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Thanks, I think it would be universally usefully for locating detail in any of the uses of vectorworks not just Entertainment. 👍

Hello @t-bud, You can set up an equip item symbol with the linked texts set up as you wish. Then you can use this symbol to create new equipment items either by drag&drop from the resource manager or by double clicking on the symbol and placing it with the equipment item tool. That way you will have your linked texts set up only once fro this symbol. Let me know if this helps. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

Okay I get it. Currently this is not possible with the title blocks, unless you manually add the grids instead of using the TBB grids. I will add a wishlist item for this. Thanks for the feedback!

@Dave Norton Or as a Hardscape (style) with a Draped config ... the surface will have a consistent thickness - and by checking the Cut the site model you will also see the result on your Site model and for finetuning you can also change the datum if needed to (top or bottom...)

hi @Gal Hard to tell just by looking at a screenshot... It looks like the Site model is coming up to the cracks... Is your road in one piece or are these segmented parts that don't fit together 100%? Also I see what looks like a grade limit to which the Site model wants to grab to... What is the purpose of that grade limit and is it set to Existing or Proposed? Also hard to tell what is going on on the left side as it appears the Site model is at times interfering withs the darker grey 'wall?' I presume more could be said when it is more clear what is going on... by sharing the file?

Hi @Nikolay Zhelyazkov, I've put two rough screenshots of what I would like, I have a Sheet Layer that has a Viewport of the entire event site. From this we would make a set of grid references for suppliers to locate their trader positions, for first aid to know where they are going and security to know their positions etc. I've also just placed a Detail Viewport from this drawing on a second sheet layer for the main stage only but as the grid is specific to the sheet layer, it means that any of the grid references we make don't work for this sheet. I'd like the grid to start halfway through number 20 and finish halfway between number 30 on the horizontal and be between S and Z on the vertical axis as it does on the main site sheet. Is there a way to make it so that every Detail Viewport I make can have a grid that lines up with the grid that the Detail Viewport is taken from? Many thanks, Matt.

Hi @Rebecca R Your own plant catalogue is that based on a txt-file or is it a Filemaker type? If it is text based I find it helps to open it in a spreadsheet application. Then add a Header row to your file. Then insert the 'More data'-fields as header and rearrange the columns so that they have the same order of the fields as displayed in the Plant More Data. Hope this helps

Hi @Matt Overton Thanks for your input! Our forum is already a key feedback hub and additionally we have the RoadMap page. While G2 is an additional platform, providing feedback there is optional. We're considering your suggestions for improving engagement and inclusivity. Thanks so much!

The tool should be intelligent enough to figure out if it's being used in a 2D or 3D situation and produce the desired result. I may or may not have just wasted a few minutes trying to use the "Fillet" tool on 3D geometry.

Hi, how much does memory bandwith affect performance? I'm in the process of building my new rig and I'm considering moving to a cpu with 8 channel memory support. I'm currently running a i9 14900k with dual rank, 2 channel 64gb 6400Mt/s ddr5, with a pice 4.0x4 NVME and I'm still having lagging and program lockup issues, especially when copying/pasting multiple complex symbols. Watching the system monitor when it's frozen, I will see the memory usage slowly increase, once it stops rising it will unfreeze. This leads me to believe it's my memory bottlenecking the program. If I were to make a system with single rank ram in 8 channel operation, I would theoretically x4 my bandwidth and also increase my per channel speed since it's only 1 rank per channel. If my lagging problem is due to insufficient memory bandwith, this should cut my lag times by 1/4, 300% improvement. Hopefully someone that knows how the program handles memory management and operations can give some insight into my problem. The cost would be significant to build an 8 or 12 channel system, but it would be worth it, assuming it would actually increase my performance. The real question is whether or not I will see any benefit. Does anyone have experience with quad or 8 channel memory? Does it offer any improvement? Thank you.

