J. Wallace

Thought folks might like to see this as there has been some discussion on the new iMac Pro lately.

@JohnAthaydeyou might want to check out this post...

Have a great holiday season. Thank you for all participating in this excellent forum, it's been a game changer for me.

I'm having issue with the OIP pallet today, does not display the highlighted item unless you select File>save.

Totally agree, colours within the colour palette are another small hard to distinguish item.

Thank you @zoomer and @Benson Shawfor those comments. I found the culprit. Some how a pad was hidden within another pad which seemed to cause the crash. You can see I'm getting a few pads. It would sure be nice if there was a way of automating an offset when snapping in a site modifier class so that no pads would ever overlap or touch. I usually draw a polyline>offset the shape 1mm>create objects from shape>site modifier. Still seem to get conflicts occurring.

I have just started using VW 2018 landmark and noticed that when site modifiers conflict (touching) that I get VW crashing instead of the usual modifier conflict count in the OIP. Anyone else finding this?

Double ouch if your looking at this with Canadian dollars... $6,300

Totally agree, I often need to flip between feet/inches and meters. Anything to improve this would be great.

Haven't run into this before, but on a current project it would be great to have control over the opacity or depth of the greyed out layers or classes. The attached image is an example of how I would like to further reduce the visibility of some existing site features such as fencing while still having them there for reference.

I find the same thing @domer1322, raising the elevation is the work around that I use. Generally I find texture beds tricky.

You might find what your after at the bottom of this help page. http://app-help.vectorworks.net/2017/eng/index.htm#t=VW2017_Guide%2FSiteModel1%2FCreating_a_Spoil_Pile_Area.htm&rhsearch=cut and fill&rhhlterm=cut and fill&rhsyns=

Thanks very much @Art V...I'll check those out. Thanks again everyone!

Thanks very much @Benson Shawfor your GIS insight. I think I'll download the QGIS and work on learning this. I can see drone data being invaluable for some of my future projects. Fascinating work. Thanks again.

Thank you very much @Art V, your file worked really well. Imported with any issue albeit some distance from 0,0 as you mentioned. I really appreciate the effort you took Art and it is a huge improvement over the low res. image I was sent yesterday which has a pixel area of 10cmx10cm. Thanks again Art and everyone for their comments/advice.

HI Art Here are those other files you spoke about...The new .tiff file has a few minutes left to upload. Thanks very much for your help...this is a real education. https://www.dropbox.com/s/m8qutidkv7q650w/Jaan_Mill Bay_transparent_mosaic_group1.tfw?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/5kxa8gkeqlj2wyk/Jaan_Mill Bay_transparent_mosaic_group1.prj?dl=0

Thanks @Art...I'm not sure I can convert or do much with the image, I put it on drop box but I don't have anyway of opening this as I don't have any GIS software, it is one of those software's I can see diving into soon. I did get some tiled images but fitting these together might be a challenge. Thanks for the great advice Art I'm hoping the lower res image will help. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0f1n08k09jrd0jb/Jaan_MillBay2_transparent_mosaic_group1.tif?dl=0

Thanks @Benson ShawI was a little nervous diving into this, spending $1250 and not be entirely sure of the results. So far I'm impressed with the data I was provided and the mesh (along with textures) is pretty cool. It's a shame that the mesh can't be effectively integrated into the site model. I have aligned it pretty close onto the model with the thought of tracing in all the infrastructure, roads, fencing, buildings (will be massing models). Tomorrow I should have a .tiff image I can import, the drone operator sent me a 560mb tiff image that I can't import or open in any of my software. Tomorrow I can a lower resolution version, failing that the mesh will guide me. I'll keep you posted. ps the model is around 34 acres quite a bit bigger than my last one

Just to let everyone know I started from scratch in VW 2017 and it now works. No idea why this caused an issue. Interesting thing I did discover was that if you scale a site model you lose your 2d contours but the 3d works just fine.

When I edit the source data I see the tags? ps image shown is using VW 2018

I got similar results with VW 2018

Hi I'm having a bit of a challenge with a site model which I've created from a shape file which generates 3d polys. The model works well in 3d but I don't get any labels on my 2d contours? Before creating the site model I double checked the 3d polygons and they have a z value.

Good idea Dave. This must be a 2018 feature, I'm still using 2017 until the sp2 comes out. I might try it out for fun. Thanks

Added some texture to the mesh and I'm really impress. A shame this can't be integrated to the site model.

Yes but apparently the operator had to make some adjustments to the contour map and mesh due to the water.