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My only workaround is to create another wall type for paneling and layer it next to the wall. It's cumbersome and doesn't account for doors and windows in the primary wall. This is how I add a base to walls. I'd love to find another method. Classes are important, and I have to turn off auto wall join while I'm working on them. Creating trim is equally cumbersome. I use an extrude or an extrude along a path, but I reserve these methods for when I need a detailed rendering of a key space.

@zoomer I've noticed this for years, and thought it was just me. My only method is to "fit walls to objects," which will make it sharp and square. That requires stopping and extruding if there isn't a roof or other feature in your model to which a wall can be attached. Weird coding. I'd love to know why it can't be dragged to precisely 90 degrees.

@Christiaan @Tom W. The concept isn't lost on me, and you make valid points—there are times when I use the same presentation tricks you mentioned. However, I don't recall it being promoted, so as I dive into VW this week and create more complex walls where the cut plane isn't in a typical location, it took me far too long to figure out why my walls were white when they had components. Thus, I had to spend time figuring out where I wanted the cut plane (by trial and error) to see the components (I'm in CD mode for this project). Since it's believed to be valuable, I'd like the option to toggle the feature on and off. Is that a possibility? Where is the on/off toggle that Christiaan mentioned? cc: @Jeremiah Russell

@tdiamond I'm a 30-year Vectorworks user, and I find this change (cut plane and component representation) maddening. What a waste of coding time. If they're not going to remove it, it should be allowed to be toggled on and off so we can go back to the way things were with walls and components. I've wasted so much time fooling around with this, wondering why components were not showing up in Top/Plan view until I figured out to change the cut plane from the 4'-0" class cut plane (that's normal architectural understanding of a floor plan cut plane). Your video was helpful in understanding the new feature, thank you, but I still don't understand it. I want to make a wall "white" or without components about 0.5% of the time—it's a frustrating feature. Let me toggle it on or off at least. Please @Vectorworks - Admin @Christiaan - someone tell Vectorworks to fix or remove this feature.

@John Meunier Do you do drafting work for architects outside of Canada, in the USA? If so, I'd be curious how the money exchange and taxes work. Maybe wrong question for this thread.

Wow, I just caught this thread months late. I just wanted a way to have a wall have a baseboard feature, instead of the many workarounds we learned. Keep working on the architectural tools (walls, stairs, doors, windows) and not neglect them for the curvy, solid modeling stuff most of us don't use. Eager to see what happens.

@rDesign Yes, my bad - two-point perspective. I posted here to see if VW can address it, and I emailed Enscape to see if they can address the shift on their end. The synchronization function is important to me and one of the perks of having Enscape work within the VW environment. Experiment and see if it happens to you.

@Dave Donley Yes, that helps, but it defeats the purpose of synchronized views. Perhaps that's the only workaround. Thanks for the tip.

I have the same problem but learned to let it go. It's funny how walls and slabs will blend, and the lines will disappear, but I'm afraid VW can't do the same in this case.

Has anyone experienced this when using Enscape? I noticed that the screen, which usually matches between Vectorworks and Enscape, does NOT align when switching to Vectorworks' new one-point perspective. It might not be a major issue, but in my workflow, I create views that I want to render, and it becomes a bit more challenging and slows me down if I want to render with a one-point perspective. See the screenshots with and without. I've reported it to Enscape, but maybe it can't be fixed.

@shorter Thanks Steven, Yes, the surveyor will give points to the GC to set the building corners. Also, I'll have a site plan with a North arrow and a North arrow on each floor plan drawing. I just needed others to talk me in or out of making many changes that require a ton of drafting that lend little benefit in return. So far, everyone has voted in my favor. I'm not posting drawings on the wall to be reviewed by professors in school, so I think I can get away with not rotating the plans. Thank you!

@domer1322 I appreciate that. I just had a long conversation with a good friend architect who is also a VW user. He said the same thing.

VW question for anyone who will listen... If you had a project where you were creating CDs for the third identical building in a series (Phase 3) where a contractor has already built Phases 1 and 2 (one in 2023, one in 2024) from my CDs, EXCEPT now Phase 3 (in 2025) the building is positioned such that it is oriented 180 degrees to the first two phases, would you: 1. Rotate the VW model and adjust all the viewports. 2. Rotate the viewports 180 degrees and tweak a bit. 3. Forget it - keep it as is and rotate the north arrow 180 degrees. I am starting Phase 3 this week or next, and I have a complete Vectorworks model of a building constructed twice. With Phase 3, we needed to rotate (or flip) the building. To make the contractor's life easier, I'll keep North upward on the drawing sheet, which creates a lot of drafting work for me. Have you faced this before? (FYI, I will duplicate the model to retain the original)

@James Carr I have the notes working well now. I've worked through figuring them out. However, I am solo. But to your point, I am thinking of moving them from the default location buried in the Windows folders to a common area on Dropbox so that they register when I use my laptop and my PC. My laptop has the same problem you described. It cannot find the master file as it's not on Dropbox but locally on my PC. I'm eager to hear other's solutions.

@Nina Ivanova I'd be happy to share the file, but not publicly. I've used VW since 1995, so my experience goes far back. My typical workflow is to turn off as many classes as possible and export them to DWG. My settings were close to the settings, but I may have had boxes checked under the 3D category. I've been exporting from a design layer, NOT a sheet layer. Is that not the intended workflow? My desired result is a simple 2D (flat CAD) drawing as small as possible to share with whomever. I want all 3D information to be removed. For years, that was my workflow, but it seemed that either VW or I changed something this week. When I imported the DWG file (which I do to check it), much information was missing, and at times, the "arcs" in a furniture symbol were enlarged many times over, making the drawing look confusing. (No, I didn't take a screenshot). Ultimately, I'd love to export to Revit (or IFC), but when I did recently, my engineers were able to open an IFC model, but it had no 2D representation for walls, doors, and other elements. It doesn't have the proper 2D appearance, so I'd instead have my engineers work on a flat 2D file so their drawings would have the same graphic quality as mine. Ugh...this is the real day-to-day experience of this architect. Would you prefer I send you a private link to the file?