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One of these may be of use: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?tags=directors+chair

Submitting now.

Do you think a simple "Extruded Text" Plugin object would be sufficient, that allowed editing the text constantly and adjusting its characteristics including extrusion depth from the OIP, or is it common enough that users chamfer or fillet the edges of these extruded letters that those two functions should be added to the request for the new PIO as well? (I've had a few users ask about that in the past, mostly to create rounded bubbly lettering)

Currently our handling of mesh objects can make importing "soft"-looking geometry difficult. This will be addressed. You can get some other soft cloth effects with Drape Surface natively in Vectorworks as well however: http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/975/Drape+Surface

I have seen it done both ways. I don't know the architectural workflow advantages or reasons for doing it one way or the other, personally. I have seen users maintain the large space however, that they created the exterior walls with, then in another class add in individual spaces for each room. I also am not sure of why they choose to do this, some users insist that is what they need in the end and others I have asked can't think of a reason they would want that.

If you place one of those lighting instruments in a new blank file, shining on a test 3D object like a sphere, does it work there? If not, send me that test file please, at tech@vectorworks.net and I can have a look.

You can use the Split tool if you want to start from one large space object and cut it apart. But normally you would add the spaces after creating the walls, using the Inner Boundary mode (the paint bucket fill one) of the Space tool to fill the areas inside the newly added walls and just delete the original large space object, rather than try to slice it up. However I just noticed you have 2012 and I cant remember what version the Space tool was upgraded with the Inner Boundary mode. If you don't have it, you can also use the Polygon tool in Inner Boundary mode to create polys inside all the rooms, then convert them all to spaces afterwards.

That works too! I'll see if i can find that wish item and if not, resubmit. If nothing else, it increases the likelihood of getting whats needed.

I was not aware that was the case. I'll submit that separately, a wish for an option to choose in Publish/Export PDF whether to name each bookmark/viewport by the Viewport Name or Drawing Title. (The only real reason I think it should be an option and not simply a change to the default is if everyone has already adhered to the old standard, they'd have to manually change each viewport if they hadn't been keeping up with both fields.)

I would think that setting each tool manually would be good, but being able to control it all from one location and save different standards for different files in addition to that would be important as well. I should think Viewports would be included as one of the PIOs that could be classed automatically under this wish. I think ALL plug in objects should be classable in this manner. EDIT: Actually now that I think of it perhaps viewports arent strictly Plugins... but all object types, including viewports, should be covered under this auto classing.

I had thought this was possible with the attribute mapping tool, but I just tested it and this is not the case. Submitting that as a wish.

Gotcha, please send the following from that machine: http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/627/DirectX+Diagnostics+and+System+Profiler to tech@vectorworks.net and we will go from there.

Agreed. Standard Naming could do with a revamp or a replacement. Its very powerful but a bit confusing and as you've stated, inconsistent. Submitting now. I think altering Standard Naming's auto-classing (or adding a completely separate function)so that it allows users to map specific PIOs to custom classes, rather than mapping default classes to custom classes would be the cleanest and most user-controllable solution.

In the Page Setup dialogue, set it up according to these steps instead: http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/800/Page+Setup (the steps are designed for a different issue, but theyll work for this test.) Then, please tell me if the print then appears the same as before, only getting half the drawing, or if not, what is different.

That exacerbates the original problem significantly... I'll add it to the case.

Confirmed here. New dual dimension objects I draw with the increased rounding precision work fine, but existing dual dims do not take the changes to rounding precision at all. Single dimensions behave as expected and update globally when I change the documents unit precision. Submitting now.

Should be related, if you still end up with that issue after 2014 let us know.

Checked with engineering and this was most likely bundled with an issue with object libraries. The issue should not appear again after Vectorworks 2014. It was a transitional problem when the object libraries were converted from older versions before the requisite language support existed.

If you export from Vectorworks to a PDF, then print that PDF, it does indeed print as expected? (Confirming as I am tracking a similar problem with a few users at the moment.) Could you please attach a screenshot of your File > Page Setup dialogue as well? http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/892/How+to+take+a+Screen+Shot

Agreed, I don't see why this should be necessary. Submitted as an issue awhile ago along with another texturing issue, i'll keep an eye on it.

Yes, since it is a 3D object it would obey the transparency of its texture, as opposed to 2D objects that have transparency controlled through the attributes palette. Graying classes/layers will also do it in a rendered 3D view, but if you want it for a specific object, it should be controlled via a texture. (There was talk of having transparency be accessible for 3D object's textures via the attributes palette, but since there are so many kinds of transparency and controls for it within Renderworks textures, and the possibility of accidentally having a transparency setting added on top of yet another transparency, it created more problems than it solved.)

Dragging and dropping an image file should trigger the Import Image function, yes. In Fundamentals, dragging and dropping a PDF will not trigger PDF import, since Fundamentals can not import or export PDFs, only the "Print PDF" emulator built into OS X and included on some windows machines with other Adobe products already installed, such as Adobe Reader. On a Mac OS dragging and dropping a PDF may do the image-copy-and-paste action on occasion, but thats more of a Mac OS function and not something built into Vectorworks.

Confirmed here on Mac OS X 10.9. In a new document, the default seems to work for the first keynote placed, then behaves as you describe, simply adding callouts not places as keynotes. On Windows 8.1 or Mac OS X 10.8, the issue does not occur. I will submit this here as well.

If you can no longer even see the symbols in the resource browser, then most likely the geometry was in the deleted classes. It is possible for objects within symbols to be in classes separate from the main symbol itself. If you do see them in the resource browser, edit the symbols and make sure the geometry you are expecting is still inside the symbol. If not, it may have been deleted. However if all of this is happening in Viewports, make sure the viewport has those classes turned on (done via the Object info Palette, "Classes" button) in addition to simply turning them on via the Organization dialogue/Navigation palette.

Also before doing the above steps, make sure you have reverted the file to a state BEFORE you used Cut 3D Section, otherwise you will definitely still get the broken geometry no matter what you do afterwards.