Martijn Wingelaar

Hello Scott Good question but... The eye-bolts are connected to a structural member "beam" I've been drawing a lot of structural members to speed up my bridle drawings. But it turns out that my drawings are becoming really slow. And it takes a lot of time for VW to process all the data. And the member is divided in to parts which means the bridle tool will snap diagonal instead of horizontal. Greetings Martijn

Hello all. BenV posted a cool node last year. He made a swivel CB. Now I took his idea to use it with a truss bookcorner I've had a job last week where I needed it with braceworks. The only problem is that the symbol is on in an angle but with the node I can adjust it I only don't get it working with a braceworks truss symbol. Does anyone knows if that's possible and how? Greetings Martijn Bookcorner example.vwx

Guys why don’t you make your own symbols? Just edit the stockbridle file I’ve posted mine a while ago and updated it for my personal use a lot after that (beamclamps, basketsteels,all length i use....) take a look and edit the stock file

Hmmmm Bummer

Hallo Forum users. Does anyone know why i can't calculate this small cantalever? Weight wise should it not be a problem. Any idea's? Greetings Martijn. Braceworks error.vwx

@ Moritz and all other users. Again. A bad Tool. So what if I want to create a 3 leg bridle and all the hanging points are at a different height? Like in a spaceframe with an extra level? "Image 1". Leg 1 at 11m, Leg 2 at 15m, Leg 3 at 19m. This happens a lot weight wise. Now in the tool I have to give a trim height that's for all the legs. This is the wrong way around. Snap to a House Rigging Point or Structural Member. Set this as trim height. Some more things I think are strange. 1: Bridle leg angle. How can you choose the max angle? What's the max angle? 120 degrees? Why if I want to make it 130 with a load of 500Kg I get an equal load of 590.31Kg in both legs. If I use 1t steel then what?? 2: Bridle leg length. How can you choose the leg length before you've created the Bridle? Metric you can choose steels with a 25cm interval. Leg 1 should always be the shortest. And "you prefer this one without a S.T.A.C or Chainclutch". What does not work in the Bridle Configuration. The creator of the tool is thinking the wrong way. Is not a Rigger and got the advice from the wrong people. There are some good examples of how it should work. 1: http://www.vectorbridle.com/ a vectorworks plugin 2: http://bridlecalculator.com/ a AutoCAD and Bricscad plug-in

Just updated to SP1 and it’s working now

Can someone draw a round tube as a 2019 structural member for me. I need a 300mm roundtube thickness doesn’t matter with a length of 5305mm. I wanna use it in braceworks but i can’t draw it in spotlight. I think you need Designer for that Greetings Martijn

Hello Sebastiaan. I've started so redo all the steel length and chains. I'll add my file. I'm still working on it now I only got metric length. And I also discovered that you can only snap to a hoist hook with a 3 lag bridle. And leg one should always be the shortest without a chain or S.T.E.C. Greetings Martijn. Stock Bridle.vwx

Hello Users. I've been trying the Bridle Tool. But I think is a mess. They tried to make something but didn't understand how. 1st The bridle doesn't snap to a hoist that's inserted with the Hoist Tool. You can change the downleg for a hoist. But what rigger start with designing bridles before you got a hoist. 2nd Why do is there always a downleg "what's called a drop or stinger in the business". A downleg should be used if the hoist does not have enough chain length or you need a steel for a deadhang. 3th why is there a 4 leg bridle choice. A 4 leg bride won't work cause there's always a leg who does nothing cause steelwirerope is never exactly on the mm. 4th They should change the trim height to apex height. If the tool snaps to a house rigging point or structural member you don't need a trim height you need a apex height. What I'm missing is the text from the bridle configuration in the drawing instead of the assembly diagram. How is the rest thinking about this? Greetings Martijn.

Hello Users. The Create Report List All Symbols function is gone in VW2018. Is there a way to do this in 2018? I use it a lot to check DWG imports or other VWX drawing i get from 3rd party suppliers. Anyone? Greetings Martijn.

Hi CETLV For calculating bridles you can check vectorbridle.com

Sorry for the late response guys and girls. But thanks for the help. It's working now and i'm a step to my end result. greetings Martijn

Hi there. I don't get it can someone please help me to turn this in a editable tool? Greetings Martijn. Dropdownmenu.vst

Yeah that works. So now i need to create a tool. And add a parameter to make it editable. If i'm not mistaken. But where in the script can i find the parameters and what does it need to be? (integer,boolen....)

Helo forum users. I'm kinda stuck and need some help with marionette and python. I'm trying to make a object info tool with several dropdown menu's that will output a combined text file. But i can't get more then 3 fields. And if i turn it into a new tool i don't understand how to make it editable. Can someone help me with this? Greetings Martijn Dropdown.vwx

Hey Rob. Yeah your right. I found the convert to truss option in the braceworks menu. Thanks for the respond.

Hello forum users. Does anyone know if or how you can add a new type of truss to my VW libaries. I've got Prolyte truss that is not included "yet" Greets Martijn.

Hello. Does anyone knows how to text spacing in marionette? I try to combine multiple dropdown lists. But the text from the list is placed on top of each other.

Thanks for the help Michaelk.

I've got a question. Is it possible to add text from a drawing to a report. What i want to do is link text what i add to the drawing to a report. Instead of adding symbols to the drawing. I try to combine steel wire ropes to get a total length. If i add symbols it's al lot of work to align them.

Ah that explains a lot. Thanx to all anyway.

Yes i already found that. But i can't find the marionette tool in the workspace editor. So i can't add anything.

Can any one tell me where to find Marionette in Vectorworks? I'm using Vectorworks 2016 Fundamentals.

download the new version 1.9.4 we found a bug that wasn't visable for us but we fixed it