Jonathan Pickup

slab drainage on the hardscape? or model the site and drape the hardscape

the drawing numbers should be able to be automatic, based on the settings of the folder. so automatic folder numbering, automatic drawing numbering, when you move a drawing, it renumbers...

this might help:

A really quick way to set up a sheet layer with multiple views, which will give you the third angle projection plus isometric, is to use the create multiple viewports command. This allows you to choose which views you want to create and will place them all on a sheet layer for you.

the png files has to be imported as a texture. The easy to do that is to use the command create Image Prop: Menu Bar > model > Create image Prop... import the image set the background then use it with the plant

If it was me, I would check my units, change the later scale to 1:75, then rescale all the information. Of course, only do this in a blank drawing. I have a YouTube movie showing how it import and scale a pdf, it’s similar.. Vectorworks House in 12 min

If it has to genuinely be a wall, then you can use the walls to roof to get the wall to flow up and down but it won't allow the wall to lean over. Another possibility would be to use the loft with two rails. You create the profile shape that you want (the main area of the wall) then create two rails, one for the bottom and one for the top of the wall. You then use the loft with two rails and get that nerve surface to be stretched along the two rails. this might help

I always advised people not to change these two classes. The dimension class is hardcoded into Vectorworks and if you use the document preference to always put dimensions in the dimension class, and you change the name of the dimension class to use it for other reasons, then Vectorworks will use that new edited class. So naming the class a – dimension is not too bad because it's still a dimension class. If you named it something like Door-Main and started using it with doors, that would be a real issue because dimensions in the dimension class would still end up on that door class.. However, if you turn off the option to always put dimensions in the dimension class, then it really doesn't matter. One way of ensuring that you don't use dimensions in the dimension class is to create a short script to control this The other thing about these two classes is that if you import any resources that contain these classes, they will be recreated. This means that you need to be extremely careful about the resources you're importing or about the way you create your library

Can you share your file with us so that we can have a play with it. Generally, I set my design landscape to match the most common output scale for my drawings. For example, if most of my drawings are 1:100, then I’ll set my Design layer scale to that. That way, when I make my viewport, I don’t have to worry about scaling and I also know that any text I need can be on the design layer and it will be at the right scale on the drawings When you have some drawings at 1:100 and some at 1:50, then the text on the Design layer will end up being twice the size on the drawings that are 1:50 scale. In that case, I tend to put text and dimensions in the viewport annotations.

sorry https://www.youtube.com/@archoncad/search?query=site models

I have made several YouTube movies on site modelling: https://www.youtube.com/@archoncad/search?query=site model the important thing to learn is that you need good information first, you have to give Vectorworks good information if you want to have a good site model. Next, a good understanding of the concepts of site modifying will really help you.

thank you Ryan

Ryan if you want to jump into the community we can do a live session and I can show you what I found. I would set the file up differently to set the correct layer elevation for each floor level.

What Tom says, except I have found that there are only a few classes that I need to turn off, such as massing models, plants, and roofs. I you save this file as a template, then Vectorworks should remember the classes to be ignored next time.

I usually cut the walls at the top plate and have those infill walls on the same layer as the roof. I often put them on a class called Wall-High-level so I can turn them on or off as required.