LarryO

Class was set to invisible in navigation palette when setting the symbol option to assign it to a default insertion class. Refer to bp1, screen captured from the resource manager window. The preview image can be toggled off and on by presetting the class on or off before opening selecting the "Edit Symbol Options..." in the contextual menu. Right click while hovering over a symbol and visibility will change according to the class' visibility selected in "Assign to Class" pull down when "OK" is pressed. Instance of symbol does not need to be present on the active layer. gLitCh or Feature?

at 90° part of the cut line defining the opening of the HSS disappears all together. at90° at10°at20°

That is the problem; It doesn't matter what the smoothing angle is set to those glitches still appear. I have the smoothing angle set to 20° and decimal precision to 4 places.

A little insight to this: the standard views you select for viewports are rotated about the origin of the drawing environment. If the object you are seeking another view of is not near that origin you will have to chase it. Try to keep the origin of your symbols in a reasonable location close to the objects. When detailing said symbols place an instance at the origin of a layer dedicated to detailing them. Use multiple visibility classes to make each one independently invisible if you want to limit the number detailing layers. By using symbols the model and the detailing instance remain coordinated. Even when creating extrusions and performing solid operations a new origin within the solid is created relative to objects placement to the layer's origin at the time of doing the procedure. Hope that helps. It takes a while to wrap one's head about there being multiple origins and their relationship to the layer origin.

if you take a copy of one of your staircases and ungroup it you will find that the stringer for the flight is not created as a single continuous object. Warning: Ungrouping converts the stair from a PIO into its components and will they be no longer managed by the stair tool.

My suspicion would be that it ran into a memory allocation issue. I have had to regen viewports before publishing to remove glitches that appear in the pdf output.

Is there a solution in the works for this persistent problem of a line being generated where a flat surface extends/continues as a radiused surface where the surfaces are flush and tangent at the junction? Often the working plane and view are aligned but I don't think this affects the outcome. The aberration seems to be associated more with 3d PIOs that have been cut with a NURBS plane or a solids operation (add/subtract/etc).

I believe so, only that the example/discussion identified was being used to punch mark holes but could be used to indicate areas that paint is to be excluded from.

I was just reading on Autocad and Tekla forums on how to identify areas not to be painted on steel shapes. This term, "punch marks" came up as an effective tool/procedure to use. It is apparently used to track and identify holes in steel. Is this a tool I might find in the library of tools for Vectorworks Architect? Are there examples of use anywhere? Thanks, VW2024

As per the subject, I cannot seem to find how to export layer information into the 3d pdf. I have two interconnected assemblies each on their own layer and I want the viewer to be able to turn off either one for a better view. Larry VW2023/VW2024

🤪Looks like a work in progress though. Midpoint still appears near the object. 🤣

Bump There still doesn't seem to be a means to assign a class to each instance of this item like one can with other symbols and plugins. When one wants to turn off/hide one set of benchmarks, they ALL turn off unless they are grouped and the group is assigned a class. Grouping of course has its own idiosyncrasies when they overlap.

I stumbled upon a fix. Not sure why but was able to get them to show by drawing two lines in annotation space. Then moving to the modelling layer, changing to iso views, undoing all until I was back to the sheet, forced a render and they showed up. The planar circles behind the bolts went away too. 60+ minutes wasted!

I have tried this in VW2023 and VW2024 with the same results. The Hidden rendering process seems to think that two bolts I copied and moved along the Y axis (to the right) are somehow before the cut line. The two on the left are at Y= +50.8 where as the two not rendering are at Y= -50.8 where the black holes are showing. Is this a bug? Any thoughts? Do I need to move my model off the origin into positive Y value space for plugins to reliably render? If I turn on rendering before the cut plane the bolts will show but so will a mounting plate and that would confuse the heck out of the reviewer. A secondary weird issue is the planar objects behind the bolt heads on the left, two round disks with a black fill, are showing their perimeter through the solid bolt heads on the left. I will easily avoid this bug by turning off the rendering of planar objects but if I cannot get the bolt heads to show on the right I'll need the black fill to identify there are holes on the right.

THANKS I getting blind I guess. 🥸