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Kizza

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  1. IMO Stories (and Wall Styles) made a fairly easy-to-understand system (Design Layers with bottom Z and Z height; Walls that can have attributes by class) into an overly complicated mess. Yeah I know I'm old school, but it actually works.

    I do the same now.

  2. I get the same result in 2012 as per your first example.

    Works as described in you're second example in 2012.

    Seems like 2D poly's and linework should be automatically converted to 3D polys - but it's not. Otherwise the Send to Surface command should be greyed out?

  3. and the maturing of Vw into a program that will be a real competitor to programs like Archicad and Revit.

    VW has the potential to be that.

    It's good to know that the product development guys at Nemetschek may have finally taken the shrink wrap off their inhouse copies of Revit and Archicad and seen where the competition is really at.

    eg:

    Live sections

    materials

    multiple window support

    renovation/phase capability

    live hidden line rendering

    etc

    etc

    etc

    P.S. don't know if adding 3D surface hatching as a component of a texture is the right approach. Maybe it should have been a class atribute instead?

  4. Have my new mac mini set up but have an annoying problem. I am aware that 2012 is not officially supported on mavericks but it seems to be working OK (by this I mean it's running just as bad in Mavericks as in Mountain Lion)

    Any way to fix these annoying messages? I'm running stock OSX Firewall only and these two apps are set to alow incoming connections.

  5. check your stats with mine below

    Mine is the 2.3ghz quad core i7 with 8gb ram. I've also added an SSD which will be used as the primary drive.

    I bought it 4 weeks ago but haven't had time yet to migrate everything over!!

    I don't really want to go back to an all-in-one - I've got 2 dell monitors ready to go.

  6. kizza,

    you mean the .vwx file of the newly created wall styles?

    rob

    If you create a new file and create a new wall style then that wall style will not be available in a subsequent new file unless it is:

    1) Created and saved in your template file

    2) Exported from the working file to your template file via the resource browser. (right click on the wall style then export to your library file)

    Off topic

    Personally, I find the existence of two sets of library files counter intuitive.

  7. In your VW library you will have a wall styles and a slab styles file. You can create your custom slab/wall styles in these files, resave (and re-open VW) and whenever you use the wall/slab tool the wall/slab styles will be there.

    Alternatively, you can create a copy of the wall/slab styles files and place them in your user library (with just the custom wall/slab styles in the files). Using this approach protects you from losing your custom content when updating VW in the future.

    P.s. The attached pic shows the default application library location, not your user library.

  8. The levels are more of a organizational feature, you would not see them ever anywhere in 3D. That brief preview in the video is a bit misleading into how they work, it is showing what they do, not how they do it. The feature is fully explained and demonstrated in the New Feature Videos that will be released at launch.

    Maybe the new feature video will clarify it more but how it's demonstrated in the video (and show in 3D views) is how it needs to work to be really useful.

    basically it's a 3D locus with a name...

    The rectangle wall mode looks interesting though. (among others)

  9. That looks like a paneled suspended ceiling detail.

    Can I ask whats the purpose of the non seen right hand vertical gypsum lining on the lower ceiling section?

    Is it some sort of acoustic or fire treatment?

  10. So how would you define the sections that are lower/higher once the slab is placed?

    You enter a profile edit mode (similar to group edit). You would also need to define the extent or path for the profile to follow.

    So, create a path (similar to an EAP) create a profile (similar to EAP) and if you need to edit it, then you enter a profile edit mode.

  11. Yes, that's what I thought you meant. So it's not really one seamless ceiling is it? I know that they are auto bound and all, but three objects...

    Would be better if we could assign a user defineable profile to a slab object (ceiling object). That would be a more logical approach IMO.

    Guess a wish for another day..

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