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I Can't get the drape surface command to work on a DTM. The dialogue box doesn't appear, just says drape surface failed. The file is attached - any help appreciated. On another DTM, the drape surface command runs, but the surface created has no height? Thanks

Thanks, that seems to have sorted it :-) Cheers Brett

Hi My Vectorworks has just started missing the icons on a library file of hatches. It doesn't seem to be happening on any other library files. See attached screen shot. I've tried removing the library file & re-adding, & restarting the computer - No difference. Others in the office have this file loaded as a resource and the icons appear fine. Any ideas? It's hard to use without being able to see the hatch patterns. Thanks

Hi This seems like a basic question. Once you have used the fit walls to objects command, what is the best way to reverse this & get the wall back to how it was before this command was run? Thanks

Thanks for the replies. A hidden line with shadow option would be great. Brett

What's the best way to create hidden line elevations with shadows? Thanks Brett

Thanks Mike, that works a treat. Brett

Hi Ray I tried the push pull, but it only seems to extrude perpendicular to the surface, not vertically. Unless I'm missing something? Cheers Brett

We have a 3D polygon that we want to extrude vertically, but it only seems to extrude perpendicular to the slope of the polygon. Is there a way to extrude it vertically? And is there a way to combine 3D polygons in to a solid object? See attached file. Thanks

Excellent, thank you! Brett

I can't seem to get the wall cores to join. See attached. Any ideas? Thanks

I may be wrong, but I haven't yet seen a way to get the tops of the walls sloped to match the roof slope - like your sketchup model. The walls that are running perpendicular with the slope have 'flat' tops, so you end up with a messy junction with the walls running up the slope which fit nicely to the roof slope. Can anyone verify that? Our office would love to be able to specify whether the tops of walls are 'flat' or sloped to match the roof. Thanks

Thanks, that's fixed it. Appreciate your help Brett

Fantastic, that's all it was. Simple. Any clues on why the site model is showing triangulated? Cheers

Hi One of our staff has an issue when annotating hidden line section viewports. The viewports are rendered in hidden line, but when the annotations are edited, the viewport switches to wireframe. When the annotation is exited, the viewport reverts back to hidden line. This doesn't happen to me, so not sure what is causing this behaviour? Also, the Site model on the section viewports, shows a lot of triangulated lines. How do you stop this happening? Thanks

When you select a section line marker you get a "Navigate to Section Viewport" option in the Object Info. palette. It would be good if there was the same 'reverse' option to go back to the section line marker from the viewport. Currently there is no quick way of seeing which layer the section was created on - unless we have missed something - which is quite possible. Thanks

Thanks Benson, so simple, all these years using VW & I didn't know the shift key did that... Awesome

Hi One instance is where you have a solid filled or hatched area with some objects on top but within this area. You want to draw a marquee around those objects but you can't because the first click of the marquee selects the filled area. If you could suspend snapping for the first marquee click, then the filled area wouldn't be selected. That's one example that comes up regularly. Brett

I just mirrored a site section & the text mirrored too, even with adjust flipped text preference selected. I've never seen this happen before now.

Here's an image. This was happening in VW2013 too. Thanks

Hi Benson Thanks, the behaviour is as you described. "Snap suspension does not defeat the Select tool's ability to select". I would have thought with no snaps turned on, then you wouldn't be able to snap or select anything. Not sure about how others would prefer it, but I'd like this added as a preference so that snap suspension actually suspends all snapping & selecting. Thanks for the reply. Brett

Whenever I cut a section through a DTM, I get the correct section, but it always has a mirrored copy. Is this how it is supposed to be? I'd like to attach an image but I can't see how? Thanks Brett

Hi Jim The palette does grey out. It only seems to be the selection tool that is still able to snap & select objects even with the pallete greyed out. With other tools, when you press the ` button, you can't snap to anything, which is ideal. Thanks Brett

Be good if the suspend snapping worked with the Selection Tool. Even with the ` key pressed, it still snaps to objects. Thanks

Having sloping/inclined walls would be very high on our wishlist. Also, having the tops of walls fit properly to objects when using the 'fit walls to objects' command. Thanks Brett