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That's what we do and do not know any other way.
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I thought I had cracked it using window walls but the discover it never splits the panels equally and there is no choice of head configuration.
I think you have to take the width of the mullion of the width before spacing the mullins.
Just had to mask the head out and draw the inclined head overpanel in the annotations - ok for elevations but awful in 3d.
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Trying to show a fixed glass panel and the best way I have found is having a fixed glass with muntins acting as the frame. If you have custom sash then you can not avoid having double frames.
Anyway can you get muntins to show in plan and can you increase the gass thickiness to say show double glazed 24mm thick units?
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Just had a posting here in the RIBA UK web site which I thought someone at NNA would like to follow up, especially as VW is not mentioned:
I am organising a workshop in Los Angeles in Sept/Oct 2009 on the intergration of survey and documentation for historic buildings (now mostly through laser scanned data from Cyclone and Cloudworks software via CAD) with Building Information Management (BIM) eg Revit, Bentley Triforma, CATIA and Googlesketchup.
Any recommendations for good lecturers and/or demonstrators in this field?
John Fidler RIBA
Staff Consultant Preservation Technology
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc
1055 West 7th Street, Suite 2500
Los Angeles, CA 90017. USA
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My basics:
Always have different roofs in different layers, even porches, this gives flexibility for changing roof heights / levels, etc.
Even roofs at the same level should have different layers.
I find the offset from layer level or bearing height not very accurate.
Large or complex roofs shouls be broken down into different shapes if the too complex thing comes up.
if too complex comes up, before giving up, try forming pitches, slopes, hops, gables, etc in a different sequence. This usually makes the roof not complex and work even though its the same roof.
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The odd thing about slab layers is that the dimension is to underside of slab and not top of slab which is the standard way of dimensioning FFL's.
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Still no response from NNA on this.
They must be as confused as us!
So I will ask the questions again:
In 'about vectorworks' should it not say SP2 R3 if you are fully up to date?
If not why not?
Does the current SP2 contain R1, 2 and 3 but it just does not say this?
If you check for updates and it says you are fully up to date and no further updates available then does that answer our questions and SP 2 contained R1, R2 and R3?
But it also says build 83388 - what does that mean?
Sorry to keep pestering on this, but whilst its good having updates / corrections to iron out the bugs, it has to be clear what update you have.
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It would be nice to have a further response from NNA on this?
Has our SP2 got R3 or not?
If so why does it not say SP2 R3 or whatever?
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SP2 build 83388
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We have just downloaded SP2 on one pc to try out. We click on updates and it says that the programme is fully up to date - does that mean SP2 includes all the revisions 1, 2 and 3?
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Wes
Thanks for that - so simple and we have been struggling for months to work it out, using our own drawn sections lines in vps, etc to show it.
Pity it is not in the manual.
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We used this font on a competition presentation and it did not print because it made the file sizes huge.
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Good to hear from you Christiaan - I thought you had gone away - a trip to NZ or something!
About time you changed to pc!!
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But then the section line can not be seen and instances do not work in vps.
What is the point of section lines instances if you can not locate your section lines in the final drawing?
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Yes we have now done this but the section lines only show on the design layers. We set the section line up on the ground floor layer plan not the vp ground floor plan [i believe this is correct to set sections up in design layers and not vps]. We have check that the class the section lines are turned on and turned on in the vp but they do not show in the vp? As the vp is the page printed it would be could to see them on the vp.
Are we doing something wrong or do section lines do not show in vps?
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I am sure NNA considered me a bit of a pest, but for us this was a major problem, and it was resolved working with NNA over several months. They certainly put the time in to identify and resolve it.
Hopefully, in future, upgrades will over right or delete old versions completly and the OIP can be corrected to not cause the flicker.
To have the OIP fully open all the time is a pain as it takes up at least a third of your screen!
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This has been good got all my text centred and sections lines shoen on each layer.........but the section lines do not show in the vps!?
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The flicker was kind of resolved by removing older versions of VW which updating versions of VW did not delete or overirde.
Also the object info pallette has to kept fully open.
Do not think flicker was a card related problem.
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No, this is not a good idea. Normally our layer scales are the same scale as our vps to enable to simply work with the page layout.
The programme needs to have maximum flexibility for users using it differently.
I would suggest that the majority of users do not use vps.
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Not installed SP2 yet.
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If it was SP2 then we have not got it as we stuck to SP1 as at the time there was loads of problems with SP 2 registered here that we thought it best to let the dust settle.
Perhaps the dust has now settled, evryone is happy with SP2, and its time we upgraded.
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Seems the shift key also sends walls off by 1 degree, which we have only just noticed and they are building the house?!!
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Check for updates is not on our VW 2008??
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Goooooooooosh!
Come back after a day and a hugh thread - and all good stuff, which at the mo I do not understand but I am gratful for the input and will give it a go. It will take at least a day to play around with it and try it out and set it up as our office template.
But I suppose that's my point to the average user this sounds so complicated and not user friendly that it is not used. I do not know the first thing about scripts and I feel I would have to be a CAD programmer to really do it. The VW help section on worksheets and schedules is poor and so minimal.
NNA are pushing BIM but if its hard to understand and use then it will not be used and fail. NNA should backing up the push for BIM with workable templates and not just US based but other countries as well.
Look at Excel, there are hundreds of templates easily available and easy to adapt.
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The good movies that NNA had on there web site seem to have gone or are harder to find. Particularly looking for one on fly throughs, walk throughs or some other of the 3D movie tools architect has and how to use them.