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Sorry, more meant about the double line tool containing a dialogue named "Wall Component Attributes", not mocking your use of it here. Going to submit those as a few individual items as well. We'll have a race.

You have most likely done it properly. Currently mesh type objects imported from both sketchup and other 3D applications will make very complex arrays of 3D polygons. A number of requests to better handle this have been submitted and I have seen some good progress, but no details yet. In the meantime, you can try exporting from the free downloadable version sketchup to another 3D format, sometimes 3DS is superior, but often it is still a large array of facets.

If you just want stills, I would recommend simply setting the heliodon to the date/time you want the still of, rendering, then using Export Image (usually PNG is a good format choice since you can alter the DPI, unlike the default JPEG mode) to get the single frame. You can save multiple heliodons each in their own class, then turn off all but one of the heliodon classes to take each still, so that you can set up the different date/time combos ahead of time, then do an export for each frame you needed whenever you needed it.

Retina displays are still going to show jaggedness all over the place in VW until that is addressed, so that COULD be a lot of what you are seeing currently. The other answer is most likely that OpenGL is intended to be a fast, modelling mode, not a final presentation mode and they keep things lower quality by default (that can not be increased to presentation quality by the user) to keep up speed instead. I feel that the recent OpenGL improvements have been such that it should be usable both as a presentation view at reasonable speed with decent hardware. I'll put in for more control over this quality.

It has been rolled into the 2D reshape tool and is now just the Reshape tool, in the Basic tool palette.

I used to joke about some people still using the Double Line tool instead of Walls... but apparently it isn't such a joke after all. Submitting the double-line poly either have the capabilities of the polygon/polyline tool, or that it be rolled into one of those other tools as a separate mode itself. (However, it is most likely they left that in there when they added components to the Double Line tool, I don't know WHY that would have been done but apparently it was made to enhance the capabilities of Fundamentals specifically.)

I've seen tasks that involve something similar in a few places, but unfortunately I am not able to discuss the specifics of new features until they are officially released.

I find myself wanting a similar view in 3D often. The Xray tool is fine for quick moments but a full view mode would be quicker and more useful for modelling a complex 3D figure without having to flip back and forth between wireframe and OpenGL. Submitting request now.

The closest that I know of is the Constrained Dimension tool's "Selected Objects" mode, which you use by selecting the rectangle, enabling this mode with the Constrained Dimension tool, then click once outside or along the edge you want to dimension, then again to set the offset. Saves you having to click corner to corner. This is possible in a more automatic way for Wall objects specifically, via AEC > Dimension Exterior Walls, but that won't work on anything but walls as far as I am aware.

Currently the clip cube will just remove the face from 3D geometry, unlike Section Viewports which add a controllable clip plane on areas of 3D geometry the section line bisects. You can not currently do this with the Clip Cube alone (Though there is a request to add this functionality in the works) but you can create a section viewport from the clip cube that might get you what you're expecting:

Gotcha, submitting request now.

Hadn't noticed you couldn't sort by that field in Publish (where Batch PDF is in 2014), submitting request now.

Submitting request for directional control buttons for flipping symbols/PIOs in walls. Submitting request for Stair object to include accessible info in the OIP, bringing it more in line with other plugin objects like the Custom Stair and Doors etc.

To clarify, right under "Units" for the Area grouping on that dialogue box, there is the "Precision" option that lets you select 2 decimal places or just "1" to round to the nearest square foot already. Do you mean you would also want the options for a fraction of a square foot, as opposed to only the Precision option letting you select the amount of decimal places? Or is this rounding not working as you would expect?

Jim, has there been a sudden influx of staff hiring's since Sean and Viktor were elevated onto the Executive Board? Your comments would seem to suggest it's business as usual, peddling hard and getting nowhere fast. I can't get super specific for the usual reasons, but management are bending over backwards currently to bring new software engineers on board. I've personally seen that management feels (at least in the last two years or so) that more engineering staff are required, both to keep up and get ahead, and they have started ramping up their hiring processes to accommodate this. That said, if you know any excellent ones looking for work, point them our way: http://www.vectorworks.net/company/careers.php

All initial reports from our users with SP3 are positive. I did have a few with issues initially, but these were users going from SP0 to SP3 and this procedure (commonly used here in tech support for a number of things) resolved them completely: http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/1099/Resetting+Vectorworks+Preferences

Contact tech@vectorworks.net about that then, they will be able to get your machine sorted out.

You should be able to use the most recent version of Quicktime. Quicktime issues DO cause crashing on occasion but you should not attempt to use the older versions of it as the error dialogue when you start Vectorworks says. (Soon Quicktime will not be required at all, this is a temporary problem.) Perform these steps if you suspect QuickTime to be the issue: http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/506/Uninstalling+and+Reinstalling+Quicktime+%28Windows%29

That likely means the line isn't set to invisible by class, but a color you aren't able to see with the current background. You can confirm this both with that B&W Only option, as well as going to Tools > Options > Vectorworks Preferences > Display and checking "Black Background", which will often reveal the lines as well. If that is the case, then its normally a matter of changing the class attributes for those lines to a visible color.

Also with a 3D symbol you would be able to set the Z value in the symbol's object info palette.

You would have to use symbols instead of groups. If you select all the geometry, then use Modify > Create Symbol, you can then replicate that symbol across the entire document many times, then edit the source symbol in the resource browser and the changes will be made to all instances of that symbol. You MAY be able to create the symbol, then select all of those groups and use Modify > Convert > Replace with Symbol, which could possibly save you some time if you've already placed all the groups.

Agreed, I like the way its done in Cinema4D, the small spheres and cubes in the view to give a better idea of the textures/materials before applying them. I'll put in for something similar as well.

Tools > Options > Vectorworks Preferences > Display (its a tab along the top)

Make sure you have already upgraded from SP2 to SP3: http://www.vectorworks.net/downloads/ServicePack.php?major=2014&servicepack=3 However if you still get the same issues, make sure to contact tech@vectorworks.net and they will get you sorted out.

Sorry, but that excuse doesn't fly any more. OS X added 64-bit support in 2003 and has been fully 64-bit-compliant since 2007, Windows XP added 64-bit support in 2001, and Windows has been 64-bit since Vista (2006), so Nemetschek has had over 10 years to rewrite the base components: more than ample time for even a moderately competent programming team to do the job. (Hell, I'll bet a team of a dozen Baltic, Russian, Indian, or Chinese programmers could pump out a STABLE 64-bit version of 2014 in under a year). Agreed. Was only explaining why it won't be in a service pack rather than in a full release.I feel its long overdue as well. However, the nationality of the programmers is irrelevant.