Stephan Moenninghoff

I think we missed a trick here. Thanks for pointing this out. I will find out what we can do.

You mean having better control over the opacity? There is no setting for that but it seems like a good idea!

Hi @Gaëtan R. my take would be it’s probably a technical limitation but I also think it’s worth filing a VE. Maybe this can be made more WYSIWYG!

This will be in the next update. Thanks all for your feedback!

Ok, I get it. The Quick pref for "Show other objects", that we have now associated with the edit mode for groups, symbols etc., is missing from the Edit Crop edit mode. So, it would be fair to say that, to bring back the same functionality that we had in 2025, we should add that same button to the Edit Crop edit mode as well, like so: If we want to go the extra mile, we could also add a "Show Others Gray" option. The different permutations of greying, that @Tom W. is showing, are likely an unwanted effect of double-greying. Below is an example of how a viewport's crop will affect how other viewports are greyed if the crop that's being edited overlaps these viewports. This obviously does not make sense but is the way it's currently implemented. This also means, if there is no crop, the extra dose of greying will be applied to the entire sheet layer.

Hi guys, thanks for your feedback on this. First of all, the onscreen toggle should have the identical functionality of the now removed quick pref. If this is not the case or there are situations where this does not work, I'm happy to look into it. Some steps to reproduce would be helpful. Secondly, about the greying - is this requesting we add another onscreen toggle for greying? I can see the use, of course and I agree that nobody should have to go to the application prefs or the viewport settings dialog box to get to this option. Thanks!

@stkk

Oops. Yes, sorry. Busy testing. "Eat your own dogfood" 🙂 Carpet copy v2025.vwx

If you only want the smallest bounding box, here's a few nodes that will create those lenghts for you. You can enhance this by adding some logic to handle alignment in case the carpet has a pattern, but it's a start. Carpet.vwx

Chat GPT and Grok are also very good at creating Marionette nodes. I have successfully had both create a node to bend 2D geometry around a path (think complex line types) and it worked very well. Grok has the edge when it comes to more detailed and complicated prompts but both performed very well in general. The only caveat is to make sure the runNode section is not indented or Marionette will throw an error. Both AIs think it needs indenting.

For the test file, there seem to be some ways to reduce file size and also responsiveness when zooming and panning, for example using symbols for identical objects. I can see a lot of identical extrudes and other objects here.

@Jeff Prince have you tried a custom crease angle in the OIP (Render tab) for the mesh? That should get rid of faceting effectively without the need to remodel.

Unfortunately, there is no way to use a modifier with this key and trying to set alt(option)-V for the Visibility tool will result in opening a menu on Windows. We were between a rock and a hard place here and in the end we assumed with this being a flagship feature that will be used by many, toggling between ghosted and hidden would be more important than the existing keyboard shortcut. This was quite some topic for lengthy discussions. Sorry if we have missed the mark here for you.

Sorry for the long wait, we have this checked in now and you will receive the fix with the next update. This is what it will look like, if you are on an extremely wide monitor: This is the same as on macOS. Menus do not stretch beyond a certain width but at least now they do stretch.

Are you running antivirus software? This sounds like something is blocking parts of Vectorworks.