Jeff Prince

and thank goodness it did. This should be a mandatory watch for anyone in UI design.

Blender... It's the answer to most questions on this forum 🙂 Check this out LOL.... I guess they changed with the times and adopted "textures", but forgot to update their website's html 🙂 This would be consistent with what the company is already doing by changing the UI on us or removing important features like color wheels 🙂 Really, bringing the software into "compliance" with the design language of the rest of the industry makes it easier to convert people to customers. I mean they changed the program's icon shape to match Apple's new conventions, so clearly some things matter to them 🙄. We've all heard new people in our offices or here on the forums moan about how archaic or foreign the software is, and thusly difficult to learn. Old dogs here tell these young dogs to learn new tricks, instead, the young dogs go looking for treats from other masters. Soon, there will only be old dogs here and it will look like a Form Z forum.

post your file and let’s have a look. What version are you using?

as a former long time AutoCAD user, we use(d) xrefs in the same capacity as Vectorworks Layers. I prefer Vectorworks obviously, but the VWX naming convention does conflict with most major softwares, hence confusion. @Tom Klaber For rendering, Materials is a term that is inclusive of a Texture map, but encompasses much more such as how the material behaves in different lighting, rendering, and physics engines. A Texture is a small, but very visible, portion of the definition that defines the look of a Material, regardless of what people name their websites 🙂 Look at technical education and most books published on rendering prior to YouTube hacks ruining technical language… Materials is the correct term…

Can you post the dwg and VWX files? there could be several things causing the problem and the quickest way to diagnose is to look at the file.

100% agree. Vectorworks nomenclature causes more problems than it solves. Instead of updating UIs all the time, maybe bringing the software in compliance with industry "standards" for identifying things would be more useful, especially for those potential new customers coming from one of the other platforms. Maybe just copy Blender's terms as an example 🙂

mare you just trying to show the plan view of the wall depicting framing or are you literally wanting to show the studs and their positions. if the former, then you can do it with classes and put your components on classes that are not the container class for the wall. You can then turn off the components you don’t want to see, leaving the framing and container class on. If you want to show the studs, @bcd’d idea works or you are going to have a lot of graphic embellishments to do.

I guess I'm not understanding your issue. For as long as I can remember, exporting or publishing a Sheet Layer or Saved View has demonstrated this behavior. I just opened up 2021 to see if that was the case and it was, though the interface has changed somewhat since then. So, when was the last time and version you saw it behave differently than it is now?

You must have selected a Sheet Layer to export. If you export Design Layers, the option is available. That's the way it has been working.

Yes to this. I have folders on my desktop for storing backups for a variety of programs and a place to deposit screen shots. Fridays, I take a quick look at those folders and delete the unneeded before the big weekend backup.

Just tested it in 2024, and it still works. Attached file for reference. works in 2024 too.vwx

Have you tried QGIS? It should be able to take the output from Vectorworks and create the correct file. But it sure would be nice if Vectorworks just added this the to available exports...

If you follow the directions I provided, it certainly works.

Mine works fine. Maybe it’s something on your end. Post a file of what you are trying to loft.

Oh man, I spoke too soon. The basic tools look okay, but those tool set icons actually look worse and are harder to read. It's like someone over there is intentionally sabotaging things. Why do they make these changes in a vacuum and force them upon us? This UI would be better served by a command line like AutoCAD.

On the ranch, you never name your steer or chickens. On the Vectorworks, you always name everything.

No, no, no, a thousand times no! Old Icons 2020-2023 RIP Your life was cut short for the betterment of humanity Hmmm. This looks promising. Maybe kudos are in order for the development team. Perhaps I will download 2024 just to look at the interface. Minor opinionated criticism from the icons in this post... Symbol insertion still looks too busy. I find it odd the Texture Tool looks to have broken the monochromatic look with what looks like a paint roller skidding over some dog poo. The Split tool would look much better as Illustrator's Slice icon which is a simple exacto blade looking outline. Easier to recognized that current. My only question.... did the hardscape icon get fixed? I sure hope so. My commentary from the last redesign... "Oh, poor hardscape tool, what have they done to you? You used to be this pretty little field of pavers surrounded by a border presented in plan view, now you look like an isometric version of a shoe from an old Atari game."

@Bertadesign have you tried Collada (.dae)? That's a pretty good way to move back and forth and preserve some texturing. Plus, it works with Sketchup too. Unfortunately, some channels of a material don't come along for the ride like displacement mapping. If you use such materials, you just have to make a blender version. It's probably better to texture in Blender to avoid issues with your animation/render solution. I would avoid .dxf at all costs for this workflow.

Yes

Yes, it does in fact. Pretty sure you either have your grid off or it is set too small to see. You could post the file here and end the mystery.

Isn’t that what I said LOL 😉

look at the units set for your drawing and that will tell you.

I think it's your grid size being small and your object being large. Your grid size is set to 13... 13 what, mm?

if you configure the sliding door so it uses classes for the graphic display of the components.... You can set the "leaf" and "jamb" to match a class for your windows or set them to a class that matches the windows graphics, I would go with the latter personally. The middle door is using this method while the others are using default door characteristics.

How were you doing this type of drawing in AutoCAD? it’s likely the same methods can be used in Vectorworks.