Amanda McDermott
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Mine still takes a while...but it did improve significantly once we stopped storing the shared workspace over VPN, and started using Dropbox instead. Sorry that doesn't sound to help you @hollister design Studio but might help others. Will follow with interest to see if you come up with solutions to make it quicker!
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Hello,
As title suggests, it would be really helpful if the default for landscape areas was to display plants in alphabetical order, please. At present we have to manually rearrange them.
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16 hours ago, gangotti said:
@PNWPaulSame thing happened to me and removing the GenerateImage.vlb from the plugin folder fixed it for me.
Thanks for this tip, it does seem to have at least worked enough to get the program open without crashing...! I can't get U4a, wouldn't re-download update saying not enough space and also unknown error.
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I'm having the same issues and not in NZ...update 4 crashes before it's even opened properly, and running Repair hasn't helped. Trying downloading the updater again now, but it wasn't finding a 4a, just saying I'm up to date...
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49 minutes ago, Tom W. said:
Hmm I'm not seeing that... Make sure you are editing the TBB style... I can remove all fields except one.
Thanks - it was true that I needed to edit the style and not the instance, but also true that unticked custom fields were showing.
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@Tom W. thank you, this has worked and will make things much easier! I was confused because our custom fields were showing despite not being ticked, I guess that's a bug...
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On 3/11/2024 at 6:33 PM, Tom W. said:
You should get rid of any redundant data fields you don't want to see: in the 'Manage Sheet Data' dialog, uncheck 'Date' + 'Scale' + these will no longer appear in the 'Sheet Data' pane which should free up some space + mean the fields don't need to be spread over two pages (you can also resize the dialog to increase the display area). You can also change the stacking order of the data fields in the 'Manage Sheet Data' dialog + this will dictate the order they appear in the TBB Style/TBB Settings/TB Manager dialogs. This allows you to place the most important or more frequently used ones at the top for example.
Again, a tick in the 'Display' column will place the data field in the TBB Style/TBB Settings/TB Manager dialogs so check the ones you want to use + uncheck the redundant ones.
Similarly, in the OIP for a TBB object you have the 'Display Data Settings...' button where you can control which data fields display in the OIP (again via ticks in the 'Display' column). So this is useful if you have fields which are more convenient to edit via the OIP rather than opening up the TBB Style/TBB Settings/TB Manager dialogs + doing it there.
You have a lot of freedom to customise things exactly the way you want them!
This sounds great thanks, I'll have a go...
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On 3/7/2024 at 8:10 PM, Tom W. said:
You can! As far as I know you have full control over what is displayed in the TBB Style dialog, in the OIP + in the TBB object itself obviously. What do you mean when you say click through to the next page...? Project Data + Sheet Data in the TBB settings...?
Ooh thanks @Tom W., I do hope I'm just missing something! I mean in the 'Title block manager', where we fill in the fields for the project/sheet. This is what I see when I enter 'Title block manager':
In Project Data, I have to click through to 'Mange Project Data' to populate our custom fields for Project Name and Client Name (which do not have a tick next to them in 'Display', but do display in the title block when I edit the default text...)
Under 'Sheet Data' you can see I've now added custom instructions in the boxes on our template, because the 'real' date and scale fields that actually populate our title block are hidden on the next tab:
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I also had a related issue last week, where I was allowing it to auto number sections, in order that it would update the references automatically - but the section numbering was starting at 2, and I couldn't work out how to get it to start at 1... any insights welcome! (I suspect it was because it considered my viewport object #1, but in reality it looked like there was a section missing... )
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5 hours ago, Tom W. said:
Be amazing if you had all the options you have with TBBs...
Whilst we're wishing for things, it would be amazing if when you've made custom fields in TBBs, you could hide the auto ones if not using them, so that our custom fields showed on the first page! e.g. we've made our own 'date' field, but I'm always accidentally filling in the auto one and wondering why it's not showing up (because I have to click through to the next page to find our actual field that populates our title block)
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5 minutes ago, Tom W. said:
Another option would be to attach a custom record with a pop-up field for the Plant Type...?
