Matt Overton

Will send Monday morning.

I think I've just discovered this issue continues in Vectorworks 2018. Made worse by autosave not having saved for over an hour even though it's set to save every 5 operations.

Yes the Lighting Options contains less than say 10% of the lighting options that should exist per view port. Starting with letting us set the fundamental lighting option time and date for the sun. Can I suggest two buttons, one renamed as above and another that lets us control the lighting.

I do believe this item is similar to what you are asking. It would be good if you could lend your support to that and expand discussion if you thing there are tweaks or scope that can be covered by a single item.

Yes space tool is, sort of, your friend here.

... A flat surface and some pens. Hey I'm not saying don't learn some CAD as it's also a fantastic skill to have in the tool kit. Just long term Hand drawing and BIM/CAD skillset will take you a long way.

You can start without Artlantis. Vectorworks includes some 3d rendering in all packages and Architect version includes Renderworks which will get you a long way as well. In short Vectorworks will work as 2d drawing board replacement through to 3D modeler and BIM documentor. You can also use the basic rendering modes and modeling as backgrounds to hand drawn perspectives. If you are good at drawing then the most valuable skill you could offer is to team your drawing with 3D modeling as a visualization system. Hand drawings still engage clients better than computer rendering. Me, I'd hold off Artlantis and dedicated renders and visualisers for as long as you can unless you just want to set dress other peoples work.

Would be handy for groups as well, maybe even other container objects. "By Container" would be great if possible.

Maybe over simplified but from what I've seen... Vectorworks lets you get going on less information and present that information at every stage. Con isn't as helpful with automated tools. So as you get more advanced you'll find yourself resorting to modelling by raw objects much sooner. ArchiCad (at least from discussions with users and training) has a much higher overhead of information it needs before it'll produce something useful but the build in tools will take you further and have much greater flexibly. If your a student then use many. Or look at the companies you want to work for and see what they use.

1,2 & 3 Yes please regarding 4: If there was a unified list making it easy to go tweak then hopefully that list would :- a) carry between versions so we only get hit by new options not have to rebuild every option after upgrades. b) make the list an office standard. My points seem to followed 2 themes - Too much interface clutter. Important things hidden, related things too far apart, unimportant things prominent. - One for you, one for me. Too much information repeated as VW requires it for modeling but doesn't display it.

or "There is only two ways to do a job. Right and again"

helps to create some fake sun light objects for the building faces that aren't likely to see any sun. Generally use line and shadow here with lines set to 0 pixels.

Elevation marker isn't relevant as it's completly independant and useful for one off special annotations. (if it can linked to objects like a dimension better still) Keep it simple. As noted by Jonathan above Viewports should be able to render level markers. Which levels show controlled by layers dialogue. Graphics of the markers by a document setting or a viewport style. Storey's dialogue stays the one place to get the information right.

I'd like see project sharing move to a full version control system. Delta saves would add to that.

I want to up vote this agian.

Yes we use BIMing to producing elevations, sections and 3D's that improved client communications greatly. As other have noted elevation markers can report the correct elevation but if the model changes slightly (or not so slightly as per attachment) marker does not change. In this case comically obvious, in the case of a small change dangerously non-obvious. Is also reliant on snaps but doesn't link to points with a visual marker. If the first goal of BIM* is "model once --> view thrice" then this is not BIM it's a liability. In the case of common levels we note each instance makes the problem exponentially worse. Would be very happy to be proven wrong and there to be an existing solution, but the more I look it the more it problems it presents.

Benchmark tool doesn't track changes made to heights made in the Storeys or layers. So it's still effectively just a manual notation that can be entirely incorrect if not treated with care. Worse it creates multiple instances that could be wrong each reliant on hitting the right snap point. Ok for single referencing but no good for general dimensioning. Using a line of heights symbol at least only gives two locations to co-ordinate. Having Section views directly report heights from Storey and Layer configuration would reduce this to one, distinctly correct location.

I hope I'm not going to have to bump this when we are 6 versions past the obvious need for it.

Not that I've found, so really just tagging myself in case someone has. It would be useful.

So it's summer in Australia the last thing anyone here would be thinking about is Hydronic heating. Well except me who searched Vectorworks Resources Library from with in the app to find radiator and fireplace symbols for a farm house renovation. Even found what I was looking for without a web search. Now I'm seeing ads everywhere on the web for Hydronic Heating. Just coincidence?

I don't mind the nested dialogues, specially the new style list down the side. To me it's certainly preferable to multiple dialogue boxes. Do agree it could be improved for faster navigation from Object Info Palette and will conceed i can see the appeal at times to have direct links. Still why can we have the best of both worlds and head towards an Interface the is rich as required, spares when not. To me it could be in the form of a universal setting button. Main part of button would take you to nested dialogue, a small drop down triangle would let you pick which panel you want to jump to quickly to a panel. Having an option to expand the list into individual buttons as demanded (say option-click drop-down part fo button). As for other suggestions for site model, yes it could be much improved.

A new offender to add to the list of interface missing the mark.

Why not go further and have Viewport styles like plug-in styles? They could link Class set up to the style and then we'd have one central place to fix issues.

Interesting a lot of people have clearly dumped the snap hot keys for interesting things to them. They are right at the sweet spot of the keyboard. I do hope this sort of study is because VW might be brave and do a clean sweep of the keyboard shortcuts. Throw out all the old assumptions make every command earn its place. Make the pain worth it.

Yes sorry read that the wrong way. So how many default keys have a high percentage of remapping?