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You've certainly put your time in. Your presence here in the forum has been invaluable. +1 for Fleet Admiral!

The dots seem to be some kind of Star Trek ranking system.

+1 Far from stupid. Almost genius really!

I can't wait! Well...I mean I can. More or less a week today I will sit at my desk and bask in the brand new forum. Thanks Jim for helping make it happen.

+1 for sure on the push/pull tool.

You're definitely right about the fact there is no one correct way Jim. I use a custom titleblock in my office and its applied only in sheet layers at 1:1 I make use of a "titleblock" record that takes advantage of the PROJECT, SHEET AND GENERAL categories. I love being able to change information only once that applies to all titleblocks used in a project. I run my revisions from the GENERAL category on a sheet per sheet basis. I could have that revision info in the SHEET category but I like that its shown all on its own. There is probably even more that could be done with titleblocks that I'm not aware of but that will have to be for another time. I love everyones thoughts here in this thread. Great to read how everyone handles the mundane yet important part of organizing a set of plans.

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I'll Second that on the nice find. Thanks for sharing Josh.

Hey Phil. The subdivision tool takes time to get use too. I managed to quickly get a very simple example of what your looking for. See the pic attached. Use a square to start. Then divide the square with the Edge Split Mode making whatever number of pole points you need. From here you'd select the Transform Mode and select the individual nodes (or dots) at the intersections where your pointed poles need to be. A tri coloured 3D dragger will appear. Pick and drag the blue arrow up for each pole you need. You now have rounded hills at each pole. You then need to finish the points by selecting the Crease Mode and select each point used for a pole and it will create a point. Done! From here its a matter of taking edeges and shifting them as you need. Hope this helps you on your way. Share a pic of your results. Mark

+1 Would be a great, consistent, improvement.

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That would be a cool feature. +1

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Hey Lupin, Maybe this video will help you with end caps to come up with a solution to your problem.

"My problem is that I come from an Autcad background and am used to drawing individual lines, rather than objects. Bouncing back and forth between two different platforms makes proficiency in VW a little slow for me." I totally get what you're saying here. I was an Autocad user before VW and was use to flying through drawings. Things are much different with VW but I find it much more useful overall with the images I can produce from the model. As I have not worked on a project where BIM would shine I can't praise it since much of what I do and how it becomes a reality does not benefit from this kind of workflow. BIM I could see being great if you have to coordinate a building design with a number of other professions.

Great videos Jim. Nicely done.

May be something for the wish lists Markus, but I'd give it a +1.

Hi Cameron, I'm not so sure that you'd find a tutorial for best practices. Most of my work at this time has been housing whether its single detached homes or multi-residential buildings. I'm barely two years into using VW and I'm slowly figuring out how to best use the program and get useful information from it. One of the first things was doors and windows and producing a meaningful schedule for each by using worksheets. Since then I've been looking at making take-off worksheets to get accurate measurements of the different types of materials being used. So I use component based walls, floors and the like. That being said making/using 3D objects in your model is cool but you'd want it to pay off in time. Using walls, floors , roofs and the like can get your cross sections up fairly quickly as well as some details but I find I still use a lot of 2D objects to fill in the gaps. Modelling out joists, studs (framing in general) can be a lot of work and would only be beneficial to me if I can get more info from them other than making details and sections easier/accurate. Do you have access to VSS or Vectorworks Service Select? If so you'd find a large number of tutorials, how to's and the like that may be of some use to you. Cheers! P.S. Had a quick look at your website (nice work by the way) and with some further thought I'd add that ya for you modelling out parts may be of an advantage especially if you use them to illustrate to your clients what the final product or feature may look like. There are plenty of visual clients out there that love this kind of presentation.

What would be the advantage(s) of creating a roof face with Marionette vs the built-in tools?

Well there is plenty of stuff here in the forum, discussion wise, about "storeys". I'm not a fan. I find there is to much room for mucking things up so I stick to the old layers method and find that much more accommodating.

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I think the answer is no and something like Windoor is still not available to everyone else.

jmartinarch, There is a way! First set up a Class that will have the linetype you'd like to see for the cased openings. Make sure that the "Use at Creation" button is checked. You'll need to be in the 2D Visualization menu of the door settings to start. Under the 2D Visualization options make sure that Draw Wall Lines is checked. Then set "Set Attributes By:" to "Class". Down the list you will see a category called "Wall Lines" From here, select the Class that you set up earlier that uses the Linetype you'd like to see. That's it. You'll need to insert the door in a wall to see the results. Cheers.

Hey Dubman, I like that idea and is more in keeping with typical North American architectural practices. By the way there is a Wish List Request Section here in the forum to post an item like this. It may get noticed more in that location. Cheers.