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I know how annoing it can be if things you use every day suddenly change and you have to invent a new workflow. Actually in this case, for me the new order in the DataBar is a real time gainer. Since I'm mostly working with fixed distances and variable duplicates (scaffolding) it saves me an additional click in a workflow I'm doing 100 times a day. So for me, please leave the duplicate tab in first postion.

aaaah, I knew I need a new pair of glasses 😀 Thank You Pat ! 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results'

Is it really true that this option is no more availalble ??? Or was it re-named ??? VW 2025: VW 2026:

just an idea, since I often stumble over this: The Data Tag tool in general responds in viewports only to the top level object, so you need to send the object you want to tag to front. (This has to be done in the design layer, not in the viewport.)

Hi, I do a simple symbol count in a self-written report and export this to the rental software for packing the job. Works for more than 20 years now. Never needed to intergate this to the the lighting, rigging and sound workflow since scaffolding is mostly a seperate compartment. 😉

maybe this? in 3d it only works when arc and line are definitetely on the same height. If they are on different heights (maybe accidently a very small difference) the tangent only works in plan view.

Hi Pat, I think it is possible, have a look at that German Version of VectorWorks. It has a kind of data manager , I think it working via ODBC connection and it does exactly this job. I can’t test it since I am working with the international Version.

Looking at this video my memories are awakend when 20 years ago I created my first curved truss in Vectorworks. This was precisely the method I used. I the end, what often helps in these cases, is to imagine how things are assembled in the real world. Nobody will ever bend a complete lattice beam of 50m and more. It will always be assembled by pieces of curved main beams and straight lattices. Considering things like this and following these assembling lines very often helped me to find the most straight forward ways for drawing real world things. The other approach is from the design world. I am often very impressed how designers use CAD-design tools in a creative way. These results can never be achieved while thinking about assembly lines. But after the design was created, you often have the question 'How on earth can this be realized?' and you will return to the most simple tools in drawing and assembling...

That is right. No chance to use Lookup with database rows. That's why I did not proceed on this topic,- no solution in sight. The German version of Vectorworks has a great tool for connecting data with (referenced) other data, which solves the above problems, but unfortunately I'm on the international Version. Maybe it will be implemented within the next 100 years to the international Version. 😁😁😁 In between I do my data-merging and analysis outside of Vectorworks with Base, Access, Excel or similar.

Had this issue too a few days ago. What helped was to chose another printer in the page setup, save the file, the return to the previous printer and set the Horizontal and Vertical values to 1. I wasn't able to find out why this happened,- perhaps a printer error.

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Great Video, great explanation for working planes, it was a pleasure to watch this again and I really noticed that I had completely forgotten about some tricks with working planes. But there are some changes since VW21, sometimes very confusing: First, in general, to get rid of the 'pink square': Select Window/Palettes/Working Planes to open the workingplanes palette, then double click active Layer plane and it is gone. Second: Why does the pink square show up at all ? When changing to a side, front, or top view, the pink square shows up with a dashed border. This indicates that any 2D tool you will use now will be aligned to this 'temporary' working plane and not to the active layer plane. As soon as you leave this view the the pink rectangle disappears (usually). Now, if you want to keep this temporay working plane you can click the pink 'Align Plane' button to keep this (or any other view you are just using) as working plane. Now the pink rectangle looses its dashed border and becomes sticky, so from now on you will be drawing in this workingplane, unregarded what view you will choose. The pink square stays unless you choose the above command to return to the Active Layer Plane. I think this procedure was invented to replace the legacy 'screen plane only / working plane only' command. So now to the confusing part in VW25: For some reason that I can't reproduce or identify (and I really tried hard to do that), some operations sometimes lead to an automated change from 'temporary working plane' with dashed border to 'aligned Plane' which will then be sticky. Very confusing, especially when you do not know how to return to the active layer plane. Maybe someone else here can explain what causes this magic. I'm exited for comments. 😀

That is really great ! I was thinking about a custom selection or object visibility, but 'is flipped' is not available as criteria there... Thank you so much ! Great help !

maybe someone else stumbled over this too: flipped objects may be identical or not, depending on their symmetry. I often flip complete drawings to get a quick overview for quotations or rough calculations. When it comes to realization, all these instances need a revision, since attached records are copied with the flipped instance, and an overlooked flipped instance may lead for example to a wrong welding of the structural member above or prepping the wrong trusspiece in the event industry. So what would really help is to display in the OIP whether the object was flipped or not. Worksheets can show whether symbols are flipped or not, but only when not summarized. Not very handy when dealing with 3500 symbol instances. Also there is no solution for flipped groups and other flipped objects. Maybe I have overseen something, any comments appreciated 😀

I also had this 'issue' a few days ago,- I located the problem between my keyboard and my office chair: 'duplicate' a resource is only working with the active document. 😁 maybe this helps 😀