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do you see acquisition hints the same way: end point and mid point?

try adjusting cursor acquisition box size in VW preferences, that help me with being able to easier select "midpoint" etc. However, in general there is a problem with selecting, hints etc, its not working as well as it used to.

I have been using Wacom tablets for 20 years, currently intuos. I agree w/ zoomer that mouse offers more control, though I never use scroll wheel. Personally I cannot use mouse for long, also I find pen tablet more fluid when it comes to controlling cursor, also, I use "touch" to scroll and zoom which I also find more fluid and natural. Having said that I think its all quite personal, it works for me but it may not for you, I guess you should try buying one and use it for at least a month or so.

I have installed new SDS drive, new system and fresh VW copy, the first few times it super fast, perhaps 15 s, now after few days back to the old ways - 10 minutes or more. I can see that VW is loading this and that, slowing down for instance @ Xgshelf with wheel spinning for minutes, same workspace support system. OS X 10.13.4, VW 2018 sp3

I faced the same issue, I have all VW backups saved to a different drive (with project folders structure) and that drive is set to back up @ night, I have this set up for the last 5 years and it works perfect for a 5 people office.

check the number of pages in the VW page set up, I noticed that when I change the printer page first (it changes pages size but then crates a a spread like 1.3 pages vertically and 1.1 pages horizontally), then when you change the viewport sheet size it doesn't change. This is tricky if you don't have page breaks displayed.

I agree with Art. In my documents which I submit to dept of buildings I need to have all plans pertaining to zoning in feet with decimal fractions and everything else in standard feet and inches. Tis causes to have either have 2 sets or flipping dim preferences either way preventing from publishing whole set in one go.

actually there was a discussion about how to include door and window schedule in one worksheet. The point is that quite often there are windows and doors from the same system/manufacturer and a lot of details/profiles are the same (the whole point of using the same system). I think the whole division between doors and windows is antiquated (which I have expressed before). The should be a unified "Opening" tool that deals with various condition (for instance there is no way to do a barn door type, or door on a curb) given the state of design today - there is just too many variations to fold into door or window typology. I think window tool has pretty good controls and could be developed as "Opening" tool, but I realize there is a 3D aspect which kind of complicates things, so I don't expect this to be revised, besides this needs a lot of input which somehow is on th eight side in this forum.

this is a very good point, I may around it is to use casement windows and mark them as doors, obviously having doors with the same controls as windows and showing in plan with relevant details should be way. In fact these goes for glass sliders, again, I am using sliding windows.

tis is strange, I was fundamentals user till about 2 years ago and I have been using this method for as long as I remember (I have used VW since it was a minicad 3)

if you are using Mac (I do) you can just open off in preview, than in a thumbnail preview select the page you want to import (don't select from the main window - it will come as a bitmap at screen resolution). If you select from the thumbnail (command 'C') than the page will maintain size and vector format (if it was saved as such originally) than just paste to an empty layer, either design or sheet.

from the top bar open classes, pick the one you want to change double click, a new window will open with all the settings. Same for layers but they are not equal.

I am using space tool with associated label. One of the purposes is to control the SF and some other dimensional info. I am using it as an overlay with label 100% opaque on one class and rectangle @ 15% on another class. Opacity is controlled via class settings. Sometimes the opacity defaults to 100% even though the item has the same settings as the other ones that maintain the opacity, it seems like the class enforced link is lost. Just wondering is anybody has faced this issue.

I have faced this issue when upgraded to 2018. In fact you can do what you want, the trick is to use "issues" in lieu of "revisions", for some reasons they work better. I created a custom worksheet and title block so they work together. Once thing is that you cannot change things via spreadsheet - its a one way street from title block to spreadsheet, I talked to tech support and that is the way is set up, but it still works very well.

Alan, thanks, that is most likely the best way handling it

I agree with solutions listed above as I have been using them. The problem is that this should not be the case especially when having classes forced attributes, the whole point of the VW class forced attributes is to have it all happen automatically and so all (say steel) is represented in a similar manner in a design layer and then adjusted in viewport accordingly. I believe based on the comments so far this is a bug which should be fixed.

I use "Detailing" with parametric structural shapes (W, I, Tubes etc), than I assign a specific "hatch" not screen pattern, in this case the standard double line for steel and triple for aluminum. These hatches are totally controllable in polygons double lines walls etc but not in the structural shapes. attached is MC channel, on the left it is exploded (CMD K - polyline), the same thing unexploded on the right, both set to the same hatch and set to the same size via attribute dialog box.

I have complete control over the hatch scale but neither hatch control tool or attribute control box does anything to hatches in structural shapes, scaling the drawing doesnt change either. Is there a solution to this without "exploding" the parametric object?

when grouping or converting to a symbol new attributes are assigned, double check the the group attributes match the elements within it.

peculiar indeed. I have replicated your settings and I am still getting the right result. I am sure you have opened and closed VW, have you tried a new file just for testing purposes? I have had corrupt files sometimes, usually very complex. The only other explanation is that I am importing DWG back to VW but it would be very strange if for some reason VW reads DWG in a different way than ACAD

i have grappled with this issue. It seems to me like there is no way to mix windows and doors in a single spreadsheet. To go around it I just used window objects and named them as doors (D prefix as opposed to W) - sliding window as sliding door and bi-parting casement for swinging doors. This is exactly to have, like you said, all windows and doors by one manufacturer in one spreadsheet. The only issue I noticed is the sill details which are not compatible. But so far on almost all the projects we have in the office this is what we are doing and it works fine. In reality the whole division between window and door is an artificial one, given the current design trends what is needed is something like an opening type - there are just too many different types of door window solid panel items that just dont want to molded into traditional typology.

when I export to ACAD my invisible classes are not exported (I just checked) and I always do it from sheets (I have all my annotations in viewport rather than on design layer), VW 2018. The only shortcoming of this set up that I see is that the dimensions are "exploded" and are just groups in paper space.

I have spent sometime working with both 2017 and 2018 trying to streamline not only the title block itself but the drawing list with full matrix of revisions etc. By far the 2018 is superior to 2017 on many counts, however, it has a lot of little glitches which can be worked around, like you said the positioning not always works, I usually adjust that with margins in TB set up, I don't use the new "revisions", instead I use "submissions" for actual revisions (seems like other people on this forum are doing the same).

I have mac mini 2011 server, also i7 and 16 ram, no slowdown, in fact somewhat smoother, but not by much. On another mac mini newer and faster and the one definitely runs great. Over all I don't see much difference when it comes to vectorworks. In fact I have not noticed improvements in OS that much, I mostly update for security reasons, though who knows.

I ran into interesting issue: I set up different elements if space tool components on different classes (label being on different than "rectangle) as I need to control their visibility separately. Each class forces graphic attributes (in my case Label is 100% opacity and "rectangle" is 10%). It seems like when everything is assigned proper classes etc in the end once setting is involved in 2D attributes there is only one opacity control that overrides the class settings. I wonder if someone run into that issue, or am I just not noticing something.