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I assume you mean something more than this component setting provides? If so, what would you like?

And this thread has instructions about how to make a script into a PIO menu command and how to add that command into the workspace. But the versions from 2024 should work in 2025 unless someone specifically took steps to keep them from working.

@nsekulovI'm having this same issue - forever stuck in Queued only 14% creativity. Can you help?

Thank you so much for building these! I'm going to give them a try on my current project. This isn't a small task, so it's really kind of you to share with the rest of us.

These are easy enough to create. There are simple preference toggles. e.g. Procedure OffsetDuplication; BEGIN SetPref(1,NOT(GetPref(1))); END; Run(OffsetDuplication); Wrap it up in a command, and add to the Workspace.

One day... I would like some way to define how a wall joins so it does not join on a mitre.

When I click Save, nothing happens; the spotlight preferences window stays open.

in Vectorworks 2024 I had some plug ins that were amazing time savers : Background colour , view in B&W , Full screen cursor , view linewight , see screenshot . This allows quick changes to constantly used demands . It doesn't allow me ot creat / import into Vectorworks 2025 . Any suggestions , I believe these were older plug ins form Vector Bits . They don't seem to be around anymore . Any suggestions for a work around OR able to create this ? Thanks in advance Ian Graham Screenshot 2025-04-29 at 9.58.33 AM.pdf

I certainly see the desire but I believe we'd still need some explicit way to do this rather than automatic subtraction. One reason would be for performance because Vectorworks would need to constantly check for overlapping geometry every time an object is placed or edited. Even more importantly, the user needs to ultimately decide which objects are doing the cutting. Sometimes framing cuts a wall, but sometime walls cut the framing (e.g: a bird's mouth in a rafter) and other objects may need to punch holes through framing for utilities. Maybe a hierarchal system could allow users to define much of this but I think performance could very well be an issue unless the cut and cutting objects are explicitly associated with each other by the user. In any case, it would be good to look at how this area could be improved.

Yes, when I convert an object to a landscape area, the default fill settings and pen settings for the entire document changes to the attributes of the landscape area. So I have to go back to attributes pallete and change them back to my preferred default fill and pen style. Also, the active class changes after converting an object to a landscape area. The active class changes to whatever class the LA is set to be on. So not only do I have to go back and change my default graphic attributes in the attributes palette but I also have to change my active drawing class if I don't want to be drawing on the class that the LA is set to. This has to be a bug. There's no way it makes sense to have the program automatically change the default graphics and class when you convert an object.

Looking to buy a perpetual VW 2022+ license. Please let me know if you have one for sale, happy to cover any/all transfer fees. Kind regards, Guy@heatflux.o.uk

Yes, I have a full VW spotlight subscription

The video here shows you how to import some SVGs — even complex ones — into Vectorworks®. The paths get perfectly converted into Vectorworks® polylines. Gradients are imported too and added to the document’s resources. Group hierarchies are fully preserved. SVG demo test.mov

So here I am, been here since 6am working hard to meet a rapidly approaching deadline and I just needed to grab a section of truss to put on my drawings as a placeholder... I went to an old VW2024 file in the resource manager as I knew it contained exactly the right piece of truss and tried to bring it in... I have now been sitting, unable to do anything else at all for over 15 minutes while VW is "Updating Truss Library". It seems I can't do anything while it is doing this and I cant find a way of cancelling the update. It is now on item 307/909 so I guess I am going to lose nearly an hour of my precious deadline time. I am temped to force quit VW but don't know what that might do to the file when I reopen it. I needed 1 piece of truss so why couldn't it just update that piece as I brought it over. Why update the whole library? If it absolutely had to do that why couldn't it contunie with the other 908 truss items in the the background. Thanks a lot Vectorworks.... really doing a fabulous job of screwing with my productivity and helping to make me miss my deadline.

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e.g. double click on 'auto display detail levels for design layers' should open document settings.

