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would save on zooming to make sure you've selected some thing that's larger than the screen.

i agree with Mike.

very useful, but I imagine complicated for VW to implements as there are so many different types of truss

agreed. would be helpfull

when you use the framing tool it doesn't work to hold down the shift key to lock the angle, as it does with all other tools. This would be nice.

I've just discovered that you can't put a bevel on the sides of the base cabinet tool and the counter top tool. What are you supposed to do if you have a kitchen that isn't square. I know you can use an extruded polygon, but then you loose 2D/3D functionality.

Hi Joshua You need to type the correct file extension on to the end of the file (.dxf). other wise VW can't recognise it.

that's brilliant Alan. Thanks But I would still like to see some thing built into VW that gives more control over the shape of the rocks.

I wish there was a simple way to make rocks and boulders in 3D. I know there is the loft tool but that almost always creates some really wierd results, with rail connecting funny places together and not ligning up when you try. some thing like being able to make small DTM's. with out all the functionality of landscape DTM's. That would be very handy, and save hours of time. Where I live you can't buy a piece of land that doesn't have at least a couple of big granite boulders to wrap a house around.

I'm with Taproot. I think it would be really helpful

thanks for the info guys

I just used the iBeam tool for the first time today. (don't use much steel around here). And I was wondering, how hard wood it be to turn it into a 3D object instead of just a 2D? Actualy it could also included the standard fixing methods. So fixing plates could be added to the ends. It would be nice to use them in models.

I can never remember my dreams. But I'll remember this post.

if you make your big roofs using a combination of different roof objects, then once they are in the right location you can ungroup them to convert them into individual roof faces. Delete the roof faces you don't need, and double click on the remaining to change there shape so that they meet were there supposed to. Big pain in the neck but it should work. until some thing better comes along.

agreed it would save a lot of time

there's a great tool in AutoCad, but I can't remember what it's called (I think it's an add on with express tools). When you are editing a viewport it allows you to turn off a class's (layer in AutoCad) visibility within that viewport just by clicking on an object of that class within the viewport. Meaning if you can't remember what class some thing is you don't have to return to it's original layer to find out.

similar thing has happened to me in the past

Every one seems to be giving examples of why one might want to use a door with no jamb. But I think the point is that a computer programe should never be able to dictate what designer wants to do. There are millions of designers out there in a multitude of differing fields, so there is just no way that any of us (nemetschek included) can possibly begin to guess at how every one might want to use this programe, or the tools that it provides. There for I think it's Nemetschek responsibility to provide an application with the absolute minimum of these little bugs that could either dictate design to us, or make it difficult to produce that which we can imagine. That's my pennies worth...

I like Mike M's suggestion. If I'm not using the processor, then VW is welcome to it!

This is some thing I've forgotten to mention before, but came up today when my forman wanted to know which way all of the windows are oppening. Now of course most people would asume they all open out, but I'm working in Thailand and even the seemingly obvious needs to explained. In Thailand this is a standard in drawings (I'm not sure about other countries) It would be increadibly helpfull if it could be included.

I'd like to see you run through the streets sceaming. Don't you think you'd be more likely to be lying down and gurgling?

could we please have 2D door open on the cabinet plug ins. Also it would be nice if we could have a tool to create an oppening in the top for a sink, as there is already on the counter top plug in. I know we can just use the counter top tool, but then there is no hole in the top of the cabinet so you can see wood of the cabinet coming into the bottom of the sink.

Sorry It did work exactly as I described it above. And I still have the object I made in a drawing. However I can't replicate the drawings. I don't know what I did to make it work the first time. Just one of those odd things.

I have the same problem with windows and doors. Also when they are inside a symbol the set jamb thickness to wall thickness command doesn't work. I agree with C. would be nice if the symbols could figure it out.

I just found an interesting trick, in case I'm not the last to know about it, I thought I'd write a description. if you draw a square and extrude it you get an extruded square. Obviously. But if you draw a smaller square inside it and then extrude them together you get a hollow extrude. You don't have to draw the two squares then use the 'trim' command and then extrude the resulting polyline. this save one job in the task, and means the cut out shape is still easily modifyable. Brilliant.