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Hi there, when is Service Pack 3 out for 2018VW ? kind regard anton

Yes i see your point Chad, but that's just the point, we don't have control, we only have the option of not having it being pushed through, having an option to tick, (like when you referencing in to a separate sheet file for example), to cache the viewport renders, or in this case pushing it through to the other users, in a tick box option would be very useful. Just so that you could choose either way if you see what i mean. kind regards anton

ah thats interesting, i wonder if there are any specific settings that you changed / or if anything was set up differently to manage to push the renders through. kind regards

Just to note, We have this issue too, we have elevations viewports on sheets that are kept in the main working/project files, when user A updates anything inside the viewport / annotation etc, it's pushed through, but not the renders themselves, they seem to be only saved to that specific users own working file. Is this on purpose by VW or a bug? i figure it would be beneficial for them to be pushed through for other users too, such as everything else is, so that others can work on them as well, (for example if user A is on holiday etc), rather than to have to re-render all the viewports again. is this still the case in VW2018 ? (we are currently using VW2017), kind regards anton

hm, any updates on this? still struggling with normal elevations to look the way we want them, and some render settings (especially planning ones, where we need the bricks to show nice and crisp but with shadows) are still struggling, kind regards a

We are using VW2017 sp4 awesome, you are a saviour, never used the 'browse a document' command before, worked a treat, thank you ;-) kind regards anton

We are having difficulties Referencing Symbols from Project Sharing file to Elevations / Sections sheet files, mainly the Level symbols, and grid lines symbol. Things that we use in both Elevations, plans and sections at all scales. We have a project sharing file, with multiple users for one bldg only (10 stories, 256 apartments), which is working fine. we than have separate vectorworks sheet files for plans / elevations / sections, which generate all the sheets as above. Referencing in the main Working file. but we can't get in the grid line symbols nor the level symbols, as we get an error message saying that the Working file cannot be referenced in (only the Project file), which we know... but the symbol is inside the project file, and not reachable from within the resource browser. is there a way around this somehow? kind regards anton

We are having major issues with this too, and VectorWorks needs to address this asap, we have tested this in both VW2017 and VW2018 versions, and in both updates several people can adjust symbols without checking them out, they can't move them (outside the editing mode of the individual symbols however, but easily adjust it), this causes conflicts of course when saving and committing back to the project file. Vectorworks please sort this out, thank you, kind regards anton

I figured it would be some sort of annoying work around (and than having to cover up with white box so that it doesn't show outside of the viewport etc...)

Is there a way to create only one grid line and bubble (for example in zoomed in detail drawings) using the grid bubble tool? kind regards anton

ok thank you, will have a try at this, is there a way to rotate the grid bubble text? and also if two grid lines are close to one another, is there a way to re-locate the bubble slightly so that you can read both grid line references (letters or numbers), also is there a way to skip a letter, such as the 'I' and the 'O', as these resemble to much of numbers '1' and '0' also is there a way to add a preface code to certain of the grids, such as 'EOS' (edge of slab), and 'C/C' (centre to centre), this would be very useful and helpful. thank you, kind regards anton

also is there a way to control the location of the actual bubble number/letter? as for example we have two grids that are quite close to each other, one bubble overlaying the other, so you can't see the actual name / letter for the gridline. which is very annoying... and again not very flexible. kind regards anton

Did you add a Grid tool that can be exported with IFC for full co-ordination with Revit? many thanks kind regards anton

Did this get resolved? we still don't seem to be able to export Grid lines in IFC from vectorworks (and we are using VW2017.... ) kind regards anton

would be very useful with paus or stop rendering progress i agree

yes a stop or render paus button, while for example rendering up some quick section / elevation cuts from the main BIM model would be very useful.... thank you kind regards anton

what would also be useful would be a way of stopping a render that takes tooooooooo long, without having to force quit the vectorworks application... thank you, kind regards anton

Than prior to updating the references, set the rotation to '0', than update reference, and re-set to the normal rotation, this should solve the issue of the skipping around viewports, at least it did for us. we found this solution by coincidence. kind regards a

don't be silly lol, that would be far too useful...

We would be keen to see this happening too for basement ramps, including curved ramps and circular ones too, kind regards anton

is the layers rotated to '0' degrees when updating the referenced link? kind regards anton

A temporary solution (using VW2017 sp3) we've found is to when updating references, keep the working layers unrotated (i.e. to '0' degrees), and your referenced in viewports should hopefully shift back into place, at least they did that for three of our projects. So happy days ;-) kind regards anton

i second that....

i second this, can this be done similar to what happens in Revit? that the '0.000' level is a fixed point, and dragging the level marker will adjust the unit reference within the marker thank you

We just upgraded one of our projects (including all reference files/sheet files etc) to 2017 SP2 from 2016 SP6, and without changing any information (basically just save as 2017vw), the user origin (from working file to sheet files) has shifted in a majority of our drawings. We have 5 point buildings, each in their own VW file, and 2 podium in separate files, all referenced into sheet files. This is very frustrating as there doesn't seem to be a logic behind it. As some of the sheet files (for individual blocks) shows up fine, with correct user origin, but in others, like site wide plans the building / parts of bldg has shifted... Any new help suggestions would be much appreciated. Frustrated VW2017 user... kind regards a