mike m oz

Agreed Michael. Several versions back I wish listed that Database headers should automatically show when you edit a Worksheet and then automatically hide when you close the Worksheet. I'm sure I wasn't the first to do so either.

- Select the Section-Elevation Line tool on the Annotation tool palette. - Click on the Preferences button on the Tool Bar. - In the Object Properties dialog box that opens set the tool Preferences as you want them. - Click OK to exit and this will define the tool preferences for this document from now on. This method can be used to set the tool Preferences for most tools. The trick is to set them before you use the tool. Doing it to the object afterwards only affects that selected object. If you have particular preferences you want then take the time to do them in a Template File and then re-save the file as a Template File so it overwrites the original Template File.

Windoor only shows the unit in a simplified form. For the infill wall you need to select the required Wall Style in the pop-up. It has to be a Wall Style that you have imported or created.

JYA, Windoor already does this.

If you look at the attached file you will see that the pocket slider picks up the fill colour of the core of the wall. (I've used you pocket slider and inserted it into different walls.) At some stage the core of that wall must have had a cyan fill and somehow that is still what is being picked up. I'm not sure how you can fix this. Best send it to your distributor and ask them to advise you on how to fix it.

It looks like you are using a dashed line for the Detail Reference. With it selected change the pen to solid on the Attribute Palette.

boh, it is sometimes difficult solving a problem from a description of it. Can you please post a file with the problem Windoor object and its parent Wall in it. Or alternatively send it to the New Zealand distributor so they can try and solve the problem for you.

The Chicago Summit was a great experience and there was much to be gained from attending it. Make the effort and come next year. You won't be disappointed. The most rewarding part for me was meeting the people who develop and support Vectorworks. They were all very enthusiastic about what they do and the synergy was tangible. The program is in good hands and the future looks bright.

Jershaun, the demonstration by Stephan showed that is not true. Renderworks is capable of producing high quality images and relatively quickly when you use the available options correctly.

I attended the Chicago Summit and it was a great experience. You should all try to attend the next one or the one after that. The glimpses we were given of future improvements were very encouraging and make me feel very optimistic about Vectorwork's future. All of the Vectorworks people who were there were very enthusiastic about the program and the synergy that exists is tangible. The program development and support is in very good hands.

Jershaun, Stephan Monninghof's Renderworks session at the Chicago Summit was an eye opener for me and many others who attended. Stephan achieves very high quality results from Renderworks and he showed very clearly that you can get just as good a result from Renderworks alone. If the video of it is made available, watch it and be amazed. The title was: Rendering Tips, Tricks and Other Cool Stuff.

Jim, can you post examples of the type of graphic appearance you are chasing.

Jim, which stair tool are you referring to? The current Stair tool in the Architect workspace can be 2D or 2D and 3D. There are three legacy stair tools which can be added to your Workspace: - Custom Stair tool - Simple Stair tool - Circular Stair tool The Custom Stair tool replaced the Simple Stair and Circular Stair tools. It was replaced by the current Stair tool. VwI do improve the stair tool with each version. If you have specific needs submit wishes. If you find bugs submit them. That way it can be made better. Stairs are very complex objects with many variations and sometimes you will have to model them from scratch to cover your specific conditions.

Line weight by colour was necessary in the days of pen plotters in the last century but that need has long gone and Autocad moved to line weight by Layer a long time ago. Classes are Vw's equivalent of Autocad's Layers and should be used to define the graphic attributes of objects. The exception is the None Class which is Vw's equivalent of Autocad's 0 Layer. Vw's Layers are the equivalent of Autocad's Model Space. Autocad has only one Model Space whereas Vw can have as many as you like. This provides the ability to model and draw in separate environments that can be viewed as a whole when required. For example floors of a multi storey building that are assembled on top of each other as they would be in the built building. Many years ago Robert Anderson (VP of Integrated Practice) suggested the best way to understand this is to think of Classes as being the what and Layers as being the where.

Alan, you should have kept it up. My comments were made in the hope that one of Vw's marionette people would look at it and come up with a fix. Marionette is very promising and has great potential as a source of Vw smart objects. To achieve that it needs an organised repository where objects can be vetted and then posted. The organisation should match that of the existing Vw libraries so people know where to search for what they want.

Alan some odd behaviour I noticed. When you set the angle to 90 degrees: - on the unwrapped object it closes the path. - on the wrapped object it moves the object to another location.

Tom, I had a similar problem to you. When I looked at your drawing a little more closely I discovered that the joining wall didn't quite align with the the thicker wall. I drew a guide line from the bottom of the thicker wall and then moved the thinner wall so it was on that line making the bottom edge of the two walls collinear. The join then works. The join problem would have come from the very slight misalignment of the components.

If you have Auto Join Walls on and the correct core component checkmarked in the Wall Styles you are using it usually works pretty well.

Will, the toggle for animation is in Vw Preferences. Interactive tab. View transition animation.

Alan, that problem happens when the roof component doesn't have a fill.

Could it be that the roof component class is invisible or set to grey.

Can you paste that roof into a file and post it here so it can be looked at.

You need to go to the Render tab of the OIP and nominate that texture for the Top surface of the Roof Face or Roof object.

Publishing can be done using Sheet Layers and Saved views. Sheet Layers is the better way to go. Two things are critical to the process: (a) that you have defined your output size through page setup. (b) that you have set the scale of your viewport so what you want to print fits on that page. Sheet Layers are a WYSIWYG process. What is inside the border of the Sheet Layer will end up being printed (real or virtual) and what is outside of it won't. In this case I would set the Sheet Layer size to A1 or A0 and set the Viewport scale accordingly. Within the annotation space of the Viewport I would include a Drawing Label, a Scale Bar and North Point annotation objects.

Anthony, what happens if you export each drawing sheet as a separate sheet? It may be a corruption problem in just one sheet and if you can isolate out which one that will make finding the problem easier. Are you using Sheet Layers or Saved Views?