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I was working on a landscape design which had all shapes of Palm Trees - searched for symbols / vector images to import and use as symbols- only to learn that I COULD NOT import a vector (EPS) file from a common (paid) stock image website. Had to have my neighbor with adobe photoshop import and convert to a PNG for me. I cannot understand that my $1000 a year vector program will not import vector based files? What am I missing? I'm running Vectorworks 2024 v4 on an Apple M3 MAX - Sonoma 14.2.1 Thank you.

This is the second time this has happened to me in a couple of days that VWX freezes up cannot do anything - full screen on an external model - usually when there's a problem in VWX and I go to force quit on my MAC (brand new MAC Pro Max M3) VWX is red and says not responding - but there is no indication that VWX is not responding. I will force quit to restart. Has anyone else had this problem?

Thanks - but not seeing the link?

I'm doing a drawing with lots of (3D) rocks- wondering if anyone has a good resource they've used - low poly? -VWX Library rocks so-so - thanks

Hi - Use doors in walls all of the time - any way to have them appear closed in 2D - I can have them closed in 3D - but they still draw open in 2D - also wonder if there's a way to draw a 3D door open in one view port but closed in another? Thanks

but the old -"turn it off and turn it on again" - worked - this time

ugh - having this problem too!!! trying the fixes - but nothing is fixing it - doors that were in walls disassociate - turn red when I'm hovering with the door/window - but will not sit in the wall - so I drew a new wall - to see if its the door or the wall - same door goes in new wall ok - - and now 2nd door automatically cuts an opening the first wall - when there is only one door in it - neither wall will have both an opening (cased open door) and a door in it- have to use two separate walls - now to figure out a hack for the door on the bottom right which has popped out of its wall - wow - what a slow down and aggravation -

copy and pasted the transparent transom in to the same wall a few feet away - both have glazing clear turned on in the CLASSES for the transom (and sidelight) both SHADED but in one 3d view TRANSOM is CLEAR - and the other view SOLID????? vectorworks 2023

sigh - my OPENGL options are set to a max I think - including a screen shot w/ options open so you can see anti-aliasing on - detail - high - and still so many jagged edges - just a little embarrassing when I'm showing the bosses - sketchup so much pretty on the screen - hard to convince them to use vectorworks (hire me 🙂 ) in these cases am I missing any settings that I can improve the screen view? ps- like I had said in my first post - using sketchup on the same screen has no jagged edges to speak of - so don't think it's my screen - thanks

Didn't try converting to NURBS. will try this aft and see if that works

Hi- I'm trying to edit the path of an extrusion - I cannot change the size of the original rectangle - which is now a NURBS curve - on my reshape palette I've chosen editing in the Y direction - but I keep getting this screen which tells me its illegal to edit and would I like to delete - (also tried replacing the NURBS curve w a rectangle and that doesn't work either) I've come across this problem before - any suggestions? thanks

GREAT - will give this a try

Hi- I'd like to create a keyboard shortcut for the Preference - when editing an object showing other objects around or hiding all other objects - depending on what I'm editing the need changes - and each time I have to go to Preferences and manually change this preference - I looked in Workspace editing and can't find the option to create a keyboard shortcut - any suggestions? thanks

YES - my VWX is going at a snail's pace today - and keeps crashing - 3D file - no textures - no lights - 236 MB - is this large? - it's pretty awful - have restarted 5 times today

HI Pat - No not a sheet layer - this is a screen shot of my monitor- - on the left is a window with a sketchup model in it - fairly smooth - not much jagged edges and right next to it is the window w/ my VWX model - settings on high and still getting those jagged edges -it's not a monitor setting - since the sketchup model is fairly smooth on the same monitor - it must be a setting in VWX - very hard to walk through with my bosses - when the model looks so bad - also I've tried turning off and on again - and still jaggedy - thanks

My VWX 3D model is pre-vising on my screen w very jaggedly edges - although I have the display options set to HIGH - I'm including a photo of my screen - w a sketchup model on the left - and the VWX model on the right - w/ the display settings in the picture too - it's not the monitor since the SKP model is not nearly as jagged as my VWX model - thoughts? thanks 🙂

Switched both the display preferences (my gut tells me this may have been the cause) and the Mac preference for the battery use solved - thank you

Here's the info - 🙂 and a screen shot showing an example of what I see when I zoom in and out thanks - Vectorworks 2021 Mac OS Big Sur 11.6.2 2.4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8 GB Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB

When I zoom in and out on sheet layers I get some very annoying vector trails which are the full image from the viewport crop - it's pretty annoying when I'm showing my work to someone else - is there any way to turn this off? thanks

Hi Pat - object closed - so not that -

Hi - I've got a 3d model - and cutting sections - some objects do not have a fill although they show up as solids in Open GL - you can see the red section fill (for half the objects) in my Clip Cube

wonder if there are any updates on this post - I've got a 3D model and trying to generate a plan - it seems ridiculous there's no way to generate a plan from my 3D model

Hi Tom - I'm not sure which surface you mean to extract? And am having no success with he Section Solids tool? I wound up intersecting solids - then traced the piece I want to subtract - made a new extrude and subtracted it - this is easy with the box shape I had - but don't think this will work for more complex shapes - Is there no way to intersect the extrudes (solids?) - make them in to two separate pieces and then delete the unwanted piece?

Hi I've got an extrude and a tapered extrude that are intersecting - I want to clip the top part of the column - leaving the tapered extrude and the bottom part of the column intact. thanks -