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VW 9.0.1 Architect Windows 2000 It happened a couple times on 2 different files. I already have objects on my layers. I set the origin to be on the center of the drawing (gray box, drawing area) with the menu command. It won’t do it; the origin 0,0 will be somewhere close to it but off, so that my references are not aligned. I’ve tried re-setting the origin switching every layer (different scales), but same result. I had to manually (bull-eying) reset it so to have the referenced title block to appear where I wanted. Usually this doesn’t happen with new/empty files. Is it a bug or there is something I don’t know…. just when I thought I knew everything? Thanks.

I don't know if anybody really realizes how much time, day after day, I've saved for the past 2-3 months since I’ve upgraded to VW Arch 9.0.1 just because of all the keyboard shortcuts. I gain time for every tool I use compared to 8.5.2. Can you imagine in a medium-big office such is the one I work in, how much time people save not having to readjust the origin ,layer links, references, every time we move the page? Do you know how it feels when we receive huge site plans from consultants done in AutoCAD, to see that our cad reads with the same precision every inch at the edge of the site, instead of acknowledging a discrepancy? What about pasting text in Word to check the spelling? Scaling the hatches instead of redrawing them? Win 2000/XP and a lot of memory will make it decently fast and reliable.

Thanks, that fixed it. I never noticed there was a shortcut for it in the Workspace editor.

Don’t know if this is a known bug or a shortcut I don’t know about it. Every once in a while, not just on my machine, the SmartCursor cues setting goes to off by itself, while I’m working. I set it back to be active in the VW preferences, but then during the session it goes away again, not always, and maybe I’m pressing the wrong key. Any input would be appreciated as this is very annoying.Why wouldn’t somebody want to know when /where there is a snap? VW Architect 9.0.1 Custom Workspace WIN 2000

What happens when I mirror the plan on the layer link (linked to the referenced one), be it a symbol or not, the dimension numbers go to the right side of the dimension instead of staying on the left side. The text itself is fine. I've tried with a dimension style that specifies the text to be on the left, but still same results. The idea behind referencing the dimensions too, is so that I don't have to redraw them, the plans are the same, just with different orientation.

A colleague of mine has this problem: one simple building repeated several times on one area but with different orientations, mirrored, flipped etc. She first made the buildings symbols and then to make the file smaller she referenced the original plan to other files. On those other files she had flipped/mirrored the plans to follow the master plan. On the original plan there are dimensions, which now show flipped too on the referenced plans (which are still symbols I think). We tried fixing the problem in the dimension settings choosing the text to be on the left side,(on both referenced and reference files) regenerating the plug in objects, refreshing the reference. We could not edit directly the dimensions because part of a referenced symbols (and even if they were not symbols we wouldn?t be able to edit the reference/ layer link obviously). Has anybody got in this problem and hopefully fixed it? Thanks a lot for any help.

Thanks, what do you mean with what you added about NNA?

Thanks, I hope there are no other surprises.

This is probably a very stupid question. I cannot find the wall opening tool in Version 9.0.1. Where is it? Thanks.

Using classes and colors in VW to differentiate objects will allow you to select individual elements in Bryce per color/class. They will retain their solid status. Sometimes with complex shapes you have to choose triangulate in the export dialog. I do it all the time (VW 8-9 to Bryce 4-5) with very complex models and it works very well.

Use Win 2000 or XP. Add memory if you can.

Athlon are much faster, AMD 1.3 >P4 1.8, read PC World. I have it, it's much faster then my old G4.

When you have a floor plan and then you want to enlarge a portion of it, a bathroom for example, you can link a layer to the floor plan and change the scale. The problem is that now you have to mask the rest of the floor plan that you don?t want to see. A nice way to do that is to put a mask on another layer on top of the enlarged one and cut out openings in it to show what you want and with the edit polygon tool you can move and resize these openings. To avoid all this you could make the bathroom a symbol (trimming the walls) and copy it to the enlarged scale layer to assure updating. Still all this has some drawbacks. My solution so far is doing things the other way around, draw the bathroom and the immediate walls around it on the enlarged plan layer (when you are at CD level) and link it back to the floor plan layer so to get just what you want.

