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is it true that its not possible to import a pdf file as image resource to be used as an image fill?? That worked very well in VW 2010!! Bug or "feature"?

hi Horst, you are right , if i change to screen and than save ,close,reopen i can change the expected way. as it is a 2D element i have never expected to change it to a 3D plane... strange....! Having cofe now ...espresso!with no electonic devise! have a great WE

well updated to 2011 with the usual hickups... i generated a polyline from a former extrude and pasted it in an 2d plan (new dokument) but it has a 3d plane in the Objectinfopalette which can only be changed to "screen" but i want it to be a layerplane-objekt(as it is a 2D objekt which can be edit with 2D tools :confused: ) The reason i realised it was that it changes view to 3d view if you want to edit it which means if you work in a rotated plan you have to reset to top plan view all the time... any tricks?

with the hybrid symbol you have the full 2D view + 3D and you can work with open GL fast and smooth at least on a Mac. But yes it is harder first to create and second to edit because you have to edit two contents...actually by thinking of it a floor-element would do the job as well 2d image and 3d shader in one element....!bingo!

well not really the same ... one would have to click every window. i never wrote a script maybe its worth a look...

i guess i know what you want... a hybrid symbol! make a 2d form and import the desired image as an new image resource and drag it onto the 2D element (resize it with the attribute mapping tool or in the image properties)and than create a symbol out of it- than edit 2d content of symbol duplicate 2d elemt convert to 3D polygon and make a new renderworktexture by reusing the image allready imported and give it the same size than on the 2d Element and leave the symbol. you should have a 2D image now and a 3d appearence as soon as you change view

good morning! as it is the way that we are getting more mobile and drawing more and more on a laptop i wonder if anybody worked out a way to hide all pallets except the main window and show them again when needed, like tab bar in photoshop..?

just for information there is a realy well working productdatabase at www.duravit.com i allways import iges files very smooth and always in scale! for sanitary try www.hansgrohe.com works well too...

i used the workspace editor and set up standardviews to alt+cmd 1 for left isometric etc, works for me...

i had magicprefs before and BTT looks better in terms of masking areas and a realtime preview of your fingertips.

This is a little luxurios problem. i have the magic mouse and fired up "Better Touch Tool" which helped a lot to avoid the unwanted zooming when touching the right fringe of the mouse while grapping it... and to set up the middle click area to pan pages with comfort. But i cannot get a setup to scroll a page with a two finger swipe in Vectorworks so i dont have to press the "alt" key with the other hand. Any ideas? Thanks!

i do know about the control points, but isn't the lenght of the wall always calculated from the middle of a joint..?? so if i use the tab to insert a value i have to calculate befor entering..

many or them arround i very often find them in the google databse (3dwarehouse)just download an import and modyfy for your needs. for examble: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=ef804e16b066c48ebb8aaa7fb7119bb2&prevstart=0

If i have a room or a building it ALLWAYS have a dimension inside a room or outside a house. Very rarely in the middle of the wall!! i think there should be a choice to set the tab values either inside middle ore outside while drawing ....wall can sing and dance nowadays but even in VW2011 it seems that simplyfied worktasks are not possible!you still have to workarround or calculate. NOT comfortable! maybe whishlist what do others think?

that rings an old bell.... may be its a corupted font it has happend before! http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=28070&Number=137179#Post137179

have you got any response??? or has anybody a new trick?

http://www.vectorworking.com/profiles/blogs/maxon-vectorworks-love here we go..... just bought modo401 . its the best interface i came across in any application , super renderengine fantastic tutorials and great company comunication! but getting VW content over is a pain ..i..t..a..

it seems to work again (with SP4) so turn on associative dimensioning again..! Thanks 4 fixing that!!!

Could aomeone tell me how to do that ...? i tried for an hour now but no success with "create wall projection..." the 2D element gets allways "sucked" into the wall and i cannot figure out how to place it at the end of a wall!! what am i missing? Thanks!

is there a trick or possibility to generaly adjust windowsizes that are relatet to the finder dialog like "open file" or "safe as" ? They always appear very small and i allways have to adjust them... minor issue , just wondering!

Thanks Jonathan, Sorry i mixed up viewport and sheetlayer i had set the sheetlayer to 600 DPI...

i cannot get a viewport to look as it does on a designlayer. i am rendering in Open GL because i like the look and the speed. It looks fine on a designlayer but in avieport it looks pixalated.. no smooth diagonal lines or edges. i set openGl render options to very fine quality and set the viewport to 600dpi but it still does not look like the designlayer... i worked arround it by adding a hiddenline render on top of the drawing in the viewport annotation, but thats a lot of work because you still have to clean it up... any tricks?

Hallo VW, You are selling a (mostly fine) software for precice drawings a professionell can not work with this bug!!!!! Its like a train is coming..Perhaps!!! it is not relyable and it worked before. Do you have an idea how many Dimensions have been drawed since you know of this bug and and how many dimensions have been drawed with "Turning off associative dimensioning" and do not correct when somebody else is changing something in a drawing ans is not aware he should have changed the dimension too, bercause some of them are not associated....!!! please go ahead and fix it this is essential for most of you users!!!!

as far as i remember hit the tab enter a number and than hit the "enter" key but the one far right at the numberpad and than enter the y-value. that works for dimension too, first clic on a point than the "far right enter key" than the numbers and than to finish the real enter key this was very convenient and fast and i still think it was more ergonomic than the way it works now with tab( left hand) than number (right hand) than tab again if neccessary and using the left hand again.....

i have the same problem all the time! its sort of random :-(( sometimes it appears, sometime not, sometime it dissapears when moving the viewport sometimes by changing the resolution. Couldn't find a solution...!!! Sometimes i go on print and use the save as PDF dialog in the printer menue , which creats a large file and than go in Acrobat Prof. on Document/reduce filesize for a usable document and that worked....sometimes!!