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Mat Caird

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  1. The layer dosen't look grey, and holdon, ...it's not greyed out

    BTW, when I cahnge the layer of a wall with a door in it to Mod-Floor-1, the door swing disapears too. So it's like it turns into a reflected ceiling plan view...on layer Mod-floor-1.

    Now although I used the setup assistant I may well have changed something about Mod-Floor-1

  2. Thanks Matthew- so is there a quick way of finding an object lost in the myriad of layers and classes, when you don't know what laer or class it is on, and you have drawn a lot of objects, so filtering for type=line (eg) would be impractical.

  3. Hi Matthew, thanks for replying.

    If I change the wall's layer using the OIP to Mod-Floor-1 (a layer created using the setup assistant) the fill disappears (class is wall-ext-masonry). If I change the layer to Mod-Slab-1, the fill is visible.I do not swicth sheets at all during this.I have tried toggling "use layer colors", and the class is not greyed (I don't change the class).Any more ideas?Thanks

  4. Hi everyone.

    So I use the setup assistant to create a project for a simple balcony extension.

    Tell me, why, when I am on sheet 'floor plan-1', and I choose Organise|layer options|show/snap/modify others...well why can't I see all the other layers in the project?

    I would probably never want too, except when I lose something copying and pasting between layers (eg a roof)

    Thanks

  5. Hi all

    I have drawn a floorplan on layer "exist plan". The wall-type is a custom having two different "fills", and a cavity.

    When I cut and paste the walls onto a new layer "proposed plan", the fills no longer show up. What gives?

    BTW, both layers are visible on the same sheet for plotting purposes.

    Thanks

  6. Hi all

    How do you set up a floor plan sheet showing an entire shopping mall at a large scale (say 1:200), and on the same sheet a "zoom-in" on two seperate shops at 1:50.

    I don't want to cut and paste the shops onto a differnt layer because then every change I make to the individual shop's floor plan I will have to go back and fix the "original" plan.

    The shops are a long way apart on the floor plan, so I can't use white-filled rectangles to block out the unneccessary lines since both won't fit on one sheet at a time.

    Any ideas?

  7. It's interesting to compare VW's hatch creation process with Autocad's (2000).Acad2000 doesn't even have a UI, you edit a text file directly (here is a sample);

    *AR-B816C, 8x16 Block elevation stretcher bond with mortar joints0, 0,0, 8,8, 15.625,-.3750, -8,.375, 8,8, 15.625,-.37590, 0,0, 8,8, -8.375,7.62590, -0.375,0, 8,8, -8.375,7.625

    There is however, another option in Acad, and that is to use part of your drawing as a hatch pattern (they call it 'superhatch').

    This is quite a good approach, because it allows you to preview EXACTLY what you want, as intuitively as drawing normally. Basically, you draw your lines, you select them, then you "convert lines to hatch pattern".

  8. Joe - I have just done the transition from acad to VW - 5 yrs acad experience and now 3 months vw experience.

    The 3d view thing is this:

    Objects you draw in 2d do not 'rotate' with the view as you change to a 3d view (unlike 2d lines in acad)

    3d objects behave similar to acad 3d objects as you change views

    VW plug-in objects (eg doors) consist of a 2d object and a 3d object. When you change the view, you get to see the 3d component.

    I downloaded an old VW8 tutorial which I found quite useful. I can't find it on the www, but it's 1.8mb to email if u want - I found it quite useful, but still didn't answer all the questions.

    Hope that helps a bit.

  9. OK Stargate,

    How do I change the script code for simple window (for example) to draw the 2d object with poly() instead of rect(). This way I believe the object snap 'point' will work, enabling accurate drawings instead of guesswork.

    Thanks

  10. I guess most of you long time users have a work-around to this...but y o y have the team at NNA written all those PIOs without field-testing them? Surely if any autocad users were on the field test board they would have pointed out that accurate drawings are not possible with the PIOs the way they are.

    Do this...create a 'detail cut wood' object and place it as a lintle over a door opening; it's actually not that easy...the smart cursor snaps 'align..' aren't useful at all - we need point, bottom left, center etc, so we can place the object in 1 go.

    Now Titanium Samurai has suggested (on this board), that the PIO code needs modifying to draw polygons instead of rectangles. I get the feeling he would know, so why don't you guys at NNA - do you have a team of field testers, people actually producing architectural drawings on a daily basis? And if so, maybe you need some newbies like me who haven't come to grips with the software's limitations yet, and who bring other cad software experience.

    And btw, why does exporting 3d objects to DWG turn each layer into a block? A VW layer is absolutley NOT a autocad block. There is no similarity in ANY WAY AT ALL - so why?

    On a positive note, VW is certainly fast to produce drawings, even if they're not as accurate as I could produce in ACad...

  11. HiyaHow do You draw glazed partitioning for offices (VWA)?

    The window wall tool is good, except I can't make it go around corners...or insert doors into a window wall.

    Here's what I have tried so far;1) draw a series of windowwalls, overlap the corners, and hope no-one notices the wrong junction. Place a door alongside the mullion of the windowwall where required.2) draw a normal wall, insert windows and doors as usual - looks good, but seems to take longer than it should.

    How do u people do it?

    Thanks in advance.

    PS...re the windowwall tool; I'm looking out my office window at the shops on main street, and EVERY SINGLE windowwall has doors in it. So, why didn't the option of inserting a door into a window wall get coded? BTW, I could be mis-understanding what you Americans call a windowwall - I have assumed it to be the ground floor glazing of a shop (shop-front). Maybe a windowwall is the type of glazing one finds on a 'skyscaper' (curtain wall), but the PIO options don't seem to support this (if you stack them, you get a double mullion at each floor, which dosen't occur in most 'skyscrapers')

  12. Hi allHow does one change the default options for lineweights in the attribute pallette?I have the lineweights displaying in mm, which is good for a metric thinker like myself, but what I really wanna do is have the following line-weights available for 'quick select';.3 .9 .15 .2 .25 .3 .35 .5 .7

    Currently I have these options;.0 .3 .15 .3 .5 1.02

    Any ideas?

    And if you can solve this, what about doing a similar thing for text sizes?

    Thanks

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