Joey Parsonson
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A simple dialog box within VW would work good to go into at any stage to see hours to date
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Thats why i set my autosave to 2minutes so as soon as the next auto save kicks in after the last command or tool used it must not kick in again until another command/tool is used/activated, so if nothing activates it then it must sit dormant until use resumes. this is how i can use it at present to track but it is very slow. This is my point, for a tool/command that can be configured to auto track these movements & with one click, movements can be viewed. This will not only benefit sole designers like myself, but probably also large companies that desire the need to track employee usage, maybe, lol sorry to the employees that hate me for this post.
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I have this checked to log time in program & set autosave to every 2 minutes. This shows up in the log file so if you are away for more that 5 mins or so it stops saving or doesn't show in log file, this is how i keep track at present if i forget to monitor my hours, i look back in this log file. If this info is going to a log file than surely it can be calculated.
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Not sure about the crash logs but there needs to be a command/tool in VW that opens a dialog box & reveals a calc for current file
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Hi is there any way to calculate the total job hours spent on an individual file. I know there is a log file to look back on but this is a very slow process if you are spending months on a job & multiple jobs. It would be a very constructive to tool to have in vectorworks to be able to look at hours spent to date at any time or to monitor hours spent especially if hourly charge out rates apply or to guide your overall charges based on hours or to total up at end of jobs, please look at creating this for next version, I'm sure thousands of other users would benefit from this. If the function of the log file is already active then must be possible to be auto calculated per file internally, thanks.
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I am trying to create a cladding recess above a windoor object which is inserted in a wall. The exterior walls are cladded in brick veneer apart from above any windows & doors which i am trying to show as horizontal weatherboards cladding recessed in from brick veneer, please see attached VWX 2013 file. Windoor doesn't seem to have any settings to allow for this head recess. I am trying to avoid having to make custom 3D symbol extrudes inserted in the wall above the windows to substitute this recessed cladding (whcih i have done for this example). Has any one got any ideas, Windoor would be great if it incorporated this as a geometry setting. This detail pops up alot as is a popular cladding choice.
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Is it possible to create a vector script to allow auto renumbering sheet layers.
At present i have a template which has 30 sheet layers which amounts to a 30 sheet drawing set. as every job is different some sheets get deleted for each job & renumbering each individual sheet takes alot of time. A script to do this would be very quick.. say if i deleted 5 sheets then the script could auto renumber remaining sheets from A01-A25 in the order that they are set in the navigation palette. If this is possible, any one have any ideas on how to write a script of this nature.. i am pretty much in the dark when it comes to script writing. Cheers
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Auto renumbering of sheet layers when deleting unwanted sheet layers from a template would also be a huge time saver i.e having sheets 001-030 & deleting 5 sheets would renumber the set 001-025
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Can you assign an external profile to the wall tool in archicad?
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Is there any way to be able to apply text attributes to a class.
There is no setting for this in edit class dialog.
Also to assign text & many other tools like calloutsetc to a class on creation as a document setting would be great
would be great to see these in next release (2014)
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Is there any way to setup vectorworks to automatically renumber all sheet layers.
Say if you had 30 sheets layers for drawings setup in a template & you needed to delete say 5 sheets that were not needed. Can vectorworks automatically- renumber the remaining sheet layers from sheet 001-025. If not, would be great to see incorp. into next release
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I was actually talking about vectorworks. But thanks, good to know the performance of other programs
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Thats sounds good. Even if the external profile as set up as another wall component in wall style pref. & you could have a hole range of different wall profiles saved as symbols i.e. bevel back w/b, shiplap, horizontal corrugate or other steel roofing profiles which in NZ quite often get used as wall claddings. Then on the other hand how long will this stretch out rendering times to produce more realistic 3D images as reaslistic renderings with renderworks are already time consuming enough at the mo... Only if they could add these new features & remain with fast realistic renderings without having to upgrade to 100 core processors (bit of an exaggeration).
Cheers
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This tool seems to be only a one way street. When you create a detail viewport of say a cross section at a larger scale on another sheet layer it gives you an auto referenced label to navigate from the cross section to find the detail viewport with a drawing label which is cool? but, not from the detail viewport back to the cross section, instead it gives you a reference to the same sheet that the detail viewport is on which is not much use at all. This is important to have for builders & other contractors who use your documents to be able to navigate both ways as when they come across the detail sheet layer they think where does this detail relate to? (if you haven't put in a label manually).
