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I have a file that makes Vectorworks freeze when i use a worksheet to report on Hardscapes. The fil has a lot of Hardscapes and I want to use a worksheet to extract materials, areas and volumes from the worksheet. The worksheet is based on a worksheet from the Library, with a few modifications. Vectorworks freezes immediately when the worksheet is activated. I have tried to start fresh with a new, blank worksheet, but as soon as the Criteria is set to Hardscape it freezes. I have also tried to copy the Hardscapes into an empty file, and do the same worksheets there. Everything works as normal... It will be a lot of work to go that way with all the other content of the file, and I don't fancy spending hours trying to import every single DesignLayer and SheetLayers to set everything up again. Any tips how to clean up a file like this? I can't share the file, because it is part of a competition and therefor it's confidential

I agree. It would be a very useful addition to the Site Modifiers if they all could have the ability to draw a grade limit at an specific slope. I have found a workaround to create cut or fill along a pad like your first example, @aage.langedrag, could be to use the Roadway Poly-tool. The Roadway Poly can be drawn so its edge is aligned with the pad, and then send stations to surface in the OIP. There you can also check for Create grade limits.... and enter the Slope. This grade limit will just be a guideline, because the grade limit will go to both sides of the roadway poly, that is both inside an outside the Pad and you can not use it direclty for your final result. But if used as a guide for drawing, or copy/modify the actual grade-limit you need, it works quite well, and is more reliable than the option from the Landmark-menu, although they are not 100% exact in crating a given slope (for example 1:3). If you need different sloping, you can divide the roadway poly into different objects with the various sloping you need. An example. A Sloping Pad that will create both cut and fill Landmark > Crate Grade Limits from Planar Pad / Batter Slope / 1:3. With Roadway Polys instead: 4 different objects, but all Slope / 1:3 Grade Limit created from the Roadway Polys

Thanks, @Pat Stanford . It is filed on Jira. Just wanted to see if anyone Else had seen this. We have had a couple of files doing this. Workaround is to export the worksheet to Excel. Open it in excel. Export to PDF. Import the PDF to the Sheet Layer. And finally export the sheet layer to PDF. Puh…

That worked! Thanks! 🙂

I have created my own worksheet that calculates areas from different objects. The worksheet is working fine and does what it is supposed to, but when I place the worksheet on a sheet layer and export it to a PDF-file, the values changes! They are divided by 1000...! Except the value that is below 1000! Have anyone seen this before? I have filed a bug-report about it.

@Katarina Ollikainen I was about to start a new inquiry about this problem here, but found this thread. I have the same problem! I have received a file from another company and I'm trying to copy-paste some objects (polygons, rectangles) to my own file. This is how it looks like, and the colour values: After pasting the objects into my own file it looks like this: I have tried to create my own color palette with the colors from the first file, and the palette thumbnails looks fine, but when the color is applied to the object, it turns into a completely different color. : resulting in this: If I paste them into a new file, they are fine. Any solution to this?

If the Existing modifiers are on a separate Design Layer, you can have Proposed Modifiers that are overlapping for the Proposed Site Model. The Existing will then be part of the Site Model's Existing definition, also in terms of calculations. That way you can add detailed changes, or more specific phases of the terrain and calculations to the stage you are in. You can select the different DL, both the Existing and Proposed in the Site Model Settings. Makes it easier to turn on/off. I haven't tried to place them on the same DL. Maybe that works too? For my specific project it made sense to have the separated for this purpose.

I don't know what kind of Site Modifier you are using, but have you tried to apply it to Existing?

Thanks @Katarina Ollikainen! That worked The 2D Style is named 2D Contours (colored elevation). Is there a way to display the contours as lines, in addition to the colored analysis? Like this, where I have put the snapshot under the site model

OK. Sent by email By the way. Tried to make a snapshot from this model in order to save an "easy access colored elevation". In Multipane view the snapshot turns into a 2D-object

I'm trying to display my Site Model with the Colored elevation both in 2D- and 3D-Style. The 3D Style is working fine, but the 2D style is not correct. The colors are not correct and the contours are not displayed. I've tried different colors and grays, but the 2D Style is not following the wanted outcome. Any clues?

Is your 3D poly on the class Site-DTM-Modifier? The "magic class"... Another approach would be to draw the pathway as a site modifier, or simply use the object you already have created as a pathway, an ...Create Objects from Shape. Using the Site Modifier > Path -mode. Then you can play around with the longitudinal profile to make it follow the correct elevations

You could try to draw the 3D poly between the Stake objects as well. And maybe turn on the triangels for the Site Model in your 2D Display, to check the triangulation of the model. You may need to add modifiers in order to force the triangulation, and thereby the contours, to do what you want them to do

Glad that it helped! We use Simplification tolerance between 0,01 and 0,025 for most of our projects, depending on the need for accuracy in the specific project. This also applies to Site Modifiers and Hardscapes 🙂

Hi Have you tried to adjust the simplification tolerance to anything higher than 0? For example 0,01. It can make a big differance in the complexety of the LA, especially for the shape you have with no straight lines. The triangulation of the LA must be very dense and complex. I can greatly affect the filesize as well. And stability for the file.