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"Creating a Custom Title Block" brings up no results either not to worry I have found another method. User interfaces of a lot of design software is poor, but some software is coming up to 3 decades old so it would be odd to totally change it for new users.

Do you mean apple applications? I just want to open a title block in my drawing.

Maybe I'm being very stupid (I must be) but I don't see and applications tab?

In AC there are a bunch of templates you can hack up to make your own. Where are VW titleblocks? Thanks

Does the following mean anything to anyone? I can copy the rest but it's rather long. Process: VectorWorks [3757] Path: /Applications/VectorWorks 2008/VectorWorks 2008.app/Contents/MacOS/VectorWorks Identifier: net.nemetschek.vectorworks Version: 13.0.0 (76681) (???) Code Type: X86 (Native) Parent Process: launchd [114] Date/Time: 2010-12-16 12:03:46.138 +0000 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H574) Report Version: 6 Interval Since Last Report: 72480 sec Crashes Since Last Report: 4 Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 9501 sec Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 4 Anonymous UUID: 89E6B966-22D7-4B40-98D0-3E8156544229 Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000ffffffff Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x004b501b start + 4923875 1 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x004c0079 start + 4969025 2 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x004b6e8c start + 4931668 3 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x004b701b start + 4932067 4 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x004be7f8 start + 4962752 5 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x004beb64 start + 4963628 6 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x002ab167 start + 2786095 7 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x001a3ff5 start + 1708477 8 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x000510a0 start + 320104 9 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x000ba40d start + 751061 10 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x000c95cc start + 812948 11 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x0005b86b start + 363059 12 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x000b394b start + 723731 13 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x000b325e start + 721958 14 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x0005b2fb start + 361667 15 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x00002f3a start + 258 16 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x00002e61 start + 41

Sorry I'm wrong I have 10.6.5 so that is snow leopard, still it has been working.

Thanks Mr Gog, I think the mac I have here runs leopard not snow leopard. Plus it has worked numerous times before. i'll see if it works today as if not I'm in a bit of a pickle!

Unfortunately it has just quit again, never known a mac quit programs as much as this one both VW and sketchup. Sigh!

Yay! So I have done as you have said, but imported only the 2D elements as I only work in 2D at the moment. I then ungroup it and that gives me all the separate elements for me to delate and move around, without the orange box.

Thanks Mike, that seems to have worked I'll investigate further, as VW has just quit on me.

Hi, I done this once a while ago but somethings gone wrong. How do I "explode" the orange box around the drawing. I'm importing a DWG from a client and need to make changes but the drawing has an orange box I have to click on/through to get to elements of the drawing. I'd like to explode this ? Thanks for your time.

No I intend to plough on and get to grips with classes, layers etc, just when I learnt AC it was at college with a tutor and other students. I then used it in the workplace with other designers. I'm now working at a company as the only designer, the company are windows based but bought me a mac as they "heard it was good for design" I have no one to ask question to, the other staff have no idea about 3d/2d modelling, hell I have been doing working drawings in a 3D modelling program for near to 12 months. Plus I still have to finish all my work whilst trying to learn VW. No I am going to learn it and you lot are very very helpful, I just feel very stupid when it takes me 45mins to change a dimension size for it only not to work, when I know in autoCAD how to do this. )

Oh dear those viewports dont like me. think I'm going to have to seek a tutor or ask my boss to get me AC!! Thanks for all your useful help, I shall try to look through it in time.

Please see attached, I did this with the wall tool, windows, doors. I def see the advantage of this, although this particular effort took a long time. If I click bottom or right I see different elevations can I get these all on one sheet like a standard Plan and Elevations drawing?

I'm getting it a bit more now, the tool sets palette is more important than the basic palette. Well at least for what i'll be using it for. I'll try to get the hang of the layers/classes. I used classes today to "turn off" my title block which I did not want to be effected by the scale of the drawing. In the attached image is my current classes palette. Am I correct in thinking 0 is the small piece of wall I have drawn. dimension is dimensions G8..... are all the lines and text of the title box I made prior to know what classes is. Thanks again guys great help.

That sounds good to me, I'll give it a go. Why classes instead of layers? i'll report back on how I get on. . .

Thanks d works i'll have a look. One quick question, to change the arrow size you go to attributes click the small arrow and change, edit marker etc so why when I do change the arrow size they are still HUGE ahhhhh!!!

Also should I put all my measurements on a separate layer?

Morning people or afternoon/evening, wherever you are! So hopefully there is an image attached of a simple plan drawing. Currently I produce working drawings in sketchup which is less than ideal. Now I seem to be able to do plan/elevations in vectorworks but my workflow is less than ideal in comparison to AutoCAD. The attached drawing has been produced mainly using the line tool. Should I be using the wall tool? I don't want/need 3D walls at the moment. The hatched areas are windows, but the hatch does not fill the box, why is this? As in autoCAD the hatch/fill always filled the box. Also why can I only fill rectangles and not rectangles created from lines? If I continue to draw using the line tool, should I be grouping each area, example walls are grouped, windows grouped etc. Are there any hard rules that I should be following to speed up my workflow, as time is a bit precious but the vectorworks drawings look so much better than sketchup. Thanks for your advice. Andy

Thanks a million Vincent, it worked!!

Thanks vincent this forum is beyond helpful. So what your saying is I need to know what scale the DWG was produced in and match my scale in VW to this, before importing? thanks

I suppose to rephrase that. When I scale my drawing at 1:1250 it comes out at 1:2000000???, when I scale it at 1:50 it is close to 1:1250. There is something obviously wrong here. My drawing setup appears fine millimeters/ISO A3.

Okay so I am trying to set up some templates at work. (I'm a beginner) I have used a standard title block and altered it This appears to be scaled at 1/4" (imperial) 1:48. The drawing I have imported as a dwg (separate layer) I want scaling at 1:1250 (metric) but when I do this it looks like a grain of rice on the paper. Scaling at 1:50 gets me within 5m at 1:1250 measured with a scale rule after printing. Now I'm convinced it is something to do with the title block being in imperial and my imported drawing being in metric, but i'll be blown if I know what I'm doing. So is there a way round this or should I just create my own title block in metric from scratch on a separate layer?

Thanks guys I'll see if it works for me.

Hi guys, I'm new to VW so please explain in laymans. Where I work we get these mapping drawings provided in DWG format. I then import them into sketchup (SKP file) to make our alterations, sketchup strips out a fair bit of info such as any text and line weights etc, I also have to rescale which is inaccurate. We have now been asked to produce more work which I feel ultimately will be quicker in vectorworks. My question I can import or export from vectorworks and sketchup as a DWG/DXF, but I can't import or export a VWX into sketchup. So can I change the settings in vectorworks so I am working in DWG format? thanks for any help.