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    Dimensions jumping when placed in VW2010 SP3

    in General Discussion

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    cbd I feel your pain. It is quite an irritation having to zoom or scroll far off in one direction or anther in order to retrieve one of these wild hair dimensions, and half the time you end up grabbing the numerical value not the dimension line! Try entering a smaller numerical value in the OIP "offset" box to bring the dimension back into the viewport without zooming or scrolling thus making precise placement easier and quicker.

    Can't add texture to door leaf

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    This could very well end up falling under the "doh" category but it's got me stumped. The problem is I cannot find a way to apply a separate texture to a door leaf.

    I started with VW's standard door plug-in from which I made a symbol distributed throughout the plan. The door has a slab leaf with painted aluminum jamb + trim. I can apply class a defined texture to the jamb & trim via the View options under the Settings menu in the OIP (Style-1), however there is no "Leaf" selection in the drop down menu. I've tried applying the desired leaf texture (oak veneer) to the entire door symbol via the Render tab in the OIP but to no effect.

    VW help was, to no surprise, useless.

    Pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.

    Dimension Display Inconsistency

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted

    Attached is a simple example illustrating the inconsistent display of dimension fractions. In my example try an edit the red dimension to an arbitrary fractional number and note that it cannot be done and display correctly.

    1) If one edits the red dimension via the OIP the resulting fraction is treated as text and does not display the same as the adjacent dimensions.

    2) If one double clicks the red dimension and enters a new fractional dimension the result does display correctly (matched existing dimensions) but the dimension witness lines jump to the changed dimension.

    This makes dimensioning across break lines, which is not uncommon !, a frustrating experience. Ideally, dimensions edited in the OIP should recognize the fractional display selected in the units preferences.

    Bob

    Fraction Display Inconsistency

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Pat and Ken, thanks for the replies.

    Pat, I have attached a simple example illustrating my problem. How do I edit the center (red) dimension to a fractional number other than the displayed dimension and have it display correctly?

    Editing the dimension via the OIP treats the result as a text object and the resulting fraction does not match. Double-clicking and editing the red dimension results in a correct fractional display but the dimension string changes to the new dimension. Associative dimensions are turned off.

    Is there something I'm missing? (Not that it has ever happened before!)

    Bob

    Fraction Display Inconsistency

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I have been using VW2010's implementation of fraction display choices for a while now but have noticed an irritating inconsistency. Simply put, manually entered dimensions are displayed strictly as typed in the OIP ignoring the fractional display selection made in File>Document Settings>Units menu. Thus one can have a string of dimensions displaying fractions differently.

    Am I to assume that even though I am directly editing a dimension the entered information is treated strictly as text, thus ignoring the fraction settings?

    As of now the described graphic result effectively defeats the purpose of making alternate fraction display selections.

    Bob

    Dimensions jumping when placed in VW2010 SP3

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Ok Ray, let's try this. I've attached a 2D file that I just created in VW 2010. It has a few simple walls with doors and a window and one plan detail viewport. No custom settings, everything should be at VW Architect default settings.

    Open the viewport in annotation mode. Draw a dimension string between the the two points with the red circles while dragging the dimension off to the right, past the existing dimension. Upon release of the mouse button the new dimension will "bounce" back to the left. It may not happen every time but does repeatedly for me. The "bounce" phenomenon seems sensitive to how deliberately one places the dimension. Moving quickly makes it easier to reproduce for me.

    Bob

    Dimensions jumping when placed in VW2010 SP3

    in General Discussion

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    Bill, since installing SP3 I too have observed the same problem, however, so far only while placing dimensions in viewport annotation mode and only intermittently. Some viewports behave normally. The drawings were created on VW2009 and continued in VW2010. Has not occurred when dimensioning on a design layer... so far. Turning off associative dimensioning does appear to eliminate the behavior but is not, in my opinion, much of a fix.

    Bob

    Problem printing from VW10 Help (Adobe Air)

    in General Discussion

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    Thanks Monkey, I had suspected that as well but my Epson R200 software offers no options regarding DPI. I did select "scale to fit" in the paper set up dialog but this made no difference.

    Since I am printing directly form VW Help (Adobe Air) there are no page set up features available. Of all the mac applications (VW, Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4, Aperture 3, Safari, Firefox, etc.), I have printed from over the years I have never come across this issue... at least when it wasn't easily corrected.

    Bob

    Problem printing from VW10 Help (Adobe Air)

    in General Discussion

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    Simple thing... I've been unsuccessful in trying print (using the print widget) any readable pages from VW10 Help (Adobe Air). The right side of the page is truncated, the overall page size appears to be too large and general quality is poor. I've tried portrait and landscape modes to no difference. I have not been able to find any community board reference to this problem.

    Anyone with any experience regarding this?

