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Doing a quick model of a landscape lighting fixture and wanted to connect the red shape and the blue shape to form the led reflector... screen grab: Would prefer to stick with solids if possible. Started to work along the workflow I used to use with Autodesk Maya and Max - then realized I had no idea how to do this in VW... I'm surprised I have never tried to do this.
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It would be nice to be able to right click and remove from the "recent files" list any un-needed files. There are many files in the list that I really do not want there - like backup files I opened to try and save lost work from a Vectorworks freeze... And when the list is in grid view, longer names are not completely shown, and I've mistakenly opened outdated versions that are not current but are named similarly.
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@Pat Stanford I'll give that a test run! @Katarina Ollikainen love this... I just used it to find three plant groupings I hadn't labeled yet! Only issue I have is I have to turn off some layers and classes in the viewport to get it to work cleanly. I use a separate tag for trees, so I need to turn that layer off (or they all light uptoo). I use plant objects for existing plants that I want to save, but I don't call these out, so I need to turn their class off. But after that it worked perfectly and then I just turned those back on again. I wish I could double thumbs up the two of you!
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Can I build a housekeeping worksheet that will list plant objects and also let me know if they have a data tag connected to them? I love using Data Tags as plant object tags, and they are so much better in my workflow than plant tags. But I get so stressed when proofing a planting plan and trying to make sure I have EVERY plant object called out. And there is almost always one plant object that the contactor finds that I don't have tagged. Could be nice for landscape areas and hardscapes too.
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I figured something like that. And if it only brought in the checked classes that would be fine. But it brings all of them into the new doc, which is not a good idea. I noticed because The document I had created these fence styles in had been imported from Autocad - so it had telltales like class '0' and class 'nonplot' (which I would never purposefully create!). It also had a lot of 'A-' classes like walls, fixtures, sinks, and mouldings that as a landscape designer I hardly ever need. This would be helpful, or at least some documentation that it does this so users aren't caught like I was. Finally, my work around of making that attribute 'by instance' and keeping it unchecked in the saved Fence Style works for now. easy enough to check it after the style is imported. Thanks for reaching out!
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OK - I figured it out! There is a problem with the "send to surface" option in the fence style editing menu. If you enable this option on the "General" tab and select any classes in the "apply send to surface by class" menu, those classes will be included in your symbol definition. It also prevents you from purging any of these classes - even if there is nothing on them! This can mess up your class structure and cause confusion. To avoid this, you should make "send to surface" a 'by instance' attribute and leave it unchecked in your symbol definition. You have to then check it if you want to use the 'Gravity' feature once it's imported into your new file. I just went back and edited all my saved fence symbols, and this seems to work. Here is a screen grab:
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I just noticed that all of my custom 'Fence Styles' bring all the classes of the creation file into the new file. Stock fence styles don't do this. Any idea what I did wrong in saving these styles? Video: create blank doc - this creates two default classes create unstyled fence - this creates two new classes 'Replace' with a stock fence style - this uses the same two classes as an unstyled fence. "replace' with my custom fence style - This added ALL the classes from the creation file. Why? 20240227-2351-25.3113430.mp4 Also, I can't purge these classes. There are zero unused classes available to purge. I can delete them, but VW wants to reassign to a different class first. What is going on?
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I was working on a 'Fire Safe' fence (in California fire country wood fences up against a structure are a no-no) and I've hit an issue I can't seem to figure out. I have a vertical board fence and I want continuous coverage along the whole fence and ideally, I would like it to be stepped as opposed to raked. My issue is that I can't figure out how to get the infill to cover the post if there is any grade. With 'continuous coverage' checked all the infill and rails ignore the grade, but the posts react to the subsurface when 'Gravity' is clicked. With 'continuous coverage' un-checked there is a gap in front of each post - which as I'm using metal post doesn't work. I was thinking that maybe the trick that @Tamsin Slatter (edit: I think it might have been a Katarina Ollikainen coffee break video) showed with the invisible lines added to the post profile might work, but the 'Vectorworks University' page is still down for me so I can't rewatch the fence video... Anyone have any thoughts? Here are a couple screen grabs showing the same fence with 'continuous coverage' checked and not checked. Front: Back:
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Is there a way to find and replace all the title blocks style instances at once? It seems like I need to: go to each sheet select the title block click the style drop down click "replace..." click the selection arrow click the title block I want to replace with click select chose which format I want "title block Project Data" click OK ... then repeat for each sheet. Am I missing the easy way to do this? Sure would be nice to be able to Find and Replace, or right click in the Resource Manager.
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Can't sign in to Vectorwork University.
hollister design Studio posted a topic in General Discussion
I missed the last Coffee Break that I had registered for and wanted to see if it was up on the university page yet - I can' seem to sign in. Webpage just stuck with rotating timer after clicking on "sign in" I've rebooted the computer and it still does't sign in - anyone else? -
Worksheet of Classes in a File
hollister design Studio replied to Pat Stanford's topic in Resource Share - Vectorscript
@Pat Stanford Thanks for the link to this from the Custom Classes post! Quick question, what is determining the background color in the "B" column? It doesn't seem to be the class fill of line color... See below - '00-NOTE' is purple in the worksheet - but when selected it shows fill color to be white. -
multiple instances of VW with one click on a file.
hollister design Studio replied to hollister design Studio's question in Troubleshooting
@Pat Stanford I use a wacom, so it very well could be. It's just odd that this didn't happen before I updated to 2024 and it does happen for any other file types. -
multiple instances of VW with one click on a file.
hollister design Studio posted a question in Troubleshooting
This never happened before 2024 for me. Now it seems more often than not when I click on a file to open it in explorer, VW tries to open it multiple times. I am unable to close the extra instances, as they get stuck on the loading page like the attached screen grab. Or they get stuck on an error message saying that my preferences can't not be save, or a couple of other warnings... there is no way to shut them down. clicking on the closing "X" does nothing, I can't get to the menus as the instances are not fully open yet, the only way to close VW is with an "end task" in the resource manager. screen grab showing three instances and an instance frozen while opening: In the above screen grab, two instances are frozen, and one I had been working on for about an hour before I realized the other instances were open. Not really an issue, just a frustration as I have no idea why this is happening and like I stated above, it's new with 2024. -
Not sure what's going on. The render teapot is always on no matter what I'm doing and VW throws up a warning if I try and save the file. When I try and turn it off to restart, it asks the same basic thing. And also tells me that it can't save the file because the file is in use by "XPS 17" - which is the name of this computer. see video: 20231215-0042-13.8574342.mp4
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@JonKoch thanks, found it. For anyone wondering where to find the gate flip controls that are not on the OIP... Flip controls are located in the reshape tool under the "ELEVATION / EDIT MODE" With that mode selected if you click on the gate control point you get a dialog box that has "Flip Across Fence" and "flip Along Fence" You unfortunately can select only ONE option, and then you need to click OK to activate. If you need both, you need to do this twice - not as clean as the door flip... Hey VW help pages, it took me a couple of reads in the help pages to figure this out. There isn't ANYTHING relevant and searchable for gate "flip" - until you hit the "Click to show/hide the parameters" button. I tried cntl+F on various pages and eventually found the info after giving up and just reading everything starting at the top.