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We need to be able to add a note to one field of a chain dimension without it affecting the rest of the chain... This seems very unsophisticated... And probably easy to implement.

I am not an interior designer, so I use furniture architecturally. 3d furniture in a model gives a general sense of how a room is set up or organized. It also provides a room with elements that help provide context, scale, and a general idea for the space. Usually, there is not enough fee in a project to specify the exact make and model. It also takes a lot of time and effort to fully decorate a space. Most of the time, the 3d model furniture acts as a placeholder. I tend to seek out furniture that appears well-designed but which is not too specific. That said, it can be challenging to find the right pieces for a project, even generically. If somebody replicated the Design Within Reach catalog, I'd be thrilled. (Copyright notwithstanding.)

I don't fully understand your question.

@Jeff Prince I am assuming that image was generated in Twinmotion? Is your image Raytraced, or do you use the Mac Version of the software? If so, it is interesting to compare Renderings from the two packages. Lumion software rents at $749 USD/Year, which is certainly an investment. One might be able to bake it into the fee structure for certain projects. Or if there's enough render work to justify. The quality is superb. Twinmotion's quality may be slightly less sharp, but it's pretty darn good. TM is much more cost-effective, especially when you factor in Vectorwork's promotion a few years ago. A full version of TM software runs $749 USD (Perpetual) with a $199 upgrade cost if you've ever had a commercial license. I haven't even upgraded to the better engine. C

If you use the offset tool, select "Duplicate and Offset" and "Close Open Curves", VW will create a closed composed shape. Which is faster than any of the techniques mentioned above.

The link to all six files was in the last link I posted above. Resending, below. (You have to scroll up for some reason...) Also know that there were translated Sketchup rocks with textures in the second link. I find the embedded textures helpful in Shaded Render Modes.

Try these threads... The VW default landscape rock content is not very good. https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/109279-landscape-rocks-resource-manager/ https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/109279-landscape-rocks-resource-manager/&do=findComment&comment=477073 https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/109588-rock-models-free/#comment-477311 https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/109599-vectorworks-rocks-set-1-of-6/#comment-477576

The only other thing that I see is that you are not in the same layer as the wall. Make sure to right click on the wall and activate the layer...

Try switching the bottom bound to something like layer elevation.... See if that fixes the problem. Otherwise, maybe try deleting wall peaks under the AEC command menu. Otherwise try healing the wall and rejoining...

Right click on the row with the door in question and select the item. It should take you to the rogue door. C. x

You have to move to the Benelux region...

As for fit walls to object.... It is best to put the roof objects on a separate layer.

You'd have to post the geometry. But as long as the roof is planar it can be built with roof faces. If it is non-planar, then it can't be a roof face. It's hard to tell from your screenshot, but it looks there are three planar roof components.

This might be what you are looking for.

Sadly this problem is not fixed in VW2024 - Up3...

Yes. I did. Bug submit is always a bit of a black hole. I had a few back-and-forth emails with Premium Tech support. Made a low-quality video documenting the issue. But I did not hear anything definitive as to whether it would be fixed. Floor objects that cannot be selected once reshaped is not a normal VW functionality. But maybe reshaping a parametric object without double-clicking into the shape is a non-standard workflow.

@Tom W. Nobody at VW has given me an official Bug number for this issue. I am not sure whether it is being worked on, or even if it is considered a bug. As an aside, I am also not using VW2024 for real projects until a few more bugs are fixed. @Margaret J You should be able to select the corrupt floor by using the custom selection tool, and deleting it. From the menu tool bar, select "Tools -- Custom Selection", and then select floors. If you want to use the floor tool, I would make sure that you convert the shape to a polygon before making a floor. The floor corruption problem only happens when a rectangle is used to generate the object and the floor is reshaped (without double clicking into the parametric object) using the reshape tool. @zoomer Unofficial deprecation (a.k.a developing and abandoning tools) is a terrible software development/management approach. If VW Development wants to abandon floors, they should make the policy official and put the tool into the Legacy Workspace. BIM novices and others may find Floors simpler/quicker/easier to use in certain instances. Folks certainly cannot be expected to know the behind-the-scenes history of specific functionalities.

BTW. To get rid of orphaned interior elevations you need to duplicate the interior elevation viewport. It creates a section viewport, which you can then reference back to the plan. Then you can then delete the original interior elevation (section) viewport.

I just ran into this problem. I also noticed that I have also orphaned interior elevations. Since I must have duplicated interior elevation sheets. Once an interior elevation is duplicated, you can't navigate to the interior elevation from the OIP. This tool needs to be modernized. Or retired. At present, it doesn't work.

Elevation benchmarks are story-based. You need to set up stories at a very dumb level to get them to work in your viewport annotations.

Garage roof is a good place to hide condenser units...

Yes. I am copying info to a backup file. I was doing a lot of editing by double clicking a viewport and editing Section in Place. It must have corrupted the file.

If all the layers are at the same scale, and 2d legacy features are disabled is there any explanation as to why VW2024 would show objects in other layers like this? I am using Update 2. For whatever reason, the model no longer displays in shaded render. I will try to go back through backup files...

Sorry to sound obtuse, but I only see two commands. 1. AEC Menu - Fit Walls to Objects. 2. Roof Face - Wall Clipping Tools. -If I fit "Walls to Objects", I can only fit the left, right, or center of the wall to the bottom edge of the Roof Face. One cannot fit the wall to a specific component within the roof. -From there one needs to cut a section and manually offset each wall component to line up (as needed) to the associated roof component. -The roof datum doesn't seem to impact much of anything, beyond moving the roof face up or down. (It doesn't impact where the wall fits to the roof) -If the roof moves vertically, or changes pitches, one must repeat this process over again. (The two elements aren't linked) Is that correct, or am I missing some critical functionality of roof - wall association? Best C

That was my question. Thanks so much for your help! It sounds like the process of clipping walls to a roof is not automated, even if the walls are associated with a roof. In other words, roof components can be clipped by the wall. But wall components aren't able to be clipped by a roof/roof face. The code to do this exists in VW, but it hasn't been implemented consistently through the various architect tools. "Best in BIM" software must allow dynamic, interactive connections between roof components and wall components. Fiddling as much as we do in VW wastes so much time.