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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.

As there already is a Retaining Wall tool in Vw, you may need to provide additional information about what functionality (parametric or otherwise) that you feel is lacking with the current Retaining Wall Site Modifier tool / workflow. Vw2023 Help File : Creating Retaining Walls

The advice to ‘convert these objects to 3D polygons’ should only be followed if you are working on a copy of your working file, as doing this will destroy all history of your object and essentially make it uneditable in Vw. What was a parametric hybrid 2D / 3D object (wall, door, window, etc) will become a bunch of 3D polygons; This may be useful / helpful for the target 3D application, but it is not very useful for typical VW BIM workflows.

Alternatively you could include the RW style in your template file(s). But I could see that having direct access to RW styles in your Favorites would be a welcome improvement. What you describe in No. 2 sounds like a bug. As you said, when you import a RW style into a file which already has the same named RW style, it should ask to replace / rename it. That is the expected behavior with any other Vw resources having the same name. @Dave Donley - does this behavior sound like a bug?

Take a look at this course available at Vw University: Vw Univ : Data Tag Tool If you are Service Select member there is another one in the Coffee Break series on Custom Data Tags. Or take a look at the Help File page on Data Tags: Vw 2024 Help File : Adding Data Tags and Labels

I agree 100% with this ^^. This thread is so far off-topic — there may be interesting things being discussed, but it is no longer about the original wishlist request. Both Revit and ArchiCAD already have Rhino.Inside functionality, and this wishlist request is asking that functionality also be provided in Vw. Many architectural graduates in the U.S. already know Rhino — as that is one of the applications that many of them are taught / use in their studies. Providing Rhino.Inside for Vw would open up this application to those practitioners who might be drawn to Revit or ArchiCAD because of their Rhino.Inside functionality. VW may have resisted developing Rhino.Inside for Vw because they may argue that since we already have Marionette, why do we need Rhino.Inside? As @xxubiqts noted, you would be hard-pressed to try and duplicate the functionality of Rhino add-on packages like — Grasshopper (algorithmic / generative design), Ladybug (environmental design), Honeybee (daylight and radiation simulation) — using only Vw’s Marionette, if it were even possible.

If you look at that current file in the Resource Manager, if there is a Symbol Folder named ‘Cabinets’ try renaming it to something other than ‘Cabinets’. As you learned, VW does not like having anything with the same name.

@jmhanby What OS are you using and what are the specifications of your laptop (and desktop)? (It makes it easier for forum users to assist you add this information to your signature). Since you are seeing different behavior on your laptop -vs- desktop computer (assuming you are using the same Vw files and Vw version installation), it could be that the hardware specifications of your laptop are be below what is recommended.

@Chris Wang if it is reversed faces like Bart suggests, and you are unsure what that means or how to fix it in SketchUp, see the following YouTube video. Note that it is MUCH easier to fix reversed faces in SketchUp than in Vw.

@JuanP - there’s a typo in the updated chart for MacOS compatibility as it has two columns for Vw2023; I assume the left-most column is for Vw2024.

Unless you used Vw Cloud Services to save your Vw files and backup files, it’s doubtful that Vw would have them. Sorry.

Vw2024 only supports importing Revit 2023 versions or older (back to Revit 2011). Vw2024 Help File: Importing Revit

No, not that I know of — I think you have to edit them all individually. But once you create a custom Workspace the way you want it, then you can share that Workspace with any other users using that same version of VW.

... and that's One to Grow On.

If you edit your Workspace, you can set Command and Menu keyboard shortcuts to be whatever you like.

No - I didn't. I didn't know that you could extract 3d Loci from a point cloud.

If you want to use an Artistic Lines and Shadow Render style in the Background, see this thread for info on recommended settings to get rid of unwanted lines created by the default Artistic Lines & Shadow settings:

This functionality should also apply to Keynotes on Sheet Layers (not just Design Layers). Very rarely do I want a copied Keynote to remain associated with the Sheet / Design Layer Keynote Legend that I am copying it from.

See this related thread, it should answer your question about the current limitations when inserting skylights.

I posted a similar question about Vw Light objects (not lighting instruments) appearing outside the Clip Cube in Vw2023. Never got a satisfactory answer about whether it was working as designed.

Google “condensed monospace font” and you’ll find a bunch of options.

Bumping and cross-linking related wishlist requests for posterity.

This has been wishlist requested for a very long time. I posted one wishlist request for it back in 2015 (linked below); it currently has 41 upvotes. In that request I noted that this has been requested since at least 2009; going on 14 years now. Perhaps someday it will be implemented… but based on comments made by @Matt Panzer in THIS thread, it appears that with the introduction of Viewport Styles in Vw2024 — the thinking may be that this functionality is no longer necessary.

I agree. It seems like poor UI / UX design that an important part — the ‘yellow ball’ — is mostly or completely hidden by the other selection highlights. @Senthil Prabu How are users to know about the 3D dragger’s enhanced functionality in Vw2024 if part of it is completely hidden?

See the answer to this question from another thread: