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    symbol > look at working plane

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Bas Vellekoop

    I was working on a symbol and wanted to use the 'set working plane' tool.

     

    I am able to set the working plane inside the symbol, but not able to use the 'look at working plane' button.

    This only happens when I'm on a sheet layer and open the symbol from the resource browser.

     

    Is there a specific reason this is not possible?

     

    Teaser Tuesday - Multiple Drawing Views - Vectorworks 2018

    in News You Need

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    1 hour ago, JimW said:


    At the moment, none of that behavior is linked from pane to pane. This gives advantages in letting you have multiple separate editing modes open at a time, which wasn't possible before, but I agree that being able to link two or all panes to edit modes might be useful as well.

     

    I was hoping for a option in Multiple View Panes menu.

    Maybe it can be a wish item

     

    Keeping track of changes in furniture design

    in Workflows

    Posted · Edited by Bas Vellekoop

    Sort of a newbie question after all these years working in VW :)

     

    What is the best way to keep track of changes in drawings in generally and specifically for furniture design?

    Like when you added an extra screw or something relatively small?

     

    I looked into the issue manager and the revision data.

     

    issue manager: works globally between all sheets, that's great. But editing/removing the info is on sheet by sheet basis if I`m correct?

    revision block: works only on 1 sheets and is not shown on other sheets if I`m correct?

     

    And is there a way to place something like a revision cloud with a connection to the revision block or issue manager. Sort of like the detail viewport so it has the revision number / issue number attached and shown and is editable and removeable when you click on it?

     

     

    Tricky 3D curve question

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    Posted · Edited by Bas Vellekoop

    I don't trust the deform tool. :)

    In this kind of cases I use the nurbs tools. You can reproduce this and make minor changes to the design without starting from scratch and ending up with a generic solid. 

     

    Not near a pc so I hope you can follow this:

     

    - draw several 3d loci that follow the pitch line and the circular path

    - draw a nurbs  curve through the loci

    - duplicate the nurbs curve and move into position in the z-axes

    - loft 2 the nurbs curves

    - shell the nurbs curves 18mm

    Creating a bill of materials

    in Troubleshooting

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    I`m trying to create a bill of materials for a table design.

     

    The idea was to create a worksheet to count all the symbols in the design (every part of the table is a symbol) and add a column to type a description for every symbol. But this doesnt seem to be possible. Is this correct?

    I want to add text in the blue part.

     

    If this is not possible:

     

    Probably attaching record is the way to go.

    Only me is told that i have to 'reload/replace' all the symbols on al the design layers to give it the record/info I attached to the symbol.

    Is there a way to attach the record to symbol and 'send' the information in it to all exciting symbols without replacing them?

     

    Thanks!

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    Which 3D Tool for which job..?

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    47 minutes ago, Kevin McAllister said:

    I hope its the modern equivalent to the "3D Power Pack" of tools that were added years ago :D

     

    (The Subdivision tool fills a great niche but it isn't designed for precision work. Its difficult to make objects that meets specific dimensional tolerances.... its a video game / animation modelling tool adapted to a CAD program to allow the creation of organic mesh shapes.)

     

    Kevin

     

     

    +100

     

    Agree completely!

    I use the 3d power pack almost at a daily basis.

    Subdivision tool is very cool, but not for precision work. I see it more as a tool for sketching.

     

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