Jeff Prince

Insertion Pt Z layer elevation

At some point, we all have to move to the latest version for a variety of reasons. I am still advising my clients to stick with 2023 until the bugs are mostly exterminated. The staying one release behind strategy is more important than ever this season. I suggest people start exploring 2024 for small tasks such as drawing details or modeling small objects like entourage just to become familiar with the significantly changed interface…. Tools look different and the arrangement of the workspace will take some time for most to become comfortable with. This update costs companies significant time and money to transition to, I wouldn’t move my projects to it until the majority of your staff feels ready. Getting buy in from your group is the most important thing, not the opinions of strangers on the internet 🙂 The new AI rendering tool could become a big distraction in some offices. I would find a way to disable it until the legal questions get sorted out and the company developed its own policies on how these tools are used. It’s like when people first got the internet in their office, countless hours lost to slack’n and lots of lawsuits for using the tool inappropriately. Humans are going to human after all.

Maybe there is a Spotlight workflow that would make this easy. Hopefully someone will respond with some ideas.

Because your VWX worksheet reports that information from the actual objects or some record associated with objects. It's not just text you copy and paste. You could just print a PDF of the Excell and stick that in your VWX if all you need is the list and not updating the actual data and graphic representation. If you need to update the data, that could be done with a script or some other programatic solution.

You should put your bubble plan on a separate design layer and simply move it to the top of the stack or wherever you need it to graphically be. Or You could draw your bubbles in the annotation space of a viewport. Personally, I would do the design layer method.

In 2021 both Slabs and Hardscape were Floors. Sometimes this program resembles a government roadway project, just repaving things to keep the crews busy and the budgets intact 🙂 I say this in jest, I'm sure there are very well thought-out reasons for this, kind of like how the color picker was redesigned.

Decks are like houses, lots of parts that are best made using different tools. So.... I use slabs, framing members, railings, stairs, EAPs, extrudes, walls, and even the occasional curtain wall. Whatever makes it clean.

Because the Slab tool builds a solid and the Hardscape tool builds meshes. Why the programers decided to do that is a mystery. There is a popular conspiracy where there is an internal directive to make things intentionally confusing to boost the training side of the biz 🙂

those are AutoCAD hatches. I think the only way you will get them into Vectorworks is be importing a .dwg with the hatches already using in the drawing.

my money is on this. Obscure enough to forget, until it happens.

Loft Or Site Model - Make each planting bed individually using the site model tool. Once you’re happy with them, ungroup to convert to mesh. those would be quick.

Your details look great, but many of us still draw 2D details for artistic license. Sometimes you have to graphically fudge things to communicate effectively, like weather wrap, fasteners, lapped thin materials, etc... Also, you can put a submittal package together using a schematic model that doesn't have everything figured out with 2D details that show how it will be done. This saves a lot of time in the production process compared to a 100% BIM, at least with today's software.

Interesting. Everyone I work with does decimal feet or meters for site work. Anyhow, if your doc units are set appropriately, your worksheet must be reporting the wrong info. If your 0,0 for your coordinate system is set to be on the property rather than georeferenced to the state or other large scale coordinate system.... Just use XCoordinate & YCoordinate of your stakes instead of Northing & Easting. This will report the desired info for a local site coordinate system. When you are writing the report formula, you can format the field to insure you are reporting the right kind of data as well.

Yes. You can do math with data tags such as: #IPZ#+#IPZL#

What units did you collect your N&E in? What units should they be displayed in within Vectorworks? It’s kinda of hard to tell from the screenshots what you are going for.

If I had a nickel for every click…

That’s why you should stay 1 release behind…

Hmmm. Has anything changed in your computer recently? What happens if you copy and paste some of the geometry to a new file?

What happens when you restart Vectorworks? If that doesn't fix it, what happens when you reboot your computer?

@apswoodwork you might want to check out this... https://fitplot.it/vwplugins/mouldings.html#

Who needs vertically stacked wall components, a feature we have been requesting for years, when you have the AI vizualizer… Frustrating!

You should work directly with tech support to resolve your issue, it has nothing to do with the topic here.

@Vectorworks drafter Shiv You are not using the tool properly. There are classes on Vectorworks University and the Help menu that can instruct you on how to properly use the select similar tool. You need to set your Tool Preferences to your desired behavior, like pretty much every tool in this software. I'm guessing you have too many parameters selected when you probably only want "object type".

This is not Vectorworks’ strong suit. It’s “possible” using the deform tools, depending on how your geometry is modeled. If it’s a solid, you’ll have a chance. There are solutions by other companies that will do this much easier, one of which was shoe in your link 😉

Just keep in mind, once you have a handle on how this all works, they will probably change it entirely 😉