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wow, wow, wow Kevin. Thank you so much for all the typing, I will definitely give it a go. sally 🐵

okydoke Jim, will take a look. thank you all, I wish I could just 'knock up' shapes as quick. Bit of a VW laggard .. :o(

Love your answers but that doesn't help me modify it, have no idea how to do that...

Hi everyone, Am looking to draw a 3D garden shade sail as in the attached pic. I've tried all sorts of things and have now got myself in a pickle, so if you know how to do it, please explain in easy steps... The base triangle is 4200x4200x6000mm to start with then I want to pull up/down each side in 3D by a different amount so that when I view in isometric it looks amazing. Many thanks, sally. :-( Am still on VW2018.

I can wrap the text round but I cant make it hug the spherical surface, any extra tips?

Thank Kevin for your time and advise, I will take a look at your file now, pronto! I don't have Rhino am afraid, only VW. As long as I can create something for client to see how potentially engraved text would look on a spherical water feature I'm made up. You know, if it should all be capitals, or first letter uppercase, etc....spacing or so... Will keep you posted how I get along, how exciting.

Hi Markdd, Love the video! thank you for the link. I have got so far with the video, however my text needs to be wrapped all around the sphere then I can attach it to the sphere. You can see from my snapshot that the text goes way past the edges of the sphere. I need to be able to have the text (now nurbs curves) wrapped around the sphere and going into the sphere....Im not sure how I get the text to wrap the sphere. :o( Any ideas?

Hi teams, I am wanting to get some text engraved onto the curved surface of a water feature. So in vectorworks I should be able to apply text height and font types etc to show the client what it will look like in real life. So, scratching head on how I actually do that in Vectorworks. Am sure its really easy, any ideas? Many thanks, C10916

Yes, understand, you mean if that class or layer has a tick against it (in Navigation) you will see that class or layer regardless of its visibility.

aha.....I need to try this out....

I knew you were going to say that! ) VSS team said the same. Very difficult to replicate, until I find it. Then I have to have a little movie of it to send in. At least now I have confirmation of what SHOULD happen. Thanks Jim. ANYONE ELSE FINDING THE SAME PROBLEM in their VW?

I have many layers, many classes. If I draw a shed (for example) in a DESIGN LAYER called SHED, with a CLASS of TIMBER_OAK and I turn off the LAYER called SHED (make invisible), will the class also become visible? In other words do layers override classes? Many thanks in advance for your help.

Hi Jim, I have just added two new classes A and B. Along side my drawing I created a box in class A and another in Class B. Went back to my viewport, expanded the crop to accommodate for the two boxes. They are not there! (YES)... Now I got into OIP for the viewport and click on CLASSES and the new classes A, B are invisible. (SORTED)! But that still don't explain why my file was different from March to now.... You mentioned Saved views, which I don't tend to use much... colleague did tell me to create a saved view just before I export to pdf, then when I go back into VW I can get the saved view back if classes/layers have changed. Seems a bit of a faff surely to secure what you are just about to pdf. As we say in the UK, "someone is pulling my vw plonker". What's going on Jim, what am I to do.

Having just spoken to a colleague on the phone about this problem and they said the following, is this correct? All new classes and layers created since a sheet layer viewport is initially created are AUTOMATICALLY added to ALL existing VIEWPORTS with a setting of VISIBLE as default? If this is so, then that might explain why the additional information was found in the viewport. As since March I have been in the file and added additional information on new classes and layers. MY CONCERN is that when I set a VIEWPORTS' Class and Layer visibilities that they stay with the Viewport until 'I' change them, or is that a 'dippy' thing to think? Thanks everso!

After much frustration I am seeking advise...I am tormented by this happening (yes, yes I know its just been Halloween and all that). For a while now I have noticed that when I go into a VW drawing file that sheet layer viewports often DO NOT HOLD their class/layer visibilities. I have attached 2 examples of where I have completed a sheet layer, exported to pdf and filed away on my computer. Then in the next weeks/months often I go back to the drawing I created in VW sheet layer and it does not look quite the same. I have in no way or wanted to alter the visibilities of the viewport as it was defined back in March. Then I check out the pdf I created (in March) and yes indeed the viewport now has other class/layer visibilities changed. Frustrated VW user, in the rain, in England.....Help pls!