[Cabinet Tool - VWX 2024 - not allowed to customize drawer and door sizes as advertised]

Solved in the General Forum by Kevin K & Tom W.  Thank you both!

[Cabinet Tool - VWX 2024 - not allowed to customize drawer and door sizes]

2 hours ago, Kevin K said:

@L_M Someone else was having the same issue as you are.  I responded to their inquiry.

Here was my response and how to address the issue. Basically, you need to click on the little icon, in your case, next to the drawer double and door double, and that icon will turn into a 'pencil' which means it is now it the 'edit mode' and all let you input whatever data you wish and the items will no logger be grayed out 🙂

 

Many many thanks Kevin...and Tom!!  So relieved it was user error. 

With gratitude!
-L.

[Cabinet Tool - VWX 2024 - not allowed to customize drawer and door sizes]

Using VWX 2024 Spotlight & the parametric cabinet tool. 
I have specified an "Unstyled" cabinet (and even went in to one version and selected "by instance" rather than by-class) but with each cabinet I use I don't seem to be able to alter or input the size (height) of the drawer or doors to my specification...it always appears to be greyed out?  This is true no matter if I choose 'define item height' or 'opening height'.
I've looked this up in help, watched videos using this tool, etc.  to no avail.

Am I experiencing this due to being a Spotlight program user and not a Architect or Design program user, or am I just using the tool incorrectly (or missing a checkbox that will allow customization)?
 

See screenshot for visual of Cabinet menu in question.

[Cabinet Tool - VWX 2024 - not allowed to customize drawer and door sizes as advertised]

Using VWX 2024 Spotlight & the parametric cabinet tool.  I have specified Unstyled (and even went in to one version and selected "by instance" rather than by-class) but with each cabinet I use I find I can not alter or input the size (height) of the drawer or door...it appears to always be greyed out?  This is true no matter if I choose 'define item height' or 'opening height'.
I have looked this up in help, watched videos using this tool, etc.  to no avail.

Am I experiencing this due to being a Spotlight program user and not a Architect or Design program user, or am I just using the tool in correctly (or missing a checkbox that will allow customization)?

See screenshot for visual of Cabinet menu in question.


 

[AUTO-SAVE Custom Location resets to default "Save over original" after every Service Pack update]

Have  noticed over the last two service pack updates (one for 2022 & then now for 2023) that my Auto-save custom location (in this case a separate drive on my PC) gets reset to "Save over original file" without me knowing it.  I have just learned this after crashing and losing some work from a past version that was needed.  Very frustrating. 
The previous v2022 incident, before discovering this,  caused me to be bereft of nearly a half-month of no incremental file backups.  There was a cloud server issue where we lost some files, and my Auto-save backup locally to a separate disk is usually the safety backup for files on a job. AKA the reason I have a separate drive that only ever stores backups.  This Service Pack update causing Auto-save custom location to be lost is surprising...and especially in the event that there was no warning that it would happen, or so it seems.

 

Is there a way for future updates to maintain custom settings...please?  I have no idea if there are other custom settings being reset upon update, but this one is a really harsh one to find out "by surprise".

[Escalator model?]

A year late and older information, but found this PDF useful still.

http://app-help.vectorworks.net/2019/eng/Commands_Tools2019.pdf

 

Confirmed the escalator tool is only available in Architect and Designer. Drat!

 

P.S. Hi e! :)