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You just need to set up a rounding formula inside your Tag Field Definition. Here's an example:

Your wall styles are not configured properly. You have some with Bottom Bounds set to "Ledge" other set to "Bottom of Slab", so Vectorworks is doing what you are telling it to do. You probably want some of or all of them set to Top of Slab. I say "some" because you might want your exterior cladding components to cover the slab while everything else sits on top of it. I modified your wall style so the studs and gyp sit on top of the subfloor while the sheathing sits on top of the floor framing and the sheathing extends to the bottom of the floor framing, which it depicted in the image below. Hope it helps.

Is there a way to have a user field default to be displayed when creating an Equipment Item from a device? For instance, I am using User1 for IP Addresses on both the Device and the Equipment Item. I would like to have that address shown on the face of the equipment in the rack. I can go into the Equipment Item, and make the text pull the data from the user field, but I have to do it for every piece of equipment. and that is really tedious, especially now that it is all done in 3D. It would be nice to be able to map that to a location, like the Name, Make and Model already are. It would be REALLY nice, if it was able to be linked to the device information.

When defining a Data Tag is there a way to set the decimal precision to tens or hundreds? For landscape areas that are lawns or bark mulch it a bit silly to spec "1967 sqft" - I would rather round up to 2000sqft. I have #Landscape Area#.#area##prec_0# SqFt I tried prec_10 and prec_100 - but these don't work. Here is a screen grab:

Here's the VW file if your interested to see if it you have the same issue when you recalculate the graphic legend. VWX v2024, I'm currently on service pack 4.1, using Design Suite. Graphic Legend.vwx

The square grip moves, but bottom of wall does not.

It's very frustrating. No matter what I do with the bottom bound, the bottom of wall stays the same.

Renton AM BIM.vwxCan someone please take a look? I'm having a difficult time disengaging the wall heights.

Help, I'm working on a project file for an event that has a lot of smaller meeting rooms around the facility. So I have a lot of sheet layers, one for each meeting room, and I'm using Graphic Legends to summarize all the objects in each room, filtering them by viewport. This has been working flawlessly for me for weeks until today when I added a LED wall and three projection screens. Worth noting, these objects are custom PIO's that I've written myself. After I added these objects and attached the appropriate record to them so they would be counted in the Graphic Legend, I then went to my sheet view of that meeting room and recalculated the Graphic Legends. Now these new objects not only appear in the Graphic Legend as they should, but they also appear in full scale on top of the Graphic Legend as well. (See attached screenshots) The full scale objects and the Graphic Legend act as one object, I can not be separated. Does anyone know why this is happening or how to correct it? I've tried everything I can think of. Dave

We will have to wait on Juan on this one. I see the same thing as you.

Hello @MullinRJ, Thank you for your suggestion! I will give this a try.

