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I have only started pinning the pallets on VW2025 & VW2026, but in both cases after starting VW, the Resource Manager continually starts in this format. It is not remembering the layout section widths. I have to widen the first section to 1/3rd and the second the next 1/3rd for every startup of VW. It doesn't remember even after "Save Pallet Positions". Anyone have a fix?

Thanks Tom. I knew I had seen it hiding somewhere other than Vectorworks or Document preferences. AI was lying to me as usual LOL

A couple of weeks ago, when I used the "z" keyboard option, VW zoomed without showing me line thickness. Something changed and I now see the lines get thicker each time i hit "z" My Vectorworks Preferences / Display / Zoom line thickness is off Being off, i see the rest of the drawing with thin lines, but even so, "z" still shows me thick lines. Any ideas why? I'm sure there was an option with something like "loupe" in it that needed to be off for thin lines, but I can't find it anywhere.

Thanks Tom. I'll try that out. But why would anyone want to duplicate their data through viewports on the Design Layers, and if they did, why doesn't it double when the viewport is on the Sheets Layer ?

Hi. I've recently discovered that I can create viewports on Design Layers. I have previously just created viewports on the Sheets Layers. However, I am perplexed as to why the Design Layer viewports work differently to those on the Sheets Layers. My worksheet collects and display data attached to objects with records attached. For example, if the worksheet has =(record.name) in cell A1 and =1 in cell B1, then the quantity of names is listed in B1 ( you know what I mean ). If I add a viewport to the Sheets Layer, then the worksheet quantity remains the same. But if I add a viewport to the Desing Layer, the quantity increases. How and why would a viewport on the Desing Layer effect the worksheet ? Isn't a viewport just a picture of an area on a Desing Layer, whether on a Design Layer or a Sheet Layer ? It should hold data.

Hey Steven. You are spot on. Changing the IFC category from ifcBuilding to IfcBuildingElementProxy makes everything visible in the export, and I don't need the Stories, as you said. But why does VW choose to make some of my objects invisible, and others visible ? I made them all ifcBuilding and didn't enter any other information. They should all be equal and all invisible or visible. As a viewer, I use and recommend Tekla Trimble Connect.

All good ideas, thanks. I made sure that everything had an IFC data record attached for this file. I've tried multiple IFC export options. I tried changing one of the solid subtraction's individual extrusions from polyline to polygon, and it worked. Then I tried to repeat it on other components, but they did not show in the IFC export. A clue maybe. Duplicating the file and converting all the groups, extrusions, solid subtractions, symbols, etc. to polygons doesn't work. Can anyone else fix my VW attachment and tell me what they did ? It seems that exporting to IFC is hit and miss at the moment. In my original file, some of the exported objects are on different layers and they do export, and the others don't, even though I have those layers visible and in the export layer list.

I can't figure out why only some of the objects in this file export to an IFC format file. Can someone tell me what I am missing in the attached file please. Untitled 1.vwx

Thanks Pat. Yes, I understand the different results of Vector and Raster PDF's. It may take some time to receive another drawing from a client that imports with text showing, but I would have thought that a VW PDF was Vector based on my settings. MA.67899.G1-1-6r0.pdf

I thought this was Troubleshooting, not the Wishlist. Does anyone have a solution to troubleshoot my problem ? Does everyone else see text or blocks when after importing a PDF and deleting the BMP and blank area - after ungrouping ?

A week or two ago, I noticed that some of my imported PDF drawings, when ungrouped to the line drawing, had text showing. I thought that an update hade fixed this and was so happy. Now I don't see the text anymore, so I have to revert back to importing PDF's into AutoCAD and then importing the DWG file with all the text visible. I have my "Show Annotations ticked", so why can AutoCAD do this, and VW can't ?

For functions like eg. WallThickness (c : CRITERIA): REAL; I often wonder why there is not a criteria for Handle. This is not a working code but just to give you an idea ..... procedure test; procedure GetThisHandle (h : handle); begin BrickThickness := (WallThickness (Hndle = h) - 50) /2; if (BrickThickness > 110) then AlrtDialog (Num2Str (BrickThickness)); end; begin ForEachObject (GetThisHandle, (Sel = True) & (T = Wall)); end; ForEachObject is the easiest way to work on one object at a time by filtering if it is this object type or that, but a function that requires a criteria that can't be used if there are multiple selections, multiple types, multiple visible states, etc. Can anyone offer any comments that could help me ?

In your '/sheds/sheds resources/portal frame.png' I didn't add the subfolder /sheds (/MyFiles) Try 'sheds resources/portal frame.png' and don't put "/" at the front. Let VW find it in the subfolder and file.

I'm no expert, but what happens if you add your local path to VW Preferences\User Folders ? C:\Users\??????\AppData\Roaming\Nemetschek\Vectorworks\2025

Hi Bill. My folder is here in "my user path" plus OneDrive\Workgroup Folder\Plug-ins\MyFiles\Handrail Labels.vwr and works. In VW Preferences\User Folders, my Workgroup and Project Folders is "my user path" plus OneDrive\Workgroup Folder\ CreateImageControl2 (GateAWestDialog1, i, 715, 543, 'Handrail Labels/GateA_WestBackground.png'); My colleagues and I set up the VW Prefs the same way so that we all can access the same files. This method is still working for me since I posted the June 2, 2020 reply. Maybe it's because you are using the word sheds in the folder and sub-folder.