Diego Rodrigo - RV

Light years ahead.....

The best approach to create a simple, solid standing seam is to use the Framing Member and add a custom profile of a standing seam metal sheet, then duplicate it along a roof. However, this method will break down if you have complex roofs. Alternatively, you can use a Surface Array with a 3D symbol of a standing seam metal sheet. Both methods are somewhat overkill and can make your model a little heavier to manage.

Review of whether you are using the right Section line class and if that class is ts with a solid fill

Hi Mike! I usually start by slicing the model very thinly at 2 or 3 feet intervals for all the floors of a point cloud and saving views for the Floorplans, and also several slices for sections And try to find averages between corners of rooms, because the point cloud will have a ton of points and they are not like perfectly aligned in straight lines A good software for extracting lines from point clouds is PointCab, it's a little expensive if you do a couple of point clouds a year, it's a cross-platform software and great for point clouds

A good way to do improve that is using referenced files, I'll reduce the file size and improve performance

You will need to use several NURBS curves to achieve that or a play with subdivision modeling

Sadly for the underside of the stairs, I find myself doing some acrobatics too if there is a lot of space between the underside and the actual stair structure Usually, I leave that part for the CD set, in DD sets I use 2D linework in sections until the design has been ironed out When, if, the design moves forward then I'll play with Roof faces and wall components to even obtain schedules and BOM

Is better to not use the railings built on the stairs, I had better results using the new Railing tool in 2024, you can control better how different flights of railing connect to each other

Thank you, I'll check those options to see if I have the values and settings right

Greetings, I have a Vectorworks model and it is georeferenced but the moment I export the file to IFC the georeference information gets lost, even if in the Site Data the Reference Latitud and Logitud are displayed correctly What other settings must I check to ensure a proper georeferenced export from Vectorworks 2023?

Hi @Pat Stanford, did you manage to fix this issue? I have the same problem

Yes, I don't usually do that,I clip the roof and add a custom Skylight symbol

For Skylights, the only way is create a Custom Record and a Custom Tag to show the desired info

Yes, a quick fix in your situation, could be to use a 2D polygon to clip the underside of the slab, It would give you the desired section detail

I hope there will be an option to access this plug-in through the Partner Products portal, is in german, but the plug-in does some amazing stuff