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Prefer a more elegant, purpose designed solution myself. Dark themes incorporate elements of the user interface, not just the working space itself.

Im on Mavericks, I think Dark Themes were introduced in Yosemite?

Oh yes, sorry I should have been a bit clearer.. Go to the 2 minute point and you'll see what I mean... Illustrator, Phiotoshop and autocad all have it. Nice about CorelDraw is that the theme is somewhat customisable. Incidentally, since Adobe have gone full subscription we are investigating CorelDraw as a suitable replacement. It seems to offer quite a lot actually.

I'd like all annotation objects to be auto classable, like how dimensions get auto classed into the dimension class. eg drawing labels, section markers etc. get rid of the code then if it doesn,t work, instead of users trying to grapple with getting it (and expecting it) to work...

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You'll find the support here very forthcoming. There are a lot of experienced, talented users on this forum eager to help. Jim'll fix the rest What version of VW you running?

I personally believe that is false economy. If your software of choice saves you 10 minutes in productivity a day at a modest $80 per hour, you would save $3500k PA. (excluding public holidays etc but you get the idea) I think you will miss the renovation feature, and live sections, 3D guidelines etc. Not wanting to be critical of VW, we would be happy to embrace it if it moved [faster] in the direction of the other big two. Long requested features and bug fixes remain elusive. I'd be very happy to see a renovation feature come to VW, as well as live sections, building materials. As Archicad 20 is not available here as a demo yet, we have the luxury to see if VW 2017 is a worthy competitor. We are now itching to upgrade our software. If cost is the only consideration, I'd reconsider.

Wow, great work.

This may help Generally, I use layers as they are easier to turn on/off as there are less of them. (usually) I've tried classes but you end up with tonnes of classes and things end up unnecessarily complicated. What's annoying is that there is no best practice guide from Nemetschek that I'm aware of that handles this situation - you have to figure it out yourself. (this forum is of tremendous help to fill that gap) The Renovation feature in Archicad is one of the reasons why we are likely to switch - waiting for a demo to be available in Oz. I'm also curious as to why switch from AC to VW. Edit: JP training was very helpful also. He is very attentive to the needs of his subscribers.

I personally think it's a resource issue and/or limitations due to the age of the code base. VW has the potential to be very good. They have to start listening/acting or sell it to someone who will.

Completely agree. I'd prefer everything in one file as well. Now if we could turn storeys (and their contents) on and off in one click, it would make for faster control of graphics during various stages of the project

Alan would levels not help in this instance? I dont' have this feature but I understand that a level can be constrained to a storey. So for example, Layer in storey for main house roof Level in storey for garage roof, Gazebo etc

I'm on VW2012 so I can't comment specifically on how auto hybrid's work. Revit controls views via a View Range. You can select the height of the cutting plane and the top and bottom height limits of the view. If I remember correctly (last time I used Revit was 2010, other than the demo I have) objects within the view i.e. furniture can be excluded from the section, shown in section at the specified cutting plane, or shown in a top view. Revit View Range

Maybe this should be moved to the wishlist forum

Been wished for many times. http://www.autodesk.com/campaigns/whats-new-revit Scroll down to Depth Cueing. They had a manual linework overide tool which allowed you to click on a line and changed it's line weight. Now it seems they've automated it further...

I would like to have the ability to turn on/off the page border on a layer by layer basis rather than a global setting as it presently is.

I prefer to annotate in the design layer as much as possible. I have a Detail layer for each scale i.e. 1:50, 1:20, 1:10 etc. I plonk my generic details (with their annotations) in the appropriate detail layer (when I create a 2D detail, I usually expect to use it at a certain scale) Design Layer viewports also go into the Detail Layer Sort of figured this out myself along the way so not sure if others do this but seems to work...

Can you put something a bit more cheerful on the telly?

Nice work Zoomer, your standard of rendering would definitely be suitable for our office. Something for us to aspire to.

Can I ask, is the reason mainly because of guidelines? If so, a non-plot guideline tool could be appropriate. If not....+1

You can use Command click to select multiple classes. I would use the organisation window to do this. Strange that the Purge command doesn't work - there might be some rogue objects in the class that may be tiny or way way way off origin. You probably already know but I add a prefix to imported classes so I know what they are. Another is to edit an imported DWG in a separate file until your done.

Not sure if we are any different than anyone else but yes, we do use saved views extensively. We do with saved views what many do with viewports - organise our class/layers to display what we want. We also use saved views to easily switch to certain 3D views that assist in the design process. We then create viewports of the SV and add annotations in the viewport. We create our design layers to match the level of the building i.e. Ground floor first floor etc. Everything that's classed goes into one of these layers. Technically, we could control graphics mostly through turning on or off the layers, but things get tricky when more than one layer is involved and you need to adjust your class visibilities. Then enters viewport overides, to fine tune the appearance. But here's the thing - we want to do as much in the design layer space (model space) as possible and use viewport overides as little as possible because switching between sheet layers and design layers during project development is a royal pain. I hope this makes sense..

The idea being put forward is "Visibility Styles" not "Viewport Styles". Quite a different concept. Visibility Styles can be attached to Saved Views, Design Layers (which is what I would like), viewports etc. As for updating saved views, viewports etc, Nemetschek needs to eliminate manual updating. Manual updating belongs to the dinosaur era, period. None of the other two big boys require manual updating, and for the product development team to think that it's acceptable for a modern BIM application to require manual intervention at such a basic level??

Visibility styles I think would also help enormously when working on renovations. As VW lacks an automated renovation filter, we could at least create our own using visibility styles.

Could something like this work for you? Visibility Styles And this earlier thread.. Design Layer Visibilities