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@PatStanford Right now we have 3 "Favorites" files that we keep in a shared OneDrive folder that hold all of our custom symbols, styles, etc and we each have it added to our Resource Manager Favorites. I haven't gotten around to figuring out how a workgroup file works or how to set it up but I know theres a more efficient way for us to do this? Since I just created this custom shutter and I have the file saved in MY user folder, I would have to have him save a copy of the file in HIS user folder for him to be able to use it? Thinking about this, I can see the way we're doing things is going to lead to problems in the future, we're using VW pretty much daily now and I would like to get things setup the right way. Is there anybody I can talk to or can you possibly help explain how we can set up our workgroup folders or whatever it is we need to do?
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@Pat Stanford That worked. I duplicated one of the VW shutters, edited it, and saved it in a new blank file in the Custom Shutters location. Thanks
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@MattWhite Yes for sure, we put a horizontal eave on all the roof faces and build our own fascia and soffits out of solids and snap them to the edge of the roof face cave man style.
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Changing wall height in design layer causes crash
KWiley replied to Dick Jenkins's topic in Architecture
I've found 3 issues with walls since converting to 2025. 1. When I change the "interior side" of a door it will flip the door but it blows my wall up. This happens every time. Ive submitted a bug report and attached a file but havent heard back (Case # 003547072) 2. When I use component join joining my brick to my framing, it blows up the where the walls join. This only happens sometimes 3. If I start an Int wall from the inside of an Ext wall it blows up my Ext wall, but if i end at the Ext wall its fine. This only happens sometimes. Have yall had any of these issues also? -
To answer my own question, I edited one of the VW shutters I would never use just to see and that worked just fine.
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I normally drag and drop my own shutters in because there's not very many options of VW shutters. I would like to be able to use the shutters in the actual window to make things a little faster by turning them on or off with just a click. I tried duplicating a VW shutter and editing the solid but when I go to window settings to select the shutter its not there. How do I get it to show up in the window settings? I guess I could try editing one of the shutters instead of duplicating it first but I try to leave the VW default symbols alone.
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@E|FA Thats not very encouraging. I voted on both, I wish they would fix this, its so frustrating
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For the entire past yr every time me and my partner open VW we have to set our pallette positions, I thought this would finally be fixed in 2025 but its not, even when I go to Window<Save Pallette Positions it moves the Pallettes, when I close and open they're all messed up again. We're both using windows, 2 different machines and 2 different workspaces. Anybody else having this problem? It's very annoying and makes the software feel cheap as soon as you open it every day.
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Fit Walls To Objects, More selection options
KWiley replied to rudybeuc@gmail.com's question in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests
Just tried it and all components are still moving. Any other settings to check? -
Fit Walls To Objects, More selection options
KWiley replied to rudybeuc@gmail.com's question in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests
I wish you could choose the component of a wall when fitting walls to a roof. It would be nice if the framing would stay at the set plate height. Def need more options all around. -
Vectorworks has told me that they are aware of limitations and are planning to reengineer the roof tools sometime in the future. Some of the issues we have as of now is 1. When drawing a roof slope with a bell and a square eave cut, VW seems to join the bottom of the roof instead of the top so it's a major pain to try to get corners to match up and does not work with the connect/combine tool. I think the angle change of the miter after the bell is what it can't figure out. 2. When 2 slopes with different pitches meet in a corner, there's no way to control the fascia angle or "eave cut". 3. VW measures the eave overhang to the bottom of the roof instead of the top. For example, if you want a 16" overhang using a 12/12 slope with a 5.5" rafter, it actually comes out to 12.111" since its measuring to the bottom. This causes us to have to adjust the overhang on every single roof face every single time. 4. Dutch Hip roofs are very limiting when using the create roof tool. Dutch Hips could easily be done with Roof Faces if #1 wasn't an issue getting corners to join. 5. When you have a wall protruding through your roof and you fit walls to objects, it would be nice if the framing (Top Plate) would hold at its set plate height and only the wall component (like brick) would drop down and fit to objects. Workarounds 1. We can achieve a bell by using the Create Roof tool for example with all faces at a 12/12<Ungrouping the roof, deleting the faces we don't need, and pulling the faces down to the bearing point<Then creating a Roof Face on the side with the bell for example at a 18/12. You can't Connect/Combine the 12/12 bell to the 18/12 roof face cause the intersecting point is below the bearing line so you have to just let them overlap each other, this can be framed in the real world but not in VW. Sometimes this requires some editing in the annotations to cover unwanted lines though. For complicated roofs as a whole and to achieve everything we need to, our workaround has been to create our own rafter profiles, we have profiles of all our different pitches, some with bells, some with different overhang lengths, and all with the soffit already drawn in. We then just extrude the profile into a solid, grab it by the seat cut, drop it on the top plate, and push pull the solid roof faces and intersect them. We then use a combination of the Stitch & Trim and the Slice tool to trim off all the intersections. The only way to get a seamless look this way though is to add the solids together after their trimmed, we thought this was fine at first but have found that its almost impossible to break a roof apart after its added altogether if you have to make changes. This has forced us to revisit using the VW roof tools. I would love to hear of any other issues or if anybody has solutions or workarounds for the issues I've listed. I think a quick fix for now would be if VW could make the Connect/Combine tool work with solids and Roof Faces. Also, if they could let us use the slice tool on a roof face without turning it into a solid. We then could use a combination of roof faces and solids together.
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Stacked walls would be great. As of now I have a layer for my roof and anything that I want seen on elevation views (like the top wall of stacked walls) but not on floorplan views. Not ideal but it works and makes things simple.
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Been waiting for D5, very glad to hear it's getting closer.
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I was actually able to make this work with the bell but is there any way to change the angle of the eave cut? This house is a perfect example of having 12/12 and 18/12 slopes but I would need all of the eave cuts to be at a 12/12.
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@twk So after trying to draw this roof again with roof faces I remember some of the issues we were running into. Everything seems to work seamlessly as long as you have a vertical cut, but all that changes when you use a square cut, which we use for almost every house. If I remember right all of our issues revolved around this.