[BIM Fail: inability to show hatches in Section Viewports]

#BIMfail trending on the techboard....

[BIM Fail: inability to show hatches in Section Viewports]

+1

[ddmmyy versus mmddyy for VAA Titleblock]

YYYY-MM-DD is the ISO standard and should be the default for everything in VW.

It's like ignoring international conventions like IFC to use a parochial format such as the US date format, which is very much the minority date format in the world. The US is practically the only country to put the month first.

[Brickwork coursing to line elevations of 3D model?]

Forget it, we've given up and gone back to 2D.

We couldn't replicate our simple, coloured, hatched elevations showing brickwork at the correct coursing without essentially re-drawing the 2D elevations over the top of the 3D model.

If 2013 doesn't deliver we'll give Revit a try.

[3D pot plants for office interior]

UK / US differences in terminology are always such a rich ground for amusement....

Fannypack... snigger :blush:

[How to Update Doors and Windows Efficiently]

In reply to Christiaan, this doesn't work for the Settings button...just tried it and crashed VW.

[How to Update Doors and Windows Efficiently]

There is a half-decent workaround for this which Martyn Horne showed me, which to be honest I haven't had chance to use on a real job yet, but I have tested it and it appears to work:

Use the ID Suffix field in the OIP to give each door a Door Type reference e.g. T1, T2 etc. You can then use Custom Modification to select all T1s at once etc (Tools>Custom Modification>Field Value>ID Suffix). This allows you to select doors in various walls at once and amend them via the OIP. It won't amend doors inside symbols (e.g. house types) though.

It's less foolproof than proper Door Types (wishlisted many times), but should help.

You can save yourself some scripts to select each door type on a little script palette, to speed this up if you do it frequently.

[Renderworks/Section Viewports: image props should render]

Image Props are great....I made my own conifer trees...pretty crude but effective..

Haven't tried rendering them in a section viewport.

[Renderworks/Section Viewports: image props should render]

You mean they don't? Duh.

[Problems printing from PDFs exported from VW 2012]

After years of suffering this transparency printing problem I chanced across a solution that works on several of our problem files.

Converting to PDF doesn't solve the issue, but if you convert the PDF to PostScript and then back to PDF, it will flatten the PDF and get rid of the problem. You'll need the full version of Acrobat to do it (File>Export>PostScript).

[Ozbreed image prop shrubs]

Bonza mate.

[Referenced layers and native layers do not line up after x-ref update]

Could it be that if I import dwgs layers into that file (referenced one) it automaticaly changes my file origin????

Cause that could be one likely option

This is certainly the behaviour on 2008, but I haven't tried on 2012. As stated above you should always top your DWG import into a clean file, never into your working file.

[french doors with different leaf opening angles]

This one needs wishlisting. Double doors should be able to have independent open angles for each leaf.

[Cloud services run by monkeys?]

I'm guessing v2013 has something to say about that?

Nice try.

[Cloud services run by monkeys?]

Hehe, well I dont know whether to be embarrassed or impressed that my files are lowering your stats.

:grin:

[Referenced layers and native layers do not line up after x-ref update]

check you haven't accidentally moved the origin in either file

[Advanced Roof Work]

Thanks dm, nice video. Worth a watch if anyone is considering where the 2D/3D split should be.

[Is it possible to display window & door IDs in elevations?]

It's been said many times before, but this omission again appears to show that NV don't have enough practising architects on their staff or in their beta programme. You can't put a window in an elevation without a reference so how come we have to tell NV this in 2012?

[Is it possible to display window & door IDs in elevations?]

The UK distributor has asked for this, so hopefully that carries some weight.

[Replace with symbol command]

Agreed, but in the meantime you can use Pat's script which works ok with 2012 and does exactly the same thing:

http://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=113373

You can turn it into a menu item or simply save it as a text file e.g. on your desktop, and choose "run script" from there.

[Class attributes]

Strange. I get it.

Yeah, this is what this whole thread was about....the inconsistency. Re-setting the saved settings in Prefs does not forget whatever you said, so you get one shot at this in the life of a file...or something strange like that.

[Class attributes]

Ah, 10 year old problems that still aren't fixed. Don't you just love those.

The behaviour of class attributes is still inconsistent in 2012.

I have a file where lots of objects are off-class and VW is failing to do what the Help files say it does. When I tick "Use at Creation" in the class attributes dialog box I should be presented with the option to set existing objects on that class to use the class settings, but I'm not getting it.

Worse still, the Custom Modification tool is broke too. You can use this to take attributes off-class, but NOT put them on-class. Madness.

[VW needs to be supported with such things as -]

Uniclass is about to be overhauled so if you are planning to set up a class system for your office I'd wait a few more weeks until the new version is published.

[attribute pallet too small]

Yeah, we'll give you that one.

Too generous. Look how UGLY it is on Windows!

Seriously...that's not on Windows 7 is it? It looks like Windows 95!

[attribute pallet too small]

Hopefully Lion / Mountain Lion support will finally give us full screen mode that, fingers crossed, includes docking palettes on the Mac.