Matt Overton

Sooooo...... do we get a tease about similar function for plan viewports next week or are you going to string us out till the same time next year?

It's not Tuesday at NNA till it's at least Wednesday here in AUS/NZ

Sure language evolves and drafting is a language like all others but... I think this is a line CAD/BIM companies have been pushing to hide the fact they had missed the point for the last 20years and want to sell it as an upgrade when it isn't. They want a revolution to suit the technology, not us.

If anything the shame is this approach hasn't been pushed further as the programme developed. After all sections and elevation are as much in need of drafting convention for information clarity as plans are yet we still suffer from having to overlay vast amounts of disconnected information over these views to turn them into credible documents. To me the failing is not to have taken Hybrid further as the 3D developed and let us have other planes of hybrid representation that could augment the model cut if not completely replace it depending on the situation.

Only thing to add here is.... Set up Naming rules early and not often. We use 3 (0xx) digit prefix so that similar symbol group together even if not in folders. Mostly as our job numbers are 3 digits so project specific symbols have job code as a prefix. To keep library file smaller and fast we break up libraries by first 2 digits. However the important thing is to have a naming system, but it only needs to be as complex suits your workflow. If you don't then people don't feel like they can find what they need and will keep just going back to last time.

Thrusday after the iPhone if history is any guide!

Does the App need to be full screen to handle two monitor support or can view on the second screen be a separate window with say resource browser docked into it? And Is it possible to set say viewports to create a picture in picture instead of the Return to Viewport button?

I think I should just go ahead and call this done thanks to tease-day.

Exactly this save a minute out of someone important's day and they will see you as valuable. Save a minute out of everyone's day and you'll be invaluable.

Well not just walls, roofs and slabs would all benefit from having components that understand they are frames not panels of solid material. Roofs have rafters, hips, valleys, barges,.... and facias that could all be made with a Framed Component. Slabs have edge and other beams that could all be made with a Framed Component(s). These two would help us get to convincing large scale sections in minutes not hours. So to me, it's not just a super wall but a superstructure inside all our building elements.

I sure hope you plan to tease early Tuesday so they happen Wednesday not Thursday around here.

Yes all the unsexy stuff that really makes the updates worth while but never makes promotional material.

There are any number of online project management sites now that do Gnatt charts that are fairly easy to learn and use. We have been using one called smartsheet it's works ok but doesn't do resource allocation, while a friend and Ex-Vectorworker has built his own in excel so that is doable if you are OCD. Still, I'm guessing if you were to try and make one in Vectorworks. I'd start with a Marionette object to handle each line then work out how to link the lines. Then again if I was going to build a gnatt chart I'd personally be looking more at collision detection systems in gaming engines to build the chart.

Space tool both the label and reportable dimensions need to be able to use alternative and display units not just be locked to working units.

So finally kicking in transition to 2017 with some real projects kicking off and just noticed this change to records. Thank you.

I'd really like this but then it's a problem with too many variations on a theme to cover the full international code requirements. Still, a special "blessed" worksheet for this sort of information and some other improvements to worksheets to make these sorts of things possible could be very handy.

If they used system provided tab bars on each platform all this would work as it should. Not to mention they wouldn’t be so ugly.

Thanks, I think I have it working now.

It would be a real time saver if rendered viewport flagged which geometry effected then and could estimate how much change will effect them. Give higher weighting to changes front and centre. Even break the dirty viewport indicator up to show which part of the viewport is effected.

They could just switch the blue and the gray over and have a better interface.

I think the problem you highlight kills off most of its value above generic cloud service. Just think full set rendered overnight in morning check prints to realize a couple of notes on a rendered page didn't pick up a conversation you were having with the client as the "draftie" sent the file to cloud and went home. If the viewport cached no problem fix and publish. Sure you can cut the render out of the PDF paste it over the wireframe viewport.

Needs to create section viewports like Interior elevations tool not views like Multiple Viewport command.

Great Idea, Might have a look tonight at building a script to make a one click timestamped named saved view to add to right-click or key. I could always then go back rename if useful. To me it is not multi-view in the sense that the views are not on-screen at the same time. it's more like having the file open a number of times each time logged into project sharing as separate user or user with a different hat on.

Well, they could give us a true sloping slab and fix the roof tool as well in the process.

Something different and in part driven by this. say your madly working through steel detailing coordination so you have a set of views set up like this. The phone rings it’s the builder who is doing first set out in the shed you are doing works to. The client has moved all the stuff out of the way and there are a few quirks to the existing heritage brick facade he wants to talk about and how they effect set out. If I change my view in the file a lose my place and view set up for the work I need to get back to now later in the day. the more complex the view set up is the more VW cost we have dealing with what are just natural parts of the job.