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Also see this thread below for a more in depth discussion of what @Tom W. described. There have been many threads about this topic over the years, granted they may not be easy to find with the search function.

Depending on what version of VW you are using, there are suppliers like Hussey which offer Revit families for their bleacher seating, which you can download and import into Vw. The imported Revit family might be graphically heavy, so you may want to rebuild it using native Vw geometry. Short of that, you’re stuck with direct modeling as already suggested.

I have not experienced this - perhaps because I rarely use rotated plan view. Where you in a rotated plan view when you created the symbol?

It’s an old legacy feature from days of yore. Not sure why anyone would want it in 2025 — certainly not me. I’ve sometimes found it enabled when I open & convert old Vw files.

See this post, it’s not Unified View you want but rather ‘Crop Perspective View’, which you want to turn off.

Not true. For example — large panes of architectural glass are both flat (not perfectly) and very reflective. Almost every surface in the real world is reflective to some extent. [BTW this topic has gotten really off-track from the original poster’s question about suggestions for improving the rendering quality of a restaurant interior].

Personally, I don’t remember this functionality ever being ‘promised’ by anyone from Vw. They might have said, “yeah that’s something we’re working on…” but that’s as far as it went.

You should probably get in contact with your local distributor or the Vw Sales department; you’ll probably get a more valid answer than you’ll get on the user forum. https://www.vectorworks.net/en-US/international https://www.vectorworks.net/en-US/company/contacts

There is the New Features section in the Vw 2025 Help file with a table that lists the improvements & changes in 2025. For what it’s worth. VW 2025 Help File - New Features

@ParkerJames 1) If you create a VP of that 3D view and put it on a Sheet Layer and render that with either FQRW or Redshift, does it look any different? 2) Have you restarted your computer recently? 3) Also try creating a test file and copy and pasting those problematic doors & windows to the new test tile, and see if the issues still happen. Not knowing your hardware specifications, diagnosing rendering issues on a Design Layer can be more problematic than doing it on a Sheet Layer, as it takes much more computing power to render a full DL than it does on a SLVP.

I have not used it, but I remember seeing the following thread which has a link to a plug-in for modeling 3D waffle slabs. Might be useful. HTH

I have not tried to do it — I only remembered that it was in the latest 2.1 update. Perhaps other users have used it successfully.

Have you installed the latest 2025 Update 2.1? I believe that functionality was added in that update.

See this previous related post from @Dave Donley :

Here’s a link to another recent thread which started with similar slow, laggy bloated file symptoms. The thread outlines the steps they took to simplify the model, and the resulting over-all improvements they were able to achieve in the file performance. HTH.