[Trouble modifying a texture of a styled wall.]

Any ideas ? 

[Site Modifiers - turn off/on ?]

53 minutes ago, Tom W. said:

No worries have you tried duplicate site models? That was what I did in the end (in that thread). If you are trying to show two different versions of the Proposed model...?

 

 I am like you, I wanted to avoid this. But haven't found a workaround so I will do what you did as well : duplicate site models. 

 

And since I haven't found a better definition of Site Model snapshots, I quote yours here again because I believe it will be very useful for other users : 

 

On 8/13/2021 at 8:45 AM, Tom W. said:

Snapshot site models are not static, they are dynamic copies of the original model that will update when the original model updates so they allow you to to present different graphical options alongside each other but not different site modification options.

 

Thank you @Tom W.. 

 

[Site Modifiers - turn off/on ?]

Thank you for your inputs @Tom W.. Guess I will need to scratch my head harder... 

[Site Modifiers - turn off/on ?]

2 hours ago, Tom W. said:

I think you need to make the layer invisible in the model space then update the site model then update the VP. 

 

Thank you; that was it ! 

 

 

2 hours ago, Tom W. said:

You can't control the site model via layer overrides in the VP if that's what you mean

 

That's exactly what I meant. So I was doing it wrong. I guess I should use a site model snapshot without my unwanted modifiers and place it in a new layer, that's it ? (I am still a bit confused with these snapshots... )

 

 

[Site Modifiers - turn off/on ?]

On 4/10/2017 at 9:47 AM, Jonathan Pickup said:

move it to another layer and set the site model options to NOT use that layer.

 

Hello,  

 

I have a similar issue but I cannot find the option to not use a specific layer. 

 

Instead I found in the Site Model Settings - General Pane: Use Site Modifiers on Visible Layers Only. 

 

So I moved my Site Modifier on another layer (which is unactivated in my section VP), but my section VP still renders the site model with the unwanted Site Modifier. 

 

What am I doing wrong ? 

 

[After editing objects in VP, VP updates automatically]

Hello, 

 

Is there a way to prevent VP's auto updates after having edited an object directly in the VP ? I want to manually update them in order to save me time. 

 

I would appreciate your help. 

[Section VP of a DLVP : Objects Beyond Cut Plane vanish.]

Some news... 

 

I realized that if I uncheck the class "AN-general" in the design space, then the DLVP vanishes, even if placed in another class, for instance "none". And if I uncheck the class "none" it vanishes as well. It is as if my DLVP was placed in two class. Weird... It sounds like a container is involved but I cannot see how a DLVP can have a container... 

[Section VP of a DLVP : Objects Beyond Cut Plane vanish.]

1 hour ago, line-weight said:

Have you made sure that they are not elements that involve containers, where the class of the container is different to the objects inside it?

Yes. First thing I checked. 

 

The funny thing is that the styled walls (their components are not in the class "AN-general") vanish when they are in a DLVP but not when they are in the design space, as you can see in the pictures. The walls belong to the same style, but when inside a DLVP they disappear... 

 

Might it be related to Attributes in VP Advanced Settings ? 

 

 

[Trouble modifying a texture of a styled wall.]

Hello, 

 

- My issue : 

I would like to customize the texture of one part of one styled wall's instance. In other words, is it possible to set the texture of a styled wall "by instance" instead of "by style" on one component only ? 

 

- What I found on the Internet : 

It seems to be possible as shown below. In my case, the "Part" button is greyed out which prevent me to modify the texture. 

 

Please, find a file with my styled wall attached. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Styled wall test.vwx

[Section VP of a DLVP : Objects Beyond Cut Plane vanish.]

I haven't solved this issue yet. Would still need help please 🙂

[Section VP of a DLVP : Objects Beyond Cut Plane vanish.]

Hello, 

 

I have an issue which I illustrated below. I would be pleased if you could give me a hand on this one. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ability to join end-to-end wall segments into a single wall]

Any news from this feature that would be interesting indeed ? 

[Publish not printing tiles]

 

Your issue might be related to this topic : 

 

If you export via Publish, mind the Options button, and set the right dpi settings ("Convert Pdf To Image" and "File Size Reduction"). 

 

[Tiles - Appearing too feint when at smaller scales]

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[Tiles - Appearing too feint when at smaller scales]

I had the same issue and figured out it was a scale/dpi ratio issue. 

