Andy Broomell
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3 minutes ago, Elite Exhibits said:
2. Add a feature to the next up grade to turn the Component Dialog off.
It only helps a little, but you can minimize it by clicking the little "+" in the corner.
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I think the original issue is that using DV will make all the Pen Styles be Solid rather than their original line types.
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11 minutes ago, line-weight said:
That'll overide the pen thickness for all classes viewed in that viewport
Does that work?
One caveat is that this will only affect objects whose lineweight is set to "By Class" (not sure if this will matter to the original poster or not). The nice thing about DV is that it affects ALL objects within the criteria regardless of whether the attributes are set to By Class.
It does seem like there should be an option to override only the lineweight in the interface screengrabbed above. Not sure why there isn't...
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This just happened to me again. I duplicated an extrude via click-drag, but the duplicated one was invisible (but selectable) and acting strange. So I hit undo, hoping to step backward to before I created the duplicate.
Instead I found myself in a state of the file from about an hour ago (!)
I had saved about 10 minutes ago, so I just closed without saving and then reopened.
Very odd.
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No, it's no longer an option in the Edit Viewport dialog box. Editing Annotations always shows with the rendered cache.
However, there IS a Document Preference called "Save Viewport Cache" which saves rendered viewports in the file when you close it, so that you don't have to re-render everything each time you open a file.
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Also, unless you truly mean to use "Materials" which are newer and slightly more advanced, you might want to start with just using "Textures" which can be found in the Render tab of the OIP. As Pat mentioned, in 2022 and beyond you can freely apply textures per-face with the "Texture Tool". In previous versions, many objects can have only one texture for the whole object, except for things like Walls or other objects with Components. Additionally, if the object is an Extrude, the Top and Bottom faces can be given textures separately from the Sides, via the Parts dropdown on the Render tab.
Textures can also be found in the Resource Manager, as they are a type of Resource. (Technically they're called Renderworks Textures btw).
Let us know how it goes.
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Agreed! In fact I filed VE-102854 for this exact same wish a couple months ago, so at least it's in the system.
I've used the auto-generated legends exactly zero times.
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Hmm, seems to be a bug. Typically if an object is set to Solid Fill it shouldn't matter what the Class setting is, since you're setting the fill per-object rather than By-Class. However, it seems as though the Column Plug-In Object specifically is misbehaving.
Perhaps report it here? https://www.vectorworks.net/support/bugsubmit
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Hmm. Character 45 is the only hyphen-like option in the entire worksheet. There are many blank lines. And no en dashes or em dashes.
Here's a file with the result:
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Jesse, this is amazing, thank you!!
12 hours ago, Jesse Cogswell said:Also, I would greatly appreciate it if a Mac user could let me know that it works properly.
No weird nesting, but hyphens are completely omitted:
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Though this isn’t currently possible, I wish it were. Sometimes I have a few dozen viewports on a sheet that are all titled “ELEVATION.”
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48 minutes ago, Pat Stanford said:
@Andy Broomell It would be interesting to repeat your screen movie and stop at a place where an edge does not show and adjust the smoothing angle and see if you can get it to come back.
Yes if I lower the Smoothing Angle I can get edges to incrementally come back. Of course it ends up making edges appear that I don't want to be there, but to your point it seems to be that the angle is somehow related to the screen POV rather than only the geometry itself. Seems unintuitive.
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Here's a screen recording of the issue I was having, which is perhaps related:
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I too have been experiencing issues lately with the display of Shaded mode edges, regardless of Crease Angle, including VB-187462 where certain edges disappear when viewed at oblique angles.
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Just to check, are you changing the "Linear Markers" setting or the "Other Markers" setting? The Angular Dimension tool uses the latter.
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I think Fundamentals supports internal DLVPs, and external references via Import method, but not externally referenced DLVPs.
QuoteIn the Vectorworks Fundamentals product, design layers are imported into the target file when they are referenced.
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Does anyone have any suggestions for when the DWG/DXF import results in curves that are no longer accurate? See screen grab below, in which the blue linework is the imported geometry from Illustrator, and the black linework is what it's supposed to be.
If I re-import the exported DWG directly back into illustrator it looks correct, so the issue is not with the exported DWG (and I've tried different combinations of export options in Illustrator). Vectorworks seems to be interpolating the bezier curves incorrectly upon import.
Not sure if there's a more reliable way to do this. For now I'll correct the curves manually, but this leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.
Test files:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/49j36yz1lp33mkl/AACuDT1D68mlI-CASPN1j_BWa?dl=0
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Buy Sam's tools!
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I've noted in my VB-173105 entry that I still experience blue handles disappearing at least one a week. I still haven't figured out the context of what causes it though...
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Can you attach a screenshot of the desired result?
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You can also add a space at the end of a Sheet Name to make it technically different than an existing sheet. "01" vs "01 ".
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33 minutes ago, Tom W. said:
Is it something to do with the objects being Extrudes? When I convert them to Generic Solids the unwanted lines disappear...
This gets me by for now. Thanks Tom!
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The problem is that I've pulled out this geometry from a separate file, where the main focus of the original Section Viewport is the extents below cut plane (it's a Flooring Plan using Shaded mode to display the textures in the model).
I can't have the lines there because it looks like a threshold, whereas the flooring runs continuously through.
I hate that I'll probably have to resort to using stacked Viewports...
"This symbol is using a bound story that does not exist" Vectorworks 2022
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Posted · Edited by Andy Broomell
This message should really be reserved to the utility bar message area instead of being an annoying pop-up that stalls work.