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I now want to get my point cloud into a georeferenced file, so that I can start bulding my site model and then my building model around it. The pointcloud itself isn't georeferenced - so I am going to have to do this manually. Any recommended tutorials for how to do this in VW2025? Some of the ones I can find seem to be based on previous versions of VW and I'm aware that some new stuff (Survey Point tool?) has been added in 2025 that is supposed to make the process easier. I haven't really tried setting up georeferencing properly before but want to try it out on this project.

That tutorial seems to focus on how cabling is dealt with - I think architects will generally be most interested in how fittings (lights, switches, sockets etc) can be represented. What we want is a sort of schematic plan, but overlaid on a scale drawing, so that the physical locations of the fittings are shown. Is there a tutorial that gives an overview of how that could look?

The "by distance" option where you can do it by directly clicking on points on the drawing is very handy though; saves a lot of steps.

That's what the OP is talking about. There's not a "by distance" option for scaling assymetrically.

But actually, being able to move the whole thing around is kind of critical to it being useful, at least from the point of view of dealing with situations where a lot of fittings are crowded into a small area, or are placed vertically above one another.

I've come to this thread just to reinforce the above - in the UK architects absolutely do make these kinds of plans all the time. And doing them in VW is currently a little painful, because (other than some slightly elaborate workarounds discussed in other threads) they basically have to be done entirely manually.

By the way - does the Spotlight bit of VW deal with this kind of issue? I'm entirely unfamiliar with it but it produces schematics doesn't it? Are there any tools in there that already do something like this?

I think I'd want to be able to move more than just the text around. Ideally - placing the 3d symbol in the model would, by default, place (in a plan view) the 2d symbol as shown in the left hand image below. So, at the actual X,Y location of the fitting itself. But I'd be able to grab the symbol and move it somewhere else manually if necessary, like the image on the right. I am imagining it having a kind of "rubber band" connection to its X,Y location, which I've shown as a dotted line here.

I think I'd initially imagined that the Data Tag somehow took the place of the 2d component of the symbol - so it would remain associated with the 3d symbol but could be moved around fairly flexibly in a lighting plan view in order to maintain legibility in complex layouts.

There is one - in the annotations space of the viewport on the sheet layer. I can see that if I move the light symbol in 3d space, the data tag that's associated with it in the SLVP moves along with it. However... duplicating the symbol does not produce a duplicate symbol with data tag attached. Presumably in this kind of work flow, you'd have to manually associate a data tag with each symbol that appears in the plan viewport.

Yes - something like this has been asked for on other threads - something that allows the user to build custom parametric PIOs when none of the VW built in ones are suitable for the job.

It's those "zoo" areas that are the main issue. The system I tried using works ok except when you need to manually adjust the location of the 2d symbol for legibility purposes. Especially when you want to make an edit to the layout under time pressure during construction phase of a project (and can't quite remember how you set it all up a couple of months earlier)! I may take a look at @E|FA's file to look at how it works. I'm not a big user of data tags (so far).

Do you still tell VW to import the .shp file only, or do you point it to the folder? If I point it to the folder, it does not want to import it.

Two things I noticed when trying to import one of the .shp files in the OP's links: - the file is very small - 2kb - when I import it into VW, the ruler bars around the drawing window go blank - the OIP says that 3 3d polygons are present but I can't see anything.

I might have misunderstood what you mean - but with my 3DC Spacemouse it operates in "helicopter" mode.

I'm actually on Ventura at the moment, and trying to decide whether to move to Sonoma or Sequoia. The Sonoma thread "update" (dated from September) at the top implies there are still known issues for those using external displays (that includes me) - is that still up to date info?

@JuanP would you recommend Sequoia over Sonoma? Looking at this thread suggests there are still problems with Sonoma - is that correct?

It's worth being aware that custom line types have their limits - the way they bend/fit the geometry is not very sophisticated.

It's not somehow part of this problem is it? Do you have issues placing the cursor where you want it?

What do you mean by the "overwriting" issue?

I quite often use this method too. One problem that I find with using class to control visibility is that over time, the saved views that are used to switch between options can start to pick up odd classes that aren't supposed to be affected by that saved view. And I have to go in to the saved view settings and tidy up. I think this usually happens when a new class is created, and the already-existing saved view includes this class as "visible". There is probably some way in which in theory I can stop this happening but a dedicated optioning tool might make things easier to manage. Elsewhere there's been a request to allow Saved Views to be shown in a hierarchical menu. That would also be very helpful for this - so I could have a sub-menu that just contained saved views to do with optioning. It's easy to end up with a long and cumbersome Saved views list. Finally - sometimes, instead of using groups/classes to make options I use layers. I make a duplicate of the design layer(s) where I want to create an alternative option. This can feel less fiddly to manage.

Not in a useful way, though, if you want the attributes of the original objects to be applied to the result of the subtraction.

Good question ... I often come up against this and have never found a solution, other than the tedious one of doing each object individually. It's possible to make a solid addition of all the objects you want to cut, and then do a subtraction/intersection on the resultant object, which will cut everything in one go, but then it's all lumped together as one solid object and the attributes of the individual parts are lost.

Isn't this already possible?

So... I am finding that I am getting an annoying effect when using my Spacemouse Pro in VW2025 in Macos Ventura. It's a kind of rolling shutter effect as if the screen is refreshing from bottom to top at a low framerate. I think this started with moving from Monterey to Ventura, rather than from VW2023 to VW2025 because I get something similar in VW2023. My 3dconnexion driver version is a relatively old one, and I'm wondering if I should update to the latest one (10.8.6). I am nervous about changing anything because previous experience with 3dc drivers tells me it can mess things up. Does anyone have a 3dconnexion device running on Ventura/VW2025 sucessfully with that latest driver version?