    Thanks in advance,

    Bob

    Multiple Key Note Legends

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Thanks ... but .... I'm not getting it. After I duplicate the legend, changing the name yields no results. (The same notes remain as before.) Is the name that you are changing = data field in the OIP that is called "title" and is below the field "rotation" ? (this is under the "shape" tab, and the default reads "Notes")

    Could my problem be that my test notes are not from a database but are just my hand typed notes?

    Domer and Jonathan,

    My notes were all hand typed, not from a data base. Domer, yes you are typing in the correct field in the OIP.

    I just tried my procedure in VW2009 (collecting dust in my Applications folder) and it didn't work. Typing in a new legend name after duplicating the legend did not eliminate the original note list. Again in VW2010 it works fine.

    It is now apparent to me that in VW2010 the Key Note Legend behavior is different and the Key Note (Callout) OIP information has been expanded to include, among other things, the drop-down menu for "Keynote Legend".

    Sorry Domer. Bummer.

    Bob

    Multiple Key Note Legends

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    RGyori: I had to try this out, but I got stumped. After duplicating the legend, how do you rename it? When I look at the OIP with the legend selected, there is no data field for naming the legend (or re-naming it). Is this a VW 2010 feature ? (I'm using VW 2009).

    Hello Domer,

    I was not entirely accurate in my description (sorry) so following is an edited version:

    1) On the sheet layer level (not in annotation mode) I duplicated the existing legend (let's call it Legend A) and dragged it to a position under the second plan.

    2) With the new legend selected, in the OIP I typed over the legend name (Legend A) and changed it to Legend B. To my surprise the old key notes disappeared and I had a new blank legend.

    3) Now I annotated the second plan: While in the annotation mode of the second viewport, I selected the Key Note tool, opened the Key Note preferences and selected Legend B from the Key Note Legend drop-down menu. From then on all added Key Notes appeared in the new Legend B.

    (If you skip opening the Key Note preferences all the new Key Notes will appear in the last, Default, legend not the new Legend B. However you can still move the newly placed Key Notes by shift-clicking them then then in the OIP change the "Default" selection in the Keynote Legend drop-down menu to Legend B.)

    Hope this makes more sense!

    Bob.

    Multiple Key Note Legends

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Well the video on Notes Manager Shows the keynotes being sent to two different legends, but even watching twice I couldn't see how it was accomplished. It appears that there were already legends in the sheet to send the keynotes to.

    ion

    Thanks Ion. I watched the video and I too was mystified as to how the "water feature" legend came to be. So I went back to my drawing and tried the following:

    1) On the sheet layer level (not in annotation mode) I duplicated the existing legend (let's call it A) and dragged it to a position under the second plan.

    2) Then via the OIP I renamed the duplicate legend to Legend B. To my surprise the old key notes disappeared and I now had a new blank legend.

    3) Then I annotated the second plan (after selecting Legend B in the LEGEND drop-down menu in the Call Out Preferences or in the OIP after placing the Key Note) and the new key notes appeared in Legend B.

    Pretty simple after all, though I have found no reference in VW help suggesting this approach.

    Multiple Key Note Legends

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Is it possible to create multiple Key Note Legends on the same sheet?

    Example: I have 2 viewports on one sheet layer and want to have separate legends, independently numbered and labeled. However, the key notes all appear in one continuous legend even though the notes were placed as annotations in two independent view ports.

    I have not been able to divine from VW help (no surprise here) or the Key Note menu if this is possible.

    Am I missing something?

    Crashing

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Just to add my experience with VW2010. I too find it stable and generally well-behaved. I did however experience repeated crashes as follows: Whenever I would attempt to print 3 particular files that had been bulk converted from VW 2009... they crashed. Each and every time. I followed all the usual steps outlined earlier, ending a VW2010 reinstall, all to no avail. The printing crash was not reproducible in any other application or in new VW2010 files.

    The only successful solution was to create a new document in VW2010 and copy data over layer by layer from the apparently corrupted VW2009 file. Reconstructing the many viewports was a pain. Fortunately it effected only 3 out of 30 files from this particular batch. I have no idea if the problem lurks with any other of my 1,000's of converted files. Time will tell.

    Crash report was turned on and reports submitted.

    Key Note Behavior

    in Architecture

    Posted

    why not place the notes inside the annotation part of the viewport

    I do. And as long as all the viewports on the given sheet layer are the same scale there is no problem. However, when the same set of keynotes are being applied to a series of viewports with differing scales the bubbles vary in size from viewport to viewport. Perhaps I am being a bit fussy but graphic clarity is a virtue at which VW normally excels.

    I just think the bubble selections should be the same (pre-selected?) size regardless of viewport scale, just as the keynote number/text portions remain unchanged.

    What happened to round wall caps?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Well I think it a bit shortsighted. Not every drawing I create is 2d/3d and the wall tool has been known to be used for purposes other than, well... walls. One of my projects requires an elevation of an historic facade with fluted columns that were a snap with the rounded wall cap. It know becomes a multi-step process using a polygon or creating an approximation with the rounded rectangle tool. Bummer.

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