Patrick Fritsch

Thought I should probably add a supporting image of what I mean by "odd shaped" driveways. Currently there is no way to easily smooth out this type of sloped irregular shaped driveway while controlling the runoff water direction, Currently I have to do it with the grade tool but as you see I would have to add so many small grading vectors to smooth things out properly. I the world of large public projects I would have a civil eng do this BUT in my current residential/small commercial design business I have to take care of these details. Hopefully this helps to put this new tool on the right track.

Here are a bunch more if your really picky, look under the "Masonry" layer.

Now Sketchup is giving us value for a subscription based software, 2nd release in one year...NV has no reason not to step up with the same offerings... http://architosh.com/2014/11/mac-3d-trimble-announces-new-sketchup-2015-for-mac-and-windows/

Just experienced this as well, I thought I had just forgot that I moved the objects in the referenced files. I think it is coincidental with SP1?

Got excited a little too quick about this new site tool. It's missing the following to actually be useful, the current single rise input really makes this new tool feel half baked; 1. Send station to site surface (as per Nurbs roabway) 2. Align station vertically (as per Nurbs roadway) 3. When using the reshape tool you can create any shape, and therefore we should also be able to set each point elevation on a site model as there is not more "centerline" with odd shaped driveways. 4. All streets are not actually flat, there is usually a crown in the middle for drainage reasons. Therefore there should be at least 3 station centrelines (left edge, center of road & right edge) that we can control individually to create the crown we want. 5. Step up #4 a notch and allow any number station certerlines with controllable spacing and we could even include the culverts on either side.

Thanks James that was it, odd behavior don't you think Jim?

I have a problem where I could not select dimensions within a viewport annotations window.

Now you got me interested, that sounds like a monumental engineering task to program.

It may be cool and fun to play with, but I doubt there will be much use in the realm of single family residential design? I wonder if NV knows what percentage of their user base primarily do single family residential work? Hopefully they are putting in proportional tool development time for their current user base... There is still a lot in the realm of residential design that needs work in VW. i'm still hoping to get some sort of prefab truss designs like the Mitek software does, also there are flat roofs slopped to drains (not the eng part just the design configuration).

Sooner that's a good point, maybe all the walls components settings should just be thrown into the OIP. This may avoid duplication of wall styles to simply have minor adjustments. Perhaps a radio button in the OIP that says "use OIP to control component binding"...

With my brief experimentation, for me the tricky part is setting the wall styles components to bind to specific layers and levels while allowing me the flexibility to override it in the OIP when I see fit. It's difficult to determine how the wall will adjust/behave when playing with the overall binding controls in the OIP without knowing exactly how each components binding settings are in the wall style.

It seems to me there should be much more beta testers for VW as basic productivity tools should never be issued with such easily identifiable bugs...never! NV should really survey their beta testers workflows to make sure they have a diverse array. I am ignorant on their current selection method but whatever it is there are some flaws.

It's been logged as a bug by Jim W but not resolved as of SP1. https://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=40896&Number=203321#Post203321

Jim this does not seem to be fixed in SP1, is it part of a bigger problem?

Exactly BDC, slab components as well (not to forget roofs still need components, including a flat roof with slopes to drains)... come on NV giddy up and get this done.

Is this a feasible wish?

Since we cannot query the individual area of the wythes that may compose a wall or slab style, I would like the ability to ingroup them into individual wall styles once the design is complete. So each component layer would remain a wall or slab, this would allow me to have a functional quantity takeoff. This seems even more important in VW 2015 with the new virtual layers where we will increasingly be creating many offsets for each wall component, so much so that to query the area of a wall style will return a meaningless quantity in a worksheet. Either this or give me "materials" that can be queried within a wall/slab style like has been requested for a looooong time.

Left right front and back in perspective is clearly a modeling handicap.

For this tool to be functional it should allow the following options: Ability to trim (or hide a portion) of both the first of last units, simply having a "first pitch differs" is not sufficient. Sometimes we the first unit needs to be whole and its the last unit that needs to be shorter, but trimmed and not overlapped further as per the "pitch" effect. In other cases (like the roofing attached) the last unit needs to be trimmed for two reasons; To fit with the section line and to give the effect that the material continues on down the roof. Yet another wish! Simple and elegant is what we want. Currently I have to ungroup the tools geometry to achieve this, but then future edits are a pain.

Can anyone confirm if this is a bug?

Oh yeah, that's my other hope. But with the new app if they make a client side tool 3d pdf's may not be necessary unless the app does not allow markups for the client...we'll see.

Anyone know what's wrong with the Linear material tool precision, I draw plywood and gypsum at 1/2" or 3/4" and it measures 0.543" and 0.793"....Kind of messes up the detailing.

Bleaubeam is great, hope this comes to good things for VW. Check it out here. http://www.bluebeam.com/us/press-room/articles/10-3-14.asp Funny this should happen, as their CAD version was compatible with Autodesk and Dassault Systeme products only. I'm really hopping for great construction Take-off connectivity to our model and hopefully an easy way to add a cost database of units and assemblies.

Definitely getting this on other objects as well, just got a crash with simple lines.

General bug here that I've been getting. When I select object and then in the attributes pallet I select the pull down option "make all attributes by class" VW is often crashing. In this case it was a section line marker, I've tried on other section line markers in other drawings and they crashed as well. Note these drawings were initially created in 2014.