Michael_Eschenbach

Try this for a work around. pick an area in the center of one of your drawings in 1:1 scale. Zone in or out on it until the ruler at the top of the page matches +- your drafting ruler. Save the view under 'saved views', name it "normal sacle" and select only restore view.... deselect all other options..... no matter what layer, sheet, or other you are on, when you click this saved view on the navigation palatte, it will show on your screen as actual size (as it would print on the drawing paper)..... you will need to use the pan tool to find the area you are interested in looking at because 'restore view' takes you to the same spot on the page each time.... so select the middle of the page to work with when you 'save the view'. this will not show actual line weights because of the screen pixels, but the drawing should be correct.

I was having a problem w/ opaque windows in custom renderworks.... not only would the windows become opaque (anytime I used the 'segment' option) when viewed in custom renderworks, but the muntins and mullions would disappear. I have found that going to the 'custom renderworks options' and deselecting the 'use nurbs' command, fixes the problem.... happy trails

Cristiaan, I have tried most eeverything.... best and fastest results come from save, shutdown, restart of vectorworks.... thanks though. best regards

I have had this problem as well.... in all cases it was a layer link which was causing the problem. I tracked the problem down to a corrupted wall that could not layer link. I created a new design layer, layer linked it to a new sheet. copied the walls one at a time to the new design layer and checked to see if the layer link was still working. If it worked I copied another wall. when it quit working, I deleted the wall I had just copied the rest to the new design layer and fixed the problem....the layer link still worked, and they walked off, into the forest, happily ever after.... best of luck

Go to the small bar at the top of the drawing called "Classes" and select 'classes...'. Going from one tab to the next, make sure that they are all marked as visible. Or go into the menu bar in"VIEW", select class options or layer options and select show all.... that should do it.

My favorite whine is californian..... really, ask them for assistance or offer your help in creating something that looks like a reasonable facsimile of a sentient being..... give them valid suggestions and maybe youll get a favorable response

There is a bug, which only occurs occasionally, which makes the location of the info palattes freeze. they cant be moved. and they cant be windowshaded. Does anyone else out there have this problem..... As with other bugs I have found, such as the stair pio stoppage, I find that by quitting and rebooting vectorworks, all is well again.... Before I post the bug, I'd like to find out if there are other occurances of the freezing problem.

Bruce... unhappily enough, though I agree with you, convention means that it has been standard for time immemorium and the chances of changing it are about as good as winning in iraq.

And I agree as well... I use multiple sliding doors here in florida.... 2,3, and 4 panel glass sliders that either dont pocket into the wall, pocket to one side, or pocket to both sides.... i have been making my own symbols to do this and adding a door record, but a door tool upgrade to add more panels would be nice... or customizible like the window tool.... thanks and pretty please as well

I agree.... Also if you could mount an integral soffit and fascia to it, would be nice..

In the 3D sections, you could easily make the closest lines heavy, and all lines behind, start at a 50% line weight relative to the cut line, and decreasing as it recedes in distance....

It would be wonderful if the switch "config" would rotate with the "S", instead of remaining vertical. I currently have to convert to group to rotate it which removes it from the worksheet data.... Please help on this one

Brian, the best way to print something from vectorworks, if you want to print a whole sheet is by printing to pdf.... are you mac or pc.... if mac, just hit command P to print, and click on the pdf button on the bottom left of the print dialog box... "save to pdf" and then open the file in pdf and print it. or export an image file as .jpg, which reduces the file size considerably.... best of luck Mike

katie, I am a working designer in Florida where screens are a must.... could you please send me a copy of your screen doodaa..... thanks for hosting the site best regards

litebrite, often, when importing dwg files, the viewports are correctly sheet centered, but the other layers or classes are spread all over. I always import as layers. once imported, I zoom out to the max, make all layers visible, and see where the original drawing was created. then I select that area, change the layer visibility to active only, and copy paste each pertinent layer to a new formated, preset file that I use to start all drawings.

John, look in the info palatte at the top for a "render" tab. click on that and select a texture from the 'class texture' list from those available. if none are showing, go to the resources browser (menu item, window, palates)and select a texture. you can drag and drop the texture onto the item as well from the palatte to texture it.

It would be nice if on the info palatte, a space could be provided Between the ID Suffix and the ID Label Size to place a similar area to put the window / door call size.. ie 2060, or 6068, or pella 5668, or 1H5-SH, such that it would be visible when looking at the window on the screen without opening the "Settings" pallate

When I open the wall styles under wall preferences, I get a list of about 50 useless wall styles I will never use.... where are these styles located so I can edit out the ones I dont use?

You might try wallthickness='x'

When you place a door or window object into a wall, there are four blue squares at the four corners of the door and one dot in the middle. If you select the center dot, you will be grabbing the door or window id tag, and you can move it anywhere you like. good luck

thanks for the great tip... works well

I think the stair tool is great, but I see no way to make the platform go right, only left... how does one make the stairs rise and rotate or platform shift to the right?

Is there any way to make the electrical switch symbols "config label" rotate with the symbol as it is rotated? (other than converting to group) such that a 3 way switch symbol, as it is rotated, rotates the "S" as well as the "3"......

Also be aware that there are a group of new user fields in the new VW 12 that can be customize to input the information you wish. Double click on the Door symbol, and go to the Data section... scroll down to find the userfield1-(5). Maybe that will help

Robert, thanks for the note, I sent the bug along. I also noted a bug discussion about the offset tool not correctly offsetting if the offset is greater than the length of the leg to be offset. Do you know if VW is working on that problem... it has been in existence for quite a while??