Mat Caird

Thanks both for your help. Katie, I would have hoped "Going from 1:10 to 1:50, the text should" ... actually print on paper the same size. This means then that 2.5mm text on the 1:10 layer will be 12.5mm high on the 1:50 layer. However, the more I play with this, the more I realise I'm trying to do something which simply isn't possible. thanks again u 2

Thanks for your reply Andy. No luck though, I looked at every layer scale, and the scale text box is checked. Still, if I edit|copy text from a layer with a scale of 1:10, and edit|paste onto a 1:50 layer, the text dosen't scale up like it should. I just tried it on VWA9.5 and the behaviour is the same. Please tell me, how do you cut and paste text between layers of different scales? Thanks again

Hi all So I copy some text from a layer with a scale on 1:10. I paste the text into a layer with a scale of 1:50. Shouldn't the text "scale" automatically to be the "correct" size on the new layer? Thanks in advance everyone!

DUH! try this URL; http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/zeroprospects/vwp?.dir=/&.src=ph&.dnm=cavity+quirk+in+VWA10.gif&.view=t&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/bc/zeroprospects/lst%3f%26.dir=/%26.src=ph%26.vie w=t

Katie- thanks for your help on this... I haven't tried the bugsubmit just yet, but here's the screenshot, which I think illustrates things better... http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/zeroprospects/vwp?.dir=/shared&.src=ph&.dnm=cavity+problem+in+VWA10.gif&.view=t&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/bc/zeroprospects/lst%3f%26.dir=/shared%26 .src=ph%26.view=t thanks

Hi Katie Win2k But try this - create a wall with a 30mm white cavity, 100mm black cavity, 10mm grey cavity. Insert a door, enable a trim of about 100mm. now when you flip the door, the portion of wall behind the trim also flips. I guess the workaround is to set trims to none.. Thanks for replying

When I 'flip' a door in VWA10, the wall cavity flips also, which is obviously not what I want. Anybody know a workaround? Thanks

duh...u r right of course. thanks

VWA10 on win2oooo I notice that all menu commands shortcut-keystrokes are appended with CTRL. Be good if they weren't. Anyone know how to use just the 0 key to get a plan view (same as in VW9)?

I'm not as stupid as you may think....so bear with me on this. A lot of PIO's have a field 'DO NOT EDIT'. Well what's that field for? Thanks.

Well it turned out to be a problem with the workspace - now I need to get a good copy of the architect workspace to use - do I reinstall VW? DO I muck around with my VWA9.5 workspace?

Hi just installed VWA 10. When I click the down arrow to navigate to a different file, the drop down list appears, then disappears before I have a chance to do anything. It worked once, but not agin. Any ideas? win2k

I have a similar thing, but only at the peak. The bottom is fine. I used the comand create roof from Poly...so it is a roof, not a roof face. However, on another part of the same building, I have a roof face which is square cut mitre correctly...

Thanks for your long reply Katie - awesome. I am running through your suggestions, and after doing "check 3d polygons", it tells me the x,y coordinate of the first crossing. So whadda I do now? THX

Hi all In the VWA9.01 manual it says "The source data for the site can be 3d loci, 3d polygons, or surveyor data" Is this a typo (the 3d polygon bit). The following paragraphs describe how to create the DTM with 2d polys, but not 3d polys. Otherwise, how does one use 3d polygons to create a DTM? Thanks

Right, so I've used the setup assistant, done a floorplan, and a roof plan. I now want to use the 3d reshape wall tools to add peaks to the walls. My question is this; I need mod-roof and mod-floor visible to do this, and as per an earlier post of mine, the layer z values don't put the roof 'above' the walls as one would expect. SO, my question really is, should I cut and paste the roof onto mod-floor, then manipulate the walls, then paste the roof back onto mod-roof, OR, is there a quicker and easier way? THanks in advance

There's mo potion key on my PC keyboard.....

Well, where is the degree symbol? Anyone know? Thanks

If I have mod-floor-1 with a layer z = 0 layer +- = 2700, and mod-floor-2 with layer z = 2700 layer +- = 2700 , change to standard view left on both layers, then make both layers visible I would expect to see mod-layer-2 above mod-layer 1. But of course I don't, so what am I misunderstanding? thx in advance

thanks Doug, that's exactly what I wanted. Thanks Katie for replying.

Hi all So I began a drawing at 1:50 scale, did a few dimensions, then used the setup assistant to change the layer scale of the floor plan sheets to 1:100. How do I get the dimensions to update their 'scale' to match the new? THX in advance

Katie, if you are using VWA, with units set to millimeters, and you choose Model|Select wall Type|Add, the default is set to inches. I would also have to add, that all the pios have the units in mm, but they have been converted from inches. So, a 24" wide counter top, makes a logical starting point in the USA, but for metric users, 609mm requires changing. This probably sounds trivial, butremember it applies to EVERY part of EVERY pio, so it ends up taking a lot of extra steps. I don't know what the answer is to this without a heap of work from you guys. Except maybe if the VWA PIOs were editable by the end users, at least we could do it once to the PIOs we use the most. Thanks

Thank you kindly Matthew

HI all how do you cycle through smartcursor options with moving the mouse randomly and hoping? Also, what's the quickkey to constrin horiz/vert etc. Thanks in advance

Katie, u can save directly to a cd if you have the right software installed. In my case Ahead's InCD, on a win2000 computer. I suspect my problem was caused by something other than VW though, 'cause I can open the corrupted file on another machine without a problem. I should have tried restarting, which probably woulda fixed it. Thanks for answering. Mat