What I think I'm asking is, you've used both Tomcat and Christie truss from the VW Library, and only the Christie was green, therefore my question was, how do we know which truss types in the library work, and which don't? Looking at your file though, even though the Tomcat truss doesn't turn green, it seems to be calculated. So I'm assuming you meant all VW library truss works for the calculations. I'll speak to the guy who "makes" our truss symbols, because I think he starts with the VW Prolyte symbols, so I'm curious where it goes wrong then. Thanks a lot!

Yes, it seems like there is a record format named "Title Block Border". If you rename this format to something else everything should work fine. If you have any troubles with this, share a test file and we will look into it.

Hello @Monkeypuzzle, Can you please attach a sample file showing this or some screenshots of the expected results? Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

Thats it! Thanks. I thought that it is smth dumm and simple :))

This is the point - You might trust those brands, I have no reason to, so do you trust them enough that you are willing to take the hit if they on-sell or leak my information from an account I had absolutely no need for. If you are going to the effort of trying to engage customers, why not use the signup bonus to encourage people to come here and be part of diverse the group of voices here? If you have specific questions then have a sub-forum for currated discussions on features. Even make a special "first impression" sub-forum public or otherwise for new sign ups (low-post count).

Hi @Jiajing, The math is quite convoluted, so if you can avoid it I recommend you do. There are functions that translate between Model Space (rotated plan view) and Screen Plane: ModelPt2DToScreenPt() ModelVecToScreenVec() and ScreenPtToModelPt2D() ScreenVecToModelVec() At one point I tried to figure out the differences between the function pairs, but didn't find anything so I quit looking. When I wrote scripts to work in Rotated Plan, I always used ModelVecToScreenVec() to return the screen X&Y from the model coordinates, and ScreenVecToModelVec() to change screen coordinates to model coordinates. If you need to understand the math to do the same thing, send me a PM and we chat offline. None of the basic VectorScript commands (meaning all of the Get and Set graphic commands) work directly in Rotated Plan, but if you massage the coordinates you want with the functions above, you can send the massaged numbers through the standard calls to make things look right. For some tasks it may be easier to unrotate the view, run your code, and re-rotate the view when done. Oh, I almost forgot, if the User Origin is moved, it's worse – much worse. HTH, Raymond

Try to figure out the fuction to retrieve value of screen X when I retate the plan OR the math behind the screen X. Thank you

@michaelk, bless you! that is amazing! perfect! thanks so much! very best, Alex

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Hiya, I've just been sent 2 plans of our venue's lighting rig - in a vectorworks format. I don't have Vectorworks, nor do my team, nor does anyone I know, so we can't use it. Is there any chance a kind soul in here could open these 2 files (drawings of light trusses at Heaven) & export as R14 .dwgs into the same folder? Any help would be amazing. Massive thanks, Alex https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OLI2rTos7G_X0tEGZLra0oGnMSu1FkCR?usp=drive_link Main Room.vwx Stage Truss.vwx

I've had issues with cropped DLVPS. I try not to crop them and found they worked better. Perhaps use class visibilities to remove objects from the DLVP instead? Though this technique is not without it's bugs also.

That looks either like Z-fighting (where you have two objects coincident in the same plane and the rendering engine guesses back and forth which one to display, or having something too far from the origin. Check the wall that is wonky and make sure it is not duplicated. If that is not it, go to the Design Layers, make them all visible, Show/Snap/Modify other, Select All, and Fit to Objects. If you end up zooming way out, then your have an object far away from your drawing that you need to move or delete. Do a Marquee selection around each corner of the zoomed out window and see if you can get a smaller selection you can then Fit to Objects on.

Repeatable error - crop a VP reference, ie: reuse the 2nd floor on 3rd floor but crop out a few bits. Switch to 3d view in shaded and it goes wonky. Screen Recording 2024-05-06 at 4.29.59 PM.mov

If you've made any changes to the default settings, I would recommend taking screenshots of your VW Preferences before resetting them to make your life easier when you have to rebuild them.