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Wow. Architects in the UK make these drawings on most, if not all, projects. It would be good for VW to review this.

This has happened to colleagues in my office. A restart seemed to sort it out but I will ask them if it has come back.

There doesn't appear to be but I really wish there was. Doing electrical plans is probably one of the biggest time commitments on a set of construction drawings now because it is all done manually.

Ok, thanks Justin. To be honest I'll probably just leave it it ignore it each time although it's a bit annoying.

Opening VW 2024 again this morning I get the same popup again after updating yesterday.

Thanks Justin but I don't think that's it. I'm up to date and have been running Update 2.1 since it came out and I still get the error every time I open 2024. I have just opened it again this morning and it pops up, despite me updating it on Tuesday when I started this thread.

I get the following error every time I open VW 2034 and VW2024. Is this a bug? I thought I saw a thread on the forum raising this issue previously but I can't find it anymore.

I know but sometimes you wonder what was going through people's minds when they do things like this!

Yeah I don't understand that garage roof! Surely more effort to build it that way rather than just complete the pitched roof.

I'd just like to reiterate my wish for something like this or incorporating the Benelux region's tool into VW.

Thanks Stephan, a toolbar that has text and cell formatting would go a long way. It's painful to open up the dialogue to format cells. Essentially just copy the Google Sheets toolbar - that would be great!

I use a 2021 M1 Pro Macbook with 16GB memory, file sizes never more than 500MB - I don't have obvious issues with slow files, perhaps only with files with 100+ sheets. @Flair-Studio - I share your rendering pain! I think for serious rendering (spending 1 day+ per week on rendering) a separate PC is the way to go. I did buy one but really don't enjoy working on a PC. It's collecting dust now and I just don't do much rendering. Who knows what the future holds now that the M3 has hardware accelerated ray tracing which was the limitation that stopped Twinmotion's Path Tracer being available on Mac. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it's going to be expensive!

Worksheet "pagination" is on the roadmap under "Active Research". Although it's been on there since at least April 2019 when I referred to it here. I really hope this gets some more attention soon because the current worksheets are incredibly difficult to work with due to this and a few other simple things such as how difficult they are to format.

I'm using 2024 on Mac, no issues - it's working fine.

I would have thought that filters were a feature added to try to tackle this request in a different way as it was likely too time intensive/would have unintended consequences if done in ways that have been suggested here. I would also like to see this functionality added. Particularly at an early stage we create lots of design layers with different options and end up making blank layers with titles like '- - - - - - - Option 1 - - - - - -' to help make the navigation palette more legible. Surely this workflow can be improved upon! In the image below all of the layers could be made into 6 groups.

Crazy! This would be great to have. Nothing makes me feel more dumb than trying to make a hatch in VW.

@Christiaan, no - only "Share". Feel free to edit it for me if you can do that with your moderator powers.

really good illustration of many the issues

Definitely. For us I would see it it working like any other resource that we share office-wide through the resource manager. The 'standard' set is kept for all to use and then it can be modified for a specific project. Just like we keep symbols of dining tables in standard sizes but if a client has a specific one in mind we'll alter it to match. The key point being that if we edit the symbol in one file it doesn't alter every dining table on every project!

I can't seem to edit the post i'm afraid otherwise I would! Am I doing something wrong?

Seconded. It can be an incredibly powerful tool that saves a huge amount of time but is severely limited in its current form.

It's certainly possible that i've missed it, but I have never seen this method of working with project sharing described in any official Vectorworks help articles or project literature and it seems that i'm not alone. Therefore the method you describe seems to be a workaround to give better performance than the standard way of working with Project Sharing which has some issues, hence my fragility comment. If it wasn't susceptible to error, no workaround would be required. Nonetheless I appreciate you engaging and trying to improve people's experience. We will give it a try in the office, although the first reaction from colleagues was "that seems a lot of effort". If this is the "official" way to do it then I hope in future we just get rid of working files altogether and everyone opens the project file daily. Perhaps a working file is created in the background but there's no need for a user to manually back it up and delete it each time.

Interesting - I have never heard/read anyone recommending this before. Unfortunately I think this shows the fragility of project sharing in 2023 and previous versions if this is what's required. I hope 2024 is more stable but I haven't tried it yet.