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jberlin

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  1. OH BTW!!! Just noticed in the top left hand corner it does not read Design Suite AnandaScapes but reads Design Suite 24. And what makes me even happier is that the old UI menu icons are back!!! Oh Thank God!!!!!!, I am actually crying I am so happy. Sorry folks, but I have been kvetching about how much I dislike the new icons. I can live with the tool icons, they are very similar, and with them larger I can find them. But I suppose figuratively, I would stare at the menu icons for minutes to find the Building Set or the 3D set, and so on. But look now, I just won the lottery! Cheers! Joel
  2. Well that took literally 4 minutes. So happy. So I went to my 23 Workspace folder, dragged and copied my Design Suite 23 workspace to the 24 Workspace folder. Changed the name so I could keep track of it aka Design Suite AnandaScapes. In VW 24 Tools>Workspaces>Workspaces, the wind came up and I checked my Design Suite Anandascapes, clicked ok, and a few seconds later it blinked and the workspace was up. Not only that, but all my quick key changes stayed the same, my menus were in the space as expected. So happy. I don't think I will ever migrate again, this is easier and faster, since usually after migration every year, I have to go back and change all my quick keys, and change all my menu positions, and so on......... Thank you for leading me in the right direction, if you see this 2024 migration bug happen to someone else, above is the quick solution. Cheers! Joel
  3. I think that is the what I am now saying, My Design Suite workspace has mysteriously changed. I have gone into the workspace to edit this, and I cannot find Edit Annotations, Edit Crop or Edit Design Layer. I can see under menus, that I can add or remove segments, I remove the Spotlight commands, but don't see the edit commands. I also made a copy of my Design Suite Workspace, since I can see that there is a choice to "Reset" and work space back to its shipping arrangement. I did the reset and it still has the Spotlight junk. Ugh. I wonder if there is a way to import my 2023 Design Suite Workspace. I will try that next..........
  4. They are completely different: here is 23, which matches your image above. Now here is 24, it is totally different!!!!!!!! Edit then none of the edit choice. Thus you have to first click Edit to get this window. In 23 when inside the Annotation I used to be able to right click and go straight to Edit Design Layer Now in 24 all one gets is the crop choice. So yes if there is a preference that has been accidentally changed or?????? please let me know ASAP. Thank You !!!!!! What I am seeing is Focus Lighting & Refresh Lighting Devices - which might lead me to believe that I am somehow in the Spotlight UI. However, I am not, I am in the Design Suite UI. as I have been for many years.....
  5. Help so frustrated!....Up until this release of VW24, in my sheet layer, I used to be able to right click on a view port, and in that box, it used to give the option of: Edit Viewport: Annotations, Crop, Design Layer, Camera. Now when you right click on a viewport, the only option is Edit. You then have to click on edit to bring up a second window called Edit Viewport, and then choose what you want to edit. That two extra steps to slow me down? Also what is also gone is say I am in the "Crop" window, I use to right click while working in the crop window and get the other 3 options, so I could go directly from the Crop window to the Design Layer window. But now the right click window only gives one of those options. What I loved while working in the annotations window, I could right click and go straight to the design layer and quickly fix something, then upon exit I would be back in the annotation window. Not having this is really, and I mean really slowing down my work flow. Is there some kind of settings for this? I have looked everywhere....
  6. Part 4 of my wish list. I feel VW is getting there with all the new features that came out for site model improvements in 2023, but it would be awesome if there was a tool that with a simple "brushing" over and area, you could visually change , smooth, or flatten the site plan in 3D mode. Currently it is a lot of work to get the site plan and hardscapes to come together quickly. Again this is simply a reference to the ease of Structure Studio's Terrain Tool. Please jump to around 4:00 in, so you can see the quick brushing tools that I am wishing for. The beginning is not... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4703KYVzxBs
  7. Part 3. A Parametric Pool, Spa, and Water feature set of tools. I can imagine that this might have to be it's own program, such as the theatre lighting program VW Spotlight. How ever, it would be awesome to be able to draw the shape of a pool, and bam, the basics are there, including pool depth, and coping. Then using a style to fine tune, water height, coping size, tile water line, multi depth features, and so on. Add spillovers and infinity edges in seconds. Again these videos are for reference and ease of Structure Studio's Pool and Spa Tool... not for accuracy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FEl2Rgv2IM
  8. Part 2 of 4 Wish List Tools A ne parametric deck tool. DeckWorks has not been around for many years but I bought it way back in 2012 or 2014? It was supper helpful to quickly draw up decks and change the styling of those decks. IE boards on straight to diagonal. Single row of frame boards to two rows. and so on. Add stairs in seconds....... Again here is reference to Structure Studios for quickness and ease. Again not for accuracy . Vectorworks is super accurate, which is what I love about VW.