I have created a point object ot create Pre-Engineered Metal Builidng trim for Doors and windows. I would like to have it also create a 3D hole object. Does anyone know how to do this? PROCEDURE PEMBOpeningTrimPointObject; CONST SourceSub = ''; {Sub path} ResType = 94; {Class Def} folderIndex = -8; {Standards} VAR unitmultiplier,JambComp:REAL; H2,H3,H4: Handle; Result:BOOLEAN; ResourceName:STRING; currentunits,ListId,NumItems:LONGINT; CNo:INTEGER; PROCEDURE ImportClass; BEGIN ListId:= BuildResourceList(ResType,folderIndex,SourceSub,NumItems); WHILE NumItems <> 0 DO BEGIN ResourceName:=GetNameFromResourceList(ListId,NumItems); IF (ResourceName = PClass1) THEN BEGIN H4 := GetResourceFromList(listID, NumItems); if (H4 = NIL) then H4 := ImportResourceToCurrentFile(listID, NumItems); END; NumItems := NumItems-1; END; END; BEGIN unitmultiplier := 1 ; currentunits := GetPrefInt(170); {assign the current document units interger to currentunits varaiable} if currentunits = 1 THEN unitmultiplier := 25.4; if currentunits = 2 THEN unitmultiplier := 25.4; if currentunits = 3 THEN unitmultiplier := 304.8; if currentunits = 4 THEN unitmultiplier := 914.4; if currentunits = 5 THEN unitmultiplier := 1609000; if currentunits = 7 THEN unitmultiplier := 1; if currentunits = 8 THEN unitmultiplier := 10; if currentunits = 9 THEN unitmultiplier := 1000; if currentunits = 10 THEN unitmultiplier := 1000000; BeginGroupN(H2); {Import Classes if they don't exist} CNo:=ClassNum; NameClass(PClass1); IF CNo < ClassNum THEN BEGIN DelClass(PClass1); ImportClass; END; if PCreateSill = TRUE THEN JambComp := 0 ELSE JambComp := PDoorJambThickness; {Compensate for door jamb thickness} {Create the Trim} BeginXtrd(0,PTrimDepth); RectangleN(POpeningWidth/2+PTrimWidth+JambComp,PHeadHeight-.01+JambComp,0,90,PTrimWidth+.01,POpeningWidth+PTrimWidth*2+JambComp*2); RectangleN(POpeningWidth/2+PTrimWidth-.01+JambComp,PHeadHeight-POpeningHeight,0,90,POpeningHeight+JambComp,PTrimWidth+.01); RectangleN(-POpeningWidth/2-PTrimWidth+.01-JambComp,PHeadHeight-POpeningHeight,0,90,POpeningHeight+JambComp,-PTrimWidth-.01); if PCreateSill = TRUE THEN RectangleN(POpeningWidth/2+PTrimWidth,PHeadHeight-POpeningHeight-PTrimWidth+.01,0,90,PTrimWidth+.01,POpeningWidth+PTrimWidth*2); SetClass(LNewObj,PClass1); SetFPatByClass(LNewObj); SetLWByClass(LNewObj); SetTextStyleByClass(LNewObj); EndXtrd; SetClass(LNewObj,PClass1); SetFPatByClass(LNewObj); SetLWByClass(LNewObj); SetTextStyleByClass(LNewObj); EndGroup; Rotate3D(90,0,0); {Move object so it insets into wall} Move3DObj(H2,0,.01,0); Locus(0,0); END; RUN(PEMBOpeningTrimPointObject);

That ‘No Stories, No Problem’ thread is pinned at the top of the ‘Architecture’ forum, so that one will be slightly easier to find, but only if you happen to be looking in the right forum. One could argue that Stories thread applies to all disciplines, not just architecture. In my opinion, a better place to pin it might be in the Workflows forum. It is strange (not helpful) that you can’t search for Wes Gardner’s name or view his profile / posts. Typing the ‘@‘ in a new post won’t even autocomplete his user name. Contrasting this behavior with the user name for the once ever-present former Vw employee and forum admin ‘JimW’ — is now @PVA - Admin; but at least with his profile, you can still view his profile page by clicking on his user name, and you can search for his posts.

Aha. I thought about something like this. Or blocking certain addresses in LittleSnitch ... But it was not that important to me to try it with different browsers or on Windows ..... I just wondered why it happens for only certain courses.

Both of my devices are up go to date, aside from not being on Sonoma . I did determine that it’s happening to videos that are from the design summit, but none of the others. Something about their format is different. In case anyone else has the same issue, disabling advanced tracking protection allows the videos to load properly.

Elevation Benchmarks are designed to be used in 3D space or Section Viewports, not in plan.

Somehow for me the initial link works too. But I also noticed the privacy settings warning from time to time for a few certain courses while I could watch others fine. Usually I use Safari only on latest official macOS.

Check which mode of the Selection Tool you are in. The first mode ('Disabled Interactive Scaling Mode') will give you the behaviour you describe.

