Pat Stanford

You probably will have to start your modifications with one of the stock workspaces again. You might also want to try a different keyboard. It sounds like the keypad on your keyboard is not sending the codes that are specific to the keypad but rather sending the ones for the numbers across the top of the keyboard. I had an external keypad that did this years ago and made it unsuitable for what I wanted it to do in VW.

Edit the symbol. From the Component Edit dialog box/menu thingy set the Show Other: pull down to show both the 2D (Top/Plan, Screen Plane) and 3D (all the other parts. Make sure that both parts are properly aligned to each other.

Double Click on it to select the Reshape Tool and then use the Move mode to grab the handles and put it where you want it to be.

All Walls in Vectorworks are Vertical along their length. You can angle the ends, but you can't angle the wall itself. As a workaround you could possibly use a Roof Face or and Extrude, but you will not be able to insert door or windows. You will have to make manual cutouts and then place those objects.

I have a similar setup and (2020 MacBook Pro, Big Sur) and I rarely have crashes. The first thing I would try is to switch to a different user account on your Mac (if you don't have one you can create a new user in System Preferences:Users & Groups) and run VW from there and try to open the file. If it works, then it is possible that your VW preferences or user folder are corrupted. If it does not work, then it is likely that the VW file is corrupted. If it is the user folder come back and we can help you to reset it to try and help on your original account.

As it was explained to me, the attributes of materials is secondary to the data that is contained within the Material. While it would be nice to have the material properties induced in all objects, the first object to get these options were the general tools used for "site built" object so you can extract volume, area, mass, etc. from what you are building. Since most doors/windows come to the site a pre-built units with the "user" having little choice of the materials or dimensions of subcomponents (other than to choose a different model or manufacturer), it was decided that having materials apply to all of the subcomponents of PIOs would be delayed from the original release. So while I understand the comment about "No point until it can be applied to everything", there is a lot of value that can be gained from materials in their current state. Especially the ability to do "compound" (I think that is the term) materials that can be controlled by the percentage of different materials added. Like a concrete slab that you could specify as 50% concrete, 49% gravel, and 1% rebar and get the mass required. As with most things in VW, it may not be for you. Or it may be the best thing since sliced bread.

Render Geometry determines if the objects that make up the light are shown in a rendered image or not. This is sort of like the VW Preferences option to display light objects Always, Only in Wireframe, or Never. If you want the light from the object but don't want to see the actual line or rectangle that acts as the light then uncheck the box. If you want to see the line/rectangle then check the box.

You are correct that VW manages the settings of AND and OR. But there is some logic to what it does. If you have multiple of the same criteria it applies an OR. So. Layer IS ABC and Layer is XYZ become Layer='ABC' | Layer='XYZ' Multiple criteria of different types become AND Layer='ABC' & Class='XYZ' And the only way I know to change those is to go in and manually edit the formula string. Or use a script to write the formula string in the first place. I don't think VW accepts any wildcards other than * and ? but I may be wrong.

Symbols created by you or anyone else should have all of the same snap options as any other object. Are parts of the symbol in different classes and you have your Class Options set to not have Snap Others turned on? If you add locus points to your symbol you will have the option to set them to be Master Snaps that can take precedence over the normal Snap to Object snap points.

@Edgar RAMEL Thank you for reminding me of the "wildcard" options. I wasn't thinking about them last night. So I THINK: * means zero or more characters ? means exactly one character Neither care what that character is: So. =SHRUB? would match SHRUB1, SHRUBA, SHRUB!, but not SHRUB, SHRUBAA or SHRUB!1 =SHRUB* would match all of the above. =SHRUB*A. would match SHRUB12345A, SHRUBAA, SHRUB ZSFDA Still don't have VW open to test.

1. = means equals. If you type SHRUB it will only match SHRUB, not SHRUB1, SHRUBY, SHRUB anything else goes here. I don't have VW open. If there is a Contains instead of = option try that instead. 2. Yes, you have to scroll through that impossibly long list of things you are not interested in.

