Dick Jenkins

So what is in Update 3.1? I can't find any info so I am reluctant to install it.

Thanks! I will try that. When you have a published set can you select which sheets to do that with or do you have to have an unbound set?

That option made the Elevations B&W but it did not restore any of the wall hatches or other areas with certain fills.

So the architect I work for wants most of the sheets in our drawing set to be in B&W because of a requirement from the reviewing agencies. (these are the same people who did not want fractions in floor to floor heights). He wanted to do this through the Publish command settings (I have attached an image). There are several problems with this. One is the fill for interior walls disappear in plan view. They are not supposed to be white, but rather the hatch (Wall_Slab Framed Wood/Timber HF). The other is the Exterior Elevation sheets still come out in color in the PDF. I know I can change the images by changing all the class colors for the line work and changing the render settings on a by viewport basis. It is just a pain because I use colors to help me differentiate between object and line types. Has anyone else run across this?

I have not tried this. I am trying to cut and paste reoccurring information from one viewport to another and it is just a pain to manually select all the objects I need from the source viewport.

I am in the annotations mode of a plan viewport and am trying to select all the lines of a certain class I have drawn in this mode of the viewport. I have the settings set to select by class. The tool does not select any lines of that class after clicking on the first line. I have noticed it happens with other objects. Is the tool broken or am I using it wrong. It used to work with me. As an aside, whan I tried searching for "Select Similar Tool" in the "search bar" at the top of this page it sends me to a "401 Forbidden" page. Is anyone else experiencing this? Thanks!

Yes. When I first reported it to Tech Support they gave it a number - VB-207915. This was on 10.23.24.

It looks like this still has not been fixed in the latest update #3 because I could not find the bug number in the list. Am I correct in this?

Thanks, Jonathan. Who would have known a settiing like that would make a difference.

I have attached my file. I tried to strip it down but it is still large. I could not successfully copy and paste the stair to a blank file because I kept getting a error message.Stair Test v2025.vwx

I created a spiral stair with the stair tool from VW2025 and it turned our great. The problem is I can't get the stair break function to work (I tried every mode as a test). Does it just not work with that configuration? My client architect client wants a break to make it less confusing and I agree. I have the lastest version of VW2025.

So now I can't get the letter "I" to appear. When I go the next grid from "H" it skips to "J". When I try to manually insert "I" it will not let me warning me that I am trying to insert a value that is not incremental. Is there a work-around for this? Nevermind. I found a setting that excludes certain letters.

Thanks, Tom! I guess I don't fully understand how this tool works. I had wondered why I could change the length in a viewport and it did not change the size universally. I noticed a warning when I started to hide the structural grid layer in one of the viewports that hiding the layer would delete any changes I had made to the lines. Good to know but it seems odd.

In my file I have the structural grid design layer stacked below the Floor Plan and Floor System layer, but in the viewports the structural grid is always on top, even though in the viewport layer settings it is positioned below the plan layers. Is there no a way to specify where in the layer organization the grid resides?

I still use design layer elevation and wall hheight settings. I've been able to do this in the past but not with 2025. It crashed three times in a row. To answer your second question, it's the SF Bay Area of California (I am in North Carolina), which should be all you need. I think the reviewers just don't want to deal with fractions. We have not had a project under construction using the new mandates yet so I don't know how the contractors will react. I have other stories similar to that. Its why all I do now is the documentation of projects.