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Assemblage

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  1. Apologies if this is in fact an obvious question: Does the new rendering engine significantly speed up section vp processing in addition to more familiar 'picture' renderings?
  2. Looking at the Data tab for a title block, I can pull the drawing number, name, etc into a worksheet eg using: ='TitleBlockRec-Arch'.'S_Sheet Number_SN' ..but can't get the revision data info. ='TitleBlockRec-Arch'.'S_Date' ..just repeats 00/00/00, for example and does not seem to pick up what the user has entered in terms of revision info.
  3. Having configured a VW window to what we're after, we've made a symbol of it to enact any changes later globally, as advised in Help. The sill extends 50mm into the wall jambs. When inserted as a symbol however, the sill does not embed in the adjacent walls in 3D. Looks the same as the independent PIO in Top/Plan, but is suddenly no good for any 3D view. It seems a Hole Object is formed in the symbol creation which extends all the way to the END of the sill. Odd sloping brick jambs result, with the window floating inside. We've resorted to placing as a red symbol, which is not good as it does not update.
  4. Simple one for you Worksheet folk: I have a small worksheet which has some database info spread over a few columns, which I've then performed a column of calculations on. In the next column(s) I want to just input some numerals by hand, like text. They are standards from the Brief which I want to be seen side by side with the database info. Can I do this?
  5. Having said that, builders here are still congratulating themselves on running jobs on pdf's rather than paper. Can't see hats blowing off in the winds of change any time soon...but who knows?
  6. ..announced at an Autodesk event. Hope the govt can be persuaded by open source..
  7. Jeff's right then: fiddling with the handles will probably get you where you want. The interface initially confused me too. When you first insert the window and enter the settings you're after the resultant wall jambs are a strange mess with the external leaf overlapping the frame etc etc. Plus, there are in fact TWO little blue handles (one for internal and one for external components) but when you first insert the window THEY COME IN ON TOP OF EACH OTHER and look like just one handle. Grab one and pull it off and you'll see there's another underneath. Then, playing with each handle you'll find the result is surprisingly useful. An example of VW hiding it's light under a bush I'd say. It took me less than a minute to make the window. Don't forget to nominate how many internal or external wall components to wrap when you first create the window. In the attached I wanted to wrap the plasterboard, so nominated the internal 2 components: the plasterboard and the adhesive dabs zone. Externally just 1 component is nominated (the brick). I use the external handle to achieve an installation tolerance at the jambs, not the "shim" setting, which I don't fully understand (I suspect it's more for scheduling - not graphics - where along with a nominated masonry module calculates the external opening size). Hope this is helpful. VW file attached.
  8. Not good. Anyone know if this is fixed in 2011?
  9. Editing the Key or Description in my ceiling finish doesn't update in the Finishes worksheet, or the Legend. =('Space'.'Ceiling Key') doesn't seem to pick up changes. Why?
  10. Car door is BACK ON - thanks Jeff! Not solved yet but fiddling with the component handles helps; will keep the thread posted. The blue component handles actually start out on top of each other (not apart as pictured in Help), and there's no roll-over/mouse context flagging them up. It took me a little while to understand what was what. I know now, but worth making this clearer for others.
  11. I'm a bit shocked by this. A bug is the windscreen wiper sticking sometimes, not the car door falling off.
  12. Because otherwise multiple class-based dimensions are needed to cover different scale VPs, (and the dim may or may not arrive in the VP in a convenient place). By annotation, you can just put it right where it's wanted, and it's to the correct scale. Yes?
  13. Windoor does this and a whole lot more! They probably have more important things to concentrate on.... Really? We bought it so we could do Velfac-type windows where sash and frame are in line. These are very common in Europe. But Windoor can't do them either. After enquiry we're told Windoor is aimed at the local Australian market and are only advancing development for that. I suggest making detailed enquiries before purchase. So we had to model them by hand with hybrid symbols and insert via VW's windows using the "Use Symbol Geometry" option, to leverage scheduling and wall component wrapping etc. But, we currently can't get this to work either..appears completely differently than inserted as the stand-alone hybrid. Result: no BIM capability for our most common windows, and the drawings are a mess. We've been tinkering with this for months now...
  14. I'd be v grateful for help on this. It really is a problem that we can't update callouts centrally. To plod on... Attached is 2 sample files and a sample database [change extension from pdf to xml (the Community Board file upload doesn't accept xml for some reason)) with keynotes placed as Jeffrey O and J Lucas have suggested. I add "AMENDED" to both the Description and text of a note in the database. I actually save, close, and restart VW to ensure everything is updated. I run Reconcile Notes. Nothing reconciles. I get a somewhat odd message (see attached screenshot). So. What. Is. Wrong.
  15. Just went for a standard window with a masonry sill...and am getting this in plan. ??
  16. Hole objects seem difficult to place and edit. In their editing space, the normal 3D object is not visible. I don't understand why the interface wouldn't show it. Have tried paste-in-place as a work-around, which results in paste-in-some-other-place. Is there a good method for placing hole objects in hybrid symbols?
  17. I'd try drawing your frames, then use the loft tool. I believe lofting is actually a boat building term - scribing out the boat's curves literally in a loft at 1:1 - from which 3D modelling software has taken both the name and the process.
  18. Matt, do you have a time frame for releasing CameraMatch for VW2011?
  19. Presumably it's healthy if people are choosing programs because they think they're good, rather than whatever can work their machines.
  20. And Reconcile Notes. Anything which the software explicitly says it can do, and then does not actually do it.
  21. An option for a transparent background when exporting png's.
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