Matt Hall

Wow I did not know that Yes that works Thanks

Graphically, when you call for a 180° door swing, it overlaps with the trim. instead of swinging clear of it. Am I missing something?

yes on paper, keeping the site and the building in separate documents is a clean workflow, good for file size, and solves the twinmotion issue. it seems to be the best option with the tools we have. But it is not a good workflow for the design process. Wouldn't you like to see building and landscape work together as a unified design, and not start and stop creative flow to open up a separate document, then wait to refresh to see how its coming together Your witty "it's funny" comment did give me a chuckle, perhaps the next time an electrician asks me what height to mount the light fixture, I may just give them a height relative to sea level rather the using the floor as a reference. What could go wrong?

I still believe this is an unresolved question. workarounds, yes, but a solution no. It would be good to set the site model to an elevation (a one-time setting) that works with the architectural building Yes, drawing the site and building in separate drawing files and linking them together can be done, but unless you have several buildings of different elevations on one site this is not a good workflow between the site and the building Yes, you can set the design layer elevation of the building so that it works with the site elevation Say the site is at 900 feet above sea level We can set all of the design layers at 900 feet Then, calibrate the auto elevation markers to read 0 feet (arch floor reference) rather than 900 feet But working 900' about the Z plane can be an issue, and you have to manage the layer elevations of every layer all the time This creates a lot of things to manage throughout the project, "It would be good to set the site model to an elevation (a one-time setting) that works with the architectural building."

We have set up our window styles and wall closure so the window are in the correct location automatically. However when I add window sills to the mix, the sill is in the wrong position. they are offset from the correct faces of the window frame it seems the window sills are set up to understand the the center of the window frame and the center of the wall, so when you set your windows to insert of another position other than the "center" it throws off the sill. I really never understood how to control sills so perhaps I am missing something. it seem like the sills are not yet compatible with the new wall and window insertions controls. It would be great to have a detailed video walking through several condition combining sill types, window styles, wall styles with several components set up with wall closures showing how you can place a window exactly where you want it to go relative the the wall components. and or a working file with examples that really cover some real world examples Thank you

When I change the wall closure stetting the wall opening goes to the outside of the frame as shown above the fix If I copy to another document, duplicate the wall with the widow, covert the copy wall to unstyled, fix the wall closure, then create new wall style and name it the same as the original, then copy it into the original document to overide the wall style in the original document then it looks right in plan. Simple? The walls were created in a VW 2023 document. We have had several issues with editing door and window styles after upgrading to VW2024.

The new Rail Tool, Dosnt seem to work with outside stringer stairs I had to convert the stair to a concrete stair, do the handrail and convert it back. I had drawing it in plan then used the gravity tool on a different stair but had issues, most post hit the stringer but one or two would land on some other element that i could not find (lots of levels in this project) PS how about adding a metal pan concrete stair tool to the options (very common commercial stair)

After upgrading to 2024 I we have had some periodic issues with doors. some seem to have disappeared. not right away. might be happening has we modify a wall style but haven't been able to realy see a pattern to when and why it happens one time i moved a wall and the door disappeared, i did an undo. I could not move the door in the wall, i could not copy the door and past it somewhere else, I was like it wasn't there I had to let the door go and copy it back in from an old backup

I have updated but not attempted to retry, I will give it a shot when I have a moment, Thank you

I cannot find a way to add a bottom bar to a frame made with the new rail tool. Ideally I would like to make a rail that has a frame panel in it (like the last example, this infill) Am I missing something? (sorry the Screen shot does not show the 2x2 wire grid well)

Any thoughts on a work around for this condition? or is there something I am missing?

Juan, just sent you a file Thanks

We are having real issues with the sill as well the sill wants to be within the jamb, not the entire window we are also using shared project files and get a lot of crashing while we save and commit. Seems to happen after we work with walls and windows. when you crash while committing everyone gets locked out of the project file and we need to create a new project file from somones working file, losing the work that had not been committed. We have had doors and window randomly disappear as well We jumped into the wall and window upgrades and love what they can do now. But we have lost days of work scratching our heads and rebuilding files that seem to be unstable. I think its about the walls and doors windows any thoughts

I would like to us visualization to show all 2x4 studs, 2x6 studs. I cannot find a way to have the visualization identify what wall uses 2x4 and 2x6 Any thoughts. Below is using visualization to ID fire rating. I would like to do the same for stud thickness. this would be an internal review not construction documentation I though i could use the "Function User-Defined or the wall style name. But i cannot find how to add these to the Visualization tool Thank you

Thanks for the reply i recall many years ago adding a field to an object but I do not recall the circumstances, Your probably correct that we cant customize the hardware, it seems very locked down. I did however have the same idea as EFA and added the field via a record. It does work but adds a second step, that makes if feel a bit fussy. just have to try it out to see how it works in a team setting. also used a legend to format the hardware groups the way wanted. Thanks for the input I can move ahead with this but if feels a bit like a mish mash of data that requires some finger crossing.