True - a lot of the imported plants already have the 'Category' field populated though, so it would be nice to use that.
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10 hours ago, Jeff Prince said:
I don't think you can accomplish reporting the plants in a LA by class due to the way vectorworks builds LAs as I mentioned earlier.
However, you could potentially use the Field "Category" and use the values in there to report out how you want, assuming you have been or will populate the Category field appropriately.
Adding this to your criteria for instance in place of a class methodology might work, I mean that's one of the reasons it exists... so you can organize your plant list by Category or quantify all the trees on a project for instance. Just watch out for Shrub vs Shrubs and such...
('Plant Record'.'Category'='Shrub')
This is how we do it - but it's easy to be caught out by 'Shrub' vs 'Shrubs' etc - it would be good if there was an editable drop-down list to choose from so you could remove some of that human error (and that list would alert you if both Shrub and Shrubs existed and you could take steps to get rid of the one you didn't want...)
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I think the current answer is no, but I'd like to see this too. Post it as a wish list item and I'll upvote it!
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Until you get a clever script - you can create two stake objects on top of one another, set one to read existing and one proposed, set one label position to right and one to left. Set each to different classes with different text styles to match your existing/proposed. Group the pair. Then you can copy and paste the group and get existing/proposed read out.
Not ideal as it doesn't deal with the height difference, and was hoping it would work as a symbol, but it doesn't...
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I know the answer! I'd just missed the toggle top left to switch to editing the profile rather than the edge...
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Thanks very much both, yes this is the answer! (For anyone else struggling, it's in the 'site planning' toolset, the icon looks like this:
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I've edited the shape of my path object, but the longitudinal profile is still following the centre line of the old path alignment (in plan). How do I get it to centre on the new line of the path?
@Katarina Ollikainen @Marketa Hermova can it be done? Hope I'm just missing where to click!
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Hello all,
I feel sure this must be possible... how do I put a smart-annotation on a slope, e.g. '1:3', that will update itself if I edit the model? They are integrated in objects like paths, but where it's just the sloping ground between things, how do I get a read-out?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi all,
I am running Vwx 2024 3.1, and cut and fill volumes are working, but there's still something odd going on I think - when I view 3D as cut and fill the location of the model appears to jump to 0 elevation ( I think!). If I view as 'proposed only' or 'existing only' the model sits where the yellow outline is indicating, but when I view as cut + fill, it jumps to 0 and I have to zoom extents to find it.
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@deadtomorrow I'm watching the 'worksheets' coffee break - wonder if you could use a worksheet to batch edit plant tags... we're about 35 min in, @michaelk is talking about doors but if it's an option to get data tag styles in a worksheet column then maybe you could do the edit there...
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It sounds like import units is the answer - but just in case, I've seen new users struggle before where they have layers set at different scales to one another. e.g. if your survey layer is set at 1:1000, and you're drawing on a 1:1 layer. I'd say there's rarely a reason to want layers at different scales to one another, and you can just check the 'set all layers to same scale' button.
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On 2/3/2024 at 8:38 PM, Raja said:
Update: 2024 is still slow and jumpy. It is better than before, but not up to snuff.
Have you got it installed on an SSD? I have yet to test it in earnest, but I think that uninstalling (from HD) and installing to the SSD on my laptop has made a difference to issues I was having.
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On 2/16/2024 at 11:10 PM, Jeff Prince said:
Wow, over a month without response?
Did anyone ever help you?
Not yet...
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Hi @deadtomorrow - Not sure I've fully understood, but I wonder if @michaelk's 'cool trick' described at
could be repurposed somehow to help with your issue... (If you work it out please report back!)
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Publishing sheet layers - wrong size issue
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Have you tried editing that blue highlighted text to be 1 in both Horizontal and Vertical boxes? I think this is saying that your paper size is 2x larger than A1.