Peter Neufeld.

Hi Ian, It's hard coded. I agree with you and I made an enhancement request some time ago but it's obviously harder to do than one might think. Your post should really be in the Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests forum. Cheers, Peter

Hello, What version of Vectorworks? Out of interest, are you publishing multiple sheets at once? What happens if you do one at a time (File>Export>Export to PDF). Also what happens if you process using the Vectorworks Cloud Services? Cheers, Peter

Hello, The Find and Modify is only available for Spotlight users or Design Suite. However everyone including those with Fundamentals have access to the Tools>Batch Rename command. It can rename almost anything. If you need to rename more than several items then this is the best ever command. @Dick Jenkins Do you meant that you have opened the Tools>Organisation dialogue and that is where you are changing the names, or trying to? It seems to be fine for me. Cheers, Peter

Hello, It's done by class. In the OIP click the 'Use Standard Classes' and the lighting bar will then be in the 'Rigging-Pipes-Pipe' class. Edit the class and check 'Use at Creation' to force the class attributes to the objects. Cheers, Peter

Hello, Select the Revit Entity Modify>Convert to 3D polys Ungroup You can then use this as the source data for the DTM. Cheers, Peter

Hello, It's because it's an Auto Hybrid (AH). I wouldn't be using an AH for this. You'll need to go to a 3D view (in order to retain the model) and Modify>Convert to Group. This will give you all the snaps back including the centre of each circle when it's purely 3D. What you could then do to get the 2D and is much more efficient than an AH would be to Modify>Create Symbol. This creates a 3D only symbol of course. All you then do is to edit the 2D part - even though there isn't anything there. Right click and choose 'Generate 2D from 3D Component: Choose 'Hidden Line" and there you have it. You won't get the centre snaps for the circles but you'll get the 4 quadrant midpoints of each circle and you should be able to annotate using those. Cheers, Peter

Hello, Any command or tool can be assigned a keyboard shortcut via the Workspace Editor. Like Mark's mention of the "Hide Enabled Palettes" command sometimes when working I really like the Window>Palette Options>Autohide Docked Palettes. This allows them (assuming they're docked of course) to disappear like the Hide Enabled... but if you move the mouse to the left or right of the window they slide back in. Also try the View Bar settings to Auto Hide as well. See at the beginning of the 16 sec movie. Auto hide view bar and palettes.mp4 However probably the cleanest is to create a Views>Multiple View Panes and just create a separate floating pane. That way you can have it floating and clean in one place eg a second monitor and still have usual access to the program and palettes etc on another. Cheers, Peter

Ah yes that makes perfect sense. Thank you @rDesign! Cheers, Peter

Hello, Good observation. You are right in that a symbol has a square bounding box of the entire area of the geometry making up the symbol. As you note, once a symbol has been converted to a plug in object such as when using the Instrument Insertion tool to convert one to a Lighting Device then the bounding box becomes the actual edge of the geometry. Mind you, I'm not sure why this bounding box isn't tighter at the bottom of the lighting symbol on the right... That aside, for a symbol it makes sense that it is the collective area because the Symbol Insertion tool allows users to over ride the insertion point and that has to be the aggregate of the all the 2D geometry. Hence why there is a square bounding box for symbols is my guess. Cheers, Peter

Hello, I thought someone might like this Data Tag. It dynamically reports the Total Hung Weight (including the rigging) of anything on a Hanging Position. It has to include the rigging weight, sorry. You don't need Braceworks for this to work and it only works on Hanging Position objects. Hanging positions and weight v2025.vwx Cheers, Peter

Hi Kevin, It's a major Australian and New Zealand nursery and is available in Help>Partner Products but it wouldn't be much use for the USA. Users can get a free trial membership for 6 months and then a small fee to remain connected to Evergreen Connect. My colleague @Ben Beaumont was the driving force and designer of this great new partnership feature. Cheers, Peter

Hello, Strange that your images didn't come through. I think you are the person who contracted support separately and we ascertained that the IT set up didn't allow automatic modification to your workspace so we fixed it up manually. (If you're not that same person please contact us directly). For other Australia and New Zealand users who might be interested this 2 minute video explains this fantastic new feature for our users: https://university.vectorworks.net/mod/overview/view.php?id=7913 Cheers, Peter

Hello, Currently there is no universal setting to change all plant styles at once in a file, but I believe there might be coming up. In the meantime import the script in the enclosed Vectorworks file (you can import the palette that contains it) and once in a document it will allow you to edit individual plant parameters of every plant at once in a file. Cheers, Peter Change Plant Style Settings script v2025.vwx

Hello, Thank you for drawing this to our attention. That's a 🐛! VB-211346 Creating a Landscape Area is certain situations changes the default attributes of a file. Cheers, Peter

Hello, What happens if you move the reference files somewhere else so the file can't find them? Assuming of course that the reference cache is saved to disk that is. That will force you to find the broken reference and if you say no, it should open anyway without having to go through the update, as that seems to be the hold up? Also are you able to open those reference file(s) by themselves? Cheers, Peter