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Matt Panzer

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  1. Set the document unit precision much higher than 1 decimal place then edit the hatch and you’ll see the offsets are not what you think due to them being rounded to the document unit precision. That is what’s causing the problem. Once you’ve corrected them, you can change the precision back as needed. BTW, I believe the hatch offsets can be corrected without changing the precision by selecting each one and retyping it in. This will replace the actual values (that are displayed rounded) with the correct value. It’s a little weird doing it this way because the value you’re replacing looks the same (do to the rounding) as the new value.
  2. Ah, right. Thank you for bringing this up! I agree that this is a bug and submitted one (VB-202822).
  3. Right. That’s the “not ideal” part. 😉
  4. All I’ll say is that you’ll see this addressed very soon. 😉 As for adjustments to classes panes, that is another thing for another time…
  5. Right. Not an ideal solution. However, if you save the originals with the same names in another file, you can import them back in (replacing the modified ones) after it's fixed.
  6. @Eric Nickerson, @Tom W., As Tom assumed, this is a bug (VB-197852) related to the door and window handing. I do not see a fix for it yet but I'll try to get this addressed as soon as possible.
  7. @Tom W., I just tested the file @mattfox attached by ungrouping the Roof into Roof Faces and associating them to their corresponding walls. You're right that they don't clip the walls in VW2024 Update 3 but I see it working in an Update 4 beta version. So you should have the fix soon.
  8. That's probably a better solution. The slope is not important at the model scale (will be shown in 2D details), and I'm already using that method - there's a footing stacked under this one. Yeah. If you can do without the slope, I'd go with the two component trick. 🙂
  9. Good to hear you found a way. If the legs was not sloped and a consistent width, I would recommend using two components of the same material with one being the depth of the ledge and wrap it at the end using the Wall End Cap tool. Your solution or using a wall hole cutter are the only way I can think of doing this.
  10. @line-weight, I found an outstanding bug (VB-174392) related to this issue. The now thing I found (back when it was reported) that fixed the problem was to turn off both "Display extents before cut plane" and "Display extents beyond cut plane", update the viewport, then turn on the extents as needed. Maybe give that a shot? Have you tried that file in VW 2024? From what I see, the issue has been fixed.
  11. @line-weight, I found an outstanding bug (VB-174392) related to this issue. The thing I found (back when it was reported) that fixed the problem was to turn off both "Display extents before cut plane" and "Display extents beyond cut plane", update the viewport, then turn on the extents as needed. Maybe give that a shot?
  12. Right. That's why we need to create a proper UI for RCPs so those field names and numbers are presented to the user that makes sense.
  13. The reason it would be handy is that commonly you might have a regular HSVP set up with the crop and annotations and visibilities and page position that you want, and if you could simply duplicate this and then flip it to an RCP, that would save a lot of repeated work getting the layout set up. It would be good though if it worked better than the "reverse direction" button for regular section viewports - which reverses the section direction but doesn't mirror the crop and annotations, so you end up having to fix all that manually. Absolutely! By the way: this would be useful in non horizontal sections too. Sometimes I come across similar issues with interior elevations, for example, which I make using sections. Generally you want a section taken as close as possible to a wall face but you often end up with choosing between slicing things you want in elevation, or having bits of the wall face obscured by sliced bits of sloping roof, etc. Good point! I suppose for non-horizontal sections, the regions would have to be relative to the cut plane defined by the section line rather than being based on document coordinates. Right. That's the quirky part. Think of "below cut" as being "beyond cut" which would be looking up (or "above cut").
  14. It should work (in theory) because it’s just creating a horizontal section facing the other direction. We do want to do this properly in the UI but it really will be the same thing with a RCP UI added. I do like the idea of adding a way to convert a “floor plan” section into a RCP section.
  15. Good to hear it helps! Like you said, it won/t solve everything, but it can help.
  16. We do have plans for a proper "ceiling plan" horizontal section but I do not know when. Another option you have currently is a bit hacky but might do what you're after (although a bit quirky): You can create a horizontal section from the bottom of a clip cube. This creates a horizontal section looking up instead of down. You will have to flip the viewport to have a proper "reflected ceiling plan" and the extends above and below cut plane settings are basically reversed (i.e.: Extents "below" really is "beyond" and "above" is "before" the cut plane). I make no promises but it's worth a shot!
  17. Exactly. That's the idea. Right. The current Per-object per-viewport overrides are not well suited for what you're after.
  18. Unfortunately, there is no good solution for this. One feature we want to add in horizontal sections is the ability to define cut plane overrides in regions defined by a poly in the viewport. We do have per object cut plane overrides that you can add within the viewport's Edit In-place mode (by selecting objects, clicking on the the "Cut Pane and Display…" OIP button, setting Cut Plane to "Custom" and edit "Cut Plane and extents" button in the dialog). This is designed more for one-off object adjustments and is not as flexible as overriding regions would be. Example of a per-object cut plane override on one of two similar sloping walls:
  19. Thanks for the file. This one's a simple fix. 🙂 Select the Roof and click on the "Components…" button in the Object Info palette. Edit the component. Under Edge Condition / Wall Associated, Set Modification to "Clip Walls". Click OK to exist the dialogs and you should be good.
  20. Hi Matt, Can you post a small file with the walls and roof in it?
  21. If using the imported 3D Revit model, I would try using horizontal sections first. BTW: The issue you mentioned about doors showing their 2D graphics (open leaves and swings) can be dealt with and should not happen using our default settings. If you have a file you can send with the issue, I can take a look and should be able to tell you how to fix it.
  22. There definitely seems to be something odd going on in the file. However, the following did seem to fix the issue: I noticed you have two window or door inserts stacked on each other in the wall (one being demoed and one new). Try this: Select the inserts in the problem walls. Right click on one and choose the "Plug-in Object Options" context menu command. In the "Plug-in Object Options" deselect "Use wall closure" and click OK. I don't think you have a need for closures in the problem walls because (I believe) they all have just one component. Let me know if this fixes the issue.
  23. OK, I received the file you sent. Thank you. There were two issues you mentioned (in Vectorworks 2023 SP8): The section line marker direction being incorrectly rotated 180º.: I did not report a bug on this because I could not reproduce the issue from a section line in a good state. However, I do find that editing the section line style, making no changes, and clicking OK causes all section lines of that style to reset in the file and corrects the issue. You mentioned the fills of cut objects are not showing in some section viewports: While I do not have any fixes for this, I did submit a Bug report (VB-202383) for it. I will mention that Vectorworks 2024 does a better job showing more fills with the file but it looks like some slabs still are not getting fills.
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