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The practical answer is very similar to how you'd build it. Wrap the full-height wall with another "wall" set to the proper size, height (a stone wainscot, say) and class.
For that stone wainscot, you might model the sill-cap (water table) by drawing a line and then Extruding a profile of the sill-cap Along the Path of the line. If your line follows around a corner, so will the extrusion.
Good luck,
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This has been my one, consistent beef with Epson. Their drivers over-ride the rotation settings. . .generally even if you enter a custom size. I couldn't get 18x24 sheets from 24" rolls without extra trim, so we had to load 18" paper.
I believe the 7600 and 9600 drivers are the same. It would be very interesting, Kurt, to know that you can print a 24x36 sheet on 36"-wide paper rotated so the sheet prints without trim being required.
This issue has been completely solved with the advent of Epson's x800-series. I'm happy to report that we can now print 11x17 sheets on 17" rolls all day long on the 4800 and never trim a thing.
Good luck,
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MK & Armstrong,
We have a copper fabricator here in town who has developed a little "stretcher" device which he hauls to the jobsite. Using a bit heavier copper than you might normally spec, he stretches flat and concave (5" & 6" half-round copper gutters are his specialty) copper profiles around a specified radius. When he's through, there's a small amount wrinkling along the inside radius and the copper has been stretched thinner along the outside radius, but there's no segmentation. Rather, it's almost art. . .at least for those of us that notice.
I've been encouraging him to let me draw up a set of plans for his machine that he could use to either file for a patent or at least get someone to mfg them for sale.
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I'd be very surprised if VW auto-created that roof for Armstrong. (Nice work, by the way) I've learned to break the roof into somewhat logical sections, usually by polygon, and then use the Create Roof command to get reasonably close.
A complicated roof requires a great deal of human mental energy. I'm grateful for a couple years' experience building cut-up, multi-level roofs back in my university days. Whenever I'm up against a significant challenge, I think through how it would be built and then try to model it accordingly.
To Mechanix' original question: I've often created eave-to-rake returns just as you describe. If you have Renderworks, and apply the same texture to to all components, it will blend together nicely.
You could also create the extrudes necessary to model the return and rather than using it as a symbol, place them correctly and then add solids (with the roof face). You might need to edit out a few stray points to make sure no stray lines are created in various perspectives. This would eliminate the line issue you mention. . .but it makes editing much more difficult.
Good luck,
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Mike,
I'd prefer it be the top Sheet layer.
And, yes, Andrew, that would be an excellent solution; certainly a valuable addition to our rather arcane naming protocol.
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Thanks, KB, I'll keep checking.
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What, exactly, do you mean by file preview?
Do you mean something similar to the tiny image you see when browsing graphic files (.jpg; .bmg)? If so, just which "image" in a VW file would you have show up as the "preview" image. Some of our files have dozens of design layers and 30 to 50 sheet layers. And we by no means push the limits that some large-project firms would.
Our experience teaches us that consistent file naming protocols save the day when trying to find a specific file.
I'm just curious which image would be the preview?
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I have a glass texture that, for a particular file, I want to be less transparent. I select the texture in the Resource Browser and adjust the Transparency slider way down. Click OK.
Can't see any change to the windows that have that texture selected via their class assignments. Do I need to "reassign" the texture. Should I have copied it, made the changes, and then selected the revised texture in the Class dialog?
Any help much appreciated.
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Eric,
Without the utility feature, you won't be able to check ink levels or clean the print heads (and various forms of alignment) from the computer. . .hopefully there's some method of doing this directly from the printer controls.
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Patrick,
You can change the "layout" of pallets (from 2-wide to more wide) via the Workspace Editor.
Can't dock pallets. . .yet.
Good luck,
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So. . .the keystroke that brings you back to Top/Plan is Control-5 (command-5 on Mac), as Nicholas points out.
Maybe just train yourself to correct the error by returning to the proper view.
Good luck,
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The most accurate way to model siding is as its own "wall". This allows the siding to extend beyond the actual wall. . .as it would in real life. And has the benefit of providing the proper detail in section.
