Phil hunt

whilst we are on preferences.....do we think there will be a way to automatically add skirting to walls in a preference panel .....and then when inserting a door... the door automatically breaks the skirting at the point of insertion......

morning is it better to export a PDF from a layer or a viewport just created a simple floor plan and exported from a design layer, are there any advantages of exporting from a viewport my plan was created in wireframe with some solid fills thanks

Thanks pat....I did not know this option was available....great tip thanks

hi pat having problems in finding this, could you show me where to find this option thanks

could we have this as an option when inserting a door...the oip already has loads of options like sidelights would be great to insert a certain selection of door handles at source

Completely understand your train of thought.........

i sometimes in this situation....if its a variation on a base design....make 2 copies of the original file and then alter each file so i don't get to mixed up , once i have completed the design changes i have then imported the design layers into the master file and then created my viewports.....i know i am probably doing it all wrong but i find this easier and less complicated.....i just name my files option 1 option 2 and so on.. it works for me but i know it's not the correct way

could we not have a clip cube whilst creating a camera view on a design layer just pull the clip to create your desired view and then export as a viewport

hi pat i was doing some shapes and the class was set to fill background so i created a few overlapping lines and curves and the wanted to combine into surface but to do this there has to be no background fill well i thinks that's correct otherwise you get funny results....so it would have been useful but not essential to swap from fill to no fill......i guess the easiest way would have been to create a new class with no fill and then change the class to fill once all the shapes were created.....no big deal really but a simple command as in photoshop to switch from black to white would have been good thanks for coming back on this one

hi is there a shortcut for turning an image fill of and on........

Maybe a stupid idea but could you double convert . Back to 2012 open the file and then convert to 2008 from there

great idea thank you very much

yes it would be nice to customise the settings....but maybe it could fail....... if the profiles are to complicated or as you mentioned barbed wire. i know this is something that could happen in future releases but until then it's back to the usual way i usually create a path and do extrude along paths for my rails and create the posts and save as symbols its takes a bit of time but it works......i guess in hindsight i could have used the tool and added the base flanges after.....may give this a go...... guess this could be the way forward until we get customised settings

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trying to get this to look right....i have a ramp from a flat platform but the ground also slopes from left to right so where the ramp meets the ground i need a way of meeting up with the ground at the moment i have created a simple site model and kept on adjusting the levels so it looks correct on a render.....are there better ways of achieving this ....thanks

thanks jim its as you say could really do with the bolt on to make the tool full-proof a great tool but lacking the final detail.....

just getting to grips with this tool in vectorworks 2017, so please forgive the terminology trying to create this post with a 170mm diameter base fixing flange can't seem to find a way of creating this base flange in the settings menu wondered if you create a custom tube post.......thanks... the attachment shows a version 16 and i have modelled the tube post and saved it as a symbol this is what i am trying to achieve thanks all

I guess that would be the problem as you may have to reapply materials when you make changes it really needs a seamless export plug in from the software company to avoid this

Looks like it's a bit like Artlantis but I don't think there is an export plugin from VW to keyshot as there is with Artlantis but there may be looks a nice render engine

hi pat i usually if i have 30 textures that are all the same ie leather i would call the class leather-1 leather-2 and so on or if it was a wallpaper wallpaper-1 and so on......hope this helps thanks phil

hi pat I need just create a class....don't need to assign a pen colour or thickness it's for my render programme....basically any part of the model has to have a class assignemnt....so on this project for instance, i have 30 surfaces that have a different leather texture when i export the model and then open it in artlantis there will be the 30 surfaces with a class that i can drag and drop my materials onto....the class of course need a fill but the colour and line thickness to the look of the render once inside the artlantis window......when i am preparing my technical drawings inside VW i do assign pen colours and a line thickness this is a screen grab from my render window hope this makes sense thanks

hi is there anyway of programming my mouse to do a right click that come up with new class I have just had about 30 surfaces to create classes all at one time would be nice to right click and have that option if there is not one already thanks

agreed sometimes a game changer.....pure knowledge base.... and loads of very helpful people.....

just turned the clip cube back on and clipped the drawing and it clipped everything!!!!! sometimes like this i reach for a pen and my old drawing board.......all good fun

i know i wonder if it can only clip solid objects with fills