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Do the classes and layers have the same names? Wall Furnishing Electrical Plumbing Lighting I only need these for simple interior projects so far. It is a good selection to start with but I am not certain whether it is classes or layers that I would work with.. Do floors go together with walls?

Thanks, I will work on that and not give up!

I have been struggling to understand the best use of classes eversince I started with VW. Due a few bad experience with the distinction between classes and layers, I became terrified with the option Show/Snap/Modify Others. Sometimes things become invisible and I would redraw objects/walls, et cetera. During the completion of my drawings, I find mysterious/unexpected objects floating about because I had duplicated things out of pure confusion. When I resort to using only Show/Snap Others, it becomes really inconvenient. Hence have completely stopped trying with different classes or layers. I am not sure where I went wrong with understanding the basics. This thread is a little helpful for the hopeful me. I am trying to revive the courage to get into the right thinking cap of how classes and layers work, yet again. While I am still working on my own with small remodelling projects, it is safe to learn it now before business picks up and I have to share drawings with a bigger team. What are the few thumb rules that differentiate classes from layers? What are the functions? atari2600 has asked some right questions that probed me to rethinking my deeply embedded fears with classes and layers.. I agree with johnharley about learning from examples.. preferably with a realistic project, and not just with simple objects like spheres, cubes and cylinders as in the manuals.. archoncad has given a few simplified rules that is clueing me in.. .. BUT I STILL FEEL TOO PARALYZED IN UNDERSTANDING!! And I do find the nesting so annoying as it is so inconvenient to move from one class/layer to another.. When it comes to having drawings of demolition and new, I simply have separate drawing for them. One saved as original site and another saved under another name after I have changed things around. I am new to drawing with the computer, and VW is the very first cad program I have ever properly attempted on my own (had very limited experience with AutoCAD many years ago, forgotten everything). Some say that I am lucky to start without the prior AutoCAD knowledge, some would disagree... Please help me with my fear of classes and layers..

OK I changed the rotate field to 0 degrees in Obj Info. Somehow it was at 90 degrees, that was why it always snap to wall on right angles..

My window symbol is being quite disobedient.. but I have been using them by first placing them by the wall then nudging them in.. which means during a 3D view, the windows look like they are buried in the wall.. I don't understand..

I reconfigured a window symbol and created a new symbol from it. When I try to insert it, it doesn't snap to wall. Instead, whenever I mouse-over the wall with the window symbol, it places itself in a right angle to the wall. So far I have been placing the window symbol near a wall and nudging it into the wall. When I select the symbol, the object info doesn't indicate that it is a symbol in wall. Just wondering what I have done wrong. Is there a better way to do this?

I have been using both my iBook and PowerBook to work on VW. The iBook is definitely a lot less powerful to run a few programs at the same time, but it enables me to work on site travelling due to the size and weight. If I were to make another purchase, it would definitely be for another PB!!

When the system crashes, where do we find the recovered files? I can only get to last saved... At what stage does VW Backup does the saving? Is the default location always on desktop?

Is there a way to make the text appear in the correct place when I change to a 3D view? I tried to extrude the text box so that it can be given a value-Z, but it doesn't work. Any suggestions? For simply naming rooms in the plan...

I checked out FormFonts and it is great. Hopefully they will have more VW symbols in the near future..

I want to tile a wall with stone cladding. How do I do that? I found stone tiles in my Object Library but they seem to only work on floors.

Ok thanks Alan!

This portal is a great place to learn and share knowledge. So glad I found it!

Glad to have found this thread. Learning, learning... Thanks for the useful tips!

Oh excellent! You give such great instructions! Will try it out and be back shortly..