Challenge is door, window and other openings. I would place a cased opening in the siding "wall" and set the casings to 0. The exterior casings on the windows and doors will need to accomodate the siding thickness. . .just as they will have to in construction.
View your wall (siding wall?) in elevation (front or side view) and use the 3D editing tool to adjust the bottom line (including adding points) to follow grade.
Good luck,
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If you want your sections to be fully detailed "automatically", you have to put the detail in the model.
I generally use the floor slab in the model to go from top of framing/support to top of sub-flooring and then add ceiling/flooring "details" in viewports annotations with the new detailing tools. But, as the need has arisen, I've also modelled ceiling, floor framing, sub- and finish-flooring.
The more detail you model, the less you add in annotations.
Good luck,
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Roman,
Have a look at
http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=005759
I can't seem to see a difference, but would be interested in your experience.
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Try changing fonts (after making sure you're using genuine TrueType fonts) and then coming back. It's worked a couple of times for us.
Good luck,
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Group the viewport, enter the group, place notations (etc) that you don't want "sketched" on top of the VP, place items to be "sketched" in the VP annotations. Exit group. Move group around as normal on sheet.
Good luck,
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I've had a 4M for nearly 20 years and it's still our primary laser printer. It's a true post script printer, so as long as your fonts are correct (they need to be TrueType for VW anyway) you'll get exactly what you see on screen.
We don't very often print drawings on letter or legal size, but they've been fine: scale is true; grays and fine lines come through as expected.
Good luck,
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Patrick,
If you'd like to PM me with your email address, we've got a couple of boulder symbols we'd share with you.
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Emily,
You might try copying the errant file to your local hard drive and see if it will open there. If not, I'd check out the "rescue" method outlined in "How to Save a Corrupt File" at http://www.archoncad.co.nz/resources/resources.php
Good luck,
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Edit-Preferences-Vectorworks-Display. Make sure to check Adjust Flipped Text. That should solve the problem.
If not, make certain the font you're using is a genuine TrueType font.
Good luck,
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b,
By grouping the target objects, and then entering the group, you can render only the objects inside the group. This won't, however, help with your wish to see the rendered items next to wireframes.
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Acrobat has a "drawing" pallet that will let you draw various shapes to which we assign no line or fill, but we assign a page link. We draw this invisible shape approximately the same and directly over the detail marker. When moused over, the shape causes the arrow to change indicating a "hot link". When clicked, the screen jumps to the linked page.
Obviously, the time it takes to create all the hot-links depends on the number of detail references. Makes a very powerful set of plans to carry around on one's laptop as well.
Good luck,
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Peter,
You could, of course, export the sheets as .dwg files; wait for them to come back with notations; open them in a new, clean file; look at and infer the notations into the master file. DON'T import .dwg files into a working file.
But, I'd check to see if your clients don't perhaps already have Adobe Acrobat Pro (v7 is the present revision). If they're invested in ACad, they may have Acrobat. Around here, it's so common that many of our design/engineering consultants have a Print-to-PDf (using Acrobat) button right on their ACad toolbar. We frequently use this method of cross-office "redlining" and I've often seen .pdf files from other firms with in-process notes
I'm with Armstrong on this one. Acrobat, I think, is probably the most reliable, cleanest way to share sheets and allow others to do mark-ups. . .at least electronically.
To extend this idea a bit further: In house, we always prepare each published set of drawings as a .pdf "Book" complete with hyperlinked page tabs. Once you know the workflow, takes about 15 extra minutes to compile. Recently, on a project for the University, they required the as-builts in .pdf format with all drawing references "hot-linked" to the appropriate detail/elevation sheet. (ie, you click on a detail reference marker and jump to the detail.) Took my assistant less than two hours using Acrobat.
Good luck,
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It has not been changed in v12. I suspect, with the number of comments like yours here on the boards, it must be on the improvements consideration list. . .but I have no inside info.
I too find the inability to print the greyed layer, or the background grid, in a user-defined density to be very high on my wishlist.
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Yes, no problem.