willofmaine

Here in the year 2020, I still wish that surface hatches, at least optionally, were NOT snappable. There are too many invisible snap points as it is; snapping to every particle of a stucco hatch seems entirely unnecessary... ... ...

When creating the wall components of wall styles, and when setting the component's Fill Style to use the Class Style, I really wish that the component's color would automatically also default to "Class Style" when the class it's being assigned to has anything but a solid fill assigned to it (such as a hatch). Otherwise, trying to override the component's fill in a viewport - say to replace a hatch with a solid color - only results in the solid fill being applied, but not the desired color, because the component's color is still its default white color (i.e., while the hatch can be made to go away, the color white can't be changed). The hard-learned workaround is to remember to change the component's Fill Color to "Color by Class" before setting it's Fill Color to "Class Style." The challenge going forward will be remembering this workaround... ... ... Please make Vectorworks more intuitive!!! VWIS131

This seems to persist in VW 2020 SP3, but much more difficult to replicate. The floating data bar now seems wise to the problem and scurries much faster to stay out of the way of the cursor. For all intents & purposes, we'll call it "Resolved!"... ... ...

It seems the "extraneous and disconnected wires in networks" of my original post have been resolved!! But with testing to verify, a couple of new issues: Marionette Object Disappears after Editing Script (VWIS194): https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/70049-marionette-object-disappears-after-editing-script/#comment-344473 Marionette Network Symbol Misaligned and Difficult to Select (VWIS195): https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/70050-marionette-network-symbol-misaligned-and-difficult-to-select/ I've posted these issues in "Troubleshooting" because it seems more likely that they're Vectorworks graphics issues rather than specifically Marionette issues...

After changing the drawing scale, it seems that Marionette network symbols and they're bounding boxes are completely unrelated, and sometimes even misaligned such that it's difficult to select the network symbol for editing. See attached video. VWIS195 03-Network Symbol Misaligned-1080-02.mov

Testing to see if Marionette network nodes now keep their relationships to each other when the drawing scale is changed or different from the creation scale (once upon a time, they did not: https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/52644-marionette-wires-frequently-disconnect/&tab=comments#comment-263834 ). Looks like now they do!! But... After editing the Marionette test object and the network symbols it contained, the Marionette object all but disappeared. It exists, which can only be proven by its presence in the OIP. Otherwise, it's completely invisible, without even the benefit of pre-selection or selection highlighting. See attached video. Subsequently adding another instance of the Marionette object and editing that brings back the first instance. I'm posting this in "Troubleshooting" because it seems more like a graphics issue than a Marionette issue... VWIS194 05-Marionette Object Disappears-04.mov

It's custom built geometry (Sweep > Subtraction > 3D Symbol > AutoHybrid). And when I just opened the file to check, the curves were, yet again, completely faceted... So, maybe I was wrong above about having to restart Vectorworks... Solids seem like a much better thing than 3D polygons and meshes; I wonder why PIO's don't ever seem to use them...

Almost four years later, and I still wish that cameras would be automatically activated when editing them via a viewport. If not for me (most of the time I remember to activate them...) then at least for people new to Vectorworks. Along with saving users some time and frustration, it might help expand any perception that Vectorworks is intuitive...

This problem (from December, 2017) seems to persist with Vectorworks 2020, SP3. However, the (or at least a) solution seems to be simply re-rendering the offending viewport. After that, it's not an issue. The problem seems to occur only the first time the viewport is rendered, and that only after Vectorworks (not just the file) has been closed and restarted. Oddly, whether the "3D Conversion Resolution" (for both the Viewport and for Vectorworks Preferences) is set to Low or Very High, the results are the same with "smooth" curves (i.e., the same slight faceting) in both cases. And, either way, it takes about 1 1/2 minutes (give or take a few seconds) to render the viewport. It's as if the 3D Conversion Resolution settings don't have any effect on the viewport, either in rendering quality or rendering time...

It appears this issue is not resolved with SP3. VWIS179

This issue persists in SP3. I neglected to mention in my original post that "Zoom Line Thickness" needs to be turned on in order to see the different line weights. Also, after having set up the viewport and the 0.70mm reference line, if you switch from "Best Compatibility" to "Best Performance," it's necessary to zoom at least a little before the line weights actually update. It would be nice if Vectorworks had "real-time" graphics, let alone real-time rendering.

This issue persists in SP3. It seems it may happen all the time, except when trying to locate one symbol after another, without interruption to do something else in Vectorworks.

It turns out that it's not Page Scale symbols per se, but, rather, it's Page Scale symbols that are contained in Hybrid Symbols. When editing the viewport and zooming in too far, the ability to snap to geometry of the Page Scale symbol is lost. See attached Vectorworks file. 01-Can't Snap to Page-Scale Symbol.vwx

These issues persists with SP3, except that temporarily changing the window's ID Tag class to None and back again actually seems to cause the issue described in the last paragraph above, rather than resolve it.

This problem persists with SP3 and, as before, it happens in "Best Compatibility," but not in "Best Performance." Also, when zooming way in, text just turns solid gray. Navigation Graphics don't seem to affect this either way. See attached SP3 video. 09-Text Solid Zoomed In-1080-08.mov