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Hello Scott, you are right, it is a curve. I am including the VW file drawn by someone else. I needed to modify the design, such as to change the height and the bottom wavey part but I couldn't quite figure out how it was done. Hope this makes sense. thank you. Curve fabric.vwx

Yes, you can do that with Referencing. When you have multiple options to display, put them on different Design Layers to facilitate quickly turning them off and on.

it seems like the top view of the boats (Chinese & Arabic) are 1st angle to each other as it is drawn as if the boat was rotated. Is that correct? Ok, so now I see where one would use 1st angle. As it would be silly to draw the plan above the sails and not directly under the boat elevation. Same with the Titanic. Upon closer inspection (note the blades) is seems that the elevation ends are 3rd angle and the plan is 1st angle.

CustomPanels_2024.vwx Thanks Jesse! Take a look at this and let me know what you think. But that answer was what I was guessing might be the case.

Alternatively, if you don't need that database portion, you could use use the AREA function in a spreadsheet cell with criteria. Something like: =AREA(((L='Design Layer-1') & (C='None') & (T=POLY))) You can use the Critiera Builder to make this criteria by going to the Worksheet INSERT menu and choosing Critiera.

Got it. Thanks again!

Do the update to 14.5. There is a known problem between VW2024 (and many other programs including Pages) and MacOS14.4 (and 4.1). You will be much happier on 14.5

Normally you'd have more than one column + you'd use summarise on one of the other columns to collapse everything into a single row then sum the =AREA column (which I can see you've done already). So you could add =OBJECTTYPENAME for example to one of the other columns.

Thanks Tom.... seems to be ok

Thanks! I didn't remember where to place that. Another question... can I make it more concise and just show the Sum Values and not the individual items?

They're "working on some improvements" so I tried nudging them into some improvement on this one 🙂

Ok cool that's hopeful what did they say...?

Then if it's a database report in your screenshot add a column that uses =AREA function

I've also filed one and heard back som time ago so there might be light at the end of the tunnel for this one.

I am measuring sidewalk area polygons in a 2D drawing.

Do you mean you want to report the areas of the polygons, or do you want to include/exclude polygons in the search criteria based on their area?

Is it possible to have a master site plan file and link other Vectorworks files into it? I have a site plan file and we are looking at different options for a new building and I would like to be able to link the various different model options into the master site file.

I can edit the criteria and I get the correct amount of polygons but how do I get to add the areas (SqM)?

Copy that, Scott. Thanks for the help! Best, Martin

Your image looks like a curved arc. Would you please post a copy of the file and a simple pencil sketch of what you're trying to create?

can you dm me the file, so I can test it? The images don't provide enough info to tell what is happening

I started noticing an issue last night.

Hi Colleen, Greetings for the day!! if this project still open please let us know we are available for assist you on Vectorworks drafting and Model

Does anyone know why the autoconnect doesnt work here? I also cant connect manually in 2d, I need to go 3d to get it to work. Eveything is on the same layer. Other layers are imported ifcs. I created my own structural member since i cound not convert the existing ones.

There appears to be a command in Vectorworks to make a movie from Saved Views. I just did a test and it worked. If I recall this was the way Vectorworks used to do walkthrough animation, but they had "Velocity Beads" to control the action between each View or Keyframe. Regardless, there are a number of issues with Fly through animation that would have to be addressed to make it easier. In the short term though, being able to select a target object to keep the camera firmly focused on the object of interest would be very helpful. If the target object could be animated itself, it would make it even better.