Matt Overton

I have script somewhere that makes an object in every class with the attributes by class. Make a symbol of that have it in your library and if purge gets to happy you drop the symbol back in and bingo classes all back. Have that symbol on a layer that is other wise empty unlikely to get turned on like a group divider and purge then says there are object in those classes and leaves them out of the purge list.

Will Viewport styles even make it to VW2024? It hasn't even made it past "Active Research" since the roadmap was first released.

That looks to basically the same Versioning system software engineers use to manage complex projects larger and small. I'm very envious of the those tools and how useful they could be to BIM projects. Would dearly love to see a GIT based IFC federation system that worked with Multiple venders and lots of useful tools. No more file formate worries or dealing with contract boundaries stopping co-ordination. As Blame and CodeOwners could really help streamline a single model being worked on by multiple companies.

Or even relative to the file. If your standard folder structure allows it these options would avoid the need to think about it.

It’s in the roadmap under viewport styles. When that arrives I have no idea. since this was posted we now have storeys and story layers have a type as well strikes me a viewport style could have a target story as well and visibility of layers could be automatically set by that.

If this happens what would be the effect of the flip button?

With many still working both in office and home or other remote locations. (some because they discovered how good it is others for many other reasons) It would be good to have a recent files list that covered files we opened in either location. Sure files would need to be accessible both locations like Vectorworks Cloud, dropbox, et al and office server but would be great if it was synced. Even maybe have a team options to share my recent list with co-workers.

Do you have another larger spaces called 1? I've found the function returns an array of spaces in that location anywhere vertically in the file.

Until you hit a tool that Is hardcoded to only use the primary units of the file and can't switch to dual.

Given the working file is a complete copy your using say at least 4 times the volume on your server and getting on bandwidth reduction from read or write. Keeping working files on local means a lot less read times. @Benson Shaw if you don’t save your working file how do you get auto save to work?

Also, and it depends on usefulness to you, A reference of the original file can have different units. So our working files remain millimetres we often reference presentations files set to metres so Space objects work well.

Unsure why this setting is still marked slow. Is it really slow? you can set so the snap loupe zoom is independent. I have line thickness on in main view but off in the snap loupe to make the line ends clear.

Agree fully anyone using Project sharing probably worked or still works with Workgroup referencing. We are very much geared to dividing layer (which are free after all) to allow more people to work in files without tripping over each other. Checking out a full layer is faster. as you only need to do it once per layer. Not sure I've seen any advantage all all to per object check outs.

Thanks This is looking very promising indeed.

Well this is far more fun than my work around. I'll find uses for this. Wondering out loud if this would make a better texture for glass in drawings and sketch renders.

Trying to use Data Visualisation to show fire rating of a project. It seems like it only works with numeric ranges. Where Australian Fire Rating use a tuple of 3 values (eg 90/60/-) which the system reads as text which also means they won't sort correctly Wondering if anyone has found a work around?

Artistic render works - line and shadow - set line thickness to 0.1 or small as it lets you as you can't set it 0. Is that what you are looking for?

Is it possible to schedule items (symbols, windows, doors, smaller spaces) by what space they are within the boundary or touching the boundary of? The more we get information in models that we want to schedule the more I realise this is the way I want to group them. Doors schedules - what spaces do they service. Bathrooms/Kitchen - modelled in 3D with each fixture a symbol - would love to schedule the fixtures by room. Apartment schedule - how big the balcony, bedroom, kitchen space associated with the apartment space. Yes realise I could have a layer per room but that when seems like double handling would be great if someone has found away to test what space the item is in. edit to note: this is post 777

Do you have a stand with fans built in for cooling? Or does heat not tend to be a problem.

Start simple with one of your existing 2d Project and see how 3D for free you get. A lot of the time a few settings tweaks on layer height and wall height can give you a remarkable amount of model that was always hiding with the workflow you had. Trust the tools Walls, Slabs, Stairs, Windoor can be both a blessing and a curse. the Curse part is they have a time more option than you need so worth creating styles that suits you so not covering the same ground over again then it won't be long till you find something they can't do. Treat 3d like set design... put the effort in to the things you want people to see... Also the camera doesn't see through walls... so for interiors you need to build in your own 4th walls you can remove for some shots.

Transparency works if you don't get to close as you get 2 3D planes a wall thickness apart each with the alpha image of the block. Our local supplier had BIM models of the blocks so no need to self model but also super heavy in the scene.

As it says on the box these can be lengthy multi stage operation so will beach ball numerous times leaving the users in doubt as to when they have truely completed. It would be good if they presented a progress box to know that they had finished.

While everyones reminded of the topic why not swing over to the road and give Viewport Styles a boost see if it can't get promoted to "in Development" https://www.vectorworks.net/en-AU/public-roadmap?url=viewport-styles

The Resource Browser should be active and useable at all times and should break the barriers of modal dialogue boxes. So that resources can be create then used while one of the dialogue boxes is open. Common Usage - Class Creation dialogue. Switching resources like a hatch in Class details dialogue box is slowwww...... often resulting in a beach ball while it collects the options often to find option doesn't exist. We can't create a new hatch from inside this interface but we can't leave the interface open to go and create the resource. To me making the Resource browser itself outside the drawing file modal control would allow us to go to that interface make a resource then come back to set it. Bonus points if the move would also allow us to drag and drop resources into dialogue box settings.

Yes presentation was good, and great to see many pro software niches given visibility.