Bruce Kieffer
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It just happened again. I'll try to get a screen movie. OK, screen movie saved. I'm sending it to you @Josh Loy.
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I think everyone will agree Vectorworks should remember where it's placed, and there should be a way to hide it for those of us who don't use it.
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3 hours ago, Josh Loy said:
@Bruce Kieffer Happy New Year! I'm having a little difficulty understanding what's not working; next time you have the issue would you mind doing a quick screen recording and sending it to me?
I will if it happens again. I spoke this with support on Monday and they suggested "repairing" Vectorworks using the updater and going to the Advanced settings. I did that, and so far the snapping issue and a few other issues I was seeing have not reappeared.
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Thanks @Pat Stanford. I do know that. I want to change the default sort to alphabetical so they are alphabetical when I open Vectorworks. And that is why I wish for this.
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Love the GIF. Exactly how I feel!
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I never use this. I've switched it a few times, but it seems to do nothing helpful for my work. Is there a way to stop it from appearing when I edit an object?
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The default sort is by stacking #. Let us change that to alphabetical if we want.
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1 minute ago, rDesign said:
Cllick and drag the Layers to change their stacking order. Then they will stay in the correct stacking order upon reopening the file.
That will work, but that is not changing the default sort, which is what I want.
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Layers and sheets default sort by stacking #. Is there a way to change the default to alphabetical? I change it manually when I boot Vectorworks, but Vectorworks reverts every time I quit and restart Vectorworks.
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It appears that when I migrated from 2023 to 2024 Vectorworks did not update the locations of my referenced files. You see in these screenshots that Vectorworks is looking to the file in my old user folder. The updated file is in my 2024 user folder. How do I update the reference?
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I had to restart Vectorworks 3 times last night to bring back my ability to grab an object by snapping to a point. There's a problem and so far I cannot determine what the cause is.
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1 hour ago, rDesign said:
If I were drawing the cabinetry details from your example, I would have drawn the shelf bracket support holes with 2D circle annotations in the Hidden Line SLVP. I would not bother with modeling them in 3D.
That is an option. I assume it would work to be able to snap to the center. Even so, not being able to see the outline of the dividers on the cabinet sides is still a problem. I've moved on and I have given up the idea of using section VPs to do what I need to do.
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28 minutes ago, line-weight said:
I don't really understand what you're trying to achieve. I'm not quite sure how a section of a wireframe would really be meaningful or useful. Can you post something that lets us see what you're trying to show?
Look back at the original post. I explained the need there.
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It would be nice is there was a simple formula to place the name of the worksheet into a cell of the worksheet. See this thread on the community board:
The name of this worksheet, and the sheet layer, is Cut List Crown Fillers. I typed that into the cell, but I would like that to display using a formula.
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I ran into this "wish" today. I'll add it to the wish list.
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42 minutes ago, Mickey said:
Ha thwarted again.
I thought this time I really outsmarted 'em.
I created a clip cube so that only my desired objects were visible.
Now no issues of a front view, and seeing through to objects behind what I wanted to show.
Perfect.
Use the command to create a viewport , and "Display with clip cube" so only my clipped view would be in the viewport, and I could give it annotations.
Ha...!
The checkbox was greyed out.
Much head scratching until you hover over it, and read the info.
" ...Only available in shaded and renderworks modes"
Why is it so hard to do a section, or clip cube view port in wireframe?
I went down that wrong road too! Sad. The solution is easy. Give us wire frame in the section VP.
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I may have stated the problem wrong since when I disable the cues it looks different than my issue, which is, I can see the mid points and end points, but I don't see the pointer cues (the cross shown in the screenshot) to snap to those points.
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This has been happening to me a lot lately. I have no idea why. I have to restart Vectorworks to bring them back. Also, lots of odd screen redraw issues.
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Perfect @Pat Stanford. Yea, classes selected are not important until I get the count correct, and I have that good now. This info will be helpful now that I am doing the cabinet construction. I'm cutting parts today.
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48 minutes ago, Pat Stanford said:
Rearrange the criteria so the ALL comes first and then the ANY is a subset inside the all.
Good. That is working. Thanks @Pat Stanford
Now I want to add some of the other cabinet parts to the worksheet list. I tried this, but no luck.
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I want my worksheet to show all the cabinet backs in the East Wall Uppers, North Wall Uppers, and West Wall Uppers layers. The real count is 8, the worksheet counts 1937! I have yet to find the correct way to setup the criteria. I need help!
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33 minutes ago, Andy Broomell said:
To clarify what I think Bruce is saying:
In this particular Viewport Class Properties pop-up, you must hit enter before any search results are shown, whereas in other places search boxes automatically begin showing the results as you type. There doesn't seem to be a clear reason for this inconsistency. This has been commented on several times since list search was implemented years ago, so I think it's about time to implement Bruce's suggestion - it's a good one!
(Correct me if I'm wrong, Bruce, but you're not talking about the "Filters" dropdown at all, right? Just the immediate feedback of Searching...)
@Andy BroomellExactly! It may be called Dynamic Filtering, but I have always called it filtering. I have used it on my web pages.
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Some search boxes are filters. Those are great. Others like this are not, that is bad. As I type the list should show less results (filter).
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27 minutes ago, markdd said:
I needed to do this once before and created a data tag to read the Object Name of the Viewport. The Name field is filled in with the View when viewports are created using the Create Multiple Viewport Command.
That's the only solution I found.....
I don't think that method is automatic. I would need to enter the name as the view, say "Front View". Problem there is if the VP's view is change to say Top, then the name has to be changed to Top View. I ask last night here about a Data Tag formula to do this. I can't find one. I thought about your method this morning, but realized it was no better than my just using a text block.
I have to think there's a simple way to do this. Hard to imagine that an annotation as important as stating the view is not automated.
Snap cues disappear!
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Uploaded here too for others to see. I cannot grab the corners or other snap points.