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Ah ok, hmmm, do you know if it is possible inside of Parasolid modeling kernel? Is this the same as the VWX event system? Maybe Vectorworks can tap into this? Questions questions 🙂

For designing furniture I use symbols as solid subtractions and solid additions. This helps allot in automating the drawing and designing proces. It prevents mistakes and the need of double checking stuff. A good example is sheet metal with several M5 screw holes For the screw holes I use an M5 symbol which I use as an solid subtraction from the sheet metal. At the moment the proces is as follows: Step 1: draw sheet metal plate (extruded rectangle) Step 2: create an symbol of an M5 hole (extruded circle) Step 3: place symbols in the correct spot on the sheet metal Step 4: subtract the symbols from the sheet metal Client says: use M6 instead of M5 screw. Step 5: change the symbol of the M5 hole to a M6 hole Step 6: go into the solid subtraction of the sheet metal so the symbols automatically change from M5 to M6 (because of step 5) Step 7: go out of the solid substraction > tadddaa! all subtractions are M6 now without the need of editing every single hole one-by-one To my question: Is it possible to force Vectorworks to recalculate al the solid geometry so that you do not have to go back in al the different solid subtraction to make step 6 happen? (even when there are several levels with fillets, additions and ... of geometry?) Would this something that could be accomplished with Marionette? Adding the Marionette Jedi Masters 🙂 @sbarrett @Marissa Farrell @Stephan Moenninghoff @DomC

Seeing how quick things go and the flu/virus spreads i completely understand this decision. As someone living in Europe / The Netherlands I can only say that you can not be to carefull about this. It is going pretty fast from something we made jokes about to empty fridges in the supermarket, the closing of museums, sport events and just all kind of gatherings . In the Netherlands everyone who can work from home is expected to do this for the coming weeks. And that is probably not the last measure the government is going take to try to slow this thing as much as possible so the hospital's aren't going to 'overload'.

Never been added, please vote up to get it higher on the wishlist. You can mirror it back, this makes it context relative again, but that is probabilly not what you want.

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In my case i do this because I design allot of products / furniture. For example: when i design a table with a wooden table top I create part symbols and assembly symbols. Each part, in this case a screw, piece of folded sheet metal, a wooden table top, etc, gets his own part-symbol (P_01, P_02, P_02) Each assembly gets his own symbol as well: main assembly > A_01, sub assembly > A_02, A_03, A_... etc. Al these individual part-symbols and assembly-symbols have there own individual design layer, and there own individual sheet layer that all correspond with the symbol name. The separate design layers are needed to be able to create sheet layers with views of each specific part or assembly. I would be amazing to just be able to drag-and-drop symbols on sheet layers for the creation of viewports (left, right, top, bottom, back, isometric, perspective)

If u use the compose command (modify menu > compose) you get one nurbs curve, then create a nurbs surface from that (model menu > 3d power pack > create nurbs surface). A nurbs surface can be shelled (3d tools in pallete) This will give you an extruded nurbs 🙂

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https://www.vectorworks.net/en-US/2020 A shame that the window and door tools are still lacking, but the history based modeling tools are going to make 3D-modeling so much easier and faster. This will have a big positive impact on my workflow!

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Is this possible for DLVP that refers to another layer in the same file as well? In my case there is no reference file.

Hi all, When working on design proposals I make extensive use of design layer viewports. This is great for the creation of different options, styles and colors. Now to my question: Is it possible to 'import' the geometry shown through the DLVP on the layer where the DLVP is on, like an ungroup/decompose or an old fashioned autocad explode 😉 ?

It happend to me when is changed the staking order in the navigation pallette as well.

A disclaimer that I do not work with the localized version, so no personal experience with it. I use the international version, but the grass seems pretty green in Belgian and Holland.

@elepp and @drelARCH If you not already did please vote this wish up like Christiaan said. Thanks!

I shared this before but the Belgian / Dutch version has a nice combined door and window tool with allot possibilities. Maybe VW can find some inspiration in this tool 🙂 Ability to combine doors and windows and change the type of door an window for each section individually: Ability create all kind of (overhead)doors: All kind of sliding doors and the ability to change how the different sections slide. The most common wall details correctly drawn in 2d and 3d. This is possible for the horizontal en vertical sections:

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Ahhhh, can we please have this text in the help file of Vectorworks 😉 @Luis M Ruiz 🙂 In C4D this is the progressive mode I think.

Yes indeed, explanation in help is a bit cryptic in my opinion (but English is not my native langue)

@fabrica never used or really saw that button. No idea how to use it 😂 Please enlighten me.

For me the ideal workflow would be: import the furniture item into a fresh file (so my working file does not get 'dirty' of all the imported symbols, textures, geometry, etc) able to force all symbols and geometry to a specific class of my working file (even geometry/symbols in nested symbols), in my case 'aankleding'. able to force all geometry to a specific texture that is not linked to a class (even nested geometry) (I do not want to maintain 40 different classes for all the different furniture items/colors/fabrics I imported, they should be a in generic class, like 'seating', 'kitchen' or 'furniture') exploded al nested symbols in the 'master'/top-symbol so my working file doesnt get twenty new symbols. if needed change some texture through editing the symbol. if needed clean up some geometry. import the clean symbol in my working file. Step 2 / 3 / 4 are as far as I know not possible.