Hello @exhibitdesigner, Been there, done that. Like you, this bothers me, too. I wrote this about 10 years ago and it works well. It rounds off excess 0's as well as 9's. By excess 9's I mean when you have more 9's than you have display precision. Example, your display precision is 3 decimals, so "2.999" will display as "2.999", but "2.9999" (or anything >= 2.9995) will display as "3". This function tests your display precision, so you don't have to know in advance whether to multiply and divide by 10, 100, 1000, 10000, etc. Try using this function to tailor your numbers to your liking: function TZ(R :Real) :Real; { Trailing Zeros (and 9's) suppressed - Round numbers to their display precision. } { 2 May 2024 - Raymond Mullin } Var DP :Real; { drawing precision } Begin DP := 10^GetPrefLongint(162); { = 1/DwgPrec } TZ := Round(R * DP) / DP; End; { TZ } To use, replace this: Message('The ratio is ', aReal); with this: Message('The ratio is ', TZ(aReal)); HTH, Raymond

Hello! I see now that exactly a year has passed since my last post on this topic, so I tought to post again, hoping that somebody with a good hearth overthere in Maryland will take care of this request: would be possible to group design layers? I have to invent such odd graphical tricks to organize them 😁 thank you!

That is the best post on the forum. All of Wes Gardner's posts should be made easy to access.

I've been working on Vectorworks this morning and had no issues prior to all of a sudden no longer being able to select the endpoints of lines. I can still select lines as a whole, but when going to move things I can no longer select a specific point on the line, rather I just have to estimate where the end of the line is and move it like that. I'm assuming I hit a hotkey without realizing it but don't know what that would have been. Would love some help on the matter! Thanks.

Hello! My name is Adrian Giacca, I am a landscape designer and owner of Remote Landscape. We are a custom and boutique landscape design firm that collaborates closely with landscape contractors, builders, and architects to create unique landscape projects. Our company is growing very quickly and I am very interested in finding someone who would like an opportunity for consistent drafting work with the ability to take on more responsibilities and design capacity as our relationship develops. It is very important to me that the best-suited person for this job has a strong understanding of Vectorworks and can create similar or better-looking models than what I am currently creating. Take your time to review the information I have provided and email me a proposal for your fees. Most projects are either small or medium-sized homes or large estate houses. I expect there to be two different costs for each. Your main task will be to take the information provided in these folders and videos to create a 3D model of the house. No other site modeling will be necessary at this time—simply just the house and the textures associated. Here is a video showing you my process and expectations Here is a folder of a Medium and Large Project https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hMyOkB1TynH_uRycMc-P0exykE1P8ZRM?usp=sharing Be sure to find the panoramic 360 tour in the project notes. If I find your pricing to be appropriate I will provide you access to WebODM so you can take measurements and elevations of an existing house. You can expect 1-3 projects a week. Please email your proposals and similar projects to adrian@remotelandscape.com Thank you Adrian Giacca

Thank you for your suggestions. I am very new to VectorScript and in over my head on this so I apologize in advance. Yes, I am displaying as text. I am interested in your suggestion to iterate through the text string from the back and remove any zeros. I am guessing the process involves identifying the position of the decimal point in the string, then Iterate from the end of the string to find the first non-zero digit, and then trim the string to remove the trailing zeros.

I'm a little late to this thread but the issue with Dropbox 'replacing' instead of 'updating' a .vwxp file can be solved with one or both of the following two things. At least when working out of VW2023, that is. In VW2024 Project Sharing received a revamping of the backend programming so it is likely that none of this applies past VW2023. First, always have 'Safe Save' activated in the Project Sharing - Settings dialog box. See graphic below. I believe this is one toggle that is administered to the .vwxp file by the person who created it and it remains active for every user. If you ever need to recreate the .vwxp file you'll need return here and toggle this back on. Best to make it a natural part of the creation process. Secondly, I've been advised by Dropbox to 'Re-Index' our dropbox files. This is done by logging out of your dropbox account and logging back in. All of your local dropbox files have their location assignments reset so dropbox knows where everything is. Long before we discovered Safe Save we had 'replace' vs 'update' issue resolve itself after 're-indexing'. A couple of other generic tips which may not be self-evident: - Make sure you are giving your computer time to sync your file back to the dropbox cloud. Don't shut down your computer too quickly after closing VW or your local .vwxp file won't sync out of your computer. - Don't locate your .vwxw file in your Dropbox folder. Every single change you make will get added to the Dropbox Queue and slow down your .vwxp file's ability to properly communicate in a timely manner. Always locate .vwxw files in a local folder. - We've had problems arise when multiple .vwxp files are present in the same folder. - The Network Protocol setting only impacts those locating their .vwxp files on a local network drive. It is meaningless when you are placing it on a cloud drive. Joe