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    Looking forward to using 2021

    in Troubleshooting

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    Looking forward to using 2021 - after the first SP (I'm even going to try & get over the cartoon icons).

     

    Have not really seen if there have been any improvements to the many BMW's (B____ Moan & Whine) at the top of my list is the stair "tool".

     

    - Kicking myself for using it in a hurry rather than creating a model & the stair created just goes away. But not gone gone, just in most viewports, & not in others.

    I know, don't ever use it but sometimes I think "oh just this once". In future I'm going to put a Toonie in a jar every time I think that thought & just make a model.

    How to make SHOW SNAP the default for Viewports

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted · Edited by Jim Smith

    Sorry, this is a bit confusing due to some terms being similar to others.

     What I am experiencing is that once a Viewport has it's Layer & Class Visibility set it seems that this Viewport is forever "stuck" with the choice of how the Layers & Classes are "SHOWN" ie Show/Snap etc. There is an option to change this on the fly, but from my experience, one may not change this setting for a Viewport without making a new Viewport. 

     

    When establishing a Viewport Layer Visibilities this choice locks the Visibility, it can be changed, when one navigates to the Design Layer, but that change is only temporary  

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    Regardless of a Design Layer's visibility in the Nav Palette, the Viewport's visibility is Locked.

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    How to make SHOW SNAP the default for Viewports

    in Troubleshooting

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    @Andy Broomell  

     

    When I establish a Viewport, I have SHOW SNAP OTHERS for my Design Layer View as the default. So I go into a Viewport and I want to be able to adjust stuff in other Design Layers so WITHIN the Design Layer I change the Design Layer View to SHOW SNAP MODIFY OTHERS. Now I have made several Viewports with this (mistakenly) as my Design Layer View & I want to change these Viewports to the default SHOW SNAP OTHERS.

     

    It sounds like I am stuck with this unless I rebuild all of these Viewports. So a couple of hours work to correct a minor mistake, or leave it, & hope for the best.  If this is the case I'll add this as a Wish List Item. 

    How to make SHOW SNAP the default for Viewports

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted · Edited by Jim Smith

    16 hours ago, Andy Broomell said:

    . Any further changes would be made by clicking on the viewport's Layers button in the OIP.

     

    @Andy Broomell  I totally understand that a Viewport's visibility is set when it's established, & that one may edit the Design Layers & Class visibilities; however the choice of a Layer's "Active Only" or "Grey Others" or "Show Snap Modify Others" does not seem to be a something that may be edited. The exception to this is when one navigates to a Design Layer then these choices may be made, but a change to these kinds of Layer Visibilities is only temporary.

     

    It seems reasonable that there should be a place to alter this either universally or on an individual basis. Unless I'm missing something. 

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    Stair Question

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted · Edited by Jim Smith

    20 hours ago, Boh said:

    In New Zealand the “tread” depth is the distance from the front edge of the tread to where it hits the riser. The “going” is the horiz distance from front edge of tread to front edge of the next tread. (I.e. tread minus nosing).

     

    I only recent realised vw treads are different from NZ treads....

     

     

    So I wonder if this this a British vs American Empire thing. As you're in NZ & I'm in the Great White North & I suspect we share legacy "standards" from ol' Blighty more than I share some "standards" with my brother south of the 49th does with me. 

    Stair Question

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

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    That may be the root of the issue, the Ontario Building Code includes the entire surface of the Tread, from nosing to the 25mm under the nosing overhang of the next stair above. As I say, I don't use this tool for 99% of projects and if I do in future I hope to remember this. What you in the USA refer to as the tread depth is referred to  in my old text book is referred to as the "Going"

    Spell Checking tools

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted

    I see that I have the American English Dictionary in the Dictionary folder in the Plug-ins folder & a British English (redundant much?) in the Additional folder. So if I swap these two I assume that I'll loose any other changes I have made to my existing dictionary. 

    Does this mean that I can take my amended American Dictionary & make a copy & move it to 2021when that's a thing?

     

    Stair Question

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted

    I know better, I almost ALWAYS model a stair but dopey ol' me thought it was a simple little project I'll just use it just this once. 

     

    Having said that, I was wondering why a stair didn't fit & I found something I never knew, the stair tool seems to create a stair with the stair not including the kick under the nosing. So a Tread one is anticipating being 260 [10 1/4"] is actually 285 [11 1/4"].

     

    So if the boffins at VW ever gets around to giving us a REAL stair tool that actually WORKS, perhaps they could use a copy of my Drafting Text Book from 1983 (copyright 1967)

    Step wall command

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted

    Stepping a wall is a pain, so that I generally end up clipping a wall & giving the many walls new X values. It's still a pain.  I would like a tool that allows one to enter a step or series of steps based on X Y & Z values. For example: were a wall to step from 1220 below 00 to  2440 below 00 over in 8 steps over 5M. Pick a start point along a wall & a direction & plug in the values. 

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    Vertical Grab Bars - Toilet Stall Tool

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted · Edited by Jim Smith

    Re-upping this request. The Ontario Building Code & the National Building Code of Canada has required an L shaped Grab bars for several years now. Also, an Ambulatory Water Closet Stall requires grab bars on either side of a Toilet, & ofter we include one that is a folding grab bar.

     

    Some tools need to have some flexibility built in, as building codes are  alway evolving.

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    Please make object less "sticky"

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

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    After a rigorous double blind test** I would like to bump this request up.

     

     

    ** Double Blind as I was doubly blinded with frustration after 352 attempts to release the Dimension tool only to unwittingly gab a PDF underlay, typing an X and deleting both as well as one string of Dimension lines I had been working on only to have to UNDO to get back to where I was before attempting to use the Dimension tool. Good thing my UNDO/REDO is set to 400.

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    Why do doors hinges swap?

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted · Edited by Jim Smith

    Why do doors hinges swap? 

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    Door Configuration Consternation 

     

    If one plops a door into a wall & gets it all cozy but then later changes the KIND of door (in this case from a simple swing to a bi-fold) the hinge must be re-jiggered. I've noted this for years but thought it needed to be brought up. 

     

    All that's been done to the door is to change the configuration. 

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    VW 2020 Tool Icons

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    @JuanP I get that this is an iterative process & I have no idea what's involved in getting under the hood to fix this. But from you comment, it sounds like VW can't "Just turn the old icons back on" for at least two more versions. Do I have that correct?  

    Long(ish) Term Goal to make every resource more intuitive

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted · Edited by Jim Smith

    Not to beat a dead horse, but sheesh! Why are there two systems that don't make ANY sense for sizing stuff that should be identical?

    The font size in both instances are 6 point.  A marker size of 4 produces a circle of 600mm or 4mm on the page for the Detail Callout that's generated from a Detail Viewport, but a Reference Marker Detail Callout is completely different with a 2D detail scale factor of 0.6.

    Also while I appreciate being able to change the Font size from the Font menu, seem like one should also be able to choose the font size in the OIP no?

     

    Here are the graphic output for a Detail Call out:

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    Now here are the details for a Reference Marker Detail Callout object:

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    I would like to be able to do this with 3D objects

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Jim Smith

    Here's a pretty common UL detail. Thing is, I'd like to model it in 3D and the fills don't really show up & the column sizes will change on every project. 

    I can use 4 sets of 16mm walls for the GWB but that seems dopey. Any thoughts on a work-a-round other than making symbols that need to be customized for every column?

     

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