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  1. @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.
  2. @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.
  3. 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.
  4. @Tom W. Thanks. Matt has good (or at least realistic) points. That seems like a lot of added work at publishing time - doesn't VW automatically re-render all viewports before publishing? What about doubling the doors on two different classes... could that work or just add more chances for crashing?
  5. I could have sworn I saw a thread about this before, but I can't find it.... I would like mt doors to be closed for elevation views. I would like my doors at 45deg open for some renders to better show movement and action. How does one do this?
  6. @michaelk honestly not sure. @jblockI do have sketch mode in one sheet layer - which is something new for me as I've never used it before. I finally just killed VW with the Task Manager and restarted it and reopened the file. Everything seems fine now.
  7. 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
  8. @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.
  9. @Katarina Ollikainen quick question, how does one flip the swing of a gate? direction of a fence?
  10. Thanks for putting this in writing Pat. I wish this was more clearly stated in the help pages... If they had opened with "using number values only - no thousands separator". I have had so many instances in the last 4 years, struggling to get a simple "SUM" formula to work, banging my head against the proverbial wall... all because I had a thousand separator!
  11. @Tom W. I haven't figured it out - but I did get a work around. VW doesn't seem to like circles in the boundary outline. When I approximate the circle with straight segments, the texture rotates fine. ...when I edit the boundary back to include a circle - no dice with the face texture rotation.
  12. I'm not consistently able to. I select the face (top in this case) and try and rotate, but it very oddly changes the texture scale instead. 20231128-1924-21.7786897.mp4 I've redrawn this slab a number of times but it still acts oddly.
  13. Navigation - Design Layers palette turned blue and doesn't open...
  14. Thanks That's what I was looking for! I've been clicking the open worksheet view checkbox on and off for weeks and not figuring it out! It's Vectorworks. Of course, there are two "Database Headers" check boxes. ...and of course they do different things. ...and of course they are in different areas!
  15. Why am I getting the criteria line and this "4" showing in my worksheet? In my worksheets this line is generally not shown - I can't figure out how to hide it.
  16. What am I not doing correctly? I imported a Velux skylight symbol. Selected the roof class and layer as active. Double clicked the skylight in the resource manager (in the 'selected file' mode.) Hovered over the roof until it was highlighted. Clicked and then clicked to set the angle. The skylight just sits perpendicular to the roof with no cutout. Also tried from Top/Plan but the roof will not highlight. Video capture: Skylight problem.mp4
  17. @adriandurlesterI closed everything, restated computer and now VW is showing 1.1 too. Not a good thing to see an update stuck with no way to exit or restart from the app. Having to resort to killing it in the Task Manager is a bit frightening...
  18. I've been having issues with the new update on windows 11 The updater keeps getting errors and stopping - when I finally got it to move forward by restarting it many times, it got stuck at 99%. I can't quit, cancel or launch (without using the task manager to end it). Thoughts?
  19. @Nana Ama Astra I unfortunately don't remember what I did (if anything) to fix this... but I no longer have the issue. So sorry.
  20. I would like the class and layer OIP dropdowns to show all the classes and layers when I click on them. In 2023, when I clicked on or off the "all layers" / "all classes" button on the bottom of the dropdown menu, VW remembered the setting and opened up in that mode the next time I used the dropdown menu. In 2024 it always has the button clicked on and the filters visible, and I have to click the button off to see the full list of layers/classes. How do I get the "no filters" setting to stick like before?
  21. Formatting works sheets currently involves a lot of right clicking | opening the 'format cells' menu | switching to the appropriate tab| adjusting settings | closing the menu - then seeing if what you adjusted does what you had intended. ...and if not, redoing all the opening and closing of menus and tabs. It would be nice if formatting options where in a excel-like "ribbon' and all you had to do was select the cells and click the appropriate formatting buttons in the ribbon. This would certainly save some needless clicking.
  22. Thanks E|FA - same in Landmark - but I don't see a place to edit icons. Here is the Tools menu->Workspaces->Workspaces... menu - followed by me clicking on "Edit..." HDS TIGHT to open the Workspace Editor Where do I go from here to add back those icons? Maybe things are different in Architect and/or Mac? again thank you!
  23. This would be nice. I have an 'on site' setup for my surface tablet so I can (almost) work with a touch screen and a "standard" custom workspace for my workstation. Like you, when I open my "onsite" workspace on my workstation, all my palettes are off. When I open the "standard" workspace on my tablet - all hell brakes loose! If I'm in the office I can attach a mouse and a keyboard and get things working again - but if I'm already in the field... It does seem the workspace is tied into the file - saved with the last open instance - it sure would be nice to be able to choose workspaces per machine.
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