Seena Hassouna

Wouldn't one workarond be to just put a window of the appropriate size right next to your door? Maybe that's lame but it might work. If this is a bad idea, please let me know. Thanks, seena

Does anyone use Artlantis to Render with? Is it better than Renderworks? More intuitive? Thanks, Seena

Funny how short "ages" are these days. I'm still on 10.2.8 Might buy tiger soon. My question is, which animal will 10.5 be??? Cheers, Seena

I seem to have an ocassional problem with my option and shift key. I will be unable to use option to copy or do a multiple selection. The shift key will at times not work to draw ortho lines or make multiple selection! THe fix seems to be a quit and restart of VWA 11.5. Does anyone else have this problem??? Thanks, Seena

Hi Travis, Wow, thanks a lot that's a great bit of knowledge. Seena

Yes I guess I did. I didn't mean to but it's good to know that there is a market for VWA types out there. Seena

LOL, Yes Delmer! I have some ACAD guys next door to me. They usually don't like to hear what VW can do. As fro what happened. I have an interview with HDR in Pasadena. I have a couple of ADT and ACAD books to try and read through. A friend also said she'd lend me a PC to practice on. We'll see I guess. Anyone else have any thoughts? thanks, seena

Hello all, this is not a specific "Architect " question but it concerns architecture. I may be moving to CA to work in a large firm, 4,000 people, that uses AutoCad-ADT3.3. In 2 and 3-D modes. For those of you that are current or former ADT users, do you have any tips for making the switch? thanks, Seena p.s. I guess I could try to get THEM to switch but that might be a bit tough

This question regards the use of live elevations. I a recently completed project I make viewports on sheetlayers that showed the elevations. I then added notes, elevation markers, building outline, groundplane lines, and some hatches for texture in the annotation layer of the viewport. Ifound several drawbacks to this method. Is it better to make modelviews on designlayers and do all the mark up etc there. Should the annotation layer only be used for drawing labels? Thanks, Seena

I thank you all for your input. I think I should rephrase the question mfor my clarity and maybe others. Does anyone use the MODEL VIEW tool on the tool palette to make model views in design layers? If so, do you make viewports of those views to add to sheet layers? Are there cons to that approach. I have not tried doing this and would like to know if it is a good idea? Thanks again for all your help and If I'm misunderstanding your answers. Seena

Thank you gentlemen, that was the issue. Seena

Does anyone else have trouble with extra windows and doors in their schedules? I have a small barn model I'm building. I brought in a door from another project to copy the attributes to the new doors in this project. I used the door and deleted it. Now, when I make a door sched. I find the 2 doors I want with all their info; size, material etc. Then there seems to be one door or tag somewhere with no info that is screwing up the colomns in the schedule. If I summarize, the colomns get dashes insted of info. I ran cust selection2 looking for all the doors with a similar tag etc. any suggestions?? Thanks, Seena

Travis, Thanks for responding Do you do elevations using the first or second method I described? The draw backs I found with the first are as follows. 1) Putting notes on the sheet layer seems to screw up the updating between the notes and the notes column 2) the text going nuts from time to time. 3) When drawing in annotations layer the elevation will ocasinally disapear until I exit a group or zoom out. 4) that file recently became corruppt and when I did a recovery through workgroup layers importation, I lost alll theinfo that was stored in the annotations layers of viewports. I also lost the viewports themselves. Thanks seena

Yes, This is actually a file that started in VW 9. I'll try that. Were you able to copy and paste the info from the old viewport? Thanks, Seena

I just upgraded to VWA11.5. I'm on a MAC using OS10.2.8 I've tried to move some viewports with elevations in them ( some live and some 2-D. When I do this, the text in the annotation layer goes nuts. It goes to 100+ font size and the entire drawing is obscured. The only fixI have so far is to go into annotation, select all and change the text to a different size. This only works til I need to move the viewport again. Has anyone else had this problem

HI AGAIN ROBERT, Well, the preference file delete didn't work but someone sent me another workaround. I used the workgroup refs to import into a new file. It seem sot have worked except my sheet layers were lost. I'll try to piece that together. Thanks. Seena

Hi Robert, Well, I've been working on this file for several months without trouble. I opened it yesterday and began to draw in a viewport annotation layer. Just a few 2D lines. All of a sudden, a dialog box came up and said something like "This file contains a corrupt object. It cannot be saved". I tried to reopen it and its backup. The files opend and said "This file is corrupt. VW will open as much as it can." Then VW crashed. I'm using OSX10.2.8. I don't know if it's the fault of 11.5 or some latent issue that just cropped up. Thanks for any help. Seena

I just installed the 11.5 update. Now one of my projects has becmoe corrupt and the app. is crashing a lot. Is there anyway to fix a corrupt file???????? thanks, Seena

So I made some classes for different types of notes. 1st flr. plan 2nd flr plan. etc. as was suggested by some of you. I seem to fine that my callouts lose the arrow at the end. Whe I check this in the PIO window, it says "solid arrow". I try to change it to another tyoe to refresh but nothing comes up. It's just a line with no marker at the end. Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks, Seena

Thanks Travis, Wow, that was a major discussion. Thanks for the link. Do you ever have trouble exporting the lineweights with the PDF? Thanks, Seena

I'm working on a graphic design project. It's a 2-D section of a house. I'd like to make one color version. Ideally I'd like to use Pantone colors to make sure the color prints correctly. Is it possible to import or does VWA11 already have the pantone libraries in it? Thanks, Seena PS. I do have illustrator 10 if anyone knows of a way to export the pantone libs. from there?

I'm having trouble printing 24x36 ARCH D pages to an HP Designjet 800 plotter. I've gone into page setup and set the page to ARCH D. Then I went into Page>Set print area and set the page to ARCH D. My screen shows a gray 24x36 rect with a slightly smaller white rect (this one has a gray border that looks a bit like an un-updated viewport) When I have a sheet set up, I keep everything in the smaller bounding box with a generous empty border. I still get the last 1/4" or so of my title block cut off. I usually just move it all over and reprint. This is both annoying and costly. Please help. Thanks, Seena

IT'S funny to hear someone say that going from Mac to Windows is an upgrade! I would agree with the Autocad to VW part. do you find that VW runs better on PC's? thanks, Seena

SILLY QUESTION I'M SURE, Is the nonplot class generated by the creat viewports actually not going to plot or do I need to turn it off. Thanks, seena

I keep crashing whenever I try complex searches with custom selection or custom selection2. Help! I'm trying to find things like doors and windows that are floating somewhere and showing up on my schedules. Thanks, Seena