[Vectorworks abandoning perpetual licences]

Sketchup here I come

[Dimension tool]

can't seem to add or subtract dimensions from chained dimension by right clicking on the dimension?

[Camera Match]

are there any videos showing how to use the camera match tool. I'm trying to add a simple 3d Vectorworks drawing of a gate to a photo. I've sent the attached photo to the client to let me have these dimensions, will these be enough? Any help would be greatly appreciated

required dimensions.pdf

[twisted handle]

anyone know how to create a twisted handle as in the attached pdf?

gate latch.pdf

[odd behaviour]

I started version 2023 by mistake and then started version 2024 and the icons in the toolsets had changed to the ones from version 2023, I had to delete the file in C:\Users\James\AppData\Roaming\Nemetschek\Vectorworks\2024 to get them to change back to the new style icons, strange!

[Vectoworks 2024 very slow to open]

I'm finding version 2024 slow and clunky, screen refresh sometimes only refreshes when zooming, some of the drop down menus when I click on them appear solid black to start with. In general version 2024 seems slower than 2023.

[create toolbar to show views]

6 hours ago, Hans-Olav said:

Hi 

You can use Smart Options Display to achieve this.

 

 

thanks for this, I forgot about this function

[create toolbar to show views]

is it possible to create a toolbar that has all the views on (top/plan, right, left, back, etc.) to save having to use the drop down menu.

[Publish command]

Hi Jonathan

Vectorworks seizes, have to do control, alt, delete to exit VW through the task manager. it seems to be the PDF/A1b that causes the problem when I switch to just PDF the publish command works.

[Publish command]

since updating to SP 7 the publish command doesn't work, anyone else experiencing this problem? 

[Webinars]

is it possible to view coffee break webinars at a later date, I always seem to miss them!

[missing lines in openings!]

Am i missing something, door opening seems to be the problem window openings are OK

lines missing.pdf

[Vehicle turning circles]

is there VW an addon for vehicle turning circles?

[Edit proposed contours]

that may be a problem as its a very big file 232,976KB also I have a very slow internet connection 😒

just tried again and it seems to work on the existing contours if I delete them totally and some parts of the proposed but if I just change a position of a contour the alterations get ignored!

[Edit proposed contours]

am I missing something, when I edit proposed contours nothing happens, the alterations I made are ignored when I exit proposed site contours.

[Zooming]

I'm using VW2023 SP1

17 hours ago, JuanP said:

Are you running the latest SP1? Is this crash consistent? Or is it file related? Could you send me the crash logs? - Thanks

there doesn't seem to be a crash log, I had to use the task manager to end process, I've had to do this on quite a few occasions

[Zooming]

another thing that annoys me is why change things that work for example the attributes palette, now when I select make all attributes by class I get arrow heads appearing, I now have to go and select none in the arrow drop down menu. This wasn't a problem in version 2020 also why shove the snaps palette down in the bottom righthand corner. The new section and elevation markers have become over complicated, why!

[Zooming]

VW just totally crashed while trying to zoom out in a sheet layer, why is it that whenever a new version of VW comes out there are so many bugs, I'm sick of being one of the many guinea pigs that are used to test new versions of VW which none of us have signed up for.

[2D polygon inner boundary mode]

in viewport annotation when I when I autofill a shape using the 2D polygon tool the stake objects are picked up even though they are not displayed in the viewport, another glitch?

 

 

 

 

 

[section elevation line]

why is it so complicated to edit the section elevation line what was wrong with the old way, please dont make things complicated just for the sake of it 😒😒

[site modifiers]

Is there an easy way to update aligned site modifiers, its a pain having to select them and re-align them individually 

[stair tool]

thank you so much for that, I've been struggling with the new stair tool for a long time

[editing site model surface]

you can add a vertex when you edit the surface of the site model but can you delete a vertex?

[stair tool]

still can't make the new stair tool give me the result I've shown below, had to revert to the custom stair tool (easy and simple to use). Is this layout possible in the new stair tool?

[swale/berm]

how do you remove a swale/berm if it's in the incorrect position