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ahah yes 😀 I should switch to a 360° projector 😁

Ok, I will detach that too 🙂 in my three monitor cockpit I have on the left monitor: Resource browser and toolsets, center: the drawing alone, left (all detached): OIP, classes, layers, and now I will try to add views too

Yes, I was thinking exactly to the same idea yesterday mmh, I will try, it looks quite a click-rich path 🙂

I have found from the post that you have linked that this is an old story! I apologize for not having searched more in the forum. Well, so I add my point to the wishlist: any kind of layer structuring would be welcome

Thank you Tom, the post you link make me understand how much is difficult to make everybody happy. What is useful for me wouldn't for another. Yes I have considered saved view, sometimes the system works, it is not as "dynamic" as I would like since If I add or delete a layer I have then to update the views too, and for some reason after a while saved views haven't evolved together with the rest of the project. Maybe it is a lack in my workflow.

Hello to everybody, I have been searching for this topic in the forum, and surprisingly there is not a lot about it (at least for my serach capabilities). Would be useful if layer naming would behave as class naming (the dash make a hierarchical organization). Is there a reason why this is not possible? I have found many suggestions on how to achieve a similar result, tags, filters, but no one looks to me as simpe as just turning on an off a group of three or four layers linked together (i.e. 1ST_FLOOR- -SLABS -WALLS -HEATING -FURNITURE 2ND_FLOOR- -SLABS -WALLS -HEATING -FURNITURE ...) What I do now is to continiously click on the little eyes icons. Am I missing something in best practices to organize layers and buildings? How do you manage them? Thank you, I hope this is the right forum section to ask it

so do you suggest to model each component as one slice of solid? plaster, insulation, bricks, plaster, ... and eventually cutting them one by one for windows and doors? or is there a better way of doing it?

Thise could be a way, I actually have a very accurate dwg survey that I may simply extrude as is. Than I could model, as I am actuallt doing, a bim/parametric moodel for practical use, extract interior views, calculate components quantities. Bytheway, in dreinage tool, the thickness of various components is managed flagging the desired ones as tapered to follow the slope or straight to be parallel to it. For now it would be enough for me to have this possibility just in plan view.

Thank you Zoomer and Kevin for your comments, Yes, I mean walls that start at a certain thicknes and finish at a different one (sorry for my weak english). Here in Italy we work a lot on old building renovations, I would like to work on them in 3D/BIM as I would do with a new construction. So I would like to make a 3D model with a certain level of accuracy, let's say up to a 1:50 scale (I would probably draw more detailed features as old school 1:20/1:1 2D drawings, but potentially I could do them in 3d too). The best would be to be able to manage components as happens with standard walls. Actually Vectorworks is able to manage variations in the thicknes of them yet, it does in slabs with drainage tool. To clarify what I mean I attahch an example, below you see the survey dwg and on it, in solid gray, the walls drawn in Vectorworks. In other cases I have been modeling those walls just extruding but this is a larger project and I would avoid this solution since I need then to extract quantities. How could I solve in your opinion? you made me come up with the idea of making wall recess shaped as the part of wall that I need cut, what do you think? I don't know bricscad, maybe archicad does something similar? Anyway, now switching software is a difficult option.

The ability to create non parallel walls would be vital to work on existing buildings and in renovation project! I have been looking for this function for years and I am quite suprised that it is not in the roadmap yet, I haven't found neither in the features request forum, does it look so important to me only? what do you think? regards, Davide

I really would like to detach my custom keyboard shortcut to be saved separately than the workspace configuration. I continue hitting the wrong keyboard shortcuts when I change workspace. I would like kb shortcuts to be saved in general preferences or at least in document preferences.

Hi to all, I use a file with a list of standard classes to be used to be imported i my files but it is so difficult to browse a long list of classes without a search field to filter them. (Something similar to the one provided in the organization palett to filter layer and class names). Would be great to have it. Thank you

Thank you Pat! I suspected it should be someting like this! Does the "round()" command works only to referring to another column? I wrote "ROUND(G8)", how can I hide the "wrong" one? Or round the needed column, just cutting decimal position in number format doesn't work. And a side question also, just to chat on a friday evening in office, Is somewhere a reference manual showing all functions, command and all these interesting things about worksheets? The online help doesn't look to be as comprehensive. Thank you again, Davide

Hello to all and thank you for your help, I am doing a work sheet to count pieces in a wooden structure. I would make a list o pieces summarized by lenght, so that the woodworker will now how many pieces of a certain size to cut. I don't understand why certain pieces are patially summarized even they look to have the same lenght and other data too. Anyone can help me? This doesn't happens on all pieces. I attach a screenshot, the two pieces in the highlighted lines look to be the same et they should be summirized, why they are not in your opinion? Thank you in advance! Davide