Don't ever move or copy the Arial font from the font folder. Even if you put it back VW 9.01 WIN won't see it.The solutions are: Bring your system back to a day before you dragged or copied the font, if you have a system safe software installed; or replace all the fonts inside your font folder in Windows with others, (delete the old, install the new),then uninstall VW, including any registry preference, reinstall it.

Nurbs are finally supported in VW9, but how do you really create a Nurb surface that is not just the result of extruding a nurb curve along another? Nurbs would be incredibly useful if there was a sort of skin tool(see Microstation '95!), where the user creates 3d curves representing sections of the shape and then a tool would create a NURB surface (any order) passing thru them. That way you can create free form objects, cars, people etc. What's the point of having just Nurbs curves? I can convert a polygon based model to Nurb, but that doesn't allow me to create something organic with constantly variable sections.

Thanks a lot, at least I know this is the best direction until a sort of fence-mask tool comes available

When you have a floor plan and then you want to enlarge a portion of it, a bathroom for example, you can link a layer to the floor plan and change the scale. The problem is that now you have to mask the rest of the floor plan that you don?t want to see. A nice way to do that is to put a mask on another layer on top of the enlarged one and cut out openings in it to show what you want and with the edit polygon tool you can move and resize these openings. To avoid all this you could make the bathroom a symbol (trimming the walls) and copy it to the enlarged scale layer to assure updating. Or you could put the bathroom alone on another layer and link this layer and when you want to display the whole plan, you could turn on the two layers (partial plan +bath plan) altogether. Still all this has some drawbacks. My solution so far is doing things the other way around, draw the bathroom and the immediate walls around it on the enlarged plan layer and link it back to the floor plan layer so to get just what I want. After all when you manufacture something, first you create the pieces and then you assembly them. Is there a better way, maybe somebody has a script or something to easily mask drawings, like in Illustrator where you draw a polygon on top of what you want to show and the rest disappear or like a view port in AutoCAD? Thanks.

Just pause on the corner of the object you want to move with he cursor and then when in the data bar you read 0, 0.... start dragging in the direction you want to,tab into the data bar lenght and angle(vector) and the object will go there.

Is there any way to extend more then one line at the same time to a boundary such as a line or polygon? The connect/ combine tool doesn't seem to do it, unlike the previous extend tool, I believe.If there isn't such a tool in VW Architect 9, maybe somebody developed a script? Thanks.

Any idea on how to create a custom-tool command that will work with callouts or keynotes tools in VW Architect 9.0.1? The existing custom tool/command function won't allow the text tools to be recalled; maybe somebody developed a script or knows a solution. Thanks

Any idea on how to create a custom-tool command that will work with callouts or keynotes tools in VW Architect 9.0.1? The existing custom tool/command function won't allow the text tools to be recalled; maybe somebody developed a script or knows a solution. Thanks

Any idea on how to create a custom-tool command that will work with callouts or keynotes tools in VW Architect 9.0.1? The existing custom tool/command function won't allow the text tools to be recalled; maybe somebody developed a script or knows a solution. Thanks

use it on Win 2000 , P4 1700 mhz, 564 ram, this program it's fantastic, most of the problems I read about happen on the MAc, not on this machine

I make door symbols. I attach them a record default for my schedule. Let's say I want to change the record field/s to all of them at once, including the doors already inserted. How do I do that without getting rid of the door ID? If I change the record fields thru the tool in the edit menu, only the new ones will be affected. If I change the record for each door detaching it and then attaching the new default I loose the ID info. Same if I replace the door symbols with another symbol with the new record. I get the new record but obviously I loose the ID. Pick up attributes tool will change the whole record again. I cannot select only the doors and change all of them because they are inserted in the walls, not even with the custom selection tool. Any suggestions? Thank you.

I make door symbols. I attach them a record default for my schedule. Let's say I want to change the record field/s to all of them at once, including the doors already inserted. How do I do that without getting rid of the door ID? If I change the record fields thru the tool in the edit menu, only the new ones will be affected. If I change the record for each door detaching it and then attaching the new default I loose the ID info. Same if I replace the door symbols with another symbol with the new record. I get the new record but obviously I loose the ID. Pick up attributes tool will change the whole record again. I cannot select only the doors and change all of them because they are inserted in the walls, not even with the custom selection tool. Any suggestions? Thank you.