I have not heard of this problem before. Two things to check. 1. If you normally use Click/Drag drawing, check VW Preferences and make sure it did not accidentally get changed to Click/Click drawing. 2. If you are still having a problem, maybe boot into a different user account (or create one and boot into it) and try and run VW there. If it works properly there then it is likely a problem with your user folder. If this solves the problem let us know and we can talk you through fixing your user folder. Or search the forum for one of the hundred of threads that talk about it.

Complete guess without VW running. What about adding locus points into the Annotations group? maybe that would keep the "overall area" of the viewport where it needs to be to keep the gridlines from snapping back?

You can count the objects in a worksheet, but I don't think there is a way to get the multiple count into the Data Tag. Unless you are going to write a script that will store the total to a record.field. But then you have to remember to run the script every time you make a change.

Submit a wish to have an alternate field added that is the numeric version of whatever the Styled Text output is. I think I did that for Doors and Windows a few years ago. I think I requested if for all PIOs, but obviously that has not happened yet.

Have you restarted VW and the computer?

=Value(Substring(XXXX,YYYY,1) is your friend. XXXX is the string value that includes the Lbs. YYY is what separates the number from the Lbs. In this case a space (' ' Single quote, space character, single quote) 1 is that you want the first piece of the substring. Also, check and see if there is not a different field that returns the value as a number instead of giving your the string formatted with the units. On deadline now. I will double check this later if I don't see you post that it worked. This is from memory, so it may be wrong. Do a search for post from me that include Substring and you should find what you need.

I don't think so. Data tags are basically for putting information from a single object on the drawing. I think we will see more capability in VW2022, but that may just be wishful thinking. ;-)

1. 20 years of fighting VW on data stored as text. 2. I tried the Value() thing and it worked. 3. What I should have done in the first place was run my handy dandy script that shows you the data type of each field of a PIO parameter record. You probably should skim the entire thread to make sure you get the latest version of the script and the notes on how to use it. Place a single instance of the PIO directly on a design layer and run the script. It will generate a worksheet showing all of the parameter fields of the PIO.

It looks like the Stanchions field is stored as text rather than as a number. Try changing your column B formula to =VALUE('Rope and Stanchion'.'TTLStanchions') If you then set column A to =OBJECTTYPENAME and SUMmarize on Column A, you can then Sum Values on Column B to get a single subrow showing a total of 571 stanchions. You will need to do the same for ropes, belts and chains. All are stored at text.

Do you possibly have a snap grid set to a large value? If you do and are drawing lines that are not at least 1/2 of the snap grid length then they won't draw.

Try and right click on them and Force Select. It is possible that you have duplicated the Wall so that the windows are inserted in one wall, but are not cutting the second co-located wall. Or perhaps the windows are just placed on the layer and not inserted into the wall. If this is the case and you manage to select one it will say Window in the OIP instead of Window in Wall.

I think I was either a rabbit or a ferret in a previous live. I seem to really like rabbit holes. ;-) It was an interesting hole. Always learning something.

The 20 minute search this morning (including finding the 60 minutes of thrashing in 2017) did not turn up any way to get more that Net and Gross glazing area and frame length out of curtain walls. Sorry. Did you know that you can insert Doors and Windows into Curtain walls just like regular walls? So at least for openable windows and doors it might be worth doing that so they can be added to the schedule. It seems to me that if the exact panel sizes are critical, you really need to manually model the exact brand of curtain wall rather than using the default Curtain Wall object. In that case you could attach records/make schedules to get the detailed information you need. If you don't do that and specify (and confirm the contractor is actually using the brand specified), any extra work you put into that is at the whim of the contractor (as is almost everything you design).

@unearthed It is a little unfair to be commenting on how VW currently works when you are using a version that is 9 versions old. EVERYTHING about VW has improved substantially since VW2012. That includes importing and exporting. For similarity to Pack and Go, simply duplicate the file and then break all of the references while keeping the data.