Kerschbaumer

Mouse is clean, snaps are off - It doesnt seem to help - I am thinking maybe my Macbook is the issue now - I guess I spend all day on VW so notice it most there but my computer does sort of hang up - it is 7 years old. Problem is if I upgrade my laptop - I pretty much have to upgrade my license and am not ready for such a big hit

Been gettting worse and worse - my cursor seems to ping around when moving my mouse and it is difficult to make accurate selections. Granted I am on a 2010 Macbook pro with 8GB Ram and my first guess is I am running out of RAM or the computer is getting too old. My files sizes are all small and it doesnt happen in other software like Sketchup. Any suggestions ?

Yeah - I did a reboot hoping it would restore the views but it didnt in the one file - but when I reopened other ones the views were there - musta been a 'hick'

Nope - neither - that said I just tried opening an older version of the file and for some reason the views reappeared so I cut and paste my new work over and resaved - seem to be up and running - but was super weird they disappeared.

Nope - I am on Yosemite. Nothing has changed on my computer - I am losing my mind over here....

Gone - not just in the file I was working in but all other files when I open them up. Navigation pallette doesnt show any saved views. Nothing crashed - they just disappeared - What the hell happened???? Help please

Thanks for that - seems to work real well - and what limited skills I do have I can change colour of a hatch. Thanks again.

Yeah - that doesnt exist in 2013 but thanks for the tip on the 'closed' button. Yeesh - boggles my mind that every release version they do some good things but undo others - adding in extra key strokes - the bain of my existence

I guess that would be the work around, thanks so much you guys for all your time and help. Can I ask one last unrelated question? I recently started using v2013 up from v12 - annoying thing happens when I trim lines as I often do when drawing sections, when I draw a construction line to trim something,the rectangles I draw to represent rim joist and plates etc that touch the trim line also get altered from a rectangle to a polyline and I lose that side of the rectangle - super annoying. I cant seem to find a setting or something that stops this from happening. Only thing I can think of is to temporarily remove the rectangles while I trim - a real PITA. If I am not being clar - I have attached a sequence of screen shots to show what I mean. Thanks in advance

I wondered that too but It does seem to rotate

Wow - awesome thanks! Let me play around with it - how do I expand the repetitive unit to dill a rectangle? Thanks so much

Yeah, I figured the thickness may factor into but, but that said I personally never draw foam any thicker than 4". If it goes more than that I will build up 3 sheets to get to 12" for example. I started to try and build a hatch but was taking me forever as I am not strong in that department - faster just to draw it by hand. Attached is a screen shot of how I usually draw it Cheers

I dont have one. I should say there was one I did find but it looks nothing like what I know as convention. If you or anyone has one or several hatches you want to share that way it is to me the simplest option - just havent found anything - to be clear I want it it to look like the screen shot at the start of the post - if not I will continue to draw by hand. Thanks

Thanks guys - I dont want to take up your day with this and really appreciate your help. These are both a great start and I will play around with it to see if I can get it where I would like. Cheers Mark

Thanks Markdd - I can now see the offset lines - any suggestions on how to adjust its 'thckness? For eg - I have 2" rigid so that 'line' needs to be 2" thick Also Thanks Michaelk - not familiar with repetitive units - the hatch seems to work but with multiple layers of lines oriented vertical instead of just the 2 I am looking for, which should be fine enough. iam just playing with rotating it for either floor or wall applications

Like this screenshot - am I missing something

I am v2013, When I open the file all I get is a single white line

I have no idea how to do that - simply is there a tool or hatch that currently exists?

Searched but yet to find anything - anything out there, either a hatch or tool, that creates the rigid insulation as per the Canadian standard per the attached screen shot? Been long sick of drawing many tiny lines. Thanks in advance

When I draw in 2d and build up my sections - I often cut through lines by drawing a line, trim what it crosses, then delete the line. Those trim lines often run alongside rectangles I draw that are things like plates and joists. In vw13 when I perform the trim - it converts the rectangle into a ployline and removes the side of the rectangle the trim line runs along. IS there a setting or something I am missing that I can set to not affect the rectangles? Screen shot attached

Ok, thanks Seems everytime I moved to a new release - they fix some things and add in other dumb ones like this

Any way to turn off the boucning pop-up box notifying me I successfully created my pdf? May sound petty I know but new unneccessary key strokes drive me nuts - there is no value in this at all that I can see

Doesnt seem to for me, but dont need now that I have the simple tool On another note - Rotated rectangle - I used to have it as a seperate tool icon, now it appears embedded in the rectangle tool - is there anyway to break it out on its own? I know these may sound trivial but when I click a mouse a million times a day I try my best to minimize those clicks.

Really do appreciate your help on that one Matt, thanks.

Nothing planned but if VW developed an implant chip or procedure that would reprogram my brain habits to new versions I would be there tomorrow. Been through the 'new version' routine several times now, started on v6, so this is not new, and I know it does get better, eventually. For the leader line I couldn't get the default insertion point to set either - I would change it and next time I used it it would revert to the centre of the shoulder line.