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Pat, The signature is correct. I am waiting til 2025. In VW 2019 unless I am missing it, the specialized functions for walls does not exist. Another reason to upgrade.

Here's how to replace the hook. I didn't try changing the hook symbol name after I edited it. let me know if changing the name will still associate the hook with a different hoist. If it doesn't, I'll inquire further. ReplaceHook.mp4

Hi Peter, I was intrigued by this and played around for a while. Apparently, truss crosses can only have one location where the truss meets in Vectorworks 2024. When I changed the tool to insert a drop instead of a truss cross, it worked once I had a proper offset. I had to change the minimum length for the down leg in the bridle preferences to one mm before using the tool. Here's a video I made to explain the process to our programmers. You can skip to after 2:30 to see success. insertdropparalelltruss.mp4 I'm submitting a request to allow multiple trust crosses so that the lower truss does not need to shift down at all. However, we would expect it to shift to account for the spacing of the coupling device.

Hey Scott, Is there a way to duplicate the hook and have a particular hoist use that hook as opposed to the default nested hook?

@Djmanwild Is your selection issue to simply select ? - as in draw another shape and select the end point of a line as one of the points on the new object... or Is your selection issue to select the end point and resize that line from the end point ? Peter

Hi Peter, Yes, my truss were directly from the VW libraries. I confess I didn't seek out the same truss you used from our library during testing. The truss in the drawing you shared has had some custom changes made and I didn't want to mess with them. All truss in the VW library *should* be able to have some braceworks calculations applied. When we have the structural info from manufacturers, we get more info about flexibility. When we don't, we treat them as static systems. Hence the Grey and Green results. I'm not sure what you're asking here. I made frames, and they worked.

You should be able to do this by setting the criteria to 'type is NURBS curve' and then selecting 'Function-Objects General-Length' in the columns section.

Closures occassionaly deciding not to show / wall components randomly disappearing / internal and external views not showing components etc.

Can the record pull the lengths of 3d objects, like nurbs curves? The record can't, you might be able to map the length field to a record field using the data manager but I am not sure how to set this up.

Good morning So are we waiting to see what happens with the release of 14.5? Thank you

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Although having said that it would be great if you had an option to interactively resize Data Tag text the way you can with Callouts... The way it works now is you need multiple Tag styles set up with different width text boxes + switch between them depending on how wide you want the text in the drawing to be. At least that's the only way I know to do it.

Switch to Data Tags. You can then include any data you like and have control over the layout.

@Scott C. Parker Hi, I'm assuming both the Tomcat as the Christie symbols are from the VW library? Are you therefore saying some trusses from the library can be calculated, and some can't? And why does it work with a "normal" truss length, but not with a frame?

Since VW2024 I have found it periodically changing to the first mode of its own accord. Or perhaps it was since Update 4 + the addition of the 4th mode. I never had this happen previously.

The U key will step through the modes of the first mode group. Hit is accidentally and you can change the mode.

My reply was only intended to be a response to @Matt Overton’s post stating that there is no software out there that has walls that can do everything users want them to do. My replay was an attempt to explain that there’s a good reason for that due to many different challenges. I’m not talking about Vectorworks but all software. What issues are you still having in 2024 Update 4.1?

Thanks for the response. I'm not really sure why but the issue fixed itself after I left it alone for a few days. I double checked on your suggestion and this was definitely something good to know thanks! Not sure how I switched it without realizing, I'm just glad it went back to working!

Yes, the Licence system has changed in the last 16 years and this on longer works.

Do not ever ask me to complete a survey that makes me sign up for a 4th party service. If you value customer feedback, you have direct channels, including these forums.

The "Value" of a non-blank cell in a VW Spreadsheet is either 1 if it is a non-numeric value or it is the numeric value. When you SUM those values, the non-numeric "1"s get added into the total. That is why you can use COUNT on non-numeric values.

You’re joking? you mean, VW counts the numeric area of all polygons and adds the number of them? Whyy? Normally it should be either the sum of all areas or the number of all polygons, not both… strange worksheet…

sorry y'all been awhile. sometimes I gotta do my day job. lol for those in the future looking for an example here's what I ended up going with. hPath = vs.GetCustomObjectPath(objectHand) arrows = int(vs.GetRField(PIO_handle, recname, "arrows")) amount = arrows + 1 testing = vs.HPerim(hPath) / amount starting = 0 for i in range(amount - 1): starting += testing vs.RegularPolygon(0, 0, 30, 3, 1) last = vs.LNewObj() cur_loc = vs.PointAlongPoly(pathHandle, starting) vs.HRotate(last, 0, 0, vs.Vec2Ang(cur_loc[2])-90) vs.HMove(last,cur_loc[1][0], cur_loc[1][1])

There was a book, "Custom Solutions in Vectorworks 8.5" which did a good job of explaining all this. Unfortunately I can't find an electronic version. 😞 Here is a very quick summary from my memory: Point, Linear, Rectangle, 2D Path, and 3D Path, are all object types and just have different number of clicked to define and number of control points. Point (1) and Linear (2) are pretty simple. Rectangle gives you two points on the center line, and then one point that is offset from the center line at 90°. I haven't used the two Path options so I can't remember what they have. Tool is for scripts that are not going to create a new object or objects that need to collect a lot of data in order to draw the object correctly. The Objects in the previous paragraph actually create the own "tool" so they can be added to the workspace. Command creates a Menu Command that runs without requiring clicks in the drawing. If you need 2 or 3 points to define you object, then using a Linear or Rectangle mode might be worth considering. HTH

That's a good point. Presumably 'area' just gives you the 2D area whereas 'landscape area.area' gives you the 3D surface area... which may or may not be an issue depending on the circumstances