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OMG - your comment makes me worried. I've always opened the database editor which then allows you to edit the job specific 'copy' in the file, then when i get the message saying do you want to update the database I select NO. Are you saying if you selected yes, it would update the specification in every file you the opened which used it? I am now questioning every life decision I have ever made!

I'm not sure we do that exactley. we have: 1. Library of VW files with seperate details in. 2. We reference into a document just for laying out of the details we need. Reference is specifically set to not update automatically so that once a document goes out to tender the details do not change. Prior to tender you can easily double clikc the reference detail and open up the source document to edit it if needed and you know you are working on the exact detail you want. 3. Our library of details can be continually improved with no rist of accidentially updating soemthing in an older file, or using old details in new projects. Problem is that the layout which used to a take a few hours, is now taking days - hense why i am trying to determine root of problem. I remembered that we used to occasionally have to select 'unified' view to align all layers to the same location. Having spent all day on this, i am now wondering if the problem si that int he 2025 version of this file they are no longer int he same location. So I dugout our files from 2022 archived external drive (always keep an external backup) and converted this file to 2025. It displays exactley like I want. Screenshot of design layers showing stacked on top of each other and aligned, so details can easily be odered in a logical manner (I have just drawn shapes ratehr than reference in details): and sheet layer which just is made up of 4 viewports for each scale. . Since this works as a 2025 version is this a unified view problem?

We do use the notes database - we have tewo setup in the workgroup folders which everyone links to. One is set up fro Specifications, the other for call outs. For the one which we use for specifications it is pretty straight forward and not too bad. It woudl be good if you could set this up a bit better in terns of been able to format it ie/select number options. However, for specifications which a very simialr between projects we find it works pretty well. Its no good at all for Specificatiosn which under go significant editing between projects. The one we use for call outs is more difficult with most staff totally ignoring it. The problem i ahve is that it is clitchy int he way you add and then use the notes.

Thanks jonathan - I will see how far we got with resolving this issue.

We have always used the unified view option when laying out our details sheets. ie/we have multiple design layers with different scales. The details are imported onto these layers and we can see the whole sheet by selecting the unified view, layer snap/grey others. This is perfect as it allows all layers to align into the correct spot so you see all at the same time. i am unable to find this option? I can't seem to see the icon or the text description under any view menu options.

I can't remember if this sued to work. However, I just tried to import a sheet layer from one file into another using create new, then going to import, selecting a file. Once the file is selected the sheet Number comes populates the menu, but the sheet name/description does not. No problem i manually opened the file and checked which sheets I needed. Then went back and selected them. Although the sheet numebr and name imported into the bottom of the list, nothing was on those sheets. No titleblock, text or any View pors or referenced items. Shoudl this be working?

It’s not going well. I see that there are document preferences which I have set. All plants have use dropshadow selected: This is how they appear – only one group of symbols has it applied. This is the setting for one of the plants which is not displaying the drop shadow The one which is showing the drop shadow doesn’t even seem to be set to have any one: Am I missing something totally obvious?

I noticed in one of the tutorials in Vectorworks University that it states the new powerful change 'to allow you to activly select the location of your datasmith link' and then suggests you locate it with the rest of your project files - what is the benefit of this. In fact what is the impact of saving this link in another location?

Hi all, I'm going abck to this thread and reviving it. We have been utilising imagge propos in VW with the crossed plane appraoch. Its not a great look in twinmotion but at the moment we are finding that been able to produce reasonable renders in a quick time frame is required. Is there a way to substitute selected plants only in twinmotion and have this information saved so that the next time the VW file is refreshed usingt the direct link the information is saved? If so does anyone ahve a link to some tutorials which explain this. In the past we have found when doing this the information is not saved and the sub has to be replaced each time the refresh is done.

I was wondering if there has been any progress in replacing of VW trees and textures in Twinmotion and having them saved and not over ridden by a Vectorworks refresh using the datasmith link? If this is still a problem what are peoples work around. We are trying to limit the items which we have to replace in Twinmotion by utilising the Vectoworks 3D symbols as mucha s possible, but to get the best presentation it looks like we will always have to repalce some and it is going to be too time consuming to ahve to do this each time it is synced.

I am having a simialr problem - it isn't the naming as I checked this. The layer name comes into the file, but the layer is blank, I have checked class visibility, and checked it hasn't improrted to another area of the layer by selecting fit to objects. Any hints on hwo it could be going wrong? I am using 2024 service pack 7.

I get the message you have int he screenshot and then I rpess OK - I am using the view of model showing in the window and then it opens small. The vectorworks window is a normal screen size - I am not using multiview.

In a lot fo the examples, your Ai visualiser widows are ncie and large - my window is tiny, and its so hard to see. when is elect upscale, it gets larger but seems to apply the prompt to the new larger image - ie/the original image is the one it did at the smaller size.

I tried the ai visualizer today and it worked well for the first few goes. But then the image semmed to get stuck and would not refresh to the VW before image, it just seemed to keep on applying the prompt to the previously generated image, not a new VW image. ie/the original image is the previous ai generated image, even when I click the refresh VW image button. What am i missing?

We are on windows and I use the menu option 'check for updates' which i assume launches the updated application.