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Chris Rogers

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  1. Importing as 2D only worked for this scenario....although I am still surprised there isn't the option of flattening the geometry. Thank you for the help.
  2. I tried on both a new sheet layer and on a new design layer. On the design layer, this put all the building lines in a mass no where near the model. On the sheet layer, all the lines are now arranged in a wreath around the model. A screen shot of the offending lines is attached. The red jagged line should be the building perimeters. They look correct when viewed in plan.
  3. I have imported a survey where the geometry is a mix of lines and shapes drawn in 2D and 3D. Some of the site geometry is drawn in 3D and some is a 2D representation. To make it worse, the building outlines appear to be 2D when viewed in plan, but if you rotate the model around, the lines connect at one end to a point on the layer plane but the other end connect to a point 700' up the Z axis. So a 20' long wall looks correct in plan view, but is several hundred feet long. How do I flatten the geometry so all the end points on lines keep their X and Y value, but reduce the Z value to 0 so I can have a 2D file as a starting point for the project I am working on? My efforts at searching the archive turned up nothing. File is attached for grins. The layer in questions is called J Clyde Topo. 1452_Signature_2017-04-12.vwx
  4. DPI settings are still on 300, where they have been all along. I don't think there is an image in the floor plan. I did notice an odd thing: I have a bunch of duplicate classes that won't purge that all begin with NNA#2_XXXX (Where XXXX is the name of the the class I was using elsewhere in the document.) It doesn't offer these as empty classes for purging. I didn't create them, and I don't know why they are in my file.
  5. I have a problem printing and exporting to pdf that I suspect might be related to file size. I have a drawing set that when exporting to pdf, the floor plan sheet crashes the export process. (Preview on Mac is actually the program that crashes). The entire drawing set as a pdf (excluding the floor plan sheet) comes to 2.4Meg. The floorplan sheet alone comes to 5.3Meg. The export to pdf sequence manages to get the sheet created in preview most of the way, but then preview crashes before completing the process. If I try to send the sheet straight to the printer, the results are hit and miss.But I really need output to be pdf. Any ideas?
  6. It turned out my problem wasn't font related, but corrupted viewports (perhaps multiple layers of referencing was to blame.) To find my issue, I created a new drawing and began importing the layers (including objects) into this new drawing one at a time. I imported a layer that caused the new drawing to also crash, so I went back to the old drawing and deleted that layer (the only thing on that layer was viewports I was using to pull reference lines). Old file worked fine again. Thanks to everyone for their help.
  7. Thanks to all who are helping me learn this tool set. I figured out how to do the extension of multiple lines to a single border, and Mike graciously sent me a quick video showing me how to do the stretch functions. Is it possible to extend multiple lines at the same time and have them intersect multiple boundaries, meaning each line stops at the first selected object it comes to?
  8. I can't get the 2D reshape to tool to act as described. I will try again today.
  9. My sheets are sorted by sheet number, but I need to make P1.0 come before E1.0. I am on 2011, so I see I need to update my profile.
  10. I have searched the forum, but can't find where anyone asked this question yet. I'm probably asking it wrong. How can I get the sheet layers in the drop down and the navigation popup to stack in the same order that they are in the sheet set, which is not alphabetically since I have Arch cover sheet, civil and landscape, arch, SMFPE, Audio, etc.? Thanks for the input.
  11. I have been doing a lot of Interior Elevations of traditional rooms this week and quickly came to the realization that VW needs a tool that operates like the stretch command in Autocad. I frequently have an elevation drawing of a wood panel that needs to be stretched a couple of inches one direction or the other. My current workflow is to move the set of lines at one end, then manually pick the handles on each of the dozens of lines and move them to a new endpoint. In autoCAD I simply windowed around the grips I wanted to move and moved them all in unison....or I used the extend command, selected a boundary or series of boundaries, the using the fence command, strike a line across the ends of all the lines to be extended and done. VW is several times slower for this type of work, but I assume it is because I don't know the trick yet.
  12. I have a project that worked fine up through last Wednesday. Then (because the computer knew a client was on the way to our office) printing and exporting to pdf functions all quit working. I installed SP3, but the problem is still there. I have no way to get my project out of the computer. I thought perhaps it may be file size related, so I purged the drawing, but that didn't help (and the drawing didn't really get any smaller at 11.7M) The funny thing is, an earlier version of the file still works correctly, although it is only slightly smaller at 11.6M. Help! This same client is still waiting on Wednesday's drawings!
  13. We are looking into purchasing a Leica D5 or D8 laser measuring tool for field measuring building and sites. The D8 will allow info from the laser to go into autocad. Does anyone know how VW would respond to the raw info from the tool?
  14. Now that we are running 2011, is there any new thought on the way phasing is managed, or is the consensus still to use Layers to do it as per the discussion above?
  15. I just read the rest of the comments, and it sounds like there are at least 2 ways to do what I am after. I will have to delve into this further when I have the time to figure it out. Thanks for the input.
  16. A simple example: I design home cinemas. The cad files we get from the manufacturers of the projectors have very detailed front, rear, side, etc drawings that we like to have show up on drawing plans, RCP, room sections, interior elevations, etc. I have always just built a simple box 3D and pasted the appropriate cad linework into the other views. The problem comes as we detail the project, the projector moves in space, but the overlay cad linework doesn't always get coordinated. It seems like BIM would be the perfect tool for allowing various views of objects to be overlayed on the 3D model, then have a control to switch the object view back and forth between 3D and the various 2D choices.
  17. That part all worked. Can I have 6 different 2D objects, 1 per side? When I tried to draw the 2nd one on the right side of the 3D model, it changed the plan view 2D symbol.
  18. I have created a 3D symbol and am trying to add a 2D symbol to it and am having problems getting it to behave the way I want it to. I have built a simple 3D model of a projector but I would like to add a technical drawing for 2D views. I was able to get the 2D plan view to work, but I was hoping to also have a different 2D front elevation and side elevation display when the corresponding views are selected. Is this possible?
  19. I would love to able to type 4:12 into the angle box for lines and rectangles to speed up detailing roofs and such.
  20. Thank you for the information. I was able to cut the section using the software. I put the viewport generated on the sheet where it needs to live and using viewport annotation was able to complete the wall section at 3/4"=1'-0". I them duplicated the viewport and changed the scale to 1 1/2"=1'-0". In AutoCad I would have drawn the section in model space then used viewports to filter layers (Classes) of notes and dimensions, which meant only having to redraw the linework once if the construction or materials changed. With the technique I am using in VW, I am going to have to redraw the section and the detail if the linework needs to change. Is there a way to make one viewport reference another so the additional annotation on the larger scale drawings is the only thing in the viewport that is annotated there?
  21. So I can use the model to cut a building section, then draw on top of it by annotating the wall section viewport, then make a larger scale viewport of that with more detail?
  22. I am trying to figure out the best workflow for building sections, wall sections, and section details to avoid drawing the same thing over and over at different scales. I have looked at the Alexandria Flats sample project, but can't figure it out. Can I have the software cut the wall section, the draw on top of the section in the viewport to add detail and notes at 3/4"=1'-0", then somehow reference that viewport into another viewport on a different sheet and add additional detail at 1 1/2"=1'-0"? What is the best way to handle not drawing something twice? I am running 2010 on a mac
  23. I can't seem to figure out how to make 3 different walls come together to a single point in a T configuration and clean up correctly. I can use the L shaped cleanup to make the first two clean up, but the 3rd wall never cleans up correctly.
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