[New Bridge Line Tool]

Have this issue in a different scenario, 2D symbols from VW 2016 containing arcs when imported keep flipping over. 

 

Assume when the bug fix is done it will address this?

 

In the meantime the 179.9° trick does seem to resolve it for my cricket outfields

[Docking Resource Browser (or any other palette) across 2 columns]

As an addendum it would be good if the docked palettes could stay at the width and proportion that I left them.

 

Laura

[Docking Resource Browser (or any other palette) across 2 columns]

Here it is

dock.pdf

[Docking Resource Browser (or any other palette) across 2 columns]

The resource browser works best widened out so would be helpful if it could be docked across the bottom of the other palettes that I have in two columns, as if they were 'merged' in a spreadsheet.  At the moment I have it undocked as a workaround.

 

[Landmark whishes: i.e. non planar site modifiers / flip triangles]

+1

As above, real sites slope in all directions

[Hardscape Objects on undulating site model]

We really need to have hardscape objects with component buildup that fit to undulating contours - something like a texture bed with 3D projection beneath. Even better if the 3D component acts as a site modifier allowing true cut and fill to be calculated.

I've just been watching Design Software Solutions' webinar and I can see that hardscape works fine if you have a very simple and straightforwardly sloped area to deal with.

Unfortunately that's rarely the case in real life, for instance usually if fitting to existing levels at the edge of a site or an existing building the slopes are going to be in many different directions and frequently undulating. Hardscapes such as tarmac and block paving do not have to slope to even gradients and frequently don't.

I'm being asked by clients whether I can provide BIM information on landscape buildups for some of my projects now and am having to tell them that I can only give them existing and proposed site models.

[EPSF images not displaying in VW 2016]

Just upgraded and all of my EPSF logos in title blocks have turned into grey boxes with strikethrough.

Tried to re-import but get the same result.

Any ideas?

[Export Site model to IFC]

Thanks Tamsin,

That was it. 87Mb IFC file now exported!

Laura

[Export Site model to IFC]

I'm trying to work out what it is that allows a site model to export to IFC. I have made a simple file that exported correctly, but when I copy and paste the the site model into a new VW file nothing will induce it to export.

I've enclosed the files as zips - it is cone new that won't export anything useful.

Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

Just experimenting, I actually want to export a much much bigger site model.

[Surface array]

Thanks all,

First I tried doing the loft surface for my base shape (the original one was a curve extracted from a cone with the top lopped off). No joy.

Then I removed the base from my array objects (they were solid additions). That did the trick with a few adjustments.

Also tried the double hex but found it more difficult to control.

So in conclusion must use extrudes and not solid additions.

Laura

[Surface array]

I'm trying to get a surface array to work on a 3D surface and instead of scaling and distorting the array objects as I think it is supposed to VW 2015 is overlapping them.

The file is too big to add so I've included a pdf

[IFC Export for Landmark]

Can't understand why we don't have this already

[Disappearing Section Viewport Information]

This bug is still there, very annoying I am going to have to realign viewports on 6 sheets and 10 sectional elevations.

Any chance that VW can fix it, adding extra layers on my referenced base drawings is a pain and there's nothing in the help section to indicate that this would happen.

[Merge Referenced Layers]

OK, I've used this technique on a new set of drawings, but when I updated the reference (Architect's drawing) the viewports have a whole load of vital information missing e.g. windows and doors!

On looking into it it the windows and doors are on new layers that the Architect has created but for some reason these new layers are not available in the viewport to switch on, despite updating the reference. Am I missing something or is this a bug?

Laura

[Merge Referenced Layers]

Thanks

Not that keen to have the content in my drawing, it is the Architect's drawing and I want to be able to easily reference in a new one when they update it.

Do I take it that referenced layers can't be merged?

[Merge Referenced Layers]

Can referenced layers be merged in layer mapping? I have just tried and there was nothing on my new layer. Any ideas?

[ID Label Tool: should change dynamically]

Agreed

[Landscape Walls that follow Site Model]

Landscape walls are incredibly clunky at the moment. I'm trying to model an existing site and would like to use walls as kerbs (the road tool is useless for this). The survey of course has the top and bottom kerb level in the same place so not possible to model 'as is'.

Is there not a way that a variant of landscape wall tool can be made that starts at the surface of the site model and has a certain elevation above it, with a choice of the top sloped or stepped, and in all other respects acts just like the existing retaining wall tool?

Also would want it to be applied to the existing site model so that it wouldn't appear in a cut/fill exercise.

[Aligning Textures in Texture Beds]

When I use a texture bed on a site model the orientation of the texture when rendered seems completely random which looks terrible for some kinds of paving.

Anyone know if there's a way of controlling the orientation, preferably by individual texture bed?

Thanks

[Duplication of data in viewports]

Yes I did mean on a worksheet. I can see from your scenario that it could be useful in some circumstances but still think I should have the option to not have those items counted.

[Duplication of data in viewports]

We've encountered a problem in VW 2011 where if an object with data is in a viewport on a design layer any numbers in the data are doubled. This doesn't happen if the viewport is on a sheet layer.

I can't think of a reason why I'd want the data to be doubled, but even if there are people out there who'd want that as a feature there really should be an option to include or not include the data in the object info palette.

[dwg/dxf mirroring problems]

Was there an answer to this? I'm having the same problem.

[Crash on opening from last location menu]

Whenever I try to open a file across our network using the last location drop down menu at the top of the 'Open' dialogue window VW 2008 crashes. This doesn't happen for any other application. Is this a bug?

[Cell references in worksheet formulae]

Hugues,

Thanks very much - that works. You have saved us a whole load of time!

Laura

[Cell references in worksheet formulae]

We use a system of symbols with record formats to make co-ordinate tables for setting out. This worked fine in VW12, but we're having problems in VW2008 to do with references within the formulae. We use excel to make the list of numbers and then copy them in to the first column. As an aside it would be nice if the worksheets had an excel-like feature where you can add the first couple of numbers then select and drag to get the rest.

We then have a formula in each of the next two columns that references the X-centre and Y-centre of the symbols with the record given in the first column. In VW12 we could do that using e.g. =XCENTER((('Co-ord'.'Ref'=A2))) but this doesn't seem to work any more for new worksheets (bizarrely old worksheets still update OK).

See the enclosed drawing with three symbols with records, the first two rows contain the formula and a reference to the cell containing the record number - this has not worked. The last row has the record number entered manually and does work - however with some of our drawings having 600 co-ordinate references I'm not too keen to have to revise each record manually.

Anyone have any ideas??