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    Wall join curved walls

    in Troubleshooting

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    I have done in both ways.  I have yet to try an extrude.  Using the wall tool seems to be the simplest way.  Angular walls seem really easy to join and all need a core element to join which i'm sure can be added to a landscape wall.   As soon as I put a curve on something like an interior wall it still won't join.   This Landscape Wall,  was created from a poly then became three walls once it was converted.    The center section of wall is flipped with inside and outside pitches being inverted.  Is there a way to flip the center walls orientation?  I don't see it in the OIP, Edit Landscape Wall Arc says command does not apply, right click and edit says no edit behavior. To get them to meet up I made the pitch equal but the inside and outside are still reversed.  I can only guess what will happen when that gets applied to a site model.  My guess is that prior to turning that wall into a wall style I will need to straighten out the inversion.815154294_Screenshot(23).thumb.png.082017ae14290b6c913e48289f21407a.png1352753565_Screenshot(24).thumb.png.b5e4d60bc1f823b6acb49a17d17302ef.png1090352618_Screenshot(25).thumb.png.533e64c1fbdb7c6a8bcc54909a55e94c.png1090352618_Screenshot(25).thumb.png.533e64c1fbdb7c6a8bcc54909a55e94c.png75215906_Screenshot(26).thumb.png.cd616e0670f444c9e713974abf48e0e5.png

     

    Creating curved landscape walls seems to be a bit wonky.  I have looked all over VW help, VW U, google, bing and youtube for videos of curved walls in VW.  No luck. 

     

    But the curved sweeping natural stone and block walls are on a ton of jobs.  I want to create graphics as true as possible for my clients.   What am I missing Here?

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    Wall join curved walls

    in Troubleshooting

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    I have a curved landscape retaining wall I'm trying to join with the wall join tool.  I started out with a CMU wall which would not join.  Then realized it's core component of the wall that causes the WJ tool to work.   I converted to a standard framed wall  from the resource manager and it worked on straight walls but not on the curved ones.  To avoid screwing up the work I'm being paid for I created the attached site model and put in the curved wall.  It will do a funky join in capped mode though.  What am I missing?

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    Wall Join

    in Troubleshooting

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    I have a landscape wall consisting of wall and round wall components.  I have auto join walls turned on as well as being sure the walls are snapping to each other.  When I try to use the wall join tool I get nothing or I get an error.  These are retaining walls and not being joined is messing up the site model.  What's the trick?

    Slab behaving badly

    in Troubleshooting

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    This hardscape slab keeps grabbing something on the base plain.  I have cleared out all original line work and recreated my geometry several times.  I used the grade tool to set the new slopes in aligned slab modifier top mode.  This is when the problem happens.  In I also did a couple test samples on a clean document with good results.  I'm looking all over for a bottom datum setting or an elevation offset.  Any ideas on what is causing this would be much appreciated.

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    Walls

    in Site Design

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    Can anyone tell me why my core and drywall on this wall do not meet the top of my exterior shingles in this model.  It seems to me that once I put my slabs on I would want them sitting on top of my wall not down in it.  The height of the wall is to be the interior ceiling height.  So the bottom of the ceiling slab would sit on top.  The base of the wall is to be connected to the top of the first floor slab with not overlap on either.  I thinking basic residential construction-Foundation, sill, joists & floor sheething (making my slab), walls including base plate, framing and top plate.  Then repeating for the second floor minus the sill1321766135_Screenshot(53).thumb.png.e8abeaefe6d0a60c9370651ee026f4ca.png1318707803_Screenshot(54).thumb.png.b6b590cbebcd1c9b826210a5f8509537.png642255520_Screenshot(55).thumb.png.3eed7dce3ea4e8f60e0a4bad1421b913.png.

    Image Props/3d Plant symbols

    in Site Design

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    First I have to say thanks for everyone's help with my questions its much appreciated.  I spoke with my buddy who's a graphics wizzard.  My understanding is that for an Alpha Channel you need photo editing software.  Any suggestions on what to use?

    GDI+

    in General Discussion

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    I'm attempting to create Image Props.  It looks like GDI+ is suppose to be running in windows.  I looked at some of the online info about it and it.  It looks like its discouraged to run it.  Any PC users running it?  Any issues?

    Image Props/3d Plant symbols

    in Site Design

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    I'm placing plants in a plan and want 3d plant symbols.   I had some luck taking a Rhododendron and matching it up with images in the stock symbol library.  Although the scale of the flowers and leaves are way off because I rescaled.    I watched two videos, the images in each were already cleaned up and backgrounds removed.  Is this a requirement prior to importing the image or can the image be cleaned in VW?  I attempted to generate image props as per the video generating an image prop for a new plant in Vectorworks.  The end image prop on the plan is just an image of the shrub.  Nothing happened except the image pasted to the plan.   I am seeing two main differences between what I made happen and what I saw happen.  First I do not have an alpha channel button.  This is not available on my system so I'm not sure if I need it.  Then I saw GDI + is supposed to run when importing pics but it looks like its not recommended to be enabled on a PC.  I will post this issue separately but just wanted to bring it up.

     

    For the Vector Works tech people which VW university class covers this?  I looked at a few but am not sure. 

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    smart points

    in Troubleshooting

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    So rotate plan allows me to square up individual plan elements to the X,Y so I can work them more easily?  Yea I got that there is a work flow to keep walls perpendicular but thanks for the clarification on how it works!  Thanks for the help everyone!

    smart points

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Yea the object is a retaining wall with a folly of a New England field stone root cellar foundation extending off it.  The main wall follows the property line the extension was squared off (roughly).  The home sits on the plan square to the x&y coordinates but its not square on the lot.  What I ended up doing was to just draw a square connecting the two points on the bed corner and the wall then rotated to square with the wall and snapped it into place.  Now I'll convert the square to an object and the object to a wall

    smart points

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Yea I get the same thing when I continuously click for a 90.  When I deflect from that angle and then try to go back to the 90 from the new line it doesn't work.   I'm not sure if its the angular dimension tool not snapping to the wall or if the wall is actually off.  I have tried to use the Y key to bring up the tool tips but I get nothing.  I have also tried unselecting all but the snap to object options in the snap tool bar.  Zoomer are you saying shift T?  T gave me nothing but shift T seemed to give me a red dashed reference line along the wall I want to 90 off of.  

    smart points

    in Troubleshooting

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    Thanks Andy.  Its definitely snapping to angles but my line is off at 178.32.  I just read an article and found that holding down shift will do the trick but wondering if there is a tool preference I'm missing.

    Small Sites Grading

    in Site Design

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    Thanks Tony!  I was trying the stake tool and could not get it to work.  I must have had the workflow wrong.  I was placing spots where I wanted them then went back and tried to edit the grade in the OIP but it didn't work.  So I started over.  In 2021 (maybe earlier versions too) all you need to do is activate the tool type in the elevation on the tool bar right next to the wrench and pencil and place it on the plan then enter the next and place place it and so on.  Is that the most effective way to do it?  Not sure how I missed that one when working with it originally but I messed with it watched a bunch of videos and finally dawn broke.  I see a couple errors I made with my elecations.  Can those grades be edited in the OIP to change the grade and update the site model.  I want to change the highlighted grade to from 99 to 100.  Whats the path?1833914038_Screenshot(47).thumb.png.2828bbc5f8553aaf4813381f5aa6620a.png

    Small Sites Grading

    in Site Design

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    I have a relatively small flat site that's getting a pretty simple design build program.  I am working off of spot grades.  My 2d work is just about done.  What's the best method to show grading.  Site modeling seems a bit overkill.  Or is the grading tool the way to go.

     

     

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