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8 minutes ago, Tom W. said:
iMac as per signature
That’s what I thought! Phone version of forum isn’t showing signatures.
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Call tech support.
you might have a new license number or there is some other issue with your license number.
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Last week at least Pat was running a tricked out MacBook Pro with an i9.
I have a MacBook Pro with an M2.
Not sure what Tom is using.
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It was a 2024 file. What version are you using?
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Me, too. I can draw them as fast as my fingers can click.
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Can you send a file with your wall style?
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I'm not seeing that at all.
Are you using a strange custom wall with components with complicated tiles?
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I think this is possible.
If the objects had two versions or modes: A square and a triangle. Make the square in charge of drawing the polygon. Make the triangles update the square when they update. Make the square update all the triangles when it updates.
I have a trivial tool that does something sort of similar, in that each instance of the parametric object can update the others that it is related to.
The code isn't in python, but if you think it would be helpful I'll dig it up 🙂
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I haven't seen any lag using walls.
Just tried an experiment drawing 200 styled walls with components the way @WhoCanDo described. I could not click faster than the walls appeared.
The only lag I ever see with walls is the very first door and the very first window in the drawing take a second. All the doors and windows after that are instant.
In 2023 I used to see a lag when using the @Matt Panzer ™ board and batt method on walls. I haven't had a project in 2024 yet using that technique.
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Try going to Tools > Workspaces and choose Architect.
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That works fine when you have 20 sheets and you are the one reading them 🙂
Typically the Sheet Numbers would help coordinate the drawing for the reader. The Sheet Name would be something human readable that describes the contents of the sheet. For example:
A0 Architectural Cover
A1 Site Plan
A2 First Floor Plan
A3 Second Floor Plan
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A67 Details
S0 Structural Cover
S1 Foundation Plan
S2 Framing Plan
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S45 Details
L0 Landscape Cover
L1 Ground Cover
L2 Irrigation
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L34 Details
C0 Civil Cover
C1 Grading Plan
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C12 Details
Giving them numbers (with prefixes) along with a Name helps guide someone through the set and makes setting up a sheet index possible.
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Parameters. You can change values in the OIP and the object redraws itself with those parameters.
The same you that you can (and I often do) model your own doors and windows. But it's much better to type values into an OIP and watch the computer do the work 🙂
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42 minutes ago, Sam Jones said:
Hopefully, @michaelk, … or @PatStanford who loves the puzzle will jump in, but again, bandwidth will handicap a serious VS attempt to make a PIO out of that drawing. Here's hoping.
I'm replying from a tech table in a theater and I have 5 tools that I desperately want to use for my own work that have been 95% done for months. So my bandwidth is also limited. 🙂
But I love the idea. One of the great things about this forum is seeing how other people build VW tools.
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Pat's correct the Sheet Number MUST be unique. But the Sheet Name does not. So you can have
A4 First Floor Plan
A5 Sections
A6 Sections
But not
First Floor Plan [blank]
Sections [blank]
Sections [blank]
And on each sheet layer the viewports have to have unique drawings numbers (If you have Automatic Drawing Coordination turned on. And why wouldn't you?). Even if your drawing label doesn't show the number, the number MUST be unique. But it doesn't have to be a number. 🙂 The Drawing Label Names do not have to be unique.
This all matters a great deal when:
- Using the reference marker to reference detail drawing in a viewport on another sheet
- In a Section Viewport > OIP > Section Line Instances if you don't have your viewports named (viewport name - not drawing label name) in a way that makes sense to you it's chaos.
- In the Organization dialog box > Visibility's if you don't have things named in some way it's chaos.
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Weird. The 2021 file would open. But not the 2023.
This should work in 2023.
I changed the criteria to look for the class FSR and to include looking inside symbols. That makes getting the FSR area easy 🙂
Then I wrote a little script to return the name of the "Parent". That gets the name of the symbol. Currently, if there is any FSR class geometry not in a symbol it returns a blank.
The area of the symbol is tricky. This one doesn't currently work. Are you looking for the footprint of the symbol or the the total of all the geometry inside the symbol?
The first time you recalculate the worksheet you will get a warning about executing a script inside the worksheet. Choose Always Allow.
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Yes, I think it's possible to do what you want to too.
I'm not able to open your sample file. Might be damaged. Can you reupload?
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The keyboard shortcut for the Wall Preferences is ]. And the keyboard shortcut for the wall tool is 9 (the one at the top of the keyboard - not the one in the num pad).
So the quick way to get to what you want in drawing that has no wall styles is 9].
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Make sure your class options are set to Show/Snap/Modify Others.
And make sure that all the classes that any object inside the symbol could be assigned to are set to visible.
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I always put it in ~/Library/Application Support/Vectorworks/2024/Plug-ins.
Then the Plug-in Manager. Correct!
Even now - long after high school - you could wake me from a dead sleep at 3:00 am and I could instantly list all the accusative and dative German prepositions. But the genders of all the nouns are gone from my brain!
Please feel free to pass along anything else you like here.
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Guten Tag, @Tobias Kern
Bestimmt!
Das .vsm einen partner hat. (eine? eines?). Arrgggg.
Rename Viewports. It renames sheet layer viewports to include the sheet number drawing number and drawing name. (I won't even attempt that in my high school German)
Lassen Sie mich wissen, wenn Sie Fragen haben. (that can't be right)
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Just thought of another way. If you want to really keep things flexible while doing massing models what about a multiple extrude? Draw the overall shape of the roof and then draw a line for the ridge. Select both. Model > Multiple Extrude. Now you have parametric control over the slope of all the roof faces and you can quickly edit the multiple extrude to play with overall shapes.
@Benson Shaw will have another, more clever way, to do this in the morning.
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For really tricky roofs I like to draw all the roof faces too big. Then select the roof faces you are trying to figure out and Modify>Convert>Convert Copy to Lines> Check Hidden Line Rendering. This will give you a group of lines that perfectly follow the ridges and valleys.
Egress Door Tags for permit applications
in Data Tags
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You can now do worksheet style math in a data tag. I think you could use something like (VALUE(occupants using the door)) * .02"
That's a fun puzzle to figure out. I'm sure if you can post a .vwx file with a small example someone will figure it out.