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@Scott Lebsack & @Tom W. Ok I got some sort of a fence to work by trial and error. I created a style (Style 4) but new fence sections do not pick up all the attributes automatically. I see my class settings in the attributes are not set properly but are grayed out. How do I edit those so I get a consistent infill and posts each time. The issue I am having now is with the posts. I want them about 2" above the top of my fence. I'm getting the behavior you see in the screen shot. The only thing I can think of is that I modified the stock post and took off the point with the split tool and it changed the object to solid section and thus changed its behavior in the tool. Any input is helpful. FlaherityConcept1noPTC.vwx

Unfortunately I don't have a pic of the fence I want. But if you picture a 48" solid board on board fence with a top and bottom rail with a lattice top 24" with a 3"x3" frame around it is basically it. The wise guy comments are not directed at anyone but to be honest every time I go to delve into a vectorworks tool its total frustration....This should be really simple. I've watched the videos read about it but oddly nothing seems to work as advertized. https://www.bestvinyl.com/blog/what-is-a-lattice-top-fence/ This is close.

@Tom W. just take a drive through any neighborhood. Vinyl board panel with a rail top and rail bottom and if its a fancy piece of plastic it might have a lattice on the top too. I think they are about as plane vanilla and standard as they can be. Almost like a slice of yellow/orange cheese food in a stack all individually wrapped in plastic...One might even say they look trashy. You may be guessing my position on Vinyl fence. I just want to drag drop and forget about it without the Vectorworks nuance....simple, vanilla and boring just like the type of fence. BTW there is a bit of venting in here...nothing personal @Tom W. I find the fence tool to be useless unless you go through the exercise of creating your own resources or your willing to slap in what VW has for resources and explain away to your client the fence isn't even close because you aren't going to spend the time modeling an existing site feature that architecturally is already as aforementioned "trashy" looking. Happy to go through the exercise if a client asks me to design a fence though. I'm hoping someone can tell me different.

I am working on a very simple project and need to simply place a typical white vinyl fence to match the existing one. I am looking for the work flow to do that without "modeling" a fence. I have had luck with some wood textures but vectorworks does not seem to have anything preset for a vinyl fence panel or gate. Its all wood or metal. I definitely do not want to have to invent something thats standard on so many homes. I'd like a click and drop, get close enough and move on. I messed with the attributes panel, messed with textures in the classes menu I created for the fence and for vinyl get a solid white board, I messed with styles. The gates will not let me adjust the attributes at all. The option is grayed out. Looking through the resource manager there is nothing that matches either. The last thing I want to do today is model a vinyl fence. Any advice would be helpful.

I figured it out. The rotation was at 30° I changed it to 90° and there it was. Thanks @Pat Stanford

Here is another screen shot

For some reason I can't get this extrude along path to work. I know I am missing something simple so if someone could enlighten me I would appreciate it. I am making a simple wall cap along a curved path. I started out with a simple extrude and it came out really faceted so I went to extrude along path and it keeps extruding it at an angle to the Z axis. I could just put another small wall on top and call it a cap. But I'd like to fillet the edges on my final. I tried my resolution settings to get rid of the facets to no avail. It almost like I don't have enough vertices on my original shapes.

Yea if @Jeff Prince if you know of better solutions let me know. Nomad is at best OK I have done a couple cool scans with it but it will let you down and not save your work. I have had to return to one site to rescan when nomad did not save the scan. Lesson learned use the clients wifi and do not leave until nomad finishes the make sure you got what you want. All I have to say is there has to be a better way to collect site data efficiently. I don't need a surveyor for smaller projects but also don't want to spend a bunch of time crawling through the shrubs. I have to say it works good on small residential like the front side of ranch home but any bigger it just distorts. I looked a Moasure, emlid and would even consider a drone set up if I thought it would get me off site more efficiently. Tape measures laser tapes and laser levels work but take way to much time. @jnr are you using Poycam for interior and architectural scans? I tried poly cam for landscapes big fail but could be operator error.

I started using Nomad for point clouds. A couple of issues I'm having are excessive points, outliers, noise points, artifacts where there is or was nothing. I see on the video the instructor using the point cloud for getting rough grades amongst other data. I'm having trouble getting the stake tool to decipher where the ground actually is. I'm guessing that its due to the artifacts. Is there a way to remove or filter them or better yet keep them from happening. Also Nomad seems to be very slow to collect info. Is there a way to speed it up or is that the price for using an Iphone with consumer technology. I tried using SiteScape its faster but I don't see too much upside as there seems to be some file conversion work that needs to be done to get it to vectorworks. The point is tech is moving so fast that speed to the client is critical.

Yup that works. Is it true that extrudes do not have a true 2d component and the 2d needs to be added manually then it can be converted to a 2d/3d symbol if it's to be one unit? I got the 3d component to change using the scale function in the OIP render tab. Any other ways to edit the 3d component?

Thanks guys I finally figured that out after messing with it for a bit.

The fence tool or Create Objects from Shapes Fence always makes the fence section next to a wall float at the top of the wall. What the setting to make that behavior stop?

When VW provides updates sometimes the path changes or the interface changes. I would be great is there was a database of these changes and instructions on how to deal with them. It one exists please share it.

I got the sample to load to VW but it failed when I tried to import as a symbol. CHAT GPT says it's a rendering issue. Any ideas on how to make that happen? Or are only certain file types or simple obj files capable of being imported as symbols or as am I missing a move?

Where does one find the bulletins for these kinds of updates? I find myself watching videos then scratching my head wondering what happened to the interface I'm being shown. Is there a specific location for these updates on any of the Vectorworks platforms?