Michelvh

Looking back again --- just like in the original post

I was searching for something else and ran across this. I've been wishing for the same thing except with my workflow (shop production drawings) what would work best for me is if the viewport could automatically be named with numbers like above with the "View" added to it as an option.

Can you help me or point me in the right direction for learning? First time trying to use a Filemaker (or any) database with VW 2016 I have FM Pro Advanced 14 I have Enabled ODBC for the file I want to use locally and I have that file open. I was hoping I could just go into Manage Databases in VW and it would show up. It did not. I'm sure you are not surprised at that but I would like to get it to work for this project. I looked around and searched for some solutions but found nothing that helped Any help would be appreciated.

I just moved from 2012 to 2016 I often send files out for CNC cutting. The CNC folks want DXF or DWG files and in particular Version 2000 When I send anything with a curve instead of sending a smooth arc it breaks it into many segments, some of them open causing errors and manually zooming and fixing each one. Is there some setting that will export arcs instead of segmented lines? Thanks

VW 2012 I created a 1" grid that is 30w x 15h I set the Thick line to 5 when it displays the horizontal is fine but the vertical thick lines are offset I get 2 1/2 , 5 , 5 , 2 1/2 Is there a way to fix this to where I get 5 , 5 , 5 without changing the grid to 20"?

In one of my files all of my dimensions were suddenly in a different class and all new dimensions went into that class as well. It is possible that I changed the name of the default dimension class and that is what caused it. Is there a way to change the default Dim class so that all future Dims go in that class? That would be helpful to me at times. I found the place to turn that feature off and on but not to specify a particular class. Thanks

Open GL options were set to low When I set them to very high it looked good on the screen but still exported as an icosagon (sorry new word). My designer guy here at work started talking about segments of circles so I got the bright idea to just make a polygon with 100 sides. See attachment for results Kevin Yes I export direct stl from VW 2012. Didn't know there was another option. Seems to work fine for me. So far always at low triangle setting but I haven't had time to experiment. Got my M2 2 weeks ago. I too am exhibit designer. 20 years of hands on interactive at Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa and now Trade Shows, Museums (including MOSI), nature centers and Corporate environments. I'm mostly the production drawing/inventor guy. My science center first rule is 1,000,000 unsupervised 8th graders.

Basically I am trying to make some round cups and print them on my Makergear M2 3D printer. I draw 2 circles, extrude them, subtract one from the other. My 3d conversion res is set to Very High The round becomes an icosagon (20 sided) inside and out in gl or rendered and that is what sends to the printer for slicing. Actually you can see it in wireframe as well. See attached. That is also how it looks in the Simplify 3D slicer program when it gets imported as an .stl Is there another way to do this that will work? I have 2012 designer. Thanks

That's what I was afraid of. It's not so much that I can't see it but it is frustrating trying to click in the right spot to change things. Consider this an additional request for that change.

How does one change the size of the User interface text in the Object Info palette? If I could bump it up a couple of points that would be great.

When I create an image prop there is always a border in Open GL Line is set to none fill is set to solid Image is good Autorotate is off. Is that fixable?

I would like to have a Drawing/Sheet Layers list auto generated that I can place on drawings When I use tools/reports/create sheet list I get the dialog box but it is blank, on both sides I can drag a Worksheet "drawing List" to the page but it is blank except for the title. Can someone help me with this? When I right click on my custom Title Block the dialog opens with SD (sheet description) and SN (Sheet Number) If those are the only things that showed up that would be fine with me. Thanks for your help

It seems like there is a shortcut of esc esc esc to close a viewport Am I remembering wrong? If not how do I set that?

Thanks everyone So simple when you know the tricks and/or pay attention to the screen

I am often trying to work on small pieces of a large drawing. When I use the Flyover tool I would like to be able to pick the point that it rotates around. Is that possible? Similarly when I go from the design layer to screen layer or visa versa I always have to zoom way out to figure out where I am. I know that there are views but I would have to have so many that I wouldn't know which went where. I would love to be able to always go back to the spot I left every time Sometimes zooming in or out changes the visibility of various objects. Sometimes when I zoom in to get dead on the right spot for a dimension on a sheet layer the object disappears. The 3 attached images are from design layer. One is missing the grill, one is correct, has the grill and is missing the top. The 3 screenshots were taken moments apart and only differed in zoom by on click of mouse wheel. Any help is greatly appreciated.

It seems random but it is probably linked to the scale. The "text off" number is always different. I almost always change it to 1. I would like to set up my Template so that "text off" is always 1 no matter what the scale. Is there a way to do that? Thanks

Fantastic Thanks for your help.

Is there a way to have title block info like File Name, Sheet name, Print date and sheet # __ of __ Automatically inserted into the title block fields? Thanks

A few more irritating things Trying to push pull selecting the hidden face I tried Opt key and it hilites the surface I want but when I click it jumps back to the first surface to to another object all together. I tried with all other key combos and sequences (alt ctl shift) Nothing works consistently. About 5% of the time it works but I can't repeat it. I also tried J and B which I found on the forum no luck. Sometimes when I draw something with line tool or polygon tool I cant pull push. Especially if I extract a face and modify it. Any ideas? Extrude along a path. Seems to work for a polyline but not a polygon? What I want to do is make a molding type shape and turn it into a rectangular frame. Have a great weekend. Big fun down here hurricane and RNC on Monday

Thanks for your help Muddling through and help and tutorials for me but sometimes it all sounds like gibberish to me. I believe that the problem was an unclosed poly line object. being careful to close it I was able to pull and fillet the shape. Is there some way to force the polyline to close when you get close? A keystroke? Maybe I just have too many types of snap points turned on. One more thing, can I click an object one time to grab it for a move and then click again to drop it when I'm ready? So far all I can figure out to do is click-drag-realease to move items. Have a great weekend.

I'm just going to keep asking questions as long as you keep answering since you really seem to know what you are doing. If you are too busy or just don't want to answer -- no hard feelings Earlier today I drew a polyline object. When I tried to extrude it only the edges seemed to have any structure and the face that I actually extruded was empty. This afternoon it all seems to work and I tried different settings and can't make it repeat. Any idea what I did? If I draw or extract a polygon shape and extrude it I can easily use the Fillet edge tool to round all of the edges. If I do the same to a polyline shape I can't get it to do that again ( I did get it to work once today but no idea how) I did set the working plane to the face too. Thanks for any help you have time for.

Oh and the DWG file came either from Autocad or an export from Sketchup

Thanks for your help I'll try that stuff out tomorrow. I had more similar issues today. Stay tuned for more as I muddle through the learning curve. Today I figured out how to insert a surface mounted automated two part sliding door

I'm new to VW but not to CAD 2012 Design w/ Renderworks. Several questions, today I imported a dwg. It came in as one VW layer with several classes. That seems fine. So far I am working on walls (only about 10 walls) and doors, tracing over the dwg with wall and curved wall tools and adding doors. I'm almost finished but could I have converted the dwg walls to VW walls easily? It has 2 curved walls one came out fine, the other is fine as long as the height is 0. When I make it 20' tall it turns into two straight pink (?) lines with a center point at the apogee of the curve in plan view and in perspective view it is 4 lines -- curved top and bottom and vertical ends. In plan view with 0 height it looks just like all the other walls. All of the settings for the two curved walls seem to be the same. Also everything looks fine in plan view but when I switch to perspective the dwg layer stays flat and unrotated and my walls look like they are supposed to, except for the pervious issue. Is there a way to make them stay together or is that just how it is? Is this the best place to pose these questions of is there a better place. I found a beginners forum but the last post was in 2010 I think.