Hi @TomWhiteLight, Any news about this upgrade request? I also have the same problem with a floorplate: Problem with option 1: This floor plate will be used with any projector. I don't want to create all my symbols twice. Option 2: This takes a lot of extra time for each projector on the floor. Thank for your help

Thanks @Conrad Preen for the video.. Now i understand! Unfortunately my devices are in a chain, then this procedure is not working... But anyway nice to know! It seems to me, that the Devices needs to have at least a certain distance (min. 28 units) to get the connector as a line without unnecessary edges... Aufzeichnung 2025-04-29 104432.mp4

hi Marissa I really appreciate your help, that helps with that specific item and I apologise because of my explanation I didn't fully explain what I am trying to achieve, the item I am trying to get fully working correctly is this dynamic top item that can be re-used for other things, that can dynamically change the width depth, height, radius and materials of the unit, so when the user feeds the cupboard unit in from that previous one, this will get the overall width from the cupboard - a user defined left and back measurement that will be an inset of that inner top in either side and at the back then it stretches out to the relevant full dimensions. i have tried to get basically a filleted box working but I had to reconstruct it with spheres and circles and rectangular middle parts and add solids with all those items to construct that, but this is the part that I can't quite get to work. I was originally trying to get something more dynamic than this that would allow me to do any top of any of our items, that could include portholes or scallops but I think that would be quite a huge job but would save a massive amount of time. for other items I am managing to get them working, like legs and beams, the only thing I do worry about in the nodes I have been doing is if I don't have the duplicate ticked in the name node it doesn't do the work after all the drop-down and everything else is calculated, but if I have the duplicate ticked it will create a duplicate item inside the original script items, is it better to put the original items inside control geometry or inside the script part and is that the correct way to feed the original items in to change and am I better to construct everything in marionette form not use originally geometry and just change it. sorry let me know if you need any further clarification on this and I truly appreciate all your help with this, it saves massive amounts of time using marionette, thank you, sim top.vwx

@TwoBeAss Yes, we need to allow a certain length in the first and last segments of a circuit to make room for connector types and circuit numbers. However, when all the vertices are collinear then the path should simplify to a line. If you draw a fresh circuit between your 2 devices that's what you get. So thanks for reporting this. Here's a quick demo of Connect Next functionality. Draw the first circuit. Double-click subsequent sockets below with the Connect tool. ConnectNext.mp4

What would be rather useful behaviour for walls is something that I'd also like to apply to site models: any solids that intersect them (even if they are not symbols "in" the wall would automatically subtract the volume. It would be useful not only for things like quoins and other external decorative elements but also eg. joist ends. I think in the vast majority of cases where you draw a solid that intersects a wall, you want it to fit in a hole/recess in the wall, not vice versa. It would also save a lot of time fiddling around with hole components for objects that don't really need to be inserted as a symbol. Hole components would remain useful for certain applications of course. In fact thinking about it there are many object types where this auto subtraction would be very useful. For example slabs, where a column passes through them, or roof faces where a flue pipe emerges. Like walls, in 99% of cases you want the volume subtracted from the slab/roof object not the thing passing through it.

Hello everyone, I’ve made some progress toward my goal, but things aren’t perfect yet ^^ For now, I can detect colinear lines, but only the horizontal and vertical ones. Also, in some cases, the network works fine, but in others, it forgets to process some black lines. Could you please take a look? I also forgot to mention that I would really like to turn the finished network into a Marionette command, but I'm still having trouble correctly identifying the objects to process using VSEL=TRUE or SEL=TRUE. Thanks in advance! MARIONETTE FILE COOLINEAR LINES.vwx

Hello, Strange that your images didn't come through. I think you are the person who contracted support separately and we ascertained that the IT set up didn't allow automatic modification to your workspace so we fixed it up manually. (If you're not that same person please contact us directly). For other Australia and New Zealand users who might be interested this 2 minute video explains this fantastic new feature for our users: https://university.vectorworks.net/mod/overview/view.php?id=7913 Cheers, Peter

Which preferences are you trying to save? Some of these settings are saved with the file others are saved with the application.

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