J. Johnson

I have an HP 9650 which has worked well for me for 1.5 yrs. Only problem is the ink cartridges are small and expensive. -Jake

Another option is to use the custom selection tool. I've had the same problem, and found that I had inadvetently attached a door/window record to a wall or a tag. The schedule was listing the record from the wall as a door. Check items near the id #. Good luck! -Jake

On a mac, open apple- k does this- converts a wall to a group of lines. I just tried this as an experiment, and it didn't give me a warning. I use command j quite a bit to join walls, and occasionally accidentally hit k. It's pretty obvious when it happens, but may not be to someone who is new to the program...

Thanks folks- I'm now working in a clean file. Now I just need to recreate all my saved views and viewports. I couldn't find the ghost object. I tried all the tricks I know. I even tried custom selections of various types. I couldn't find a thing. I've been using this program 10 years, and still learning new stuff every day. Thanks for your help- Jake

Thanks for the replies- David, my file is also getting funky with the layer scales. What did you end up doing with your file? Islandmon- Thanks for the tips. I've purged several times now, to no avail. I've WGRed it into a new file, and that file is working fine in planview. Just for fun, I set my first floor layer as the only active layer and went through class by class with other classes greyed. I found that as I made certain classes active, it would throw the layer into ortho projection and ask if I want to render or go to wireframe. When the dialog box comes up, I can see that something is selected in an area where there should be nothing. If I let it render (and my classes are set to "grey others") it will start, then show the message in the upper right hand corner "nothing to render." Now, if my classes are set to "show, snap, modify others," it will cycle through a bunch of renders (build list, render; build list, render;...etc.) that take a short while for each one, but overall takes several minutes. So, in an effort to get everything into a clean file, I started a new file and started copy & pasting things this morning. I have all my design layers copied, and the file opens fine. Here's the problem: I can't copy and paste my viewports. I could recreate them and copy/ paste all the annotations in them, but that would take quite a while. Any suggestions? Thanks again- Jake

Thanks Kristen, but that was the first thing I checked. All other layers are off. I'm wondering if it could be a symbol or some 3d object that came in with some kitchen equipment I recently pasted in from our kitchen consultant... has this ever happened to anyone? -Jake

A file I have been working on for quite a while has recently started asking if I want to render or go to wireframe whenever I open the file. This shouldn't be happening since I save it in plan projection every night when I close it. I've been hitting wireframe and working on the file like usual for the past few days. Today I hit render just to see what it was trying to render, and it just kept building list, rendering, building list, rendering, ....etc. I tried it on a different machine and it did the same thing. My other files aren't behaving this way. Is there something minorly corrupted in this file (since I can still open and work and save this file)? Is there a way to rebuild the file and make it stop wanting to render every time I open it? Thanks- Jake G5 Dual 2.0/2GB RAM/OS 10.4.2/ VW 11.5.1 w/Architect&Renderworks

I'm encountering similar problems as Ed has described in this older post. When I change from show/snap/modify all classes to active only, the scale of the layer I'm working in automatically changes to 1:1. It also asks if I want to re-render, even though I'm working in plan. Ed, did you ever get your question answered, or does anyone have any ideas on what is going on here? I'm on VW 11.5.1 Architect/Renderworks w/a dual G5 2.0 w/OS 10.4.2 Thanks- Jake

I use an Apple 23" and find it to be just right. We have a 30" apple screen in our office that we ended up giving to our new hire to use because it looked TOO big for the rest of us. Granted, I haven't worked on it much myself, but that thing even looks big from across the room.

Instead of using a 0, use a space. That works for me. Good luck.

I have been having the same problem as Patrick when cutting 3D sections. The triangulation of flat walls with windows and openings beyond the section cut makes cleaning up the sections quite labor intensive. I have also played with the smoothing angle settings under "line render options" to no avail. Does anyone have any tips on how to create a section showing what is beyond the cut without the triangulation in the walls?

Does anyone know how to set the default wall break for window PIO insertion to "Full break with caps"? I'm getting tired of changing every one, and my engineer is getting testy when I export files with no caps on the openings... Thanks- Jake

I use the roof face tool. I've found it gives me a lot more control over the shape of the roof- especially with different wall heights. I've tried using the create roof tool, but have had the same problem you're describing, even on some relatively simple projects. -Jake

Just for reference, you can use a space in place of the leading zero for the same effect.... -Jake

Seena- I've found other objects (walls, rectangles, etc.) with door records attached to them that show up in my schedules. I think this happened when I used the eyedropper tool a little haphazardly. You may want to check the wall that the door was in and see if it has a door record... good luck- Jake

I used a 15" PB for about a year and a half as a drafting machine, and found it to be adequate for drafting CDs for a single family residence. But now that I'm working on a 23" cinema display, I would probably choose the 17" over the 15".

I agree with Travis- it's not the cleanest way, but using an a or b suffix, or a decimal point will keep your schedules from getting wacky. I'd certianly prefer to have the ID's increase on their own...

Does anyone know of a way to make the grey for greyed layers darker? For example, if I want to show the floor plan greyed under the roof plan, it looks great on screen, but when I plot it out on vellum, it is too light to show up in a blueprint. Any quick fix for this? (I want to get this set out today.. ) Thanks in advance- Jake VW111.5 OSX 10.3.8 DUAL 2.0 G5 2G RAM

Thanks Kevin- I'm probably going to have to do that. I was hoping that there would be a quick way to do this, but that will have to do.

BTW my system is OSX 10.3.7, VW 11.0.1 G5 Dual 2.0ghz 2gb ram -Jake

I'm running into this same problem. I have a door schedule and window schedule that both have phantom objects showing up. I have a door on the schedule with the id 70 like it should be, then another row with 70 in it and no data in the fields. Like Seena (I think), I've tried custom selections for objects with the id 70 and the program crashes. Anybody have a solution for the schedule problem or the custom selection problem? Thanks- Jake

I've had luck using spaces instead of zeros in front of single digit numbers. I insert the spaces in the ID space of the door or window record in the data field with the door or window selected. Not the id tag. I hope that helps. Jake