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this one looks funny, too.

hmm, but, the empty OIP-Problem isn't a well known issue at VW inc.? I am wondering, because it's happening so regularly, independently of any file. Resetting the user folder helped only for some days... strange thing.

no, it would be better, really hiding them, for example for dwg-exports

For drawing plans for modification of buildings, data Data visualization should be able to hide objects, too. In Archicad for example it's called Rennovation filter. Here you can assign to an object, wether it is existing, new or should be demolished, in order to display all parts in the colors - black:existing, yellow: demolished, red: new or display only the old version or the new version of the building. However, data visualization actually isn't able to hide objects, which is essential for those plans. Here you can see, how it is solved in Archicad: is

Hi, just take a look at the german resource manager (screenshot). The order of resource types is the order of the english resource types, not the alphabetical order of the german ones... This issue is as old as, Vectorworks? 10years +x? s

got it and works, thanks 🙂

great thing, however, somethings not working in the script. What's wrong with the quoted script aheada?

doesn't help. It's not a VW-Spotlight issue, however...

thanks, I will invest a few more minutes in searching and post a link to the result, as soon as I got it 😉

Hi, im working with VW 2020 SP4, German, Architect. It happens sporadically, mainly after switching between more applications, that the object infopallette suddenly does show any object parameters only when I click into the text-fields. The only solution I know is resetting the VW 2020 user-folder. Is there any known issue? I never experienced anything like this before during the last 10 years (and I've been working myself in the German Vectorworks helpdesk-team for about 5 years)

sure, but there are still more users working in the same project 😉. However, I think, we're losing the main topic of this post. Migrating and referencing storey-heights from one project (either from a simple vwx or a project-sharing-project) would be a very useful thing!

I only said, that referencing lost a little importance in Vectorworks since project sharing somehow. (for reasonable thoughts of course) however, both, project sharing and references are useful tools, in my opinion.

you mean, by referencing? the usual problems in referencing... I honestly restarted working with vw in mid of march...

another issue would be referencing stories. I can imagine that there seemed to be no more need, since project sharing.... however, project sharing imho doesn't totally replace referencing...

... everytime I reopen the Datamanager, the settings switch back to "document settings" or "basic settings" ("Grundeinstellung" in german) however, I forget, wether I overwrite my last datamanager set or I work in an old preset... the hole set-handling is confusing

hi, as far as I understood the data manager now does take an important role in the Vectorworks Bim workflow. In fact it offers great possibilities in optimizing a project's BIM-workflow. However, everytime I apply some changes to the data-mapping settings, the actual Data-Manager set switches from the last saved to "actual settings". Each time I want to save the settings, after having them modified, I have to insert the Data-set name manually. That's incomfortable for two reasons. 1) I would prefer to see a list of possible data sets, I already saved to be able to chose a set to overwrite instead of having to rewrite the set name everytime I apply some changes to the data mappings 2) the bigger problem is, that, the more I have to rewrite the same "data-set"-name, the higher is the probability, that I either some writing mistakes or I maybe lose some settings... However, the way Data Sets are stored in the data manager now is not 100% practical.

the "never" option is a little bit misleading. In Fact, the first option does undo all steps and the last one. A real option for "Never" would be great.

slabs are a great tool for designing floors, ceilings,... To align a slab or a floor type it is possible, aligning it to a story-level-layer-height. However, drop-ceilings are still hard to align that way, due to the fact, that a slab isn't alignable to the story-level-layer-height ABOVE the actual story. WHY?

As far as I remember, I wrote en enhancement-request on Jira, 5 years ago 😢

forward? Revit does have a bimcollab plugin, and, afaik archicad does support bimcollab, too

the upper file is the file, which comes directly "out of Vectorworks" and doesn't have a suffix

nope, that's not the problem. I checked the settings. As you can see on the screenshots, the suffix is missing and it's not the finder-setting, which causes the suffix to disappear. However, a hidden file-suffix would however be recognized by the operating system. So, double-clicking the ifc-file would change the file-icon and automatically open the file in the preferred ifc-application. Both doesn't happen in my case. As you can see in the screenshot, macOS asks me whether I want to add a file-suffix or not.

nope, I can switch between "ifc", "ifc zipped".... however I always need to add .ifc manually. Vectorworks doesn't do so by itself.

this might be a wish, but, however, I first try to post the issue here: I'm working with Vectorworks 2020 SP3 on Mac (10.12 - Sierra) Everytime I try to export an ifc-file I need to add the *.ifc-suffix manually. Why? is it the same on Windows, too? Also macOS needs the ifc-suffix too be able to connect the file to my models-checker,... Solibri...

resources in the German (Italian, French...) resource browser (as you can see in the first screenshot) are not in alphabetical order. Instead they're organized by the alphabetical order of their English original names. Could you please help all people who translate these names and give them the possibility to rearrange the order of this list?