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Site model contours - update 4
Scott Campbell replied to Ross Harris's question in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests
In the Site Model Settings, deactivate "Custom lable placement" and put in 0 for "Maximum Labels per contour." OK. This will eliminate all automatically generated contour labels. Then go back and activate "Custom lable placement." You'll now be able to use the "Add Contour Labels" button on the OI-palette to create your labels along a polyline wherever you want them. -
Thanks for the clarification. As far as I know, the "Truss Properties" dialog can only be accessed via an instance in model (right-click on truss instance and chose from context menu). So, that brings us back to start: Vectorworks crashes when attempting to place an instance of a Truss object in the model. I think we need to troubleshoot based on the crash, and now it seems necessary to ask you to share a file with the Truss culprit, if you can, for testing. Thanks.
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Right click on the Truss symbol in the Resource Manager and select "Attach Record…". Highlight the Record you wish to edit, then click the "Edit values…" button. Be aware that the edited record values will not be updated in any truss instances previously created in the model.
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Åge - This is a rather detailed and specific challenge you’re presenting. I know there is work being done on the Plants, Plant Record, and reporting in Vectorworks. Let me coordinate with a couple colleagues, have a look at your files, and get back to you asap. You’re not in a hurry, are you? 😉
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Hello @aage.langedrag and @Eric Gilbey, PLA I don’t believe “Create Grade Limits from Planar Pad” is going to get what you need, Åge (if nothing else, you're limited to the same slope in all directions and from all edges of the planar pad). As a matter of fact, I don’t think Vectorworks currently has the tools to do what you’re trying to do. It’s frustrating to be so near, and yet so far from a precise and simple tool to do what you are asking. The closest I can get uses basically methods that it looks like you have already tried out yourself. But I’ll sum up here what I find to be the best work-around I can find at the moment in Vectorworks 2024. It’s possible to accurately model a solid which gives you any battered slope you want from the edge of a planar pad. In this example I’ve used 4 different slopes on four sides of a rectangular pad. One sees clearly where each battered slope intersects with the site model. It would be lovely if we had a tool to automatically find this 3D shape that corresponds to the exact intersection between the solid and the site model surface. As far as I know, we don’t have this. Please correct me if I’m wrong, @Katarina Ollikainen, @Eric Gilbey, PLA, @Vlado or @Tony Kostreski. But it is possible to quickly draw a 2D polygon in Top view and convert it to a Grade Limits. It drapes itself on the site model surface. The battered slopes look pretty even and good, but Vectorworks doesn’t get the corners quite right — at least not without some helpful proding. Grade objects in each corner of the pad, can be snapped with the lower elevation at the Grade Limits object rather easily. This results in proposed contours which are more or less what we’re looking for, don’t you agree? I’m sorry that this is not the automatic, super-precise solution that it should be. But I hope you find it of some help, nevertheless. I will ask around to find out if there’s something you and I are missing here, and most importantly: Just how we can influence the process to build this sort of automated slope control into Vectorworks of the future.
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LandXML Import/Export
Scott Campbell replied to kwik's question in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests
This is a long-standing wish, here in the Nordics at least. Eh, @Jutta Telivuo @Basem @John S. Hansen @aage.langedrag @Daniel Ewald @Helene Bast? To up vote this wish list item, hit the arrow pointing up at the top left of this post. Thanks!- 1 reply
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IFC ceiling grid made manual does not export in 2023
Scott Campbell replied to ida's topic in Architecture
My tests confirm that there is something funky going on here. On importing the v2023-generated ifc of your ceiling grid (the extruded lines) into BIMcollab ZOOM, I find that the ceiling actually does import, but it's location is wrong. On importing to Solibri Anywhere, it doesn't seem to import at all. In other words: Something funky. I'll register this as a bug. But in terms of ifc best practice, in my opionion, extruded lines as a 3D represenation of a suspended ceiling is somewhat questionable. An extruded line represents a plane, actually a 2D object. Following this line of reasoning, I'm tempted to replace your lines with skinny rectangles. In subsequent tests, I see that these (in your extrude) export correctly to ifc. I understand that you are most concerned about ease of editing/revising, and editing lines is likely easier than editing or recreating rectangles. Nevertheless, my workaround results in a true 3D object, and maybe it's worth the extra care. Of course, all of this focus on cobbling together suspended ceiling objects based on manually constructed lines, rectangles, NURBS surfaces or whatever, again begs the question: Where is the true BIM tool for ceilings in Vectorworks? The Ceiling Grid tool is an antiquated tool which obviously doesn't meet expectations. Many of us have lobbied for years for a modern ceiling grid tool, and here is yet another example of the trouble not having one is causing. UP-VOTE ON THE WISH LIST! Again I suggest that users who agree that the Ceiling Tool needs a proper modern BIM overhaul can up-vote this thread in the wishlist section of the forum. The more votes this wish gets, the quicker the Ceiling Tool moves up on the list. -
Import Survey File to Stake Objects
Scott Campbell replied to kwik's question in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests
In my tests, when importing a Survey File, Vectorworks will present you with the Stake Object Preferences dialog if it's the first time you create a Stake object in the file. After that, it will -- as you say, @kwik -- use the last chosen mode. Perhaps a checkbox in the Import Survey File dialog with an option to "Edit Stake Object Preferences" would give you the chance to access the prefs each time, or as needs be.- 1 reply
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