Pat Stanford

Here are a couple of threads where I have talked more in depth about criteria. And keep asking. We are glad to help try and figure these things out.

It looks like an extents problem. Select the viewport and make sure the Display Extents Before and After the Cut Plane are both selected. Click the Advanced Properties button at the bottom and make sure the Depths are set to infinite or at least deep enough to show what you need to show.

There are a couple of classes on worksheets on VW University. https://university.vectorworks.net/mod/overview/view.php?id=5404 https://university.vectorworks.net/mod/page/view.php?id=631 The file you sent does not have any layer criteria in the Door Schedule. In Criteria when you have a line that says "All Criteria in this set" it means exactly that. The only objects that will be returned in the database are those that meet ALL (every) of the lines. In the case of the Door Schedule. It is returning all the Door Object (Record 'Door' is present) AND that have the check box for On Schedule checked (Field On Schedule is True). for Window Schedule you have the the window equivalent to the two settings above, plus an additional line specifying which layer the objects MUST be on (Layer IS '(N) Floor Plan 1'. But that layer does not exist in the file so there will be no objects that will meet all of the criteria and you get an empty list. For Layers and Classes if you specify that it IS something in a criteria then VW will do an exact comparison of the string you provide and the name of the layer or class. ANY difference will make then not match and your criteria will fail. If you change line 4 in the Window Schedule Criteria to Layer IS '(N) Floor Plan -1' with the dash you should get 11 windows reported. At least that is what I get when I make that change. You could add a similar line to the Door Schedule if you only want to return the Doors on one layer. One way to think about Data Tags is that they are graphical mini worksheet database rows that only return data on a single object. It does not matter where you place the data tag because it is only reporting data on an object. The worksheet and the data tag are looking at and reporting data from the same object, but the worksheet is not pulling from the data tag. HTH

No Floating Data Bar in Vectorscript/Python/Marionette. For that you will have to move to an SDK based object or command.

It sounds like you have something else installed that is also trying to use the space bar. I recommend that you restart in "safe" mode (no other applications or accessories loaded) and see if VW works properly then. If it does then you need to figure out what the conflicting app/accessory is and decide if you truly need it or if you can set it to not be active when VW is the frontmost app. When you figure it out, please post the answer back here for others.

I think you are going to have to contact customer support directly. The forum is for User to User support and none of us have any way to look at your account or the download server to see what is going on.

I believe that the Application Window is the only mode available in VW2024. The old all floating window option has been removed.

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This is what I managed to get to by jointing the walls in Uncapped mode and then using the "Capped Join Mode" (third mode) of the Component Join Tool to join the OSB and PIR. Some were joined to the air gaps to get what was needed.

Yes VW2021 should be compatible with OS10.15. But in this case I might just remove the User Folder and do the uninstall and reinstall and see if that fixes the problem.

As usually, Tom and Elite are correct. It was just easier to use your already created file to check something rather than create a test file myself. Thanks

The name of your Layer in the Window Schedule criteria is wrong. It looks like you manually typed in the name and missed the dash before the number. Try picking the layer from the drop down list instead.

That screen shot is not of a new blank file. It has a file name and you can't name a file until you draw something. Can you post the file you are having trouble with here? Or DM it to me so I can see if it opens on a different machine (or can you test that)? I think you best option right now is to probably uninstall VW and reinstall it and see if that help the situation. Other trouble shooting steps are:

I saw the other thread about going back to Sketchup. If it meets your needs and you are comfortable with it, then that is a good option. It is possible that you and VW just don't "think" the same. But if you need more than Sketchup offers, VW may be a good option, but it will take some time to become proficient. I think that there are several power users here who had similar comments in their early stages of using VW. But they stuck with it and eventually made the jump in understanding to really like VW. Good luck in your future endeavors.

@lrucker You are better off starting a new thread if you are having a problem then adding a post to a thread that was last update 8 years ago. VW does not handle. switching between different monitor setups very gracefully. Make a new thread with a better description of what you are trying to do and what you are seeing. I can't tell if you are talking about palettes/workspaces or which. monitors the menu bars are on.

In the default workspaces the Attribute Mapping tool should be in both the Basic and Visualization Tool Sets for all version of VW2024.

Have the other two already been imported/referenced into your working file? I think VW does not show styles that have already been imported. Have you done any of the training available at the Vectorworks University? There is a lot of depth and complexity to the problem and trying to learn it on your own, especially if you are coming from a different program can be challenging.

Can you post the object in a VWX file please Bruce?

What happens if you try and create a new blank file?

Can you try a different mouse/input device and see if the problem exists with that also? If a different device solves the problem then it is probably the device and you need to check the settings and/or the hardware. Also, take a look at this Reddit thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/wacom/comments/17foi0p/how_to_avoid_the_pen_double_clicking_completely/

My confusion. I know there are some VW reports, specifically some that ship with Landmark that use the DatabaseByScript command to effectively bypass the database and make a static list of object defined by a script. For some reason I thought that some of the ConnectCAD worksheets used this as well. But since I don't use ConnectCAD, I was not certain enough in my knowledge. Which is why I tagged Niko to get the correct information. You two provide tremendous support for ConnectCAD. It is great to watch. Pat

It may have gotten moved off the screen. Can you spot a very narrow edge showing on your screen and drag it back? Or change the resolution of your screen to something small, like 1024x768. That should force all the windows to resize/move so they will fit on the smaller screen size. When you then change the resolution back, the windows should stay until you manually resize/move them. Good Luck.

I don't think what you want is going to be possible. I will try to explain the issue. If we were doing this in a worksheet, and we wanted to report the data on the Landscape area we would have to use a database row that returned Landscape Areas. If we wanted to report data on the plants contained within the landscape area we would need to use criteria that return the objects with Plant Records (SubTypes). There is "no" way to return the plants in a database row returning the Landscape Area. Basically a Legend is a worksheet database row with more graphical smarts. @Tamsin Slatter @Katarina Ollikainen Do you have any ideas how to produce a legend of Landscape Areas that will also list the plants and their quantities in that area? If not, I do have one more possible idea using a script, but it is likely a fragile solution and very likely not to work at all. Sorry.

Or even better, what happens in a new blank file with just a single Extude? Have you restarted VW? Have you restarted the computer?

Bob, did you get this figured out? or do you still need help? I might have a little bit of time this week.