MGuilfoile

Yes, I get what you are saying. That makes sense.

Bumping this question.

I may be doing something wrong, but I'm having a problem with lights. Sometimes I don't want shadows cast from all of the lights in a scene. It can look "busy," as they say. So for a while now I've just been clicking the shadows off either in the Visualization palette or in the OIP. I noticed, however, that the shadows stop, but the light continues through the object as if it were not there. Does that make sense? In other words, Vectorworks seems to turn the shadows off by "telling" the light that there is nothing in the scene. Oddly enough, objects in the path of such a light will be illuminated properly, but so will objects behind--as if they were not there. I realize what I want is somewhat of a non-real world thing, but sometimes the accumulation of all the lights pointing in the same direction will create super hot spots because, in the absence of shadows, the lights are layering on top of each other. Does that make sense? Thanks, MHBrown

Thank you, Tom. It's a little roundabout, but it worked great! This should be included in the OIP where the other text attributes are edited. Perhaps in VW2026. MH Brown

I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but how does one change the color of the text in a drawing label? I'm using VW 2025 in Windows 10 and I need to change the text from the default black to white because it is being placed on a black background. Ideally, I would like to change the color of the numerals and alphas independently. I'm stumped. Thanks in advance! MH Brown

Hi Tom, Yes that was it! Thank you! It had been a while since I modified my workspace, so I was a bit rusty. MHBrown

Thanks, Pat, but I'm referring to the Menu item named "Rotate," not the tool in the in the Toolbox. In the Menu: Modify / Rotate / Rotate. MHBrown

I recently "upgraded" to Vectorworks 2025 and my assigned hot keys did not migrate with the installation. Not a big deal, but now I can't seem to get it to work. Specifically, I want to set a hot key for the "Rotate" menu command under "Modify." When I go to the Workspace Editor, however, and select this menu item the hot key assign field is grayed out. Hmmm. I thought I remembered this was the procedure, but it has been a while since I had to rebuild my workspace (previous versions came through with no problem.) Can anyone explain how to set my Rotate command to Ctrl-Alt-1 (on Windows, of course)? If I can get this one to work, then I can just follow the same method for the others. Thanks for any help on this. I'm sure I'm just not remembering it correctly. MHBrown VW2025 with all the SPs installed Windows 10

Not sure what you are saying there, Matt. Bumping this because it is absurd that it has not been included in the past ten years or so. Anyone from VW care to chime in?

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To quote: "Yes. I don't know why you have such claimed difficulties..." If that is not boorish, I don't know what is. I'm leaving this forum and moving my questions to one on Facebook. Going forward, I'll just use this VW site for software information, etc. Don't bother replying, Jeff, I won't see it.

By the way, Auto Plane is greyed out in my workspace.

Thanks for the tip. No, I start with the 3D poly, but it seems like the 2D polys are actually 3D (when you fly around over them they are clearly 3D.) It seems intuitive that a 3D polygon would be the starting point when in a 3D view. When I try to draw a 2D rectangle from an isometric view, it does not draw on the X,Y plane. It draws it in a somewhat random tilt. If you look in plan view, they are crazy non-rectangular polygons. The shapes in the attached image should be aligned. If I extruded these there is no telling where they would go. I think we may be talking about a different thing. By the way, I can't get a 3D polygon to "push-pull." I know how to do it. It just does not work on 3D polys...for me. I don't use it much because it turns it into a generic solid and is no longer editable as an extrude. And, Jeff, I apologize if you think my difficulties are "claimed," implying they are not real. I don't know where you get off with such boorish comments, but I can assure you that I know what I'm doing when it comes to Vectorworks. Perhaps you are just smarter than me and I'm missing something obvious. Please point me to a tutorial where this is explained.

One of the things I do all the time in FormZ is draw shapes--rectangles, circles, etc.-- on the X,Y plane while in a 3D view, then extruding them in the Z direction while in the same 3D view3. This is very handy in situations when you can only see what you are doing while in a 3D view. I can draw a 2D shape on any 2D plane and extrude in the third dimension. Is there a way to do this in Vectorworks 2024? I have no problem drawing 3D rectangles, but I don't see a way to keep the angles at 90 degrees. It is out of character for a Vectorworks tool to be so free-form. It is also hard to type in the length of the sides that are not snapping to something. Lastly, once created, there is no way to extrude the 3D polygon you have created. The Extrude tool does not work (it should) and the Push-Pull tool only works sporadically (mostly not at all). To be honest, I don't see what the 3D polygon tool is for since "2D" polygons are already 3D. In short, what I want is to be able to draw a 3D rectangle (aka, a polygon with four sides and four 90-degree angles) with one of the rectangle tools without having to snap to anything. I want to do this while in a 3D view isographic or perspective. I then want to extrude it in the dimension in which it was not created. I hope that makes sense. I'm showing two images from a FormZ file to help explain what I'd like to do in Vectorworks. Is it possible? I have not been able to find a tutorial on this. Thanks MH Brown

I noticed that VW 2025 will be out soon and a press release described the new features that merit this major upgrade. I didn't, however, see an inclusion of a way to cancel the Publish command. As everyone knows, the only way to stop the Publish command at present is to Force Quit Vectorworks. That is never a good thing. If a "cancel Publish" is included, please let us know. That would be enough for me to upgrade. If there is no "cancel Publish" I will be very disappointed. Thank you,