 

See bellow :

 

scale 1:200 / 300 dpi --> ok 

 TILE 200 300dpi.pdf

 

 

scale 1:200 / 1200 dpi --> ok 

TILE 200 1200dpi.pdf

 

 

scale 1:500 / 300 dpi --> solid grey 

TILE 500 300dpi.pdf

 

 

scale 1:500 / 1200 dpi --> ok 

TILE 500 1200dpi.pdf

 

 

Mind these settings : 

- Layout raster setting 

- File>Print raster setting 

- File>Export To Pdf "Convert Pdf To Image" and "File Size Reduction" settings 

[Rendering in Cloud | Also update viewports in Original Vector Works Drawing]

Bumping this topic 🙂 Any news ? Looking forward for the feature. 

[Vectorworks Cloud Services: save cache of viewports when rendering]

Bumping this. I don't have the feeling it is fixed in VW2021 but I might be wrong... Would be indeed very nice if VW could render the VPs on the cloud during the night for instance. What would be also nice is being able to choose which layouts to be rendered and exported to PDF. 

[EXPORT TO IFC MULTIPLE BUILDINGS]

Thank you for your input, @zoomer. I have never tried the master-file-way to do it. I will give it a shot. 

 

 

[EXPORT TO IFC MULTIPLE BUILDINGS]

Any hints ? 

[fit columns to roof]

On 6/6/2014 at 11:04 AM, Pi_ said:

it would be nice to have a tool like 'fit wall to object' (verleng muur tot aan object) for columns.

 

2021, we still cannot make it and it would still be interesting 🙂 

[Edit the attributes of a complex linetype]

11 hours ago, Pat Stanford said:

It is quite possible that you don't use more than one color for a Linotype, but I will pretty much guarantee you that there are people who rely on the ability to have multiple colors in their complex linotypes to get the drawings they want.

 

You are right, it is good to have several ways of using a tool. So you would say that complex linetypes work as they should ? Would you confirm that for each new fill color, you need to duplicate the complex linetype ? By the way, it also means you cannot override its fill attributes in a viewport. 

[Edit the attributes of a complex linetype]

In my opinion, it shouldn't work like that. A complex linetype is a linetype and it should work as a basic linetype. The pen attribute controls the color of a basic linetype. The pen attributes should also control the color of a complex linetype (fill+pen). I cannot see a good reason why it shouldn't work like that. You never use more than one color anyway for a complex linetype. 

 

As a workaround I filled my complex linetype with lines... Not sure if it's a brillant idea tho 🙂

 

 

Step 1 : Add lines in your custom complex linetype. 

Step 2 : Make it thicker 

 

Step 3 : Profit... 

      

[Edit the attributes of a complex linetype]

Hello, 

 

I have created my own complex linetype with some polygons. These polygons have a fill color and a pen color. 

 

Then, when I use my new complex linetype in the design space with Polyline for instance, I can only change the pen color and the line thickness but not the fill color of the polygons that I used to create my custom complex linetype. This means I need to duplicate my linetype for each new fill color I need ? Is that the normal behavior ? Is there a trick to be able to change the fill color as well ? 

 

 

Creating my complex linetype : 

 

Drawing a Polyline with my new complex linetype (as you can see I was able to edit pen color but not fill color as I would like to) : 

[Enable Cut Plan at Layer Elevation greyed out.]

9 minutes ago, line-weight said:

Is it because you want to show eg. ground floor for each building, but each building has its ground floor at a different level? In that case, I might try and use several viewports laid beside each other but I can see that might get complicated.

Exactly. Several viewports yes, but look, I want to do architecture, not viewports management 🙂 

Things should be simple and efficient. Actually I don't like to spend time on drawings. The less time I spend on drawing things the happier I am. Thats why I moved to BIM. And before that, to CAD. 

 

 

22 minutes ago, line-weight said:

For me, I find it very difficult to get 'proper' (graphically speaking) plans using top-plan. I expect which method is best depends on what kind of buildings you are dealing with. If they are quite rectilinear with multiple storeys then maybe top/plan works OK. But for example, as soon as I have rooms inside pitched roofs, or anything where I've had to model a lot of stuff manually from solids (old buildings with funny stairs, say) top/plan becomes pretty much useless to me.

I have to say, I don't know how I would deal with old buildings renovation. No clue. I would probably keep it simple and do things in 2D. Not worth it to model everything in 3D. The 3D information exist already. 

 

 

[Enable Cut Plan at Layer Elevation greyed out.]

Thank you for your inputs @line-weight. 

 

I cannot use horizontal sections since I have several buildings on a slope. Also, I think horizontal sections are more difficult to handle, in order to get proper – graphically speaking – plans. This being said, I might not have tried hard enough to make this work.