[Project Sharing Lag]

Hi Jim, is there any plans on addressing this issue in a future update?

Kind of defeats the purpose of sharing a file if it becomes unusable.

Thanks

Brett

[Project Sharing Lag]

Hi

 

We are using project sharing on a fairly large residential project. The file is currently around 100 MB and the project file is saved on our NAS drive.

 

We only have 2 working files, but we are noticing a 3-4 second lag when even doing the most minor drawing changes, and the information bar at the bottom of the screen says 'waiting for project file'.

 

Is a setting we can try, to avoid the lag?  Working on the file now is painful.

 

Thanks

[Detail Callout Auto-Coordination and sheet number]

Would love this to be an option, although when a detail is referenced from multiple locations, you would have to have the option of choosing one back reference?  We used to always back reference our details until we started using linked details.

[Dimension Text Size]

Just realised that the printer setup scale also affects the placing of text using text styles, and placing hatch patterns.  If the printer scale is set to 50%, they are all double the size.

Be preferable not to have the printer scale affect drawing, but at least we know why the odd behaviour now.  Been annoying us for a long time.

[Wall Style Class Visibility Being Ignored]

Hi Josh

I just opened your file and it works perfectly fine for me.  Are you on a MAC?  We're on PC's.

Brett

[Dimension Text Size]

Hi

No, it's nothing to do with the scale of the design or sheet layers.  The dimension text size is being controlled by the scaling in the Printer Setup which is unwanted behaviour.

See attached.

Thanks 

[Dimension Text Size]

Hi

 

We have our dimension standard setup with a text style with text set to 7pt.

 

When placing dimensions,  the size of the text actually placed on the drawing is related to the print scale currently set in the print setup.  i.e if the print scale is set to 50% the size of the dimension text placed is 14pt.  It varies depending on the current print scale.  If it's set to 100% the text placed is at the correct size.

 

Has anyone come across this issue?  Can't understand why it works like this?

 

Thanks

[Slab Drainage Slope]

Hi.  Am I correct in that, the only way to change the % of the slope faces once created, is either to delete the drains & re-create the slab drainage with a new slope % or manually adjust the valley slopes until you get close to the slope face % desired?

Or is there a way to change the slope face %?

Thanks

[Resource Manager]

Thanks, I was sure there must be a way to control that, but couldn't find it! :-)

[Resource Manager]

Hi, when searching the Resource Manager, how do you choose where the RM searches?

Thanks

[Drawing list from Worksheet]

That's clever.  Thanks. Brett

[Drawing list from Worksheet]

Hi Alan, can you confirm how this should work. I know nothing about Marionette so sorry for the basic questions.

In your schedule 001, there was a marionette string plus a marionette object - & in the OIP you could specify the space between the windows.

In your schedule 002, there are 2 marionette strings, but no marionette object.  The windows created are now groups and there isn't the option to specify the distance between.

Can you please just explain the correct way to use this in a different file?

Thank you

Brett

[Drawing list from Worksheet]

Thanks Alan, will try that out.

Attached is a sample schedule.

Cheers Brett

Sample Window Schedule.vwx

[Drawing list from Worksheet]

Hi Alan, we've had a quick trial with your marionette window schedule & it looks promising - nice work.

Just wondering, we number our windows on the plans in an anti-clockwise direction so that in elevation & on the window schedule they are going from left to right in the correct sequence.

The marionette script places the windows from left to right.

Is there a way an option could be added to place the windows from right to left? So that when the section viewport is created, they appear in the correct order.

Thanks

Brett

[Hide Wall Line]

Thanks Alan, some good tips.

Cheers

[Hide Wall Line]

Hi,  just wondering how others deal with hiding wall lines showing through hidden line renders at corners where a lower wall butts into a taller wall?

I usually mask these, but it's not always a suitable fix. See image attached.

Thanks

 

[Notes Manager & Notes Legend - duplicating callouts]

This is how we use the Callout/Notes Manager to only have one legend for the whole set of drawings.

After we place the first callout, we move the legend on to a design layer, and then we viewport that legend on to whatever sheet we want to see it on.

The callouts are placed on to design layers and/or sheet layers (in the annotation space).  Once we have one callout placed, we just copy and paste it as required and update the callout text from the Database.  If we need another Note, we add it on the fly in the Notes Manager.

Note, we use the 'Description' field for numbering the callouts - so they are manually numbered in the format we want.

It's a bit cumbersome, but it works.  Ideally, the callouts would be always linked to the database, so if the database changed, the callouts would change too. Sadly it doesn't work this way and once you've placed a callout, it is no longer linked to the database.

[Railing/Fence Tool]

What tool do people use to model balustrades?  Tried using the Railing/Fence tool, but encountered some unexpected behaviour.

Corner posts - trying to make the railing go around a 90 degree corner (or any other angle) with a post in the corner doesn't work. The post ends up on an odd angle.

Why can't you use the eyedropper to copy the plugin parameters from one railing to another?

When turning off either the starting post or the ending post or any other combination causes the top rail to 'disappear, or the railing to not show at all.  This doesn't seem to happen on all configurations.

My file is attached.  Maybe someone can see what setting I have wrong?

Or is there a better tool?

Thanks

 

Railing Example.vwx

[Speeding up Attribute Display (Resource Manager)?]

We have the same issue, any speed improvement on this would be welcome.

[TAB Between Fields]

It's not a huge deal, but with some tools you cannot TAB between fields in the Object Info palette.

Haven't noted exactly which ones are like this, but The Drawing Label & Revision Marker tool's are examples, I'm sure there are others.  It's a pain (& slow) having to click with the mouse to enter the next field.

[Improvement to Grid Bubble Tool]

This has got our vote for 2018. I think it's been mentioned, but automatically showing the floor level lines on elevations and sections is also a 'basic' function currently missing.

[Changes to multiple selections not affecting all]

We've experienced this too.

[2017 Crashes, laggy, screen refresh]

After using 2017 for a number of weeks now, we are also finding 2017 to be generally slower to work with than 2016 & 2015.  For instance, after selecting a 2D line and clicking the line type button in the attribute palette takes 3 seconds for the 'browser' type window to appear so a new line type can be selected. There are random crashes, not too often fortunately, but it's frustrating & time consuming.

[Intersecting pitched roofs]

Hi Mike

What we do to avoid any 3D snapping.  With the overlapping roof faces in top/plan view,  select the roof faces and use the modify/convert copy to lines command, and choose hidden line as the rendering option. You end up with a group of lines showing the outline of the roof plus the intersecting line between the roof faces.  Then you can trim the roof faces to this line. Easy.

[Showing Column ID Display - Structural Member]

Hi Tom

This has been asked before and the answer was it can't unfortunately.

We liked the ID option of the framing member tool and also the option to show the member as a single line with end caps, so will continue using the framing member tool until the structural member tool is updated.