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Hello everyone, With the advent of graphic legends, I was just wondering how everyone find the best way to coordinate between showing object data, and notes databases. The practise I work at for example uses classes for individual paving types, furniture elements etc. If I were to create a plan, I would use a graphic legend say to show hardscape types, and if it were early stages I would simply use the class description as a base just to have products, suppliers, bond, colour all in one place, and show that on my graphic legend. If I were to detail that, I would use a notes database to callout elements in sections etc (where I'm at uses an almost entirely 2d workflow, it's a 90s nightmare and I am trying to drag us into more 3D as standard, or at least smart objects). My problem is, if one thing changes, I have to change the class/object information, records, tags, then separately change the notes database. What would be a method whereby I could use a single source of data across all information on objects? Would it require setting up a full set of records for every object then having data tags and worksheets to suit? What are some other ways to stay coordinated that people are using? Thanks!

I've copied the stakes to a clean file which seems to work, this is a fantastic tool and has saved an awful lot of time thanks matt!

I'm having an issue here where although I have stake objects selected, I'm still getting the error message of no stake objects selected. Any thoughts on why this might be happening? I am in 2023, so perhaps the naming of stakes has changed?

Thanks Jeff I'll take a look!

Hello all, I've inherited a typo survey from an old job, that is just 2d text boxes and 2d loci. Is there an efficient way I can turn these to 3d loci? I have seen this question asked a couple of times previously, but I can't find the thread for some script i used to solve this at the time. I was wondering if there is a known solution or script floating around for such a task? Thanks!

Thanks Tom for the speedy reply that's very helpful!

It would be great to see if there was ever an answer to this!

I am a landscape architect, so use hardscape objects on a daily basis, however beyond the single Vectorworks page on hardscape profiles, I cannot find any material covering what they are, how to use them, or when they would ever be necessary. Many thanks!

When Rendering in open GL, or render-works settings for Sheet Layers, I am left with a feathered, jagged edge to models or line work. Is this the result of a render setting I am overlooking, or just a byproduct of how Vectorworks renders into raster images. You can see it faintly around the objects in the attached image. This is with a greyed out layer beneath, however the white featuring appears around the coloured objects even when exported with nothing underneath (i.e they don't show up until placed as a png or PDF on a non-white background.) Thanks!

Lofting Surface Issue.vwx

Hi everyone, Im fairly new to 3D Vectorworks, and have been trying to make a custom wall shape using the Loft command. The wall has to vary in height to a few specific levels, but between that an interpolated curve just so its smooth is fine. The process I've been trying to use is to create a couple of profile sections and loft them along the wall curve. I'll attach the Vectorworks file and an image of something similar I've been working on. It's basically a Curved wall that smoothly transitions in heights. Any help would be greatly appreciated as to where I'm going wrong, or a better way to go about it. Thanks!