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This is exactly what I plan on doing!

For sure. A lot cheaper for the surveyor to get it all while they are out there than for me to go back out with a zip level and tape measure. 🤷‍♂️

Oh I agree with you. Some of the bigger firms will do it no problem but we mainly work with a couple of small companies who, even when I send out a Survey Request Letter, don't get half of the stuff we need. Clients don't always want to pay for an extensive survey even if it's in their best interest.

Thanks @Jeff Prince. I actually asked one of the surveyors we use a lot and this was his response "Nearly all of our projects are on an assumed coordinate system. Typically in the N5,000 E5,000 range or maybe N10,000 E10,000 but never near state plane coordinates if assumed. If and when we are on a real coordinate system what you are using for ESPG/datum settings is correct. NAD83(2011)/NH. If we share any point files with you that are not on an assumed coordinate system we'll be sure to let you know the Hz & Vet. datum information. " I also work on strictly residential projects which in the grand scheme of things are usually "small" so for whatever reason, unless I ask them to, they don't automatically use state plane coordinates.

That would be great if you could show me! I don't actually mind if it doesn't automatically align when I re-import an updated survey, so long as I can rotate the new one to the same position as the other one.

Unfortunately, we don't always have survey files that come with geo-referenced or real-time coordinates. A lot of the time, the surveyor just uses assumed coordinates. Very rarely do we actually get surveys using EPSG codes. Which leads me to believe that I can just rotate the linework of the survey so long as I maintain one consistent point that remains the same when subsequent versions get imported.

Hello! So 99.9% of the time, I am working with a survey sent to us by a surveyor or civil engineer. These obviously come in at a location relative to the coordinates used for the survey and are never orthogonal to the typical drawing space in Vectorworks, i.e., top/down. I am always rotating my plan to work orthogonally to the house. We also use certain control points in the survey to locate our projects on GPS in the field. My question is: Is there a way to import the survey and have it be rotated orthogonal to a certain line, like a building edge, without compromising the actual information in the survey? The goal is to be able to 3D model within my plans so that I can also use typical views like front, back, left, right, etc... I'm not sure if that makes any sense, but figured I'd ask. Thanks!

Sorry it took so long to respond. Busy times! This is great, I hadn't thought about using a data visualization for this control. My utlimate goal is to get some standards set up for viewports so I assume I can incorporate a data viz into a viewport style? Is it possible to have multiple data visualizations in one viewport, provided the criteria isn't conflicting? Thanks again!

Good to know that it can work with the hardscape generated joint patterns, but in my line of work, it's a lot of custom patterns so it would be nice to have the same flexibility with user generated tile fills or hatches

Right, this makes sense, but you can't even grey out the linework, for instance. Or change the attributes of it at all. So, like you said, what's the point of having the option to make it by class at all? I did try putting the original line work in the tile that I was using for the JPO on that JPO class and it still didn't work. Unbelievably complicated. @Katarina Ollikainen is there any further clarity or documentation/literature that can help better understand how to have control over these things?

Yeah, I don't get it. It still seems way overcomplicated compared to what it used to be in previous versions

I know it's been a while since this has been addressed, but I am still having an issue controlling some of the attributes in a viewport. Overall, the tool seems kind of confusing in how attributes are assigned, however, I am trying to have my attributes within the hardscape be assigned by class. Mainly the 2D base fill and JOP. The goal of this is to set up viewport styles where I'm changing the attributes in the viewport class settings to display how I want. An example of this would be on a planting plan, to grey out JOP but keep the Base fill and reduce the opacity. I am able to change the attributes of the 2d Base fill but I can't seem to get the class overrides to work for the JOP. I am using a tile with no background as the JOP. I've attached a file! Hardsacpe Attributes.vwx

I suppose I could just make a bunch of page based symbols out of the scale bars with the settings I want. Then at least you're just placing a symbol down in the viewport each time that you know will read right, rather than changing all of the settings each time.

Yeah that's sort of what I've been doing but agreed, it would be nice to not have to!

@Anders Blomberg Amazing! I was already playing around with it. A lot of concise information in one spot.