Cheers
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This is a great tool.... However,
This tool seems to be only a one way street. When you create a detail viewport of say a cross section at a larger scale on another sheet layer (as you have in your video) it gives you an auto referenced label to navigate from the cross section to find the detail viewport with a drawing label which is cool? but, not from the detail viewport back to the cross section (as per your video), instead it gives you a reference to the same sheet that the detail viewport is on which is not much use at all. This is important to have for builders & other contractors who use your documents to be able to navigate both ways as when they come across the detail sheet layer they think where does this detail relate to? (if you haven't put in a label manually). Is this the limit of this tool or have i interpreted this incorrectly. When i heard about this tool in the 2103 release i thought it had 2 way auto capabilities so i was a bit let down to upgrade & find out that it wasnt saving as much time as what i thought it would.
Please inhance with 2 way capabilities as above.
Thanks
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Why is the keynote legend always set to a text size of 12pt by default. You should be able to change this as a callout preference for all future keynote legends. At the moment you have to change to desired size every time you create a new keynote legend after creation. Please add to callout preferences
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Hi,
Would be great to be able to assign a certain cladding profile to the outer face of an external wall such as horizontal weatherboards, vert shiplap, coloursteel roofing profiles, pretty much ay profile you can create as maybe a symbol that was used as a profile which would auto cutout around windows etc. Would give renders a much more advanced realistic look as opposed to just using textures.
Thanks
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Hi,
Would be great to have a setting on callout notes preferences under other options, to be able to apply settings to existing callouts as well as new callout notes in active document so if you decide to change one of the settings it will apply it to callout notes already created which will save time having to change each callout note ( which what i have just had to do).
Many thanks in advance
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Hi,
Would be great to see an option to add a washer to the lag screw tool, a bit like adding washers to bolt & nut tool. Would save time having to use the separate washer tool. This tool is the closest i can get to a coach screw for showing fixings for stringers/ribbon boards etc to timber framing.
Many thanks in advance
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using the same dash style in different layers with different scales produces different dash scales, by turning on scale with line thickness you have to put up with heavier line thicknesses to achieve bigger scale, so where to now if you need a thin line with big dash quickly, my thought would be to use attribute mapping tool to scale dash size, a bit like resizing hatches, but this hasn't been developed yet unfortunately (very much needed), i have added to wishlist. Surely there must be a quicker way to scale a dash size without having to edit in resource browser & by doing it this way you actually resize all other lines using the same dash style.
Comments anyone?
Cheers
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Scaling dash styles with the attribute mapping tool would be a very fast & efficient way of resizing dash styles in vectorworks (similar to scaling hatches).
At present you have to go into the resource browser & edit the dash style & doesnt work very well in my expereince as different layer scales show different sized dashes etc. Would be great to see as i have been looking for a fix for this issue for the last seven years using the program.
Anyone got another fix for this?
Thanks
Joey
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Yeah Thats the one,
Just need to empty my pockets to upgrade now
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Text settings would be very useful in class settings dialog box to allow fast changes to settings like Windoor ID tool settings etc, also to have multiple text types if desired using classes
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Clip tool needs the following modes:
-Rotated rectangle clip mode
-3D wall clip mode (without converting the wall to a solid subtraction)
-Extrude or other 3D object clip mode
Unconstrained Dimensions
-the ability to manually stretch unconstrained dimensions in any direction maybe link to 2D reshape tool, at present you can only stretch in the same plane
Someone needs to create a Viewport tool
-The ability to have a viewport tool that could cut viewports off an existing viewport i.e. cross sections you could cut viewports out at larger scales for enlarged architectural details with a crop-like tool then assign them to specific sheet layer via a dialog box. The create viewport command is ok but a specific tool could save alot of time especially when you have multiple details to cut off 1 cross section
Worth some consideration, anyone agree?
Custom Sill settings for Windoor tool
in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests
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Hi, Would be great to have custom sill settings for the windoor tool to be able to create windows with raking sills like you can for the head in form settings, cheers