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Stan Rostas

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  1. Christiann,

    The 2014 Modeling environment, what with the Clip Cube, Perspective View, New X-Ray Select in 2d and 3d and now the OpenGL environment speed the user can create 3d content very Quickly! All this along with the Design layer visibility control allows users to effectively work on only that with which they intend to impact.

    Having had the opportunity to use the software can attest to the significance of the improvements. If you are a user that is doing any 3d in Vectorworks this is a must have upgrade.

    Regards,

    Stan

  2. Christiaan,

    The only way is to create a series of Textures that are transparency textures only that uses object color for renderworks if you need object level control.

    The other method is by design layer but then you have to move them to the Greyed design layer as Greyed Classes does not work.

  3. Vincent,

    "This probably depends partly on the fact that the program is/has been developed for several disciplines not only architecture and partly on the fact that there are no architects involved in the actual R&D."

    There are many Architects working at NV within the R & D. You can see there names on the many list in this forums. They do not effect the base code but they do effect the direction and implementation of many of the tools. The issue is the Vision for the entire application is and has not been determined by an Architect. The same can be said of all the application offerings and may explain the resistance by many first to CAD and now to BIM. Of course Architects come in many flavors, just look at that which gets built around the world.

  4. Point your backup at a local drive location as opposed to the server but work off the server. This should keep the backup from getting corrupt.

    The import design layers should work, we have used this with corrupt files before, hopefully yours are not to corrupt.

    You basically SOL on the sheet layers though.

  5. Use them for Elevations and Material designations all the time. They work but with a complete understanding and logical placement of the notes and legends. If you want certain keynotes to be the same spanning pages you will have to use some work arounds.

    General Notes work well enough.

    If you tie all these to the note database updates across drawings can be a snap.

  6. Chris,

    Revit has built in Core Windows only technology and will not be coming to Mac OS anytime soon. Boot camp, OS Emulation or Cloud based usage from a Mac is the only solution. Otherwise you get a Windows computer. Direct X has all the vector graphic capability to which you describe later in the thread.

    Be interesting to hear your comments after you get a completed construction set level of complexity in the model of your building and the speed issues.

    Revit has instant 2 way update of all work it would seem that would be a priority for the list in a BIM world?

  7. Here is the hatch. Yes, the method and UI is not a very user friendly one.

    You are setting positions of the dots on the screen. These can also be dragged around to get the look what you want then adjusted in the numeric fields. Yes, I know the Fields and the dots do not align in quantity as the Dash factor does not have a dot until you change the value from 1 as it sits under the Repeat dot. The repeat and the Dash factor work together as setting the length and direction of the line.

    The offset is for how far this line iterates itself that you have created.

    Start new hatch which gives you Level 1 or line 1

    Leave the Start at L: 0 and A: 0

    Set Repeat L:.45m and A: 0

    Keep Dash Factor at 1

    Set Offset L: .45m A: 90

    Now you create Level-2 or line 2

    all one has to do is change the Repeat and the Offset angles, the tricky part is you have to set them at something other than 0 or 90 as you can not have an offset angle and repeat angle be the same.

  8. Just discovered a bug whereby certain object types are not exporting using the 2d graphics which you all may be experiencing.

    the tried and true method is to save as the file, in this file create a design layer for all the elevations, dup the VP then convert to group, this will give a line object group that when placed on the design layer can be measured from, you will just have to scale up by the scale of the vp.

  9. Christiaan,

    In 2012 and beyond;

    "Export Viewports as 2D Graphics in Model Space

    Select this option to export all 2D and 3D objects that display inside a viewport as simple 2D (flat) graphics in model space. Each selected sheet is exported to a separate file. On re-import, all exported graphics are imported into a design layer.

    ● Viewports in Top/Plan view are exported without conversion to 2D lines.

    ● Rendered viewports in any view other than Top/Plan view are exported as groups.

    ● Non-rendered viewports in an orthogonal view (Top, Bottom, Front, Back, Left, and Right) are set to hidden line rendering and then exported as groups.

    ● Non-rendered viewports in an isometric view (including custom views) are converted to lines before export.

    ● Section viewports are exported as groups.

    ● Viewport annotations are extracted from the viewport groups and exported as single entities.

    ● All other sheet layer graphics (such as title blocks) are exported as single entities."

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