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jeremyb

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  1. Further to my last post - I have found the answer in 3D Modelling:3D Reshape - easy to do in a 3D view such as Right Isometric - in case it helps any other struggler.
  2. I need to draw a boundary wall the top of which slopes up from 1000 to 1830 over about 2M length. Is there a way to draw a wall with a sloping top like this? Also, I cannot find how to break a wall - assume this is possible?
  3. Michael Thanks for your help. After a bit of trouble I have done as per your second suggestion and it seems to have worked. Thanks. Jeremy
  4. I have created polygons with a solid colour infill. When I extrude these to show as 3D objects in 3D view they lose their colour fill when viewed in normal 2D Top/Plan view. Is this supposed to happen, it is a bit irritating?
  5. I can't find any information on how to do this, can anyone help and tell me how it's done? Thanks
  6. Yes I was, unchecked it and boundary appears. So thanks for that. Don't know how that happened. What is unified view anyway?
  7. I have set Page Boundary Visible in Page Set Up, but it is not appearing? Is this a bug or am I missing something? Page prints correctly, but I need to see the page boundary on the screen. Any ideas?
  8. I have turned on Drawing Grid, page size set to A2. But the grid does not fill all the page, it's only a square smaller than my page size. In fact it stays same size whatever page size I set. Can't find a way to enlarge it? See screen grab. Any ideas?
  9. Thanks Tamsin, file emailed over to you. Jeremy
  10. OK, I have now found the Select Similar Tool. I have changed preferences to Same Symbol Name, but when I select a group of plants (one which I know has more than one occurrence) I get an error message to the effect that I can't select an object with these parameters???
  11. Is it possible to view all occurrences of same object, ie select one plant and then highlight/select all other occurrences of the same plant? I mean in plan view not on a plant list.
  12. It would be very helpful for me to be able to highlight every incidence of a particular plant or group of plants on a planting plan? This would apply to any object used more than once I suppose. I think that this should be possible but I cannot as yet see how to do it.
  13. Ray. Thanks for quick reply. I am new to the world of Mac, but apparently video drivers are automatically updated, you cannot download the drivers manually, so I assume all is ok there. I have also run utilities and updated permissions. All to no avail. Any other ideas?
  14. I have posted about this before but did not get much response, so am trying again. When editing 2D plant symbols VW crashes suddenly with an error report, this happens when I press the Exit button, about 50% of the time. Possibly it is due to corrupted symbols but they seem to work fine before editing, and it even happened with a newly imported plant object symbol. This is driving me nuts and really shouldn't be happening, so I would dearly appreciated it if someone to point me in the way of a solution. iMac 2.8GHz Intel quad core i7, 8 GB RAM, Radeon HD4850 graphics card
  15. I am trying to move my page boundaries and have set up my page size as A4. All I get though, when I try to move the page, is a small white rectangle with arrows on each side and which turns red when I left click. Command works fine with other files. What am I doing wrong? When I print the page is blank. However, when I open my only Sheet Layer, then the move page option starts to work???
  16. I have just invested in an iMac and am running VW2010 with SP4.I have beset by constant crashing this morning, which seems to be happening mainly when I edit plant 2D attributes. I thought macs were meant to be stable?!
  17. I am also experiencing crashing when I edit plant 2D attributes. Did you manage top get to the bottom of the problem?
  18. Pat. Yes they are on different layers, nut I have changed the layer stacking order and lay and behold it has worked. Thanks very much. In my ignorance I didn't realise that the layer stacking order did any more than organise the layers neatly. Wiser and happier now!
  19. I have a survey layer with boundary walls. When I Place Plants on my Planting Plan layer they sit under, to the back of, the walls. No matter what I do I cannot bring them to the front. Any ideas anyone as I can't find any settings that say that the walls should always bi inth front???
  20. Thanks for all your advice. Think I am going to take the plunge and buy an iMac like yours Peter. Ooerrr! One other question, how do you do backups? I would want to backup to a different hard drive, suppose I could do this over an eternet connection to a hard drive on my pac, but what do you guys recommend?
  21. Long time pc user but having just used VW on a mac I loved it. Can anyone recommend the a)minimum and b)ideal spec desktop machine that I should get, if I take the plunge to convert. I would like the option to upgrade (does this mean a MAC pro?). And should I get quad as opposed to Dual core, and how about RAM and video cards? I dont mind spending a bit more to get a machine which lasts a while. Any advice happily received. Thanks
  22. Using VW2010. Many of my plant symobls are appearing in resource browser as blank with a sub text 2 beside where they should be shown. I am in Top Plan view. Can't work out why this should be happening. Can anyone enlighten me?
  23. Thanks for this, Ian. However my DTM views as a series of contour lines joining only some of the stake objectsin 2D, but is an unreadable series of vertical lines in 3D, I realise that I am doing something, probably a lot, wrong, so any more help much appreciated!
  24. I have used the Stake Object tool to mark level data points on a survey. I now want to be able to view these 'side-on' as a section showing the various levels in this (sloping) garden. Surely this is possible, but I can't for the life of me find out how to do it. I am a relative beginner, now using VW2010 (no little investment) and I just wish thyat it was a bit more intuitive and easy to use.
  25. Thanks for replies. I have found the answer - I did not have Contraints Snap to Points toggled on. Simple as that. Doh!
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