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No option, it just handled it on its own. Are you using special characters? '_' '~' or spaces to control position? I created folders out of order named 1,2,a,b,c,d, and the numerically named folders are listed first, in numerical order and the alpha ones in alphabetical order, either in list view or thumbnail. Again, though I have listed the names in sorted order, I did not create them that way. Not sure why you have this issue now. Is it the same on all machines you have tried? I don't see anywhere to change this option. May be time to contact NV tech support.

I just tested, both favorites and symbol folders sort alphabetically for me just fine in 2010, in list or thumbnail view. no change between versions.

Thanks for looking into this Robert. It is a constant refrain from the users in my office. Cheers, Ion

Robert, I don't recall whether it was prior to VW2008 or at VW2008, I lost the ability to set the preference to full break with caps for doors and windows. Is there a way to enter the preference for that behavior using this file? Thanks, Ion I mean, pre-edit the parameters so that all new doors and windows have a cap upon insertion as the default, as opposed to the full break with no cap that is the default....

michaelk, try your example lining the structural or finish elements up. I realize that the example Ken provided had one wall slightly offset, but the situation is more likely to be aligned. That situation doesn't work in any configuration I can find. Cheers, Ion

As far as I know, 3 walls is the limit to a successful join. I am not pleased with this and have submitted several wall join conditions that are difficult or impossible to bugsubmit@nemetschek.net with the hopes of expanding this tool. I think that it is very difficult to imagine all the way we bring walls together and examples are the only way to get this fixed to our satisfaction. Wish I had better news regarding your joining issue, Ion

Down and dirty is to take the 'guideline' and send it to the back or bring the walls to the front. the object object snap will still work through the wall. should work the same 2008-2010 and before as well. Cheers, Ion

Whether it was worth the trouble or not, I used the stair tool to do this, and simply used Robert Anderson's method of using additional platforms for the winding stairs. HTH, Ion

I could be way off base (wouldn't be the first time), but I read this as wanting to be able to constrain the area of a rectangle, but be reshape the rectangle by entering a value for a length or width and having the other update to maintain the same area. For example, draw a rectangle 10 feet to a side. Performa an action to constrain the area to 100 square feet. Then be able to change the width to 5 feet and the constraint updates the length to 20 feet to maintain the area of 100 square feet. I have often wanted this tool, so I am curious if there is a way to do this I am unaware of. HTH, ion

In the Help, under "Placing Keynotes" #3. The legend is specific to a layer, the callouts can be on multiple layers, but can reference the same legend. Doesn't look like you can do this the way you have it set up if I read it correctly. Is it possible to do the same setup as a collection of Design layers? HTH, Ion

Well the video on Notes Manager Shows the keynotes being sent to two different legends, but even watching twice I couldn't see how it was accomplished. It appears that there were already legends in the sheet to send the keynotes to. ion

I had this very issue crop up this week. By any chance do you have a worksheet in this document? My schedule sheet exhibited this exact behavior. I had four worksheets, a couple general note objects, details etceteras. I was about to recreate the document, when I remembered seeing this problem long ago. So I started deleting worksheets and choosing print and looking at the preview. The issue was in my material key. I recreated that one worksheet and the document was happy again. as always, your mileage may vary, Ion

Jeremy, A couple thoughts about the Fit Walls to Roof command. First it fits the selected wall with any intersecting geometry on the indicated layer. In other words you don't select what you want it to fit to, you select the wall and it fits to what is on another layer. Second it works across layers best, i.e. the wall is on one layer and the geometry is on another. You can theoretically select the layer your wall and geometry coexist on, but in practice it gives inconsistent results. I do one of two things in your situation, I make a temporary layer with the same Z height and move or duplicate the geometry I want to use to shape the wall (Again anything 3D works) to that temporary layer, select the wall and choose FWtR and indicate the layer I want the top or bottom to fit to and then reassemble if need requires. The command is very literal so be sure than your geometry is completely over your wall. Wes' suggestion is a good one as well, especially in 2010, as the improved 3D snapping makes it much easier to be accurate. HTH, ion

Hi Jeremy, If instead of doing a solid subtraction on the wall, use the 3D geometry you used along with the Fit to Roof command in the AEC menu. The difference is that now the wall remains a wall. If you do that, I believe that VW will no longer show the break. Unless you have another reason to use separate walls this would allow you to slope the wall at the stairs and insert the doorway to the left of the stairs in the view you showed. You may want to do a search on this board or the help system about the Fit to Roof command, you will find that it has far outgrown its limited sounding name. HTH, Ion

The other thing the axis line determines is the edge angle on a square cut miter. Downslope of the axis line the edges are square, upslope they are vertical. Cheers, Ion

Is there any chance you have Layer Colors on? Document Preferences > Display > Layer Colors

