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Minor annoyance...somewhere along the line the ability to resize the attribute window vertically was removed....is there any workaround to this? I liked having big color swatches to pick from.

Companies as large as Nemetschek (especially public ones) do not "care" about the end user, period. Regardless of how good a single salesperson or support person is (or teams of people for that matter). Companies care about making as much money off of their customers as possible. Nemetschek made a calculated decision that it would not seriously affect their bottom line by the amount of people pissed off by this decision. Time will tell if they are right, however usually they are. The price of Adobe's stock rose 50% in the 12 months following the introduction of subscription pricing. Personally I see nothing wrong with any of this, the goal of any company is (or should be!) to make as much money as possible. If decisions like this lead to enough backlash or bad PR, then usually companies reverse course or go out of business.

This is a major issue and is continually happening to me. How is no one else having this issue??? It is mostly happening with Excel, occasionally with Word.

Hi Juan, I sent the file to you, Thanks!

This is probably going to sound crazy...but ever since I upgraded to VW2022 I have been having nothing but problems with MS Office, and I believe it has to do with Vectorworks. Today I was working in VW and opened a Word document that has nothing to do with Vectorworks, and I got the error message in the attached image. The message specifically says something about Vectorworks, yet this Word document is a calendar I use for scheduling and has nothing to do with Vectorworks, and the file becomes permanently corrupted. Opening them on another computer or reinstalling Word does nothing to fix the files. This has happened to me several times. The same thing has happened with Excel documents I am opening when Vectorworks is open; it permanently corrupts the file. Files that opened just minutes earlier become corrupt when I attempt to open them and when Vectorworks is open. Is this something anyone has ever heard of before?

Is there a way to utilize the hoist tool for self-climbing truss? Specifically want to be able to use the 3D function to take the chain up and over a tower header and back down to the truss being lifted. All the videos I've found online only show the tool being used for truss hung from a ceiling. Thanks in advance!

Thank You to everyone who responded! I'm going to look into all these options.

My company produces events in hotel ballrooms & convention centers, many of which don't have CAD drawings or even floorplans. I have been loosely following 3D scanning technology the past few years and am interested in purchasing a 3D scanner that I will then be able to import into VW to create accurate diagrams & floorplans (to avoid things like chandeliers, doorways, etc when designing stages). My major concern is most of the ones I have seen (Matterport, Metareal, etc) are aimed towards residential real estate...I am more concerned with accurate measurements and dimensions. Some of these ballrooms & convention halls are massive, with 30+ foot high ceilings, so I need something with a decent range that is accurate. I have come across an iPhone app called "Magicplan" that actually looks pretty promising, but is geared more to the home construction and remodel industry. I am going to download the app and see if it will work for my needs, but I'm nervous things like chandeliers and recessed ceilings will be difficult to account for. I think I may need something a little more higher-end. Does anyone have any recommendations on products and/or workflow? Thanks in advance!

Awesome, this is exactly what I needed. Thank You!

I installed VW2020, and it asked me to choose whether I wanted to Paste In Place in the active or another plane, and I accidentally chose the other plane, when I really want to paste exactly in place. Is there a way to reverse this? Thanks!

Thanks I will try that!

It is insane, I still cannot get it to work for me.

Was this ever implemented? Would be super helpful to me!

Got it working on one of my computers the other day, just randomly ran it and after weeks of trying it just worked. My other computer still not working. I have tried everything. Crazy!

I tried @uglycat's suggestion but no luck for me!