  9. I am going to ask for 4 Landscaping Tools in separate questions, but refer to the ease of Structure Studio's CAD programs / apps. It would be awesome if VW make a new tool called Parametric Pergola Objects Tool. This would work Like the new Rail or Fence or Cabinet tools, but built a custom pergola, patio cover, open roof or solid roof, with ease. I currently have to build it sick by stick.
  10. The new UI: to be honest, I cannot see a thing. I have seeing issues and now that all the icons are black and white, I cannot see them. Funny how how my understanding is that it was changed to help those with accessibility issues. Thanks for making it horrible for my eye site!!!! The UI was recently updated a few years back to the new icons, which looked great. The were Bigger, Fluffier, and Smartly color coordinated, so that, without really looking at the icons, you could find them in an instant. Now they are gray, thin, tiny, and many do not even look like they previous icon. I sometime spend and I mean literally not figuratively, 4 to 5 minutes finding the icon i need. I am so not happy, I want a big discount on my renewal, because it is take 3 to 4 times longer to draw my plans......SO DISAPPOINTED!
  11. There is no VW Updater App in my 2023 VW folder. I need to resown load it. That is what I need help on. I need a direct link to this download. Why does VW make this so impossible.
  12. I need a direct link to re-download the Vectorworks 2023 Updater, it is gone from my VW 2023 folder. I am still back on SP3 and frustrated by getting no help on this. So missing some major tool upgrades, that I need ASAP. HELP!!!
  13. I have Design Suite on VW 2023 and I only have up to SP3. Check for updates and softwares says it is up to date. What am I missing?
  14. Thank You Tamsin! For years now, I have been looking for a way to replace imported CAD (dwg or dxf) plants symbols with my own plant symbols. Your step two would be my intuitive and best practice way to change them. However, this has never ever worked. So frustrating. I have been using VW since 2008, I would have never thought to look in the Modify Tab >Convert > Replace with Symbol to do this function. Genius.!!!!!!!!! Here is my complete workflow: in the imported file each plant symbol is unique ie Agave_Am1, Agave_Am2 and so on. In the Resourse Browser>"Current Working Open File" > DWG/DXF symbol folder > highlight all similar symbols except the first one (Agave_Am2 thru Agave_Am16) > Delete >Replace Symbols with... > Choose Agave_Am1 > All >Click OK. Now using the Select Similar Tool, Highlight one of the Agave_Am1 since now all 16 have the same name (be sure in the SST preference pain, the symbol name is checked) once all are highlighted Modify> Convert> Replace with Symbol> choose my Agave Plant Symbol and voila!!!! All are replaced. It's a long process, But I think it is faster than redrawing all the plants over again.
  15. Quick Update. For me with 2021, it is no longer a problem. I am unfollowing this thread.
  16. Just to add to the experiment. Not only is the new title block viewport annotations effected by the non rotatable North arrow, all old title blocks within this corrupted file are effected. The experiment goes on. I then opened my template file and created a new Sheet layer, then while both files where open, I copied and pasted the new tile block from the infected file, to the new sheet layer in my template file. North rotates without an issue. So it is not the new title block. If there is not an on /off for this problem in some setting, I am going to have to go layer by layer and cut and paste everything from the corrupted file to the clean file. yuk!!!!!
  17. SAME PROBLEM WITH ONE FILE. YOU ALL'S ANSWER MAKES NO SENCE. I OPENED OLDER FILES TO SEE IF I HAD THE PROBLEM THERE AS WELL AS, STARTED A NEW FILE FROM MY TEMPLETS THAT I USED FOR THIS FILE, AND IN THE VIEWPORT ANNOTATIONS, I CAN ROTATE THE NORTH TO ANY ANGLE AS ALWAYS. THE SETTINGS IN GEOLOCATION VIA FILE - DOCUMENT SETTINGS HAVE NOT CHANGE, AND ARE IDENTICAL IN ALL 3 FILES. THERE HAS TO BE A SETTING SOMEPLACE THAT IS CAUSING THIS TO HAPPEN. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IN THE FILE WITH THE PROBLEM, IS THAT I CREATED A BRAND NEW TILE PAGE. YET IN ALL THOSE SETTINGS, THERE IS NOTHING THERE THAT MAKE THIS ALWAYS POINTING TO THE TOP OF THE PAGE OR STRAIGHT UP, AS A CHOICE TO TURN ON OR OFF. COME ON VW WHAT IS THE ANSWER?
