go wrong in the registry and installs as DisplayVersion 30.0.0 and not 30.5.0 as you can see if below screenshot when I don't mention the LDF file which is odd? Cheers

Has anyone ( @Dave Donley 😊 ) had any luck at stabilising this problem ? I'm still battling my way through a brochure, and this is really wasting my time. This morning, I drew something, exported it as before, and it came out perfectly. Then I realised that I had a spelling mistake that I fixed, and now I can't get it to export in Final Quality Renderworks again without it going to the dark side. The other day, I tried exporting a model which was drawn on two layers. It didn't work. I then tried printing one layer at a time using "Current View". It worked. I used GIMP to put them back together again.

I think that is a bad idea. No other tool in VW cares about what other objects are installed in the active workspace. And it would need to run every time create objects was run as you might have edited the workspace since the last time. I think locking it to the license which only has to be checked once on startup is a better idea. Besides, once an object exists in the drawing, no matter how it got there, if you have the proper license you can still edit it in the OIP and with the handles without needing to go back to the tool. We are solving a non-existent problem. Answering Tom's original request to be able to choose which objects are shown is the better answer.

C4d is a completely different animal... If I want an archvis render done in literally minutes, Enscape does this without disrupting my workflow in Vectorworks.

Take a look at the Data Manager. You can specify additional records and data to attach to objects.

What about the creative objects from shapes command actually looked at your workspace and only loaded the objects that you have available in your workspace?

CINEMA 4D subscription is ~800 US, a little more than Escape, but it's capability are vastly beyond.

Hello, I'm wondering if it's possible to change or define the small icon/symbol that appears when a cable route crosses multiple design layers. Thanks in advance! Florian

@VIRTUALENVIRONS Enscape pricing

Someone else will need to check that but I was surprised I was able to create Cable Path, Circuit, Layout Room, etc objects as I don't have the ConnectCAD tools/commands in my workspace. If I do a Quick Search on 'Cable', 'Circuit' or 'Layout' it draws a blank.