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@digitalcarbon Sounds amazing. so how come so many simple things never ever get fixed? I keep a log now of my bug submissions. It's sadly 2 years old and I'm still waiting. Unless I ask it disappears into the ether and my day to day business takes priority and I forget. I love my software, but I have a business to run. Most of our projects/workflow rely on a consistency tenure of 2 years, we have to work with what we've got, so we can't just drop everything and work to a new standard/way we were not expecting to unless it actually works. So frustrating. We always upgrade but never before SP1. The bugs I have identified are big bugs which are preventing the software delivering simple things and what it says it should do. We have a right to say this because we are not beta testers we are software pioneers: we actually want it to deliver. This is what I have wanted to say for some time.

Aaah I see. Its a lot more stable in the annotation on a sheet layer, sorry for the confusion.

Just to be clear editing in here,,,,,,it's just I saw the "flickering orange" viewport a few times which would suggest not.... ??

Can I ask if those lines are being applied in the annotation of the viewport? @line-weight

Out of interest what is the standard setting of DPi for Design Layer Raster Rendering please? Thank you!

Hello @Andrew Davies this sounds quite similar to an issue I had recently so I'm wondering if @Domas at Vectorworks can assess if it was same/similar. Domas do you remember my 3d symbols going very strange and we ended up having to re-import them after deleting errant 2d elements ? Just a thought? Cheers D

Like you @Jim Smith still heavily reliant on tapemeasure.app as I've become a victim a few times with lasers when they take the wrong measurements. I use lasers for long overall dims as a sense check or in those tricky to get at places. The other advantage of tapemeasure.app is when the tape springs back to the housing and cuts your fingers 🙂 I think there are some apps out there that do what you describe......

I agree Wes . Gonna play around with this more tomorrow but I won't feed VW after midnight...... Nice feature.....

Aha Just attempted the same thing with a file definitely created in VW2019 and it's ok. The file behaving oddly was definitely created in 2018.....

Thats odd when I do this in a new file its ok! But when I take an existing file select the existing floor, take its polygon and recreate this as a slab it goes grey. Also when I create a polygon in the existing file the slab goes grey too?? All polys on "None" class white fill . Hmmm....

No I tried classes , didnt seem to make a difference....

Hi Wes its the slab (which turned grey when it became a slab....)

Happy New Year all. I am playing with the AEC/Create objects from shapes/ tool (who knew!) and created a polygon and converted it to a slab. In open GL and "giving it swirlage" as we say here (spinning it round) it was ok (white colour and useable ) but when I revert to top plan it goes grey? Any idea why? (I tried the components but it didnt change)?? Many thanks D

Im not an expert hatcher but when editing hatches you need to ensure you have selected everything to edit. Same colour button (and presumably thickness) does the trick. Otherwise it will only alter the selection highlighted by the 2 black dots eg

@Pat Stanford Thanks Pat I never knew that. Been irritating me since Christmas!

I thought @jimw was the issue manager? 🙂

There is a spiral staircase tool in furniture and appliances resources. Also the simple stair resource is a lot easier to use than the custom stair tool. HtH.

You can always re-render your hair. Select all/ choose a render like brick pink/ job done!

I have been surprised how resilient our old files are. I've managed to open up archived disc files from as far back as 2006-2008 (although I wince at the drawings we produced then!)

It is a truth universally acknowledged that all printers fail during the week before Christmas, just when you are expecting to get a load of drawings and billing out. And this year is no exception!

I love a happy ending!

Hello All and @onyhus. Jim is aware of this. It's not perfect but when I open a file and go file/document settings/preferences/plane mode (and switch to screen plane only) VW seems to stay on screen plane in a far more stable manner than using the tab icon I have attached below. I cant explain why. I admit there are a few operations with do make it switch back to plane mode, but nevertheless I find this execution a far more stable option. Hope this helps.

@phileas As great as the fit walls to object tool is, rightly so it is very very sensitive so it does actually do what it says on the tin and will fit to the object above. If there are imperfections in the roof object it will work round them which is what I think is happening to your walls. So for example (albeit not a good one) if I accidentally place a gutter in the wrong position (see image) the wall will work around it. At least that is maybe what is happening for you? Hope this helps.