Bruce Kieffer

Sure I could do that, but it would be better for me if I could set the symbol to Bot Z = 1/2" since all of the tile is set at that height, but the problem remains the OIP shows it at Bot Z = 0".

I think I understand, but I do feel it makes more sense to have the correct Bot Z dimension appear in the OIP. Here's an example: I created a floor tile symbol and set its Bot Z to 1/2" so it resides on top of the 1/2" OSB subfloor. It orients correctly in my drawing, but the OIP shows its Bot Z as 0, which I consider wrong. It has caused me problems.

I set my symbol's Bot Z to 1/2". I place the symbol, it is 1/2" up from zero, yet the OIP says it's at 0. Why is this? Wouldn't it make more sense for the OIP to say it's at 1/2" when it actually is at 1/2"?

Thanks Jonathan. That works great.

I created a 3D wall tile and made it a hybrid symbol with a top/plan 2D component. I can mirror that symbol horizontally on the wall, but not vertically. Is this expected behavior?

I've been working trying to "fix" the same issues with the dovetail pin I use to model dovetailed drawers. Getting that to work was more difficult. I tried a bunch of different ways to model the dovetail pin, and finally the one that worked was a basic extrude where I used the taper face tool to make the 14° sides.

It shouldn't happen. It's a bug.

Thanks bjoerka. I just gave it a try. That seems to fix the problem. I do need to ungroup the bad solid subtractions and subtract them again to make them behave as I want. Thanks. All I did was go to my biscuit symbol, edit #D component, convert to NURBS, and that was enough.

Here's a video of manipulating a color with Affinity Photo which is a $50 app, 1 GB in size, and it takes 2 seconds to boot the app. I would have saved an hour of time last night if Vectorworks could adjust a custom color palette color this way. Screen Recording 2019-05-09 at 6.55.40 AM.mov

And it needs to be able to be edited live to see the results live. I'm an hour into trying to get a color I need all because of the incredible amount of clicking going in and out to edit the color. Yes, I am frustrated.

OMG!!! Seven clicks just to get to the edit a custom color screen. Better to have an edit color command in a contextual menu. Click the color in the Attributes Palette, right click, select edit color.

I think the color palette "find" would be easier to use if it were a live filter. Start typing and the list reduces by the filter request. Close the color palette and the filer resets to all.

In other words; make the filter act as we type. As it is now we need to press return to see the filter results.

I have dealt with this for years and now it's time to revisit. Why is my solid subtraction not 3/4" thick? Instead it's .7500000004 thick. This makes no sense, and it is causing me problems with alignment of other objects. In the real world if I drill a hole into something, that action does not change the thickness of the object, but with Vectorworks it does. Why? I have attached a sample file. Bad Solid Subraction.vwx

Often I use a combination of millimeters and inches, so I have to switch back and forth using the Units pref. I wish there was an option to show dual dimensions in the OIP. There's plenty of space there.