mar schrammeyer

Could there be two instances of the same door?

It will work as a viewport on a sheet layer

You might be after the navigation palette

I have always found this tracing a bit tedious so an other trick is (I think it was Archoncads) instead of tracing, place a number of 3D loci (correct height of course) along 2D contours select & create site model. I thought autocad people where quite rigid and standardized meaning USA = AUS

In the survey dwg I receive there are 3 NS classes: (after importing to VW) NS - which are 3D loci, NS_contours - which are 2D polys, NS_triangles - which are 3D polys. I select either the 3D loci or 3D polys and create a site model without tracing anything works everytime.

Select text, menu/text/ true type to polyline, ungroup & extrude

no worries

Do you have a sketch style sub folder in your resource browser? Any new sketch style will show up in the drop down for line render options.

View Rendering Sketch options It will add a sketch style to your file

here is a small file just a change of use of a garage, tried other files but they are all to big.

Check out panthony (Toulouse) http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=95308&Searchpage=1&Main=20380&Words=toulouse&Search=true#Post95308

Yes you can set the text margin in the object info palette & use the smart cursor cues for your second question.

You will have to import your textures into the file first via the resource browser.

After you selected wall framing and created a model name you will find all design sheet names & sheet names selected. Create a new model name and all sheets will be unticked( this is quicker then unticking them all). Then hit options and select new next under wall class and tick appropriate class. Good luck, oh and it does not do round walls.

Thanks Mike, I ment I would use that tool not knowing it is Oz only, that french tool looks usefull indeed.

am not sure what a fence line should look like over there but I use this

In roof layer untick create gable end walls in oip. Am not sure what you mean with rest of question

I have no experience with the Door tool but WinDoor from OzCad makes that possible.

use a wall with correct thickness but no height to place doors and windows & build your log wall around them

a smaller screen would have a different resolution than main screen

After creating a VP one can adjust the view by using fly over tool in crop mode

Thanks for that, I will give those arrows a try when it happens again.

I had some trouble with zooming in, layers disappeared making it impossible to work copying the file to an other machine and recopying to original machine solved the problem but can anyone tell me why?thanks

My PC colleague had similar problems with VW2009 (constant freezing) and Ozcad had the following advice which fixed the problem: "When something suddenly changes in the way Vw is operating, it is usually due to either a corrupt file (if it only occurs in one file) or with a stored setting or preference. Assuming the latter, try these things in this order: 1. Hit the Reset button in Vectorworks Preferences (Tools menu/Options). Try running Vw for a while to see if that has fixed it. If not... 2. Go to Vectorworks Preferences, click the User Folders tab, then click the Explore button in the top right of the dialogue. This will reveal the user folder. With this folder still open, return to Vw and quit. Back in the user folder, rename the folder called "Settings" to "Settings Old" then try running Vw for a while to see if that has fixed it. If so, you can delete the "Settings Old" folder."

Yes noticed same, seems to pick up hidden lines as boundary.