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I want to draw a triangular window, or more specifically, a window with a sloping sill as well as a sloping head. Is it possible with either the standard window tool or WinDoor?

I guess if your name is Gehry or Hadid you might be excited by the latest whirly twirly tools, but I would happily forego all that if I could draw doors and windows that use real world frame profiles in real world configurations. Timber frames are actually made with rebated frames and sloping sills. Aluminium frames are made with finned extrusions and thermal breaks, as shown in my attachments. None of these are available in either the standard door and window tool or WinDoor. It is not possible to draw a door or window that shows correctly in plan and both elevations, so I get it approximately right in plan, and draw the details and elevations in 2D. Quite how people produce a BIM compliant model, or are able to produce accurate elevations from the model is beyond me. I also can't draw a 2 or 3 panel sliding door configuration that is common here: a fixed panel that is actually a stack of awning windows, with glazed door panels slide behind. Doors can't be used for ventilation here, hence the need to have opening windows in what is otherwise just a sliding door. I'd really like the door and window tools to be improved, and I would put that at the top of my "list of things to do for next year".

William I have to say I think your boss is making a big mistake. Much of the learning you are doing now and the time you are spending will be wasted - you will be far better off learning with the current version.

I want to take a file to an engineering consultant's office and open it on his screen. I don't know what CAD program he uses, but I'm pretty sure it won't be Vectorworks. Am I correct in assuming that if I put the file on a flash drive (memory stick) and a copy of Vectorworks Viewer, we will be able to open the file? Do we need to download the viewer on to his computer or can we run everything from the flash drive?

Done, thanks team.

Wes Thank you for the file - it worked perfectly (once I remembered to turn on the class in the viewport ............) The Occhio range of light fittings are pretty cool. One other thing tho' - I seem to have acquired a class called Geen, does anyone have any idea what it is or what it does?

Wes Thanks for posting your terrific images! Since everyone else seems to be picking off your ideas one by one - can I ask you where you sourced the up & down lights?

John Changing the subject again - if you flip the bathroom plan, the fittings will back on to a non-bedroom wall, so there will be less plumbing/drainage noise in the middle bedroom. HTH

I'm a bit surprised you got the warning. Did you nominate a hipped roof at the start? Maybe it would have worked if you had started with gables and then added the hips. On another note, do you want the wall lines showing across internal doors? Maybe you have a Ceiling class turned on.

Dormer 1322: It might be to do with a ceiling class - do you have any ceiling class turned on? Ceiling, Ceiling-Main, -Reflected, etc, etc? Make sure they're all turned off. I actually have the exact opposite problem. I upgraded from v12.5 to 2014 then on to 2015, so it was a major leap. Exterior door and window plugins won't show a sill when opened in 2015, new ones do. I have been through every check that I know of, and have concluded that they have to be redrawn to show correctly, so I have redrawn both doors and windows and used exactly the same settings, classes, etc. - the new one displays correctly, the old one doesn't. I have WinDoor, I assume that something in the software has changed, maybe a feature that doesn't show in the OIP.

Wow - why don't we have that??

Does anyone else find the Search function on this site utterly useless, or am I not using it correctly? No matter what term you put in, you get screeds of responses which have nothing to do with what you are searching for. For instance, type in circular window. You'll get maybe thousands of results, but none of them will be about the topic you want, certainly not on the first pages. I can't believe that no-one has ever, ever posted about circular windows, but apparently not!

Yes, the MrHand font looks good, pity the website can't spell architectural though ........... I use Adobe Tekton Pro: http://www.fonts.com/font/adobe/tekton#product_top

Dan Jensenson's (excellent) manual was written for VW2012 - is it still up to date with VW2015?

Alan OK, I didn't think of scaling. By the way, I re-imported your grass texture, and this time it worked fine - maybe there was something amiss with the file I imported it to the first time, so thank you.

Thanks for the comments and suggestions. I found some water textures and am trying them in turn. The stock Water 05 RT seems best at this stage, I haven't tried bumping it because the pool is supposed to be tranquil and reflective, not a seething cauldron! Wonder if there's a goldfish symbol anywhere in the library .................... A light coloured texture seems to work best for rendering, although in real life I will probably have dark surfaces.

I am trying to render a 300mm (1'0") deep pool I have modelled - it's a pool at the entry to a house, with stepping stones leading to the front door. Can anyone suggest what textures to use on the pool walls and floor, and the water itself? Is there a video anywhere showing how to model a pool with textures and rendering? I have found Youtube videos showing animated water, but I can't figure out how to even get to the still water stage.

Sorry for the repeat posting, I got a message saying the server was not responding, so every time I came back on it seems my post got reloaded. Weird.

Juan When you select the polygon, does the Object Info palette show that the polygon is closed? If this box is not ticked then your polygon won't fill properly.

Juan When you select the polygon, does the Object Info palette show that the polygon is closed? If this box is not ticked then your polygon won't fill properly.

Juan When you select the polygon, does the Object Info palette show that the polygon is closed? If this box is not ticked then your polygon won't fill properly.

Amelia If you want it truly round, you could make a cone and slice off the bit you want. Maybe you could make a faceted cone, or you could make a Roof Face as Peter suggests - make one section and then copy, paste and rotate. If you draw it accurately you shouldn't get any lines in Final Quality Renderworks, but I think you'll get lines in other renders.

Alan If you are showing Top/Plan view, then you're looking at the tops of walls, and doors and windows won't show. I think you want a horizontal section at say 1200 - 1800 above the floor, this would cut through and show doors and windows.

Peter Thank you for providing another lightbulb moment - I hadn't realised that I have to change each layer's visibility, I thought that Unified View did that somehow automatically. It seems clumsy to me though, with lots of steps, compared to a layer link model, which you set up just once. With Unified View, you seem to have to constantly toggle layer visibilities if you want to work on an intermediate layer. Maybe it will get easier as I use it more.

No, I have turned off the different scales option. It is a very simple file, I only want to view 3 layers - roof, floor plan, site model. I can use the old Layer Link in a separate layer to see them together, but I wanted to try Unified View.