[VW 2008 Training Manuals?]

Any idea when Nemetschek will be releasing new training manuals for VW2008?

[Battered Walls]

ArchiCAD can do this...

[Room Finish Schedules]

Julian Carr's 'Worksheet On Drawing' add-on allows you to split worksheets as well as giving you additional options for formatting them. You can look at it at: . I think it's around $25.00 US and is well worth the cost. HTH!

[Section Viewports Always Showing 'Empty' Status]

Jeffrey Ouellette solved this problem for me via the VectorWorks mailing list. I had the 'Save viewport cache' document preference turned off.

[Section Viewports Always Showing 'Empty' Status]

Any reason why my section viewports continuously indicate 'Empty' status (red 'X')? They definitely have objects in them, the objects are not hidden, and the referenced design layers are not set to 'invisible' (reasons why VW Help says the 'Empty' status would be shown). If I select each one individually (there are 6 of them on the sheet layer), I can update them but whenever I change views or move around to other layers they revert to the 'Empty' status. Its a real pain particularly since the red 'X's show up when I print. They do show the 'Out of Date' status as expected when the referenced model is modified. The viewports are set to render in 'hidden line'. BTW, the plan viewport adjacent to them displays correctly all the time.

Regards,

John

VW 12.5.2 Designer

20" iMac Dual Core

[user defined 'objects' ?]

You can also get Julian Carr's 'WinDoor' add-on which does what you want for a great variety of window / door types. Its all parametric, no scripting involved, does 2D / 3D, and creates schedules if required. Why reinvent the wheel and spend all your evenings and weekends learning VectorScript when you could be out having fun?!! :-) See

[Best 'hand lettered' font for VectorWorks]

Try also looking at 'TwoByFour' from MyFonts (www.myfonts.com). I've used it on a Mac for some preliminary stages of projects....