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    Unwanted Holes in Walls

    in Architecture

    Posted

    So 2020 doesn't necessarily fix this. I like that technique of moving the affected walls by 0, 0. That's a little easier than what I've been doing.

    I did replace the affected walls and I don't believe the holes have recurred in those new walls but have appeared in one other. I'm trying to keep track of it but I do have several design options running parallel on different model layers and I might be forgetting which walls are new.

     

    We'd probably be upgrading to 2020 about now if we weren't preoccupied with transitioning to working at home to minimize virus concerns. 

     

    Ed

    Unwanted Holes in Walls

    in Architecture

    Posted

    In my first post on this topic I mentioned that at least two of us in this office have experienced this and that I've experienced it in 2018 and 2019. The Custom Cabinet tool has been our preferred cabinet tool for the last couple years both in 2018 and 2019.  Is it possible that the Custom Cabinet tool could be causing these holes?

     

    Ed

    Unwanted Holes in Walls

    in Architecture

    Posted

    I would say yes. So far, there are five locations where the holes have occurred. The holes have recurred in four of those locations so far. So perhaps I should delete those five walls and place new walls?

     

    I turned that one cabinet into a symbol to easily replicate the cabinet style.  Maybe there's a better way to do that.

     

    Ed

    Unwanted Holes in Walls

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Yes, I'm also wondering about that custom cabinet. I suppose it's possible that symbol got inserted into a wall. I really doubt that I accidentally inserted it into the five different walls where holes have appeared. But I might delete that symbol and see if the problem goes away.

     

    Ed

    Unwanted Holes in Walls

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Here's another location where a hole keeps popping up. There is no door or window here. One thing that seems to be consistent is that all the holes extend from the bottom of the wall up to a height of 8'. It also seems that maybe all the holes have the same width. I'll start checking on the widths.

     

    Ed

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    Unwanted Holes in Walls

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Matt,

    The screen shot shows what I see when I open the attached VW file (2019). Hopefully it will look the same when you open it. It seems that anything that regenerates the wall removes the hole (e.g. re-joining the walls or changing the height of the walls). I pasted these walls into a new file but that file had a different default wall height so that hole disappeared.

     

    There are four locations (four different walls) where this is repeatedly happening.  So far I can't predict when or where this will happen. On A2.02 the four locations are indicated by red rectangles. I'll let you know if I see any predictable patterns emerge.

     

    Thanks for looking at it.

     

    Ed

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    Unwanted Holes in walls sample file.vwx

    Unwanted Holes in Walls

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Is anyone else getting holes spontaneously appearing in walls? It's happening to at least two of us in our office. I've seen it in 2018 and 2019. Using the Remove Wall Breaks Tool or re-joining the walls removes the holes, but they're appearing often enough to be annoying. See attached screen shots.

     

    Thanks

    Ed

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    Different Rendering Results between Elevation & Section Viewports

    in Architecture

    Posted

    We're attempting to present two rendered elevations on the same sheet. One happens to be an elevation VP and the other a Section VP. We've chosen Final Quality Renderworks for the background render of both. These elevations show two sides of the same fence & retaining wall. We like the color as it appears on the lower view (the section VP). But the color is gray and washed out on the upper view (an elevation VP). Any thoughts on why the color appears so different between the two VPs? Does rendering work differently for sections vs. elevations? See attached screen shot.

     

    Thank you!

    Ed

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    Crashing While Updating Section Viewports

    in Architecture

    Posted

    We're still using VW2019 and it's frequently crashing, specifically when updating section viewports. It doesn't happen every time but every crash I'm experiencing occurs upon clicking to update a section viewport. I'm currently spending a lot of time in these VPs and the crashing is occurring once or twice per hour. No problem with elevation VPs.

     

    Any thoughts? Would using 2020 resolve this?

     

    Thanks

    Ed

    Working Plane Grips not appearing

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Mark - Thanks for joining the conversation. BTW I am working on a Mac, so some of Pat's suggestions might be Mac-specific.

     

    Pat - Dragging the Vectorworks Preferences folder out of the Library folder and onto the desktop worked. Grips are again appearing and working correctly. So now, is it a process of trial and error, dragging VW Preference items back into the Library folder (a bunch at a time) and checking to see if grips are working after each bunch? 

     

    Thanks

    Ed

    Working Plane Grips not appearing

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Pat,

    Thanks for those thoughts. I've tried your suggestions. I'm still stumped. I couldn't find a safe mode for Vectorworks so I tried the Mac OS safe mode but I was barely able to do anything in VW while in that mode. I could not even set or select a working plane. I liked your suggestion of removing the Wacom tablet, but that also did not help. One of the for computers we have is displaying the grips correctly. All four computers are the same model I am using, although there might be slight differences in the version of the video cards. I've attached an image of what I'm seeing. Note that the working plane axes are kinda faint and grayed out. On the one machine that's displaying these correctly I can click on the exes to get the grips. But clicking on these grayed axes does nothing. I getting my work done but sometimes I get tripped up by an incorrect orientation of the working plane.

     

    Ed

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    Working Plane Grips not appearing

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I'm re-posting this question from earlier this year as I am still struggling to resolve it.

     

    The attached VW Help page explains that clicking on the working plane will make "grips" appear to allow the rotation of the plane. When I click on the plane only the center grip appears. This grip allows me to move the plane but the rotation grips are not appearing. I can see the axes when my cursor hovers over the center grip but they disappear when my cursor moves away. Any thoughts on how to make these grips appear? I'm currently working in VW2019 but I also had the problem in 2018 (but not in 2017).

    Thanks

    Ed

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    Best Methods for Extrude along path in multiple planes?

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Thanks Digital Carbon for that explanation. Some of us will need to continue wrestling with EAPs. Our frequent need is handrails where the corners are often mitered and the path is always passing through multiple planes. There are so many possible profiles and stair geometries that I doubt we'll ever have the time to build a library of parts big enough to useful. I entered this thread looking for best ways to edit NURBS paths. So far it appears best to use alot of 3D loci. After the stair is modeled that becomes the basis for placing and offsetting loci as needed. It works, and it's getting faster, but always seems a bit tedious. Thanks for all input!

     

    Ed

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