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elepp

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  1. Hi folks, there needs to be a better way of inserting nodes from the resource browser than currently possible. It is very frustrating to place a node and having the browser collapse. Searching and inserting a node becomes super tedious super fast. Maybe it's possible to lock the resource browser in place like the general resource browser. Additionaly nice would be if we could use a short cut to search for nodes and place them without moving the mouse to the upper most left corner like it is the case now. Best regards, elepp
  2. That's true and annoying at the moment. If I use push/pull on the top surface it disappears. Best way is to add a solid on top and combine the to volumes. It's also not very intuitiv that you can apply the boolean function of adding volumes together on nurbs surfaces.
  3. Here is the bug I encountered. Flipping normals causes the surface to disappear.
  4. Here is my version, and as I expected mine is not very straight forward. Thanks for showing your solution. Maybe we should this more often here. I like those quick modeling challenges. Always learn a lot. I think I also discovered a bug in the process. Btw. I used the german version but I hope it's half way clear how I did it. CircleToRectangle_2.mov
  5. That's the best i can do for now! I think my solution might not be very straight forward. Can't get the inward facing curves. Curious for the solution.
  6. @Jim Wilson maybe you could help me with that? Somehow the documentation is really non existent. There is also no tutorial mentioning that at all. So I am really confused about this option in the settings dialog. I would be really grateful! Regards, Eddi
  7. Hi, viewports on sheet layers should have a button in the settings menu to turn the viewport into black and white. It also affects the transperancy of objects, so you have to be careful there.
  8. Seems like Autodesk has found a nice solution for browser based CAD, without having to develope the software on multiple platforms. Maybe Vectorworks is planing to do it similarly. Here a link to a talk given my an Autodesk engineer at Google IO: Link I could envision something like this for Vectorworks, where you can seamlessly transition from working at home in a browser on your underpowered iMac, with your files being synced through the cloud, and opening the file at work on your more powerful workstation.
  9. Hi folks, did some one successfully use the wall component function in an ifc-export? Neither ifc 2x3 nor ifc 4 does anything for me. What am I doing wrong? Where is it supposed to be found in an ifc-file? Vectorworks Help doesn't offer anything remotely helpful. Regards, Eddi
  10. That reminds me of this button (s. attachment). Will we have now more buttons? Or will it be a pull down one? Can it be accessed with a shortcut? Thanks for the quick reply. Very curious for the Q&A.
  11. Sorry, maybe my question was a bit misleading. 😬 I was more refering to, if there is record field, that we can access in a worksheet, to see which LODs are assigned to the inserted symbols. + If that could be linked with an option to control what information is available at which LOD, e.g. LOD low for a wall would only give me the name and the length of a wall, but the LOD high would give me access to the fire resistance field in the record. I could than export a model with little information for pure viewing purposes and another one for data exchange with other planers.
  12. Is there a way to access information about these objects via a worksheet? I like to create worksheets about objects to check for missed information and inconsistencies in my data.
  13. Hi, looks promising. My question is how it exports to IFC. Can we export different LODs? That would be really helpful to reduce complexity in IFC Models. And would it be possible to have attached records react to the LOD?
  14. Hi Pat, thanks for the help. Will try that. And hope that future versions of Vectorworks will make it easier changing the search criteria in worksheets. As it stands it's still a very tedious and labour intensive part dealing with lots of similar worksheets.
  15. Hi, Did you check if it's visible in Solibri? Which version of IFC are you exporting in? But in general IFC is very poor in supporting pure 2D elements. As far as I know IFC 4 is a bit better in that regard.
  16. Hi, might this help:?
  17. Hi Pat, thanks for your quick reply. I tried your script. It kind of works the right way. I just have to select every cell in the worksheet and than run the script. Weirdly enough, even though it replaces the substring, it produces an error message (see attached screenshot). Can't make any sense of it. Yeah, thought as much about the criteria. At the moment it's a huge pain point for us for implementing worksheets office wide, because there is no easy way of explaining it. Plus, for manual adjustment I need to right click on the row and than abort the dialog to enter the formula for the search criteria. If I accidentaly confirm the dialog, it changes all my manual adjustments to the default. 😢 Regards, Eddi
  18. Hi folks, maybe this wish exists in other variations already, but I would really wish for a search and replace function in worksheets. I had to create a tone of worksheets recently for a list of apartments in different buildings. I created a template and than had to duplicate them for each building and than adjust the building name in the search criteria manually in each worksheet multiple times. That can easily add up to a hundred operations i have to perform. Maybe I am to ignorant and an easier way exist but so far i couldn't find it. I've attached a screenshot of my problem and wish for a necessary function. Btw. could we also have an easier way of choosing between OR and AND in the criteria dialog box. Having to manually adjust that is a pain in the neck atm and very prone to mistakes. Regards, Eddi
  19. 1. Will it be possible to use the pipette tool to transfer the filter setting from one viewport to another? 2. Will the tagging as well as the filtering be accessible via vectorscript/python? Would be nice to be able to write a script that runs through the viewports in the sheet layers and assigns the right filter to them.
  20. I've done some testing of the marionette object. Somehow I can't reproduce it in a separate empty working file. I am not a 100% sure that it might be due to PEBKAC. Will do some more testing and post the updates here. thnx, Ed
  21. Hi Marissa, thanks for the quick reply. We are using Vectorworks 2018 SP4. Maybe I am doing something wrong with this object. I've attached a file with a space object and my marionette object. Any help is greatly appreciated. Apartmenttag.vwx
  22. Hello, does anyone ever used a marionette object in conjunction with project sharing? I created a text object, that reads out the space name, space area and some other parameters and displays it. So far it works well, but as soon as it's integerated into project sharing it breaks. Somehow the connections between the nodes get corrupted. That's how it's supposed to look like. It's a variation of the object created by DomC. (Thx btw. :)) That's how the network looks after inserting into a project file. Everything fine. Thats how it looks like in another working file after commiting the changes. Does anyone have any clue or comments how to avoid that? Regards, Ed
  23. Is it though possible to do it on the design layer? I would place the object node on the design layer and create two viewports with different scale. I would prefer it that way for now, because I have to select each custom window symbol to get its ID. The ID then gets typed into the object node to retrieve the information from the custom data base. If I insert the object node in the annotation group, that would not be possible, right?
  24. Thanks for the reply and file. I'll see how I can use it in my workflow. 😀
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