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As you discovered, the Join Tool is not intended for Walls. You have to use the Wall Join Tool to join Walls.

The preferences that control the Cursor Selection Box size and Snap Box size are located on the Interactive pane of the Vw Preferences. Vw 2024 Help File : Setting Vectorworks Preferences

If you search for ‘AutoCAD’ over at the Vectorworks University portal, you will find a bunch of training videos about switching to Vw from AutoCAD.

It is not entirely clear what you are trying to do based on your written description. It might be more helpful to directly annotate the floor plan image with what you are trying to do. 1) Are you saying that the Walls that you mirrored do not automatically join to the other Walls already in place? 2) Are you then saying that you tried using the Wall Join tool after mirroring, but you cannot join the Walls? If so, drag the end of one of the mirrored Walls away from the Walls and try the Wall Join tool again. Sometimes I have better luck with Wall Joins when using this approach. Also make sure you are using the the ‘Uncapped Join’ mode, not the ‘Capped Join’ mode.

@Bruce Kieffer like Zoomer suggested, are you using iCloud for either your working .VWX files or backup .VWX files? A brief web search makes it sound like that Clouddocs folder is related to iCloud.

I’ve had this happen once or twice, sometimes files get so broken the only thing you can do is try to recover the file. 1) Hopefully you have more than one backup file and you can try and find an older one that doesn’t crash Vw. 2) If that is not the case, you could try to recover the file using the ‘layer import’ tip described in the following thread. It may or may not work for you. The last time I tried this it didn’t work for me; it kept crashing when I tried to import the Layers. Good luck.

@StageCrafter I have not tested to confirm, but the open source software MeshLab says that it can hollow out 3D models for 3d printing (screen cap from website below). That dolphin looks like it has a high mesh density (many triangles), MeshLab could also handle the mesh optimization, which might keep it from crashing Vw. A link below to a page with instructions on how to hollow out a model in MeshLab: Hollow out model for 3d printing

For the Wall End Cap one, I would guess that updating the file to 2024 did something to the Wall End Cap preferences. Check the Wall End Cap preferences to confirm if it it set to create wall caps inside or outside the wall endpoint; this is also controlled by the Extend Cap Past Wall Endpoint option on the Object Info palette. As far as Walls not being cut by Roof objects properly in Vw 2024, below is a link to a long thread discussing a ‘regression’ bug that still exists in Vw2024 SP2. I don’t know if it has been fixed yet. I sympathize with your frustration. Updating any Vw file to the current version should not break things — as unfortunately, frequently does happen.

It is not currently possible to change the default Layer sorting to alphabetical; you should create a wish list item for this if you see a need for it.

Cllick and drag the Layers to change their stacking order. Then they will stay in the correct stacking order upon reopening the file.

It’s not clear what you mean by ‘tweaking the measurements and scale’, but check the scale of the Design Layer that you are drawing / modeling on. Ideally your Design Layer scale should be close to the same scale of your Viewport (Design Layer VP or Sheet Layer VP). Vw 2024 Help File : Design Layer Scale

For my Architectural work, I use Section Viewports all the time for Building Sections, Interior Elevations, Exterior Building Elevations, Detail Elevations, etc. For Exterior Building Elevations I use SLVPs so I can show the grade line close to the building face. Interior Elevations have gotten better in recent releases, but sometimes I find Section SLVPs easier to control. I have not run into the issues you had with adding dimensions to circles on Section SLVPs, for example to locate pipes penetrating walls. (Granted I am not dimensioning them to the millimeter). If I were drawing the cabinetry details from your example, I would have drawn the shelf bracket support holes with 2D circle annotations in the Hidden Line SLVP. I would not bother with modeling them in 3D.

‘Save Viewport Cache’ is located on the Display tab of the Document Preferences, File -> Document Settings. Vw 2024 Help File : Setting Document Preferences

In the other thread that you started yesterday asking the same question, @Pat Stanford gave you some suggestions on how to correctly do what it sounds like you are trying to do. Post back in that other thread if you have additional questions about the suggested workflow.

How much RAM?

What OS are you running? The ‘OS 10’ in your signature could mean either Windows 10 or MacOS 10.

@Kell - it’s not clear from your question what line of work you are in. Landscape design, pool design, architectural, interiors? Knowing what kind of work product you need to produce might enable others to help you figure out if Vw is a good fit for you or not. Dedicating only a holiday week to learn any complicated software package (like Vw) is not enough, in my opinion. If you haven’t found it already, take a look at the Vw University portal. There are a bunch of videos which could get you started, one particular course is titled ‘Getting Started: The Basics’. VW University: Getting Started, The Basics

See the following page from the VW 2024 Help file which has some instructions about customizing the Smart Options Display. VW 2024 Help File : Smart Options Display

You are correct. I had presumed they were asking about the current realistic 3D posed figures, not the old 3D poseable non-realistic figures — which have been relegated to Legacy status for several years now and reportedly aren’t going to get any further updates.

No, it is not possible to edit the skin tone or clothing items of the 3D figures included with Vw. If they do not suit your needs (which are entirely reasonable) you will have to look to third-party solutions as Bart correctly noted.

I don't run Windows so this might not help with your issue -- but one thing to confirm is that the Vw Updater and Vw both are set to 'Run As Administrator'.

Do the existing Arc or Bezier options for Callouts not work for your needs? Under Leader options -> Leader Type

In Vw2024, it is in the Document Preferences. Vw2024 Help File : Legacy 2D Features

Wow - thank you for posting this tutorial. It’s very generous of you to share this.

1) Are some of those Vw parametric plug-in objects? If so there’s not much you can do to correct the face normals in Vw without converting the objects to groups and manually flipping the faces. If those are NURBS surfaces, you can show and reverse the surface normal direction. See VW 2024 Help File : NURBS Surface Properties Historically Vw has not been very good about creating PIO objects with correctly oriented face normals; See THIS THREAD for additional context. 2) I’m guessing that the bottom slabs of stone countertops are simple extrudes, and the slabs on the left were created by mirroring the original 3D objects / symbols on the right. Mirroring 3D symbols will typically flip the face normals. To fix this in Vw, don’t mirror the 3D objects, but simply make a copy of them. I do not know Twinmotion very well, but there is an option to create a two-sided material. Doing that, I believe, should fix the objects that have reversed face normals.