Matt Panzer

Do you have "Display planar objects" turned on for the viewport? If so, deselect it in the Object Info palette and see if that corrects it.

Whoops! I pasted the wrong VE #. I actually commented on the one you mentioned (VE-104236). Thanks for adding that comment. BTW: Our upcoming Open House might be a good opportunity to bring this up with the rendering folks! 🙂

Aside from Vectorworks employees, I believe only the person that submitted the VE (or VB) can view it. So, a link would not help much here. Unless I'm wrong and others can somehow see it.

I do not see any movement on this but did add a comment to the VE (VE-104236) asking them about the possibilities of addressing this serious regression in the workflow you described. That VE is the one you submitted but my comment is for internal viewing only. Do feel free to add your own comment to it as well.

Actually, a very large number of users have been asking for what wall closures provide. Without them, holes in wall show the component structure that would be otherwise hidden by finish components. At it's most basic level, wall closures does this but it does it in a much more true BIM way by actually modeling what the components should be doing (along with some other features like profiles). Stacked components, tilted walls, etc. are all very important to us (and on our radar) but there are other things we need to implement before we can get those features show properly in plan drawings.

The wall has had significant reengineering starting with Vectorworks 2021. Wall closures are the biggest user facing feature that came out of it with additional improvements in later versions. The new Wall tool (with both arc and straight path modes) is another. The improved wall, slab, and roof component texturing is another and slabs and roofs also had some reengineering done to them in order to support those improvements. A lot of the reengineering is behind the scenes but lays groundwork to make adding other planned future features possible.

The By Style/Instance settings are controlled by the style and cannot be changed at the instance level. To change them, locate and right-click on the style in the Resource Manager and choose the "Edit" content menu command. You should see a very similar dialog for the style. You can toggle the style "arrow" icon buttons between By Style and By Instance. Once you change a setting to By Instance (and click OK to save the style's settings), the style will no longer control them and you can go back and edit the instance in the document and set it as you like. Note: When the By Style toggle buttons contain an icon that looks like an open book, that parameter is controlled by the catalog and cannot be changed (other than by choosing another item from the catalog).

The errant lines issue is a bug and looks to be fixed for 2024 Update 5.

Hi Matt, This is because there are a lot of complex needs in walls and each feature added must know how to interact with all of the other features. Adding stacked components might not be that difficult by itself, but then you must be able to define wall closures for all component structure combinations the wall has. And there's the question of what do you see in Top/Plan. What about wall joining, etc, etc. It all can be done, but it's not simple. AI is an interesting tool and has its uses but I don't see how it could help in this area anytime soon. I'd love to be proven wrong but I'll just leave it at that. 🙂

A lot of the settings of the default content are set to By Style (to make them easier to manage via the style). If they're set to By Style, you will only be able to edit them through editing the style and all instances will take on the changes. If you want the ability to set them per instance, you will need to edit the style and set the parameters to By Instance.

In a nutshell, Vectorworks is used in many regions around the globe - each having different needs. As you can already see in this thread, many users put different wishes higher on their priority list. We're always looking at these many needs and need to make hard decisions to prioritized them. While I agree are framing tools are in need of considerable improvements (and it is important to us), there are other many other areas that need improvements as well. I realize it can be frustrating to not see a feature you've wished for not get addressed for a long time (I was a VW user for over 23 years) but there's only so much that can be done with the resources we have.

I have not heard anything bout this one lately. I would recommend upvoting and commenting on the two wishlist forum threads @Tom W. linked to above.

Not that we’re actively researching this but, if we did add it to the wall, it would most certainly be an option you could choose to ignore.

We have previously discussed the idea to integrating framing and other repetitive objects into walls, slabs, and roofs but have not explored details of how this might work. I do think it makes good sense to have it integrated so the framing is automatically when changes are made. Of course, we would have to take performance implications and user interaction (for editing framing) into account. While this is not something we're actively exploring, I'm sure we'll be revisiting the idea in the future.

This is the best I can do to get around the issue: ScreenFlow.mp4