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    Structural Member

    in Troubleshooting

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    7 minutes ago, Tom W. said:

    If you are committed to Top/Plan one option would be to Cmd-K the Structural Members then convert the whole assembly to an Auto-Hybrid. I realise this is no good if you want the objects to remain as Structural Members but it would give you a high degree of control over how the assembly looked in Top/Plan: at the cut plane, below the cut plane + above the cut plane.

     

    TomW, thank you for your reply.

     

    Would you agree, that the structural member tool is broken, if it can't be used correctly without being converted to to an Auto-Hybrid?

     

    And why does ist sound dubious, if someone is committed to Top/Plan? 😉

     

    Structural Member

    in Troubleshooting

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    19 minutes ago, line-weight said:

    If you use a horizontal section instead of top/plan it will section correctly (although it won't draw the X on the timber section for you).

     

    I realise this is not much help if you're committed to the top/plan workflow.

     

    LineWeight, thank you for your reply.

     

    OK, I don't need the X on the timber section.

     

    Those are my real honest questions: Why are there all those complicated settings in the structural member tool, if we need a horizontal section anyway? What ist the "top/plan workflow" and is there a better workflow? Why is top/plan different from a horizontal section?

     

     

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    Data visualization should be able to hide objects, too

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

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    On 11/9/2020 at 6:32 PM, _c_ said:

    Actually I always did this by class. Document overrides, not even class overrides.

     

    If you are doing what I think you are doing, you just need black, red, yellow. So your best friend is a dedicated document where the attributes are as needed. If you are doing German permits the level of drawing standard requirements is only achieved with a dedicated doc. I call this plot file.

     

     

    We do Austrian permit plans, which I think are very similar to German plans, and we never used a dedicated document in order to achieve drawing standard requirements. Could you please explain in which way do you think your workflow would be advantageous?

    2021 - Material Control Over Cut

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

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    6 hours ago, _c_ said:

    If this goes as I fear, the default will be that we must cut sections and configure the whole business just for seeing things in plan.

    That should be only the exception.

     

    Something quite saddening is that there is no trust any longer that they will ever meet our needs.

    I am not alone here.

    User since Minicad 7.

    Don't worry. Based on my experience, starting with MiniCAD +4 about 27 years ago, Vectorworks 2065 should be well able to do what you expect.

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    Widget Groups

    in Vectorscript

    Posted · Edited by Thomas Wagensommerer

    "Widget Groups - Say goodbye to endless scrolling that creates a long and tedious workflow. We now offer widget groups in the Object Info palette that allow you to collapse and expand specific groups according to your preferences."

     

    Are these accessible by vector script? Where can I find documentation?

    Flyover tool should act like zoom and pan, and leave the selection intact

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

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    I wish we had better support the Apple Magic Mouse.

     

    You should be able to pan, scroll and zoom without using the keyboard or using any tools.

     

    Touching the mouse with two fingers should be the equivalent to holding down the option key, so you can zoom and pan with the mouse. So if you have "Mouse wheel zooms" activated you would scroll with two fingers and zoom with one finger. Otherwise you would scroll with one finger and zoom with two fingers. A third gesture, maybe three fingers on the mouse,  would activate the flyover tool.

     

     

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    Worksheet: Show zero values as empty

    in Troubleshooting

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    Thank you very much Gadzooks. You got me to try and I got it to work. I always assumed formulas like these were impossible in database rows. (Or broken - regarding my general level of trust in all kinds of Vectorworks features.)

     

    Depending on localization you need a semicolon instead of a colon in worksheet formulas. So the formula on a localized system, when a colon is the decimal separator is

     

    =IF (Condition ; True Value ; False Value)

     

     

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