Justin21

Thanks Paul, I will check it out. If anyone else happens to have any suggestions on how I may remedy the situation that would be appreciated. I have back copies of the various iterations of the roof form, but I'm running out of time to hunt through them for something that might work. I realize there's probably not any straightforward solution either. On the other hand, general tips for the overall order of approaching this design challenge would be helpful in addition to Paul's videos. Thanks again! Justin

Hi Paul, Thank you for your feedback and for working out a potential solution. That is indeed look close to what I was trying to achieve. I think the only differences would be the radii of the fillets. Could you explain what order you did things in to resolve the fillet issue? Also, am I mistaken or does the fillet edge only work on solids? It look like yours is directly as surfaces (?), or did you just extract the surfaces at the end? I would definitely appreciate a copy of the file to examine more closely. I'm using VW2024. Thank you, Justin

Hi everyone! I would appreciate your help in improving my workflow, and your advice on troubleshooting where I'm stuck. I'm new to Vectorworks and have been learning it slowly, while in school, over the past few months. A reduced version of my file is attached, and the screenshot below shows an overview of the project: a curving roof form meeting an existing building (middle). I've managed a version of it with thickness (left) and some beam profiles modelled using extrude-along-path (right). Here is a rundown of my workflow so far: 1. Use nurbs surface to figure out the approximate form (heights+slopes) 2. Trim surface to the correct "footprint" I need 3. Create nurbs curves along each gridline 4. Loft curves to create "cleaner" form/surface. 5a. Extrude surfaces for initial solid 5b. Various iterations of add/subtract/intersect solids 6. Fillet edge the intersection of new roof to existing structure 7. Extract and extrude new surfaces 8. Create new curves along each gridline and extrude path for beams Where I am stuck: As you can see from the photo, I didn't originally fillet edge the intersection on the "short edge" of the building, but now I want to. I can't seem to get it to work, and upon investigation, I think it may be because of the initial inaccuracies in my modelling of the the surfaces, where not all edges align properly. Another issue I thought it might be, is that there are some short edges for the fillet edge tool, and maybe it's not able to compute those (?). Please advise on how I could do this better overall nexttime (or to fix this one if the better way isn't too time intensive), and how to best approach fixing the "non-filleting" edge of the roof. Thank you very much! Justin (ps. apologies if anything is poorly explained—been staring at this for too long) JD-VW_help.vwx

Posting this here to avoid creating a second thread with overlapping content—I think my thoughts relate, at least somewhat, to the original post. First, I completely agree with Intuos5's suggestion for multi-key sequences and would emphasize how nice it would be to have the option of double character shortcuts (Revit, for instance, does this with commands like LI for 'Line', DI for 'Dimension', WA for 'Wall', and so on for essentially all their tools). This would expand the options for shortcuts while making modelling more efficient. My other request (which is more like a fourth item added to the list) would be to allow the use of modifiers for all functions in the 'keys' tab of the workspace editor (mode groups, other keys, snapping keys). As an example, I'd love to be able to use ctrl and/or shift for commands such as "launch quick search" to become something like ctrl+F (making it more familiar to the typical find function in other programs) rather than just F making that key available for another command. I have tried to figure out if there's already a way to map modifier keys to those functions but have been informed that this is currently not possible.