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Matt Overton

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  1. It really is a bad release. I wonder how it got out of the virtual door?
  2. You can hack this with various degree of success by using layer override colours. set the black line and fill squares to grey and most objects will respond. Not always all doesn’t change image based resources.
  3. I've seen slabs so polluted by trimming modifiers the only choice was to throw them out and start again. Does seem like the system should be rethought you can never really modify the modifiers as most edit operations make them unknown tot he slab, just delete them and reapply them.
  4. Tttleblock allow you to record both Revisions and issues. I've seen offices use One for client facing and have that list on the printed page and then use the other one showing up outside of the printed page for Internal tracking.
  5. Yes, Universal Vectorworks files would be great and it was put forward several times over the years as the reason for .vwx file change. Still as a show of progress and to improve the usability of the Libraries, it would be a good test bed. At a per-type level how many of the types have changed dramatically over the years? Lots of objects have got a revamp but at the same time, they moved from Red Symbols being stored in the library to Object Styles Types. The code to do the conversation if they are needed would exist, Sure doing the conversion each year isn't much work but it seems it is enough to mean people just don't use the system.
  6. To avoid redundancy and other management problems, Library files should not be in a specific version of the file format. They should be able to deliver the resource to the version of the app that being used regardless of what version of app saved the resource saved it. Given that most resources are fairly small objects anyway, any background data conversion that happens to get it to work would be quick. Benefits- - One True single library (per user or company-wide) - Smaller Install, smaller footprint - less management - Set and forget each version wouldn't need new locations to be set so could just read the settings from prior install.
  7. Yes surely the talent they might throw at AI could probably be more impactful targeting low hanging fruit of production killing issues.
  8. In theory, the AI could already author a vectorscript description of the Wall type you'd like to replace the wall type you had if there was enough of the function exposed in the VS documentation.
  9. My first lecture in my first year of architecture started with that very line. 30 years later it is only marginally more true today than then and fails to understand how much further it has to. So sure maybe in my lifetime I might read about it happening while in the nursing home.
  10. Or the Program ship from your local distributor with most of the common ones in your market. Then you'd only need to make a small handful of uncommon ones each year.
  11. Add the potential VisionPro is showing and you have the specs sheet for the last CAD program I'll invest in, in my life time.
  12. That shouldn't need AI just features like Materials to do the job they are said to do. 😉 Save the AI for Fun things.
  13. Storey Styles, LOL I sort of Kid, but it does seem like the way they do things like this these days. Still, a Storey Style might not be a bad single place to update in the project. We could have multiple in the same file, and we could transfer them from project to project or have a library of common project/construction types. That said, I will always upvote better Storey/Layers/Levels to better represent common building practice.
  14. With an option for stacking them all on top of each other but creating a layer for each
  15. If you have a symbol, you want to lay out a regular spacing along a line, why not use the repetitive unit tool?
  16. It would be great if we had a hot project list that looked to see what folders the recent files were in, then kept the most recent folders and even allowed us to pin folders. Although it might need to look up the chain a level or 2 to get meaningful names; otherwise, in our case, it would just hot list 10 folders named "CAD".
  17. We've hit an issue with files converted from VW2022. The 2 attached images show an example of the problem. The source file has everything as it should be, but when referenced, lots of Planar Geometry jumps around from where it should be as per the second image. It should not be that the geometry in question is within groups and a mix of simple lines or rectangles. But digging in deeper it seems like the groups are offsetting. It seems to not be a problem for files created from scratch in VW2024, but we do have a few longer-running projects we'd like to bring over, as well as long-term clients we do ongoing work for. Has anyone seen this and know of any tricks to resolve it?
  18. Can we add to the why is modal in the dialogue list:- - "New version available" - "Library updates" both these have a tendency to open on the second screen somehow under another app or more likely quicklook window of a pdf.
  19. It took me a minute to find this interface, and I'm still unsure why it sits where it does.
  20. Hopefully, these quirks (I'm being generous) will be addressed as part of Roof/Slab Modernisation that is in development on the roadmap. This may or may not be a direct link to the item... https://www.vectorworks.net/en-AU/public-roadmap?url=roofslab-modernization
  21. Vectorworks as a whole is going non-modal in 2025 or just the home screen? Begs the question of why the home screen made it to beta as a modal dialogue, when existing modal dialogues are already well established as bad UI.
  22. It makes no sense that the recent files menu is disabled when the home screen is visible. The home screen has some of the files, but not all listed anyway.
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