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If all that's required is some holes in the NURBS surface, the Project tool is the right tool for the job.
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6 hours ago, Andy Broomell said:
The one thing I've noticed is that it always seems to be related to the viewport scale. If I have 10pt font, and a viewport scale of 1:48, when this bug occurs the text size is suddenly 480pt.
Interesting. I've seen numbers like that too.
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I have no idea how to file it as a bug since it's completely random.....
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Is anyone else having issues with Callout text sizes randomly changing in Annotations on Sheet Layers? It usually scales to some huge font size, taking over the page. At first I thought it was only callouts brought forward from older versions but now it seems to randomly happen to any callout.
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Hello,
I would like the Generate 2D from 3D command for automatically generating the 2D portion of a hybrid symbol to have the option to ignore nested Hybrid Symbols. Since these nested Hybrid Symbols already have 2d geometry, it shouldn't always be replaced by generated material.
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2 hours ago, VIRTUALENVIRONS said:
There are a few options to create this object, but it is a good opportunity to refresh "matched curves".
Very useful tutorial! I tried various ways to get the number of points to match myself, but I didn't know this one. Your video also reminded me I could use the Rebuild NURBS command to get the number of points to match.....
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4 hours ago, WhoCanDo said:
Yes, but I couldn't "Closed" it. The Close button would not stay ticked even though it was not greyed.
The loft created multiple Nurbs and grouped them. It did not merge them into one solid/surface as I was expecting.
It's the Create Solid checkbox that creates a solid object, not the Closed checkbox. Your curves also need to be going in the same direction.
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Are you able to share the file from your example?
Mark Doubleday's video on schematic views may be helpful to you -
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12 hours ago, WhoCanDo said:
With this and another, which is smaller so I can make a 5mm wall thickness, I wanted to subtract solids to make a tube, but it's not a solid, it's a group of Nurb surfaces.
When you lofted the two curves, was the Create Solid checkbox active? If not, it will solve your issues.
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It looks like part of your object (a symbol within a symbol) was not designed to be rotated in 3d. The plan view of one of the elements is out of sync with its 3d view. Note that all of the various 2d views within a symbol are user generated. If it's a stage lighting setup there are specific methods to present instruments hung on booms.
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Updating from Mac OS 14.4.1 to Mac OS 14.5 solved the issue.
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Solved here too. The tool problem and the wall problem. Updating my Mac to 14.5 solved my tool problem. Update 5 seems to solve the wall issue.
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Hello,
I just got notified and updated to Vectorworks 2024 Update 5. When I started up Vectorworks after the update none of the tools from the tool palettes work. I can select them, but they won't draw, navigate or work in the drawing (both new and existing). The menu commands work fine as do the contextual menus. Its like the tools system is down.
What's the recommended troubleshooting for this? I've done a restart etc.. Do I need to do a reinstall? Are others having this issue?
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8 hours ago, Benson Shaw said:
Draw a layer plane rectangle. Objects from Shapes. Creates 4 walls, but one corner is not joined.
I get the same result here - an unjoined corner. It's the same corner that would be open if you converted the rectangle to a NURBS curve.
Noting that Benson's signature says Update 4 and Tom's says Update 5. I'm using Update 4.1.
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Edit> I updated to Update 5 to test this and now none of my tools work, sigh 😔
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1 minute ago, Kevin McAllister said:
What OS and Vectorworks version are you using? It looks like a bug. I'm on a Mac (current versions of both) and don't see the same behaviour. The only difference I can see is you've dismissed the interactive scaling warning dialog (see attached).
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Actually if you change modes while the dragger is set to Re-position mode it happens for me too. Move it off reposition mode and it resets (graphic attached. reposition mode is the one with the arrow, move it to the other one). Definitely a bug.
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What OS and Vectorworks version are you using? It looks like a bug. I'm on a Mac (current versions of both) and don't see the same behaviour. The only difference I can see is you've dismissed the interactive scaling warning dialog (see attached).
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17 hours ago, EAlexander said:
I just make a dedicated layer and drop all my details on there as symbols. They appear around the drawing as needed, but I viewport them from a sperate independent layer where things never move. Since they are symbols, I can update them anywhere and they will globally update.
Also - you need to make a Wishlist request thread for this and let people vote on it if you want the devs to seriously look at it.
Longstanding wish - sheet layer viewports should be able to look at symbols as an option. @Matt Panzer it's come up again 😊. Vote here -
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I've done this sort of thing before with the deform tool. If you want to do a row of buildings, you'll probably need to do them individually. I used some common guidelines to do it, so I had a common origin and common target height. The guidelines were beyond the buildings.
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These are interesting. I played a bit with a set design in a theatre and AI Visualizations. The visualizer seems to think stage or theatre lighting means colours 😊
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If you want to test for weirdly scaled text or arrowheads, you could temporarily change the layer scale in a copy of the file (always do testing in a copy not the original).
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Ultimately the solution is this old wishlist item -
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It may well be related to this thread about a bug with symbol creation -
I know that creating a hanging position makes a symbol so it would be logical it would be affected. Was the hanging position you created originally away from the origin?
This bug was submitted and confirmed. I don't have a tracking number.
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So much good information here. I wonder if NV should make a tech tip on this! Or maybe one exists @JuanP?
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32 minutes ago, Andy Broomell said:
If you already have a chain dimension, you can right click on one of the dimensions and choose "Edit Dimension." Then in the pop-up window that looks like the OIP, you can type in a Note and have it affect only the dimension you right clicked on. This approach can also be used for Precision and other properties.
Oooooh, I just learned something. I needed it only ten minutes ago 😊
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What version of Vectorworks are you running and what operating system? It seems ok on Vectorworks 2024 Update 6 on a Mac.....
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