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i have a sheet layer with a viewport that is referencing a design layer with a viewport on it. i have some sprinkler pipes that i want to appear dashed on the sheet layer. even though they appear that way when i look at the viewport on the design layer, they still show as solid line on the sheet layer. i have tried changing the class attributes, but that does not work. any other suggestions?

we just upgraded to SP2 and that appears to have corrected our problem. i did, however, have to delete one schedule (finishes) and create it anew with the custom selection criteria, but it appears to be stable.

here's some additional info. our version of 2008 was purchased after the issue of SP1, and we have not upgraded to SP2 yet. the schedule was created using the 'create report' menu. again, the only change to the worksheet, besides fonts and column widths, was to the search criteria to look at only one layer...

500 Club Registered: 08/02/00 Posts: 594 Loc: Newtown, PA Online hello, i have a 2008 file of a 2 story building. i have set up 2 door schedules, one for each floor. i have used the out of the box door schedule and modified the search criteria to only each floor: =DATABASE(((L='Mod-Floor-1') & (R IN ['Door']) & ('Door'.'OnSched'=TRUE))) what is happening is that when i close the schedule there are many blank row and the other rows are indicating all 2nd floor doors. when i reopen the schedule and recalculate, it appears fine. but when i close it again, it reverts to the corrupted reading. any thoughts anyone...? thanks and have a good holiday.

hello, i have a 2008 file of a 2 story building. i have set up 2 door schedules, one for each floor. i have used the out of the box door schedule and modified the search criteria to only each floor: =DATABASE(((L='Mod-Floor-1') & (R IN ['Door']) & ('Door'.'OnSched'=TRUE))) what is happening is that when i close the schedule there are many blank row and the other rows are indicating all 2nd floor doors. when i reopen the schedule and recalculate, it appears fine. but when i close it again, it reverts to the corrupted reading. any thoughts anyone...? thanks and have a good holiday.

thank you, robert. i will send it out today.

hi- looks like the id tool has issues in 2008. in the sheet layers it does not do anything. in the design layers it creates huge boxes around the numbers- seems to take on the nearest area polygon. in both cases the preferences dialog box is completely blank...

yes, we are on OS 10.5.1, VW 13.0.0

we have discovered a similar problem that effects files begun in 12.5 and continued in 2008. our callout key note boxes become quite long and the only way to shorten them is to manually drag each one. entering a different width dimension only makes them disappear, as well as the keynote text object. in a call to tech support last week, they mentioned that they are aware of the issue and will have a patch ready for download 'very soon'. we have not had any problems with creating new keynotes, but they will only work in design layers, not sheet layers (they disappear once you type and hit enter). very curious...

i was really hoping we would have some feedback here, Rich. I guess when we start figuring it out we can answer our own inquiry!

sometimes you have to take some artistic license. white wall in reality might look better with a slight texture (stucco) or color (cream, gray) rendered on the screen. or sometimes i do the complete opposite- red walls just to make it completely contrasting...

looks like you need to specify the width/thickness of the handrail...

try to set the glazing class to 'style-glazing-1' and use one of the glass textures available. it works pretty good, but you might have to play with it a bit. i think if the class setting are set to solid fill it works...

sounds like a accessory file is missing. try either deleting the preferences file and restarting VW. or try to reinstall the whole shebang.

since you have multiple levels, i suggest that you pick one of the stacks and use it for your model setup. any other areas that deviate from the stack, can be adjusted individually to comply with your design. you can do this by having another set of layers, or by adjusted the delta z for those areas in the object info pallette. hope this helps...

i suggest that many of these can be drawn as walls w/either solid fills, hatches or cavities. the classes will control the line weights for simple lines, but you can create wall types to graphically look like the other ones. the 'impassable road' and the railroad are a bit tricky- maybe you can create a script fo those...

you can not put a saved view onto a sheet layer. these are simply assemblies of layers/classes that are saved for your use. you would have to create the approprate sheet w/viewports and then save that view...

z is the level that you want the layer to be on. for example, the first floor is 0 (z=0'-0"), and the second floor is 9' above that (z=9'-0"), etc. delta z is the thickness of that layer. so the first floor should be 9' and the second floor 8' (if your ceiling height is 8'). what i find useful is to draw a section throught your house, by hand, and sketch out the height of all the levels. floors are not important in a model unless you will be doing interior views or cutting hot sections. have you reviewed the user's guide?

you should really check for the tutorials for this stuff- it will greatly help you out and you will quickly gain confidence. VW is very intuitive so just image that layers are the floors of you house and try to logically go from there.....

since sections & elevations are from the model layer link on the targey file, yes.

the approach i take is similar. what i do is setup a seperate file for all my as-built work. in this way i can always have the latest survey information for the existing structure that is separate from the new, i can model the existing cleanly, and control any demolition aspects quite effeciently. i also use stationary files for this work where i have modified vw's classes to clearly indicate whet is existing. for example, Door-Exst, Window-Exst, Wall-Exst. i like to be able to control the appearance of the existing stuff this way. i also modify the layer names such as Mod-Floor-1E. this file is also good as a stand alone for doing area calculations, facility management tasks, and issue for any consultants. then i creat a new file that will be where i draw all the proposed stuff. i simply wg ref the required layers from the referenced survey file into the propsed target file. i have found it to be the simplest way to organize existing and new drawings. i hope this helps...

you can delete the wg refs once the file is open. when you delete check the buttons for keeping the layers referenced in the target file. its the equivalent of binding.

you have a layer link but you might be linking layers that have no info on them. or the classes are not visible. you shouly play with the classes to see if that works. are you trying to layer link the WGRefs?

you need to manually upgrade all your older VW files with those symbols by opening each one in VW12, and saving it as... into your new VW12 folder. then you can add them as required into your resource browser while in VW12. It's not that efficient but it works.

you can use the eyedropper tool for each file. or, gather them up using the WG Reference tool and control all the classes through the target file. hope this helps...