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  1. I don't understand why one would draw over a section VP on a Sheet Layer. That just doesn't make any sense. It would not be scale line-work. But the fact is many times the Section VP's of a 3D model are just not adequate, issues such as the location of the window sash in the wall not being in the right place, areas behind window trim creating voids in the wall when you cut a section through it. And not being able to "work" or continue to select, move, change, or add objects in Section view can be a big pain. Section VP's are great, but we need to be able to work in section, not just witness the results of our modeling. I have used two methods that seem to be best for dealing with this: 1). Create the Section VP on a Sheet, then trace it in Annotation space, Copy this 2D line-work, Exit Annotation, then Paste into a Design Layer for further editing/detailing. Then create a VP of this back onto the Sheet Layer for the final drawing. (Sometimes keeping the Section VP of the model stacked behind it to show objects beyond the section plane, etc.) 2). Use the old 2D Section tool to get the basic line work on a Design Layer, then go from there. Does any one have a better method for quickly getting section info into a Design Layer for detailing?
  2. Hey, how do you create a "Design Layer SECTION Viewport?"
  3. In your elevation viewports simply 'turn on' both your ground floor and first floor Design Layers. If you want to be able to view a 3D model that you can spin around, create a new Design Layer, then create a Layer Link. This has changed in newer versions of VWks, but you can learn about how to set up a Layer Link in the Help files. In terms of developing your elevations, rather than creating a polygon copy, create a viewport of your elevation, place it on a Sheet Layer, then double click on the viewport and Edit Annotations. Here you can add 2D linework to add detail etc. This 2D linework will still need to be updated when you make changes to your model in the Design Layers, but at least you won't have to create a new polygon copy over and over with each change. When you are almost done with the project you may wish to create a polygon copy just so you can get it tuned cleaner than is possible or worth your time to do in 3D. For Cross sections that you can see beyond the section line, in VWks 11 you need to use 3D Section tool, then view that section cut straight on. See the help files by clicking Help up on the VWks menu bar.
  4. Entering the cell labels (=F3/C3) does not work, still gives #VALUE! error. I also checked to be sure that the record fields are formatted as numbers, not text. They were formatted as numbers. I also tried simply entering a single record and rather than dividing it by another record, divided it by "2." So I did "=Daylighting.SkylightArea/2" this also gives the #VALUE! error. Sooo, this Skylight Area is a record format that I made, then attached to a Space Object, and entered in the value manually in the worksheet. If I use a record that is instead based on the actual Space object, such as "=Space.Area," as a database header I can manipulate that with modifiers such as dividing it by "2" or by another similar record format such as "Space.Width." So does this mean it is impossible to add modifiers to a record that is not actually derived from an actual object in the drawing? In other words, does anyone know if I can add modifiers to custom-made records called out in worksheet header rows?
  5. I am trying to create a column that will display the ratio of two record data points associated with a space. You can see in the image, I am dividing skylight area by floor area (as shown in the formula bar), but the result is displaying "#VALUE!" as the red arrow is pointing to. I couldn't find how to correct this in the help files. Thanks
  6. Pick the formula you need from American Wood Council Design Aid #6. You can download the PDF free at: http://www.awc.org/Publications/DA/index.html The one you need is Design Aid #6. Just select the formula you need based on your loading condition, then doing the calc is a piece of cake (despite the scary-at-first-looking math involved). If you have Excel you can even just enter the formula there so that you can change the variables (length, point load, distributed load, etc) for an instant answer. When Vectorworks does update the Simple Beam Calculator they can be sure to include all of these formulas from the AWC.
  7. But a toggle button option to "crop annotations" along with design layer info would be useful at times. I summited this as a wish not long ago. An example of when it would be useful is if you have just finished annotating a Section VP with framing members, insulation, and other details, then you want to duplicate that VP, bump up the scale, and crop it so you can make a custom enlarged detail. In this case being able to click the option to "crop annotations" would be very useful. In the mean time you have to go in and delete the extraneous annotations, but there are still some objects that need to be covered up with a white-fill rectangle in order to "crop" part of them out of view.
