[Slightly more than Drop Shadows Plan Drawing]

Two stacked viewports? 

• background is horizontal section viewport with open-gl rendering, no color 
• front regular top/plan viewport to get door openings and wall detail

[Hardware Catalogue/Record?]

Hi

Worksheets are powerful in VW. 

 

This should get you started

https://app-help.vectorworks.net/2021/eng/index.htm?#t=VW2021_Guide%2FRecordsSchedules%2FCreating_reports.htm&rhsearch=Creating reports&rhhlterm=Creating reports&rhsyns=

[Anyone else using vectorworks iMac Pro 8-Core 3.2GHz Xeon W (Late 2017) Space Grey with AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 ?]

Hi Jonathan 

We have two of them with Vega 64  3,0 ghz 10 and 3.2 ghz 8  and they work well for VW and TM. We bought later the iMac Mid2020 3,8 Ghz i7 AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 16 GB for roughly half the price of the iMac pro. I believe they are faster but in day to day work but I haven't done any systematic comparison. 

 

 

[assigning texture to newly created object]

Hi @Jayme McColgan

You can drag a texture from the resource browser onto the 3d polygon or use the rendering tab in the object info palette to assign textures. 

A more powerful way is to assign texture to classes and choose the right class for your object.

 

https://app-help.vectorworks.net/2021/eng/index.htm#t=VW2021_Guide%2FTextures%2FConcept_Applying_textures_by_class.htm&rhsearch=class textures&rhhlterm=class textures&rhsyns=

[Vectorworks to twinmotion sp3?]

@chaz I have seen the same with DTM from VW getting unselectable and untexturable, and reported it as a bug.  My workaround is to export as FBX

[roof face with incline in both directions (X and Y)?]

I couldn't  get it to work either. I guess the best option is to model it as solids like @line-weight suggest. If you need the solids to display proper in 2d view you could make them into AotuHybrid.

 

https://app-help.vectorworks.net/2021/eng/index.htm#t=VW2021_Guide%2FShapes3%2FCreating_auto_hybrid_objects.htm%23CSH_14

 

[roof face with incline in both directions (X and Y)?]

Hi @Mi&D

 

Yo can use the connect / combine tool to combine several roof faces and their shape is automatically adjusted 

[roof face with incline in both directions (X and Y)?]

Its the line that you draw when defining the roof that you should rotate not the roof itself

[roof face with incline in both directions (X and Y)?]

if you rotate the line that defines the slope you can get the roof to slope in both directions

You need to calculate to get the right angle

[Contour Lines Showing]

 Hi @rafaelmartins.95

 

If you deselect show 3D Contour in the DTM settings dialog it should dissapear, you might have to update the site model after changeing the settings. 

 

[Clip Cube settings]

Hi @Ride 

 

You can use saved views to move between  different clipcubes 

[Eggshell Paint Finish]

I remember a beautiful rendering by @DanJansenson but can't find it now. 

I grabbed a screenshot of the settings he posted 

[Drawing summary for checking]

https://app-help.vectorworks.net/2021/eng/index.htm?#t=VW2021_Guide%2FViews%2FViewing_the_drawing_by_data_or_by_attributes.htm&rhsearch=data visualizations&rhsyns=

[Drawing summary for checking]

@Ross McLee you should play with data visualization! It’s easy to set up and you turn your quality check on and off!

[Spaces and Data Visualization]

If you could post a file with an example then someone could probably help you (-:

[Create Image Prop Not Working]

I just tried to download your picture, and created a Image prop in a blank file. It worked at my end

Maybe its better to have the imagefile on the computer? (while you are creating the Imagprop ) Imageprop.vwx

[using a VW 2015 workspace in VW 2020]

@Cadplan Architecture I usually export my old workspace as a textfile, and use that as a guide when adjusting the new one 

[Wrapping a polygon along a path]

@Anttti 

https://blog.vectorworks.net/using-curves-as-tools-for-algorithms-aided-design

[Wrapping a polygon along a path]

Hi  @Anttti  

I am not sure but I think this marionette can do it. Its a bit over my current capabilities, but I would like to se examples of its usage. 

The marionette was uploaded by @sbarrett 

She is usually very helpful here on the forum 

 

 

 

[Worksheet Column of Part IDs? Is there a fill down function on some sort?]

A workaround?

• create excel file
• fill down
• import to VW
• Copy Paste

[Slab drainage - how to change slopes values.]

Im curious too, to see the best solution maybe @Matt Panzer can help?

[Stories and wall heights]

Hi 

We are using the Layer bound principles in all our models and it works quite well even when exporting tp IFC for collaboration. However when exporting to Revit few of the walls was exporting over. I haven't had time to try out if story bound walls export better but if exporting to Revit is important for you, you should make a simple model to test the difference 

 

@bmaad @Wes Gardner 

[Capping Parapet Wall?]

Yes

but you can control each plane of the wall

 

personally I make a extrude along path for the flashing 

[Capping Parapet Wall?]

Hi @girwin 

You can pick a wall end edit each part of it. Here i put Color.006 on the top of the wall

[EU standard Centerline Markers]

I see. I remember I tried something similar and ended up with naming them EB (top) and NB (bottom) to have it clear. Not standard compliant but works here (-: