["Custom" greyed out in Corner Window plug-in]

Hi. Yeah I am wondering the same thing. I have a horizontal division in the rest of the windows in the project I am working on but how do you have the same detail on a corner window if the custom is greyed out?

[unwanted text offsetting]

Hi. VW2015. I am having a problem when I am placing text. I choose the text tool and when I want to place it in the centre of, for example, a rectangle when I click at that spot the text tool does not place it at centre but rather slightly off of where I want it. Is this a bug? Thanks

[vectorworks to sketchup]

not sure what you are talking about but I want to use my model in sketchup because it is much easier to quickly model the neighboring houses for a shadow study as well as possibly using the google earth feature.

[vectorworks to sketchup]

Hi,

I was wondering what the best method would be to export a 3d model of a house out of vectorworks to sketchup. We need to do some quick shadow studies for a house and its neighbors and sketchup works well for this. thanks in advance.

[dividing transoms]

Is there a way to divide a transom over a door with a vertical mullion. I have a transom over a sliding door that I would like divided into two lites. Thanks.

[angled wall ends]

thanks guys- it was a close race and watch out for the snakes.

[angled wall ends]

Hi,

Is there a way to have the end of a capped wall angled? thanks.

[rendering a sketch]

OK, I had a saved view of a house model that I was rendering in final quality renderworks. I downloaded 11.5 and go to the same saved view which renders in final quality mode. I then choose sketch render mode and it turns into a sketched wireframe. how do I get from a sketched wireframe back to a sketched rendered model complete with textures, shadows, color, etc...? Thanks for your help.

[Vectorworks has unexpectadly quit...]

I ran disk utility and am still getting the message.

[Vectorworks has unexpectadly quit...]

I am using 10.2.8.

[Vectorworks has unexpectadly quit...]

... this is the message I get after I have already voluntatily quit vectorworks 11.0.1. has anybody else had this, it is kind of freaking me out.

[cutting a hole in a DTM]

how do I cut a hole in a DTM for a house foundation- can it be treated as a 3d solid subtraction?

[Symbols cutting through bottom of walls?]

I am drawing a garage where I have a wood frame wall on top of a concrete foundation wall. The bottoms of the overhead door and man door need to be below the bottom of the wood wall. I have inserted these symbols correctly but when I render the building the bottom of the wood wall still shows even though the doors are cutting through it. How do I get rid of that line? - If anybody wants to help I can email them a image to illustrate what I mean. Thanks.

[Symbols cutting through bottom of walls?]

Peter,

I have 'lowered' or created a buck in the concrete wall where the door occurs and have inserted the door in the wood wall with the bottom of the door being lower than the bottom of the wall. The problem is the symbol does not completely cut-out the bottom of the wood wall and this shows up in the perspective rendering.I can send you the image if you like. Thanks.

[Print to file?]

phdarch,

I print to file on a regular basis. My print company gave me a driver for their plotter which I can select in my chooser in Mac OS9. The print quality is exact and very good. The only problem is I have to revert from OS10 to 9 every time I need to print but this is due to the plotter not having an OS10 driver yet.

[shadow study]

Mike,

Thanks for your reply. So you mean the 'sun's' rays run parallel above and below where the sun object is actually shown?

[shadow study]

I need to do a shadow study for a residential project showing shadows at different times on different days of the year. I am using the 'set sun position' command but am having a difficult time understanding the 'elevation' result. How does the degree number given correspond to the sun's height (or z dimension) in the drawing assuming my ground plane is at 0'-0"? When I use the command the sun seems to be pointing the right way in plan view but seems to be sitting on the ground in elevation. Can somebody give me some pointers on how this works- the manual does'nt say much. Thanks.

[Render all sides of an extruded object]

I am having the same problem with both extrudes (only the sides show the color while the top is transparent) and with a loft created from to NURBS curves??

[Vectorworks users in Alberta, Canada]

Is there anybody out there using Vectorworks for residential design in either Calgary or Edmonton?

I am looking for help in my overflow of work. Thanks... Thom

[hdI put floor plan at 1:100 & roof plan at 1:250 on the same sheet]

copy & paste your roof plan onto a new visible layer and move it around without affecting your linked layers

[Mac OS 10.2]

When will we know if OS 10.2 is compatible with vectorworks 9.5.2? I would like to upgrade due to some unrelated printing issues I am having. Thanks

[I've gotta ask - why is snapping such a mongrel?]

I use the datum (apple'g') alot to align things like doors and windows in walls. I simply drag the hybrid object to the thing I want to align it with, set that as the datum and then reference the datum while inserting the object into the wall. Quick & easy

[VectorWorks 9.5.2 is now available...]

Thanks for the quick response... My deadline looms.

[Mac OS X 10.1.5 Problems...]

Katie,

can you give us step bt step step instructions on how to get back to 4. Am I going to have to reinstall everything?

[Intermittent RENDERING freezes!]

I had the same problem when I had multiple light sources with shadows turned on- if I turn off the shadows on all but one light source I don't get freeze-ups.... maybe this is a clue to the problem (Mac G4,dual 1GHZ, 1G ram)