J. Wallace

Gabe I have noticed a huge difference in lag time based on the complexity of the 2d symbol. The biggest effect seems to come with the colour fill, if its a gradient then it seems to push resources. The image I attached shows three of my symbols the top being resource hungry the bottom being the least. I'm surprised that this is also seen when using the align leader lines tool. Also watch the sketch outline settings, these add more complexity.

Yes thank you very much Jim... a well deserved promotion.

Firewall turned off I don't get any notification. When I changed the firewall settings with VW already open I get the same message within a few seconds.

I have the same behaviour with 2016 on my computer even though it's checked in the Firewall settings.

Did you select the polygons before asking it to convert 2D poly to 3D contours?

I agree with all the items on your list Jim. Especially the video and image embedding. I also think a 'like' button similar to FB would be interesting. I visit this forum daily and look forward to the diverse topics and challenges. It's a great resource that could be improved with a few tweaks.

Great idea Benson...thanks for that.

When you run publish you get a menu showing either colour or B&w. Probably a good idea to place a signature on your profile that shows your operating system and version of VW.

Thanks Tim That was super helpful...

A question about nodes...how does one share a nodes made in one file with other files. Doesn't look like it shows up in the resource browser?

Thanks Hippocode... The node now functions which is great. How is it best to share this with different files I work on? I don't see anything in the resource pallet which would make this easy to access...Thanks

Thanks Hippocode That is most likely the issue...can you direct me to the un-install instructions?

Hi Marissa Here's a screen shot of the full error.

Tried that Jim. I get an error...

Thanks Mark That's very nice of you...I'm not sure what to do with this now as I'm new to Marionette. I guess that will get sorted out. Thank you again.

Question regarding Marionette. I switch between meters and Ft/Inches units often and would love to have a script for this. Is it possible for marionette to do this?

Jim I started off with a fresh document without any template. Imported layers and classes as per instructions from the original file Copy and pasted all my work over and put things into their proper layers. I still have this issue.

Thanks for your help Jim. This forum is fantastic and a huge help... I applaud VW for supporting this group and yourself for your excellent work

Thank Jim. No luckily no sheet layer that I can't easily replicate. I used your suggested method and it looks like we are good to go...Can you tell me when a new version is released do we need to update the template that was previously used?

I forgot to ask Jim. I'm 50% into the project with this template, are there any suggestions as to how I might salvage this without starting over.

Hi Jim You are quite right, in a blank document all seems to be fine. I'm using a template from 2015 which I guess is causing the issue. Time to create a new one.

Since the second VW service pack came out I've been using 2016 with little trouble. Today I tried to group together two identical planting and make them one. When I do this all the plants disappear and I get a polygon formed far from the original location. Not seen this before? The original plants were placed using the poly edged spacing mode and resulted in two plant groups.

Set the stake mode to include as site model data. Just enter a value in the Z field of the Object info pallet. That should do the trick.

I would love to see some drainage/stormwater management/rainwater harvesting tools.

Taavilooke I use layers to show various concepts. Using view ports in a sheet layer makes it easy to display these different approaches.