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P Retondo

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  1. I can't comment on the particular problem this user is having, and I do recognize that VW uses different selection conventions from other CAD software.  However, having used this program almost daily for almost 30 years, I can assure you that the selection procedures are consistent and effective.  I urge the user to experiment, read the online manual, and figure out how to apply VW procedures.

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  2. Appreciate that, Juan, but the “roadmap” is pretty cryptic.  I will email you, but if you’ve been following this board for a few years, you should surely know all the complaints about architectural PIOs and parametric objects. We can’t even get reliable wall joining, after years.  There’s a decent cabinet PIO that I tried out, but it’s not worth all the extra dollars you have to pay to get it on top of what you’ve already paid for Vectorworks.  Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I think I should be getting something for my money.

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  3. Pretty dismal.  VW is now a prepaid subscription, in effect, and you don’t know what you are paying for since you have to decide on July 1 if you want to continue, and don’t know what you are getting until August or September.  
     

    Based on the last several years, I haven’t been tempted to install my 2021, 22, or 23 versions because none of them offer fixes for longstanding issues with doors, windows, stairs, cabinets or anything else.  After paying many $,1000s over the years, I’d say the subscription is worth $200, max, not the over $600 I pay per seat.  

     

    I’m hoping 2024 proves an exception to this lackluster performance, but if there is yet again no response to the many complaints, I’m going to conclude a dysfunctional corporate culture has taken over there.

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  4. All said and done, thanks for all the input, but I believe we would all be better off with the ability to dimension 3-D objects appropriately in a sheet layer viewport.  Click on point, click on point, click on direction of the leader lines, click on offset, and display the actual distance between the points calculated from their coordinates in 3-D space.  This would be analogous to our current dimensioning capability in sheet layer view ports. Display of text would be clearer, because when you’re looking at layer plane text at an acute angle, it can be unreadable. Plus text that is placed in the model shows up in the viewport, in unreliable scale and position.  Why should we have to create elaborate workarounds? Isn’t software supposed to make our job easier?

  5. Kevin, although you can view layer plane objects in a sheet layer viewport, sheet layer annotations use only screen plane objects, as far as I know.  Don't fuss too much over this, I think that what I want isn't really available, and to make dimensioning 3d objects in a sheet layer viewport easy, it should be.  We shouldn't have to go into a design layer, set working planes for various orientations, adjust text size, and otherwise fuss around to quickly dimension an object.  I can do it faster just using 2d lines in a SLVP!

  6. Thanks, Kevin, that does work, but it is not very convenient.  Among the issues:  working plane does not always align with the desired plane, so you have to move the dimension; text size needs to be scaled when the viewport is in a different scale.  I always dimension in a sheet layer viewport, so I am looking for a tool that creates proper-looking and correct dimensions from that workflow.  Since the program is capable of doing this in a design layer, if we add manual steps, it seems like not such a big ask to make this work in sheet layer viewports.  The dimension objects themselves can be screen layer (as my example above uses).

  7. I'm using v2020, so please tell me that this has been already developed by v2023:  true 3d dimensioning so that we can create dimensions in a viewport on a 3d object from any viewpoint using the true dimensions of the object.  This would require 4 clicks to execute instead of three:  dimension point, dimension point, plane of dimension leader lines, offset of leader lines.  Then we can create something like this without doing it manually with lines and text:

     

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  8. Never had a problem quite like this, or even close to it.  But I’m still using v2020, having never been persuaded that installing all the upgrades I’ve paid for since then were worth the trouble of transition.  What version are you using?  Are you using rotated plan mode by chance?

  9. Remove half the objects in the file, and test. If everything is fine, then the problem is in the half you removed. If you still have a problem, it’s in the half you didn’t remove. Take the half which has the problem, cut another half out of it. Test. Repeat until you get down to a few objects. This process takes about 10 to 15 minutes.

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