Taliho, The preference in 2008 and earlier for the infinite extension lines from 2D Loci points was removed. That said, the temporary extension lines Kevin references do work very well. Did you bring forward your 2008 workspace to 2009? if so you will need to add in the standard libraries to the Resource Browser. You should be able to test this out by temporarily switching workspaces to a default workspace (Design, Architect....) HTH, ion

Hi Matt, I think I understood what you were after. To section the display piece, I entered the section then the extrude to get back to the original polyline you extruded. I decomposed that, and added the miter lines and then recomposed to get four polylines that represented the four sides with meeting mitered corners. I exited the extrude and then ungrouped the extrude giving me four extrudes representing the four sides. I exited the section then option-clicked the section three times to give me four copies. Then entering each of the sections, I simply deleted three of the extrudes from each of those extrudes, so that I had four sections each with a separate wall. To put in the base, I used the extract curves command to get a path that went around the base. I drew a quick profile of the base that I wanted, then used the extrude along path command to wrap it around the display piece. After running the command, one has to edit the profile so that it wraps correctly. that is trial and error, but it is usually fairly simple. HTH, Ion

I found the same problem as you, but I found two things, that one if I simply converted the extrude to a nurbs object (Convert....) it worked as expected. The only way I got the extrude to work is to give the extrude some depth, I used 1mm. hope one of those options will work for you Cheers, Ion

Double click on the snap to grid. In the grid options uncheck Print grid. that reason they show up on some and not others is likely a matter of layer scale. HTH, ion

It does fit you well doesn't it? I tried to reach out, you thoroughly rejected it in your private messages. cheers....

Ben, I'll leave the cloak of anonymity. I dislike your style of communication about your choice of computing platform. And because of that alone I rated you one star. Had I been able I would have rated you negatively. If you simply said what is good about your choice, it would be enough. To go through the amount of vitriolic detail you did in the Mac v PC thread caused me to thoroughly dislike of your communication methods. And I do mean your communication methods. To be honest I have no idea who you are, what your expertise in VW is, whether you and I like the same pursuits outside of the CAD world, I only know you as the grumpy PC guy. So I if I do read your posts, it is with with that attitude, I assume you are going to say nothing of value to the overall conversation just some catty remark about Macs or Mac users. If you actually said something valuable I would either miss it because I am exhausted by your past rants, or would question its validity because of how I see you. I don't care what platform you are tearing down, I would dislike it. There is enough hatred, anger and violence in this world that I don't need it to infect a place I come to to look for answers and to hopefully provide a few myself. There is enough good and bad for either platform. Both sides have their electric-koolaid makers and consumers. There is room for both sides to jab back and forth, but no reason to be more than humorous. I don't care whether you use a Mac, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7RC, Ubuntu, Red Hat, an Amiga. Hats off to you if you find a platform that works well for you, and a manufacturer that makes a product that stands up to use, performs the way you want and deals with the software and peripherals you want to use and yes, gives you a good return on your investment. That isn't easy to do regardless of platform. In the end if we like the platform we use, we of course will recommend it to others. If someone asks me I will recommend a Mac and conversely you would recommend a PC. The difference as I see it is I would hope that my approach would be to tell the strengths of my platform and yours appears to be telling the weaknesses of the other. In the end, there is no clear winner. Each platform has its strengths and each has their idiosyncrasies. Each platform has its supporters and detractors. I extend an virtual olive branch in hopes that this can be put behind us. I would rather know Ben Rudgers, not some grumpy PC guy. I'd like to know what he uses VW for, how good he is at using it, maybe even try to answer a question or two he might have, or have him help me out of a sticky situation. We'll have to agree to disagree on computing platforms of course, because it is readily apparent that neither of us will change. Sincerely, Ion Webster

It is essentially one more layer of the above. So the duplication you saw in the Application and User folders hits tertiary level and beyond now. If you have a Workgroup folder set in your preferences, VW will look there, the Application folder and the User folder for content. The nice thing about the workgroup folders is that it allows a group (as long as the folder location is available to all users, like a server share) to share the same set of favorites, plugins, etc. So it allows you to set up a set for generic office resources and/or can make a set that is specific to a type of project, or even an individual project. You can have multiples, so say a workgroup folder that is office-wide, a set of resources specific to a type of project and a set of resources specific to projects you are currently working on active simultaneously. I looked into setting up this for our office, but got lazy after getting Apple Remote Desktop, because I can simply push the information I desire people to have directly into their User folder. HTH, Ion

Would it be possible to use a Design Layer Viewports for your kitchen layout, and then use Class overrides to assign different textures in the individual units? HTH, Ion

If I follow your question, it was the same for 2008. VW looks in the User>App Support folder first for content, workspaces, library items, favorites etc. It is then added to the Default content is in the Application folder. This allows you to customize the VW installation, and very nicely maintain your custom information when updating etc. Other than folders the information is not duplicated. It is a way to organize user data. HTH, Ion