Thomas Wagensommerer

Thank you very much for this tip. Interestingly "Centre View on Activated Layer" was unchecked as it should be. But switching it on an then off again solved the problem.

I never noticed that behavior before. I am aware of the setting for "Separate sheet views", but this should only apply to sheet layers.

I wish we had better support the Apple Magic Mouse. 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. I tried to use mouse drivers like Better Touch Tool, but it seems this cannot be achieved without support from the vectorworks application.

The Hide details preference prevents wall components from being drawn at or below a pre-set layer scale factor. While tremendously useful in theory, we never used that feature, because we still would need some walls to show their components at small scale. I suggest, that each wall gets an additional Drop down menu: "Show Wall Components" Choices: By Hide Details (Default) - Always show Components Never show Components

Yes please, move it to a new thread.

From Windows 95 to VW 2020 this means, until then we will be 25 years behind.

The fun should come from your design, not from the tool icons. A colorful interface distracts from your own design. This is what a first time user would say. I know you are a very experienced user, but maybe you are not doing color critical design. There is a good reason why most pro apps use a toned down interface - less distraction.. The professional user knows where to find his tools.

brown - purple - yellow - blue REALLY? Looking at screenshots from VW 2018 makes me extremely sad. Seemingly Vectorworks is the last application adhering to the kindergarten color scheme. A design application must not use colors in the interface! Look at any self respecting or professional design application and please get rid of those colors in the interface.

I would like to suggest a different solution. We should have "Calculated Text" or "Placeholder Variables". This way an automatically created text label can be placed anywhere in the drawing, inside or outside of annotations, symbols, layers, viewports, text blocks..... It behaves exactly like regular text. How would this work? Inside a regular text block write any calculation or search criteria and place it between << and >>. Vectorworks would replace the text between the marks with the calculated result. If the text block contains "This is Layer <<=L>>." on Layer "Ground Floor" this would evaluate to "This is Layer Ground Floor." Another example: "The area of Phase 1 is <<Area((L='New Construction') & (C='Phase 1'))>> square meters." I dont use drawing labels, so I dont know the exact calculation, it would be something like that: "My favorite drawing label is <<'NNA_DesignLayerViewport'.'fDescription'>>."

I completely agree - and suggested something like that a long time ago.

7 times absolute and total agreement from my side!!!

Yes, this menu command works. But why is the "Replace..." contextual menu different?

In my case I lost all values.

If we delete dimensions, VectorWorks should never ever delete the associated object - no matter if there are constraints, resolvable or not. It should be crystal clear what are the primary objects in the drawing. Its the objects that make up the model, not the dimensions. The same goes for moving or duplicating dimensions. Never move or change the original object.

Yes, yes and yes!!!

Yes! "Autohybrid" should be an additional feature of a symbol, not a separate object. The appearance of all other 3D objects should be controlled by the cut plane of the layer. (Back in 2009 I called that feature "Spatial Layer".) Yes, almost! You would not want furniture be cut in half by the cut plane, so every object needs an option whether it should be cut. No additional planes would be needed. If you need a special cut plane you would create a symbol and use the "Autohybrid" feature of the symbol.

There is also a BIM Discussion. In my opinion there would be tremendous benefits from the proposed type of layer an wall implementation.

Yes it is a path object. In the attachment is Framepoly.vso as a zip file. This should work better. Framepoly.vso.zip

The new resource manager is really excellent, so we should not need custom scripts or workarounds like that any more. Please vote for this tiny improvement, or please move it to known issues.

@gester Sorry, you dont do the original poster a favour by pretending it is a simple matter of "get along with it". Yes, If you are prepared to waste a lot of time for workarounds, you can do very simple or small projects. Other than that, vectorworks needs substantial improvements. On a different note, maybe I am wrong? If so, show us how we are supposed to do roof spaces. I am eager to learn. Several thousand square meters please, with multiple levels. Construction drawings.

This is an understatement. Creating proper floorplans of roof spaces from the 3D model is next to impossible. I like your optimism. Exactly what I said when we started with MiniCAD more than 20 years ago. True 3D seems to be always 5-7 years away.

True word for word.

This is a new link to the old discussion

I agree. This dialog is very good.

Tool and plugin updates could and should be pushed to the users as soon as they are ready. I do that all the time with my own plugins. For instance, if the stair plugin needs a better user interface, please go for it as soon as possible. As far as I am concerned, big updates (those that need installation, might have compatibility issues, change the file format) could and should stay yearly as they are now.