  18. It used to be automatic, but now highlight Tiltle block, click title block settings, click Project Data, Under file name Check box "Include file path name", it updates a long version of the name, then uncheck the box, and Voila all Title Blocks are now updated with the shortened file name. This has to be done every time I change the file name. So yes it is still a bug in my mind when I never had to do that before.
  19. Some Title Block auto text formats no longer update such as Project, Filename. This text is suppose to update on every title block with the files new saved name. This is no longer happening as of the sp3 update. I have deleted it and then added / assigned it and still no updating function. Other auto text fields are updating. What is the fix or work around?
  20. I don't get it. The Fence Rail tool always draws square corner fences on the 45º angle. I have never seen any builder do this. I mean NEVER EVER!!!!! Corner post are square to all other posts and in line. This is a glitch that needs to be fixed ASAP. It has been driving me crazy for several years now since the tool was released. FIX THIS!!!!!!
  21. Until 2019, Plant Catalog updates were also automatically sent to the Plant Database for updates. Now they are two separate features, and now you must either choose the catalog or the database, and only the feature you chose can be automatically updated. In other words: This is how I use to add a new variety. Open a Plant Definition (now called Style), click on Get Plant Data, choose All Plant Data, in the left field with the long list of plant names - start typing the plant - and a list of plant names begins to show up, choose the plant with the closest name you are looking for and that information migrates to your Plant Definition / Style. Now change the name of the old variety to the name of the new variety, click OK. If the automatic update was checked, the PLANT DATABASE app would open and the database would update that plant. You might even get a message saying "waiting on plant database......Do you want to insert a new record for it". This was brilliant because both the data set and the database would be essentially synchronized. Now they are separate. You can export the whole data set to the database, but not just the one new style to the database. Oh and the feature of having photos in the dataset sucks, since none of the photos in your database are in this 2019 plant data set / plant catalog. If the developers at Vectorworks, or if anyone has a workaround, please let me know. Otherwise, Vectorworks PLEASE allow synchronization between the plant data set / plant catalog, and the plant database
  22. Rails and Fences. I have been playing with this feature for at least 12 hours now and I am finding I need it to do two more functions. 1) many Craftsman style rails have spindles, or bars between the "Top Rail" and the top of the "Frame Panel". So essentially, there are multiple "Frame Panels", and the tool can only make 1 panel with space between the Top Rail. I currently have to created my own 3D solids and place them by hand between the top of the panel and the bottom of the top rail. 2) While you can make a "Fence" look like a rail and with segments force it to follow a slope, however, you cannot force the segments to follow various 3D solids with various heights. In other words, the stair tool cannot create my complex deck steps and deck levels, so no rails. This has to be done by 3d solids. As you can imagine, rails need to follow the edge of these different "Z" values, of these complicated deck platforms. Yes I use DeckWorks, but the rail forms are way too simple compared to the new "Rail/Fence" tool. Also DeckWorks rails only follow stairs, and not the edge of multiple leveled decks. Could you imagine if in a "Side" flat 3d view, the rail tool had a polyline option, and you could draw that line along the edge of the top deck, than down the angle of all the other deck levels, and clicked the check mark, than the rail tool would place the rails along that path. Not only would the tool draw the rails along the flat surface, but also down all the deck levels as one continuous rail. If I am missing how to do this, let me know. THX
  23. How can I remove 2017 SP2 on my Mac. I want to go back to SP1, where everything worked. In short, while in TOP/PLAN View, highlight polyline, convert shape to object, hardscape, in object info click on 3D, choose slab, now try to change from TOP/PLAN view to any 3D view such as TOP or Right Isometric or Fly over tool, VW 2017 SP2 crashes. This happens on both my Lap Top and Desk Top, so it has to be a software issue not a graphics card issue, as both macs are different. This did not occur in 2017 SP1, it was perfect!!!!!!
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