jchan

Dear all, I have set up some basic setting on a file which only have finish floor level and ceiling on each floor/storey. When I am doing the wall bounding setup under the wall insertion options. I can see some of other bounding options which I didn't set. It makes me hard to carry on. Any one can help? [img:left]https://www.dropbox.com/s/wb0xfueojvac2eb/Screen%20Shot%202015-03-03%20at%2016.48.47.png?dl=0[/img] [img:left]https://www.dropbox.com/s/c9jq4nadi42h25k/Screen%20Shot%202015-03-03%20at%2016.47.36.png?dl=0[/img]

I hoped the SP1 would solve the workspace editing issue, but the issue is still there. The default setting is not great. I can not save the edited workspace.It crashes when I click ok to save. Or it can not actually save properly. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61714285/VW%202015%20workspace%20problem.mov

Dear all, Our company just upgraded VW from 12.5 to the new version There are lots of things/setting need to be adjust to the new version. Now we can use the viewport reference to link the OS Map to our proposed drawings. 1. Do you keep the original coordination of the OS Map? If I used the OS Map coordination, it is always miles away from the origin. I always need to use the "zoom to objects" tool to centre the drawings. 2. Do you use UCS to rotate the OS Map on proposed drawings? I noticed that UCS is not accurate. If I duplicated a line and rotated 90º in an angle. After I turn the view back the top/plan view. The lines are not in an right angle. 3. Is there anyway to save the UCS angle? 4. I noticed the UCS angle is refer to the origin, no matter where the reference points I pick. In a small project is fine. But for the bigger projects which like 200-300 units scheme, it is really annoying to keep using "zoom to objects" tool to centre the drawing. Thanks

Dear all, I use an old version of Vectorworks for years. Now I jumped to the latest version. It seems there is a big jump to 2014, specially using new tool for BIM. After 2 days training on VW, there are lots of things need to pickup , e.g. storey, space, detail viewports etc. I am really confusing about the use of symbols. Back to the old day, I would create symbols if the objects I will use more than 2 times, for example doors , windows, units , furnitures etc. Now everything bound to the storey/elevation. So does it mean that we need to draw everything as loose objects and then use the eye drop tool to copy the properties. It would be hard for a large project got lots of repetitive objects like doors/windows/unit types One more thing I would like to confirm. On design layers, we only do the model. All the annotation/dimension we will put it in a viewport. Right? Any one has any good example to share? The drawings from the official web-site doesn't tell that much about the details. Thanks in advanced.

thanks Uli, unfortunately I couldn't find anything closer to a solution, hanging around for hours for the plotter driver, it's out of my knowledge how the driver works, (I was in the middle to install a driver, but it asked for the connection to a printer which I don't have) perhaps .plt/.hpgl is not existed in VW world. many thanks Lucas, I may tell my boss I can only export the drawings in pdf format

thanks Bryan & Uli, it's for online planning application, not for printing,

my boss asked me a question this morning, and i couldn't find the solution, can I create a plot file from VW? if not, how can I do this on the other method, say using a converter to convert pdf into plt, etc we are using mac many thanks

just noticed it's an encrypted pdf file, it's read only,

I imported a survey drawing into VW,using a viewport to rescale the drawing to fit into a sheet, I can see the pdf survey drawing in a viewport, with "project 2D objects" on, 2D Plan projection, Top/Plan view, the problem is, after I exported/used mac print pdf function to create a pdf file, the pdf doesn't show on the survey drawing, I tried to print the sheet, same problem occurred on the print out, anyone can help? many thanks, Jack

hi everyone, I have a problem to track back the original referencing files on our company server,(I'm guessing someone renamed the file or moved the file to another location), when I edit the workgroup reference, it only shows me part of the file location,is it any method to show the full location of a referencing file? many thanks,

Thx Pat, then I don't need to spend more time on research, should save money to upgrade

hi all, I have a problem to export the worksheet, I have drawn a window schedule with all the window symbols and attached a window schedule report in a sheet layer. when I checked the exported file, I noticed the worksheet become a blank polygon with white fill, anyone have this problem? and is it any method to bring it back? thanks,

thank you thank you thank you,gmm18, that's all I need, you save my life

hi all, I have a drawing which contains 4 different elevations in 4 different designer layers, I use symbols for the windows which attached to a record called "Window record", I want to create an individual window schedule for each elevation, but when I created a window schedule by "create report", I got a full record of all the symbols, I tried to edit it, but it didn't let me to change the content or delete the unwanted cell, is it a way I can created a selective range of record ( by design layer)? or to edit the report? thanks in advance, Jack

thx Olster, now, I do need to ask my colleague (he is using OS 10.4) to help me to export the file into C4D format for me, need to work this way until we upgrade the programs,

after I upgraded to OS10.5, the plugin doesn't work any more, nothing happened after click on "save" does anyone have this issue?

I changed VW preference and document preference setting to a higher resolution(300dpi), but they are no difference after rendering, I used a viewport, and set it to "artistic renderwork" with cartoon in A4 http://picasaweb.google.com/jack.smchan/WL/photo#5179741904652523970 perhaps that's the quality renderwork can do.

anyone know how to set a better quality on Artistic RenderWork? it seems really blur , not clear, compared with final shaded polygon rendering, thanks in advance, Jack

nice one, it works, but the resolution would be affected by the layer scale ^^ in 1:1000 the lines are super thick, and it works on viewport as well,

Thanks Christiaan, I tried to use the AEC standard yesterday, it seems too complicated, and you need to remember all the code in order to draw fast, it's such a headache, I will try to expand the current setting a bit, I think the "Major-Minor-Status" stucture works well, at least we have been worked on this stucture for years, and those are important for 3D modelling as well,

I'm working in a small London base architectural firm, 9 staffs, we have our own simple classes & layers setting for the small jobs, but now we are growing bigger & bigger, the current setting seems not be able to handle the large job, so I want know, anyone using the default standard AEC(UK), if you do, what's the pros & cons for using the default standard? I downloaded the list of AEC(UK) from http://www.aec-uk.org/ but the name of the classes they seem a bit different than the VW set up, not sure does nemetschek have the lists & descriptions of AEC standard? many thanks

Level 1 Start Point: X=0 Y=0 Repeat delta X=-112.5 delta Y=0 Dash Factor 1 Offset delta X=112.5 delta Y=-75 Level 2 Start Point: X=0 Y=0 Repeat delta X=0 delta Y=150 Dash Factor 0.5 Offset delta X=112.5 delta Y=-75

thanks all, questions again, ^^ is camera view = viewport? Cause I couldn't use carema in sheet layer, so is it any method I can make several perspective views in sheetlayer/ or one sheet?, cause I want to put some annontation on it and use different type of rendering.

we know that viewport is really powerful to present the 2d & 3d stuffs on one sheet. my questions are, can we create a perspective viewport? or can we link a camera view to a viewport? I'm not sure the use of camera is it for animation only? thanks for anyone can help ^^

anyone knows what's SKF format? VW seems not support SKF file, is it any convertor for Mac which can convert SKF into VW, dxf, or pdf, not sure ...