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Hey Brian, check out Jonathan Pickup's Podcast "038 - Changing The Section Style on Section Viewports" on his web site at archoncad.co.nz this may help you to get closer to what you want. Good Luck

Hey Bill, I really like your thinking/strategy as to your use of the SLAB LAYER with stair placement. I am going try and follow your procedure as stated above but may have to call on you for some step by step support. It sounds like a slam-dunk technique.

Hey Wes, thanks for the jamb thickness input, now it really has no trim.

CC, go ahead and create the opening that you want using Cased Opening from the Configuration Menu in the OIP and while in the OIP choose round from the Top Shape menu. This will give round opening with no trim. Try it out and I hope it works for you.

Welcome to the forum Teresa!

Max, try this little experiment. New a new file draw a simple house with four walls and add some door and windows to all walls put 3 of these walls in a class called Wall-EC and the remaining one in Wall-EC-1. Make the demolition class active( use the VW default for this)and accept the attributes and draw a new wall directly on top of the (EC-1) wall to be demolished and place the doors/windows in the proper positions. Next over that same wall draw your new one in the Wall-Spec class and add some doors/windows. Now alternate the visibility of the Wall-Spec and Demoltion and Existing Conditions classes do this in an isometric view as well. Next make all of the walls visible and send the litlle house to a sheet layer using the Create Viewport tool. Copy the viewport so that you now have 3 of them. Select viewport number 1 and in the OIP click on the classes button and make the Wall-Spec and demolition classes invisible. In viewport number 2 turn off the Wall-EC-1 class class and make the Demolition class visible. Use viewport number 3 to show the Wall-Spec class. Check it out

Welcome Matt, What kind of hardware and software are you using? Gregory

Hello Dee and welcome to VectorWorks. For starters check the Navigation > Palette > Classes to ensure that the DIMENSION class is set to be visible. If what you are getting in place of your dimension is selectable do so and check Object-Info-Palette (OIP)where you can control the text/dimension and witness lines and text boxes. Below is a description of the hardware and software that I am using you should yours to future posts it helps to pinpoint problems and SOLUTIONS

Mecacarl, check out Jonthan Pickup's podcast #032 titled "Details from PDF Files" this 2 minute tutorial video will show you how to scale an imported PDF so that it can be used as a detail. I think that you will like this site. Good Luck Gregory

Yes, along w/ having the auto join turned off as Seth/MG mention. Try drawing (auto join off) your two 12' wall segments and then use the wall join tool to join them at the 90 degree angle. Next draw the 8' segment by starting at the desired position then with the wall still selected use the OIP to give it a flat end cap choose the start option in the end cap drop down menu. You can also use the "Remove Wall Breaks" tool to clean up those little mitre lines and then rejoin using one of the wall join tool options.

Hey Lineweight, Try drawing your 8' wall segment and then use the wall cap tool to put a flat end cap on it. This is how I have done it in the past.

Hey Lineweight,(great name btw) I am a big fan of the wall tool as a matter of fact I just drew up a set of plans of an existing SF CA victorian with threee radius walls and the wall tool made it easy. Once I have my walls the way that I want them I uasally LOCK them using the lock function found in the MODIFY menu.

I seems that since I updated to 12.5.3 I can't convert a sheet layer to a PDF in any mode other that Hidden Line whenever, I apply a sketched line effect to a VP and try to print to PDF my appilcation shuts down. Message that I get is: "The Application has stopped working" Close Program.

So Pete when is your user's manual coming out?? That is an Awesome Display up there my man.

Oh Kkkkkatieee,heeeyyy Robbbbert! how do I go back to good 'ol v12.5.2?? It's 1:50AM Pacific Time and two of my clients would like see thier elevations and massing notes. Could I just delete Vworks from my harddrive and start over from v12 and move to v12.5.2? Maybe I can export to AutoCad and covert/pring from there

I recent upgraded/updated to v12.5.3 and now I cannot covert any of my newly annotated sheets into PDFs for client and printing distrubution and this is not good for me. When I try to convert/print to PDF I get a message saying "VectorWorks Application has stopped working close program" and then my work is placed (thank God) a back up folder. This is day two and I send out work almost daily.

Hey Clara, If you are thinking of drawing the 1st & 2nd floor on their respective LAYERS then your thinking is correct however you must ensure that the WALL TYPE that you are drawing with has been set to VISABLE in the NAVIGATION PALETTE. If the Wall-Exterior is turned off, use Navigation Palette to turn it back on. When you select a VIEWPORT on a SHEET LAYER you can click on the layer button in the OIP (Object Info Paleete) where you can set the visibilty of any LAYER and the is also true for CLASSES I hope that this helps G

Stacy check out "VectorWorks 11 on Vista" in the Installation Inquiries forum to see what others have had to say it.

doughd, VW has a "paste in place" function that works well when one wants to place the copied object(s) in the same location but on a different layer. Now here's how I mimic Acad's basepoint function. Select and Duplicate the targeted geometry. Convert the duplication into a Group Move Group to desired location/Layer Use one of Group Handle to position it where I need it. Ungrouping the object will convert back into singular obejects. This is way faster then it reads

Kell, I have them all and they all take different approaches to teaching VW and even though Archoncad's Manual are not as slick and polished as the others they have helped me to get ahead of the leraning curve alot quicker. Jonathan Pickup is no writer nor is he an editor but he is very good with VectorWorks. Yes there are a few typos here and there and there is no dramatic soundtrack with his how to movies but where the other manuals show you what VectorWorks can do, Jonathan's manuals will show you what YOU CAN DO. After dropping some good coin on Step by Step, Nemetschek and the boys from Resolve I still bit the bullit and ordered the Essentials manual(135.00 to get it from Aukland to Oakland) and by page 95 I was creating and cutting objects in 3D and by page 100 I ordered the second (Architect's) manual.