  8. Open the worksheet. Then in the worksheet, turn on "Database Headers." Select/highlight the "header row" which is the row where the formulas live, Then drag the "bar graph" looking ascending symbol at the top of the worksheet and drop it on the column with the room numbers. It will sort in numeric order.
  9. I am trying to make a new gradient to use as an overlay for a rendered viewport. This would be a gradient with White on one end and "none", or "no-fill" on the other end. The effect I am going for is a vignette overlay, so I can place a polygon with a radial gradient fill with "None" over the center of the rendered viewport, then it gradually changes to a solid white toward the outer edges so it fades away the border. This image is an example of the kind of thing I am after. This example is a VWX drawing then tooled in Photoshop. I just want to be able to do a more simple effect, but right in Vectorworks.
  10. You have to assign the doors with their tag numbers first. Just change them manually in the object info palette or in the worksheet. Then in the worksheet, select the "header row" which is the row where the formulas live, then drag the bar graph looking ascending symbol to the column with the door tag numbers in it. It will sort in numeric order.
  11. Ahhh, convert to group, then "convert all sub-objects" Thanks Pat, this really cleans up my drawings, all of that junk is now is in a single nice symbol...
  12. I am creating some window and door details using dwg's from manufacturers. I am doing a bit of processing on these files first. I am re-assigning all objects to the "none" class so I can delete all of their extraneous classes (I don't want all of that junk in my project files). However, I also want to get rid of all of the symbols in the file as well, individual screws, flashings, parts, etc, that are present in their dwg's. I don't want a bunch of extraneous sybmol objects cluttering my project resource browser. I just want to "UnSymbol" these symbols, similar to how we "ungroup" groups. I tried selecting the symbols in the drawing and "Convert to lines," but that doesn't work. I know I can Edit symbol and copy the line-work, paste that back into the drawing and then delete the symbol definition from the resource browser, but there are dozens of these, quite a time sucker... Any advice for "unsymboling" symbols quickly? Thanks
  13. No, I have tried, but found that if you know what you want it is very easy to just create your own muntin grid with an extruded polygon that you can place in the plane of the glass.
  14. Good ol' white box. Now why can't we do "Design Layer Section Viewports" wouldn't that make sense?
  15. -Edit the sun position (date and time) in the object info pallet rather than having to create a new light object and delete the old one. Serious!
  16. For example, if I have drawn insulation as an annotation, then duplicate that VP to create an enlarged detail of just a part of that Section VP. I still want to show insulation in the area I am cropping to. Turning off an "insulation" class simply makes it go away. The alternative is to re-draw it or manually reshape all such objects that extend through my crop box. I also like that crop does not affect annotations, but have discovered here a good reason to have "Crop Annotations" to be an option that may be turned on if desired.
  17. Often just hiding the class will not work, for example, if I have drawn insulation as an annotation, then create an enlarged detail of just a part of that Section VP. I still want to show insulation in the area I am cropping to. Turning off the insulation class simply makes it go away. The alternative is to re-draw it or manually reshape all such objects that extend through my crop box. I also like that crop does not affect annotations, but have discovered here a good reason to have "Crop Annotations" to be an option that may be turned on if desired. I will submit that as a wish-list. Any other ideas on improving section VP detailing?
  18. I have section viewports that I have added annotations to, including some things that I did not model in 3d such as footings, rafters, etc. These are for 1/4"=1' scale sections. Now I want to "blow-up" a few key areas, by duplicating these veiwports, increasing the scale to 2"-1' and adding a crop box around what I want the detail I want to show and add text call-outs. Seems like a good plan, since some of these details are unique to this project and I don't already have a typical detail for this condition. Bummer is the crop box will not crop the annotations, just the design layer info, so I have to go into this enlarged viewport and delete all of the extraneous annotations that are outside the area I want to show in detail. Any suggestions? Is it possible to crop annotations? Or does anyone have a better method for creating sