[black & white viewport]

Graduation day at the U

[Bending/curving extruded shape on bench]

The key will be in simplifying the source polygon.

[Add SubDivision to the default 3d Modeling Tool Set]

I think I first found it in the Model menu and just became used to looking for it there. Happy days!

[Add SubDivision to the default 3d Modeling Tool Set]

@Josh Loy Yes! _ beautiful. Thank you. How'd you do that? One minute it wasn't and the next....

 

(It always was, wasn't it & I've been overlooking it all this time?)

 

[Add SubDivision to the default 3d Modeling Tool Set]

I'd like to see SubDivision as a standard resident of the default 3d Modeling Tool Set.

Surely it's just as worth as the Cone and a more likely place for a user to expect to find it.

[3d-Symbol distribution on a sphere object]

Petri @islandmon we need you!

 

 

[Moving edges of solids]

4 hours ago, Malcolm Woodruff said:

Is there any way of moving an edge of a solid?

No, but it's an excellent WishList candidate.

You can move edges & vertices of SubDivision objects (& meshes as above) in this way.

In your test-case above you could Modify>>Convert>Convert to Subdivision and drag the desired edge to location. Once done you can Modifiy>Convert>Convert to Generic Solids if desired.

 

 

 

[Title Block - Automatic Logo]

My preferred way:

Place the ShowLogo in the same place, with the same name in each project folder.

Make sure they are always about the same size.

Import it into the TitleBlock and select Reference>Relative to current document

Presto, it appears magically in the TB as and where you'd expect it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fundamentals -> Simple Wall, Door, Window]

It's almost 2024. I feel that now it would be completely on point for VW Fundamentals to include a simple Wall, Door & Window tool for those users who would buy VW for simple floor plans & layouts.

[Streamlined naming to go with the new UI]

56 minutes ago, Tom Klaber said:

Convention aside - I really do think that Vectorworks - despite being in the minority - is actually using the correct terminology in the grand layers/classes debate.

I agree with this and that while Textures represent the look of the exposed surfaces of an object Materials represent its full materiality of an object, it's texture, mass, thermal properties, tensile strength etc....  I like the current setup, and have no objection to reducing Sheet Layer to Sheet. Design Layer to Layer loses something in its meaning I think, so my vote would be, conservative as it is, to leave things as they are and just make more use of Materials & Material Textures (oops)

[Streamlined naming to go with the new UI]

On 9/14/2023 at 4:37 PM, Kevin Allen said:

to me, A VWX Design Layer is like a sheet of vellum.

with unlimited scratchabillity

[Reshape Rectangles please]

7 hours ago, Tom W. said:

You don't even need to drag a marquee, you can just reshape a corner vertex directly.

Bah! - I had selected the wrong mode - yes, it's behaving exactly as I expected as all of you indicated thanks @Tom W. , @Jesse Cogswell @Kevin Allen

And in Top/Plan too.

However, Change Vertex, Add/Delete Vertex, Hide/Show edge don't yet work yet on rectangles.

 

And here's one I overlooked from prior versions - very interesting. I'm interested to see when that may become useful, maybe during schematic design.

 

 

[Reshape Rectangles please]

11 minutes ago, Jesse Cogswell said:

What is interesting, is that if you use the Reshape tool and drag a marquee around part of the rectangle and resize from there, the rectangle will be automatically be converted into a polygon without a prompt. 

Yes, this is exactly what I'm envisioning - without the need to drag the marquee. For example I want to Hide/Show one edge of the rectangle. Many steps could just be one.

[Symbol insertion Tool - does anyone use it?]

Hmm - that's interesting, I can see that, maybe I'll give it another look.

(Double clicking on a RM Symbol will allow multiple placements too.)

 

I wonder if this fly-up became a fixable element at the top of the RM showing all the Resource icons at once. Then one click on the Symbol icon would be the same as invoking the Symbol Insertion tool - and we would essentially have Symbol Insertion Tool, Worksheet Insertion Tool, Wall Insertion Tools .... all in one place.

 

[Reshape Rectangles please]

Please allow Rectangles to be reshaped via the Reshape Tool. I don't see that it should be necessary to first convert them to Polygons.

[Symbol insertion Tool - does anyone use it?]

I don't remember the last time I used the Symbol Insertion Tool - maybe 19xx? Am I alone or has the RM made this tool redundant?

[Parametric Constraints need some ​💚]

These tools could be much more integrated & helpful.

 

There is often no need to have them established as actual objects on the drawing - but rather pop up more like Smart Point Extensions with more robust dimensional powers.

Also - the click>hold>select workflow to get one of these magical objects is more stilted that it might be.

Also - If I want to constrain say the dimension between two objects there should be an option for one of these objects to remain stationary and a greyed out (blued out) version of the moving object to appear only in its possible locations as it's being moved.

 

etc..

 

Here's an older post that touches on this.

 

 

 

[Walls show stud only for interior not including drywall for framing purposes]

Have you taken a look @ AEC>Framing>Wall Framer. I think it was available already in VW2013

This basically creates a 3d framing model from your walls that you can turn on/off in relevant Viewports.

[Why does Batch Convert not work from the Home Screen?]

Yes, these several of these master? operations (batch convert, VW preferences ...) are still only possible if a files is open. It's not a day breaker by any means but doesn't seem logical to me.

[Imported pdf and scaling issue]

Something very similar here - except

# of backups 3 - I find I only every go back to a backup rarely and then immediately following an issue.

# operations 30

 

It's important to highlight that's it's good to set the location is set to a custom location like you are showing @Pat Stanford.

This way a single folder in the sidebar etc. will quickly take you there where you can compare most recent backups with most recently saved file. This also makes cleanup much simpler - as well as adding one layer of separation between your working files & the backups in case of disaster 😿

 

[The events calender link on the forum must be broken?]

It should probably be removed completely - it looks like there's absolutely nothing happening in the VW world - which of course is wrong.

[Why does Batch Convert not work from the Home Screen?]

We need to open any drawing before Batch Convert is possible. It's like needing to a choose starter before being given the menu.

[Imported pdf and scaling issue]

I'm sure you've run undo already.

 

Usually when you scale it will scale only the selected object.

In your case the PDF probably wasn't selected and you pressed OK to scale the entire drawing.

 

If you do the same operation you will see the last used scale factor in the dialogue box. Invert this ( 1/x) and again scale the entire drawing and you should be good to go.

[Door insert issue 2D to 3D]

Very odd - is it the same behavior after a restart?

If you migrated your Workspace perhaps try with one of the defaults?

[Reasons for naming Viewports]

excellent @Christiaan thanks & good to have it included here in this thread.