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Hey all, I have a set of plans on an A1 sheet which has been causing me endless problems, it contains 9 viewports which are all unshaded. Sending to print does not cause vectorworks to crash however it makes it totally unresponsive at the progress bar "sending to print" I have repeatedly had to kill vectorworks after hanging there for ~40 minutes doing nothing. A work around has been to export it to PDF however the file works out at 34MBs for a b&w vector sheet. I find this quite unacceptable as does my plotter. I notice on loading the pdf it renders all the components to all the walls behind the facing elevations (surely unnecessary?!?!) Aside from crashing constantly and being unable to plot... is there a work around this I would ideally like to be able to get these drawings out to planning today! Many thanks

Hi Wes, thanks for the message, I did manage to edit the dormer, however, it seemed 1 step forward 2 backward. I found the only way to raise the window was to decrease the "bottom height", and play with the "offset from top" while making height larger (which adversely affected the radius of my bat dormer), sometimes the result was different even though the values were the same as previous attempts. I'm a little dumbfounded by this, there doesn't seem to be a metric to it. Also the roof surface seems to have the largest size of the dormer (from original insert) bitten out of it. which is a nuisance really. Is there a way around this? Many thanks

Hi again, I seem to be full of questions that I am not able to find previously mentioned. The project I'm working on at the moment has a sprocketed/splayed roof, where it changes angle from a 30? to a 55? angle. The roof tool doesn't have options to do it. I've achieved it by making two sets of roof surfaces. However, I'm now needing to fillet the two to smooth into each other. Also, I'm finding the dormer option is rendering the window sitting at the the roof elevation, not the sill height. Is there a work-around for this? Many thanks in advanced!

Hi there JimW, This is the current work-around I'm settling for, however, as you can imagine it's far from perfect.

Hi all, I'm excited to finally have an account on here after reading many great threads that have been very helpful! I've searched various forums (including this one) and have not yet seen this question, without further ado. The problem I'm finding, the current project I'm working has a couple of three sash windows in a row, the two outer are half the width of the central. The glazing bars/muntins are divide equally across all three windows, I see you can exclude the glazing bars from a pane but not change the ratio. Has anyone got an answer to overcoming this? Attached is an image of what I'm trying to achieve. Presently I've suck two single sashes side on to the larger sash to achieve my goal, but am not happy with this result.