Tom Klaber

This is closer to the set up I guess we will need to have. Right now - we have a series of "Material_Wall Component_XXX" classes to control the look of the component - we must have close to 20. It only takes one component to be on the wrong class - or one class to be on when it should be off - for the whole thing to come crashing down. I still thing a toggle switch is a great and easy idea. Same reason we have B+W Only - certainly possible to do without it - but sometimes - just easier to toggle it. Now I just have to find the time to remake all 48 standard wall styles we have in our office library....

It would be great if Data Tags were their own resource type as to get them out of the catch-all that is Symbols.

I guess I am not totally following. I just want an easy way to flip between 2 different views - one with the components on - and one were I see the wall poche'd and displaying the class attributes that the wall is in. How do materials help?

Amazing! Thank you!

I really do not like the hierarchal display - I find that it makes things harder to find. I would much rather just scroll a single list - then have the classes nested. I am not sure why - but it seems that I can only turn off the nesting in the main class window - all class dropdowns are displayed as nested. I need a way to turn this off everywhere.

Thanks. Correct - Plans. I do not want to lose the detail with doors and windows. I just want the ability to turn off wall components in particular scenarios without changing other graphic elements.

We need a button that turns off wall components in viewports. This system of turning all component classes off - as the only way causes issues - as there are times when other objects share that material class. A simple checkbox next to "B+W Only" - would be great - turn it on - show wall components - turn it off - default to the wall overall graphic.

Yes. Saved sets are OK - I wish it would not ask me EVERYTIME I exported anything if I wanted to save it as a set - but it does not solve the fundamental issue of long term project organization - its like a little time saver at the very last step - a seat warmer in a jalopy.

I do not know if you would be willing to share a dummy file of a dog house or something that shows how you do this - I have never been able to understand how to get the investment back when trying implement materials - and so am so curious to see how you set it up and how you are extracting that information back out.

Getting a little over my skis here - but what would be really cool is to have connected sister sheets - or mirrored sheets where the content is the same - so you could have Site Plan in 2 different collections - maybe with different sheet number as that set requires - but still make sure the content is the same. We would have a Construction Set, Building Set, DOB Set, LPC Set - some of the pages between those sets would be identical - some would not.

Not sure what the difference between a drawer and folder is - but I like this. If a sheet can only live in one drawer only - then we would need the ability to have each drawers have independent numbering - where our construction set and our filing set each have their own A-100 with different sets of notes.

Went to the Instagram page - do not see any video about new features. Is it the Auto Hybrid video?

It was even on Instagram as one of the marquee features of the SP. Just tested - seems to be solved. 👋

.... Yup - the age old 'Vectorwork's Dilemma" = Odds of crash TIMES time lost since last backup PLUS time to open backup files and determine was lost PLUS time to resave and relink reference DIVIDED BY the amount of time you think it will take Vectorworks to finish determining that the paint-bucket polygon tool can not draw a polygon around the entire working space....

That is great news. I literally just spent the last 10 minutes undoing everything because I forgot about this.