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Their cut sheets are all on the website. Do you need a direct contact over there? I'm happy to make an introduction if you shoot me a DM.

Am I crazy or do Vectorworks issued stock symbols for a bunch of the Tyler truss have no weight included in the profile? This seems like an accident waiting to happen. Any reason it was omitted?

Any ideas on my issue with the stock symbol? It has no texture applied. Thanks!

In fact there's another ongoing post now! Help!

Having the same problem here. One component from a Gallagher G Block, which is provided in the Vectorworks entertainment library. Color is dictated by the 'cap fill color' in viewport advanced settings. This is the internal side edges of the fork pockets. In the case below, one set of pockets is supposed to be in the clip and shows up funny, and a second set is not even in the cube. If you edit the viewport and navigate to the design layer, orbiting in 3D makes the second errant one appear and disappear as if one face of the clip cube was a window, ie, you can only see it through one pane. See second screen shot. This seems to be the same root problem I was having in another drawing where stacking order was all wrong and 3D objects were violating reality. See my previous posts if you're curious. I'm sure you can recreate this yourself using the factory VW symbols.

Ok a few things to respond to here. @Jesse Cogswell Yes, it is ignoring Clip Cube for sure. All viewports are current when I export/print and no improvement. Still looks great on the sheet. The main issue here is what would equate to hidden line that is malfunctioning. Items that are well behind objects in the foreground in the 'physical' Design layer are drawn in front of other elements. The occlusion is messed up. For example in drawing 2, the words Zero Zero are behind and below the Opaque LED ring. These should not be visible, regardless of layer order. I'm familiar with the transparency setting, and that doesn't change my PDF outputs. But thank you for the detail. Zoom Line thickness doesn't change anything for me either. If you look closely you can see that my Sheet layer render settings do not draw object edges, but in the PDF it does. @Elite Exhibits No improvement using the Print dialogue and exporting as PDF, or using the direct Export to PDF option. The idea that I would need to spend the time exporting renderings as jpg or taking screenshots and bringing them back into my sheet layer is preposterous and I absolutely will not participate in that waste of my time for software that is explicitly designed to turn 3D models into printable, viewable sheet layers for construction. It's literally the only reason I, or probably any of us, pay for the software. Printable/shareable sheets. I appreciate everybody's advice for workarounds and I know it's well intended, but maybe the devs should solve the basic problems before making another useless cable tool that doesn't work. Perhaps I'm ignorant to a setting, but it seems to me that if it looks perfect on your sheet layer, you shouldn't need advanced VW knowledge to make it come out as a PDF or a piece of paper looking reasonably similar. /Rant Thanks for the advice everybody.

My sheet looks great, with objects rendered in correct 3D. When I use publish to generate PDF, the layering and line weight get ugly. What am I doing wrong? In the shots below, you can see the grey items should be occluded by the LED system as they are in the sheet, but it is all messed up in the PDF. Thanks!

Does any buddy else experience VW blocking/delaying the finder's Task Switcher (command-tab) while processing commands? When VW hangs, I like to switch over and accomplish another task while it does whatever it's doing, but the app bogs down my switcher as well. No other apps do this, even when they've become unresponsive. I can click on a visible app and it will change focus right away. Any fixes? Thanks!

HoistExport.vwx Have a look at this. I'd always like it to insert on a specific class. I can currently control visibility with classes as I've assigned the 2D components to various classes, but I'd like the plugin object itself to default a standard class. I may also be imagining having been successful at this in the past. Thanks for your time!

Hello, I have hoist symbols that are configured to assign to a specific class, and they no longer do. They go to active class. I verified that the symbol options are correct and still have the specific class enabled. These same symbols have worked correctly in the past. I'm using the hoist tool to insert. What am I missing? Thanks!

Bringing this post back from the dead. I'm having the same issue right now, on some symbols that used to work just fine. Class is correctly assigned in the symbol options, but it inserts onto Active Class. This is happening with multiple symbols, and I'm using the hoist tool (It's a hoist). Did I change a global setting somewhere?

Steven, I reference complete VWX files with their own titleblocks very often, as I work with multiple departments in multiple companies. Referencing is the simplest way to push their updated revisions into my drawing, as well as not risk modifying their geometry accidentally. Your advice to use reference priority was right on the money! Can you share your other 'rules' for referencing? I feel like the VW guide is lacking here. This is the first I've ever used Ref priority, but I can already see its value. For those following along and wanting to solve the problem yourself: I reference in base symbols instead of importing, and that included my titleblocks. That way, if I revise a symbol, it's fixed for all of my other projects. In this instance, my symbol file had a lower reference priority than another team's file that I referenced as well, so it's titleblock superseded mine. It was a very simple fix to enable reference priority in the reference settings, and then drag the references into the correct hierarchy. Thanks again Steven

I've referenced a document in that included a titleblock on a layer. This block's data has messed up my Titleblock manager, and it has overridden all of my border, sheet, project settings etc. Where are these file Formats hiding, and how do I replace them with my native versions? Super frustrating that settings from other documents get imported when I just want some geometry out of a file. Is there something wrong with my workflow? This is the error I get when I try to import a good Titleblock border style. Thanks in advance.

Thanks @stayathomedad I figured out the Syntax for the lists, if anybody else is wondering: <WeightData isTotal="false" legend="" loadGroup="Cable" name="4 12/14 Socapex 2.24" ressourceName="12/14 Socapex" weight="2.24 lb/ft"/> 'WeightData isTotal=' False makes the makes your weight by a distance, as specified in the 'weight=' command. True makes it the overall load. 'loadGroup' sets the dropdown category. You must use an existing category. 'name' is the title of the individual load entry 'ressourceName' is the subgroup category. You want this to be the same for every item you want in a dropdown menu. Also, if you're having trouble finding the library folder, OS X is kind enough to hide it from you. Go to your user folder, right click, Show View Options, Show Library Folder.

Hi Folks, Looking to curate my saved set resource and arrange the collapsable lists, etc. I've found the XML file that appears to hold the data, but modifications there don't seem to change the VW dialog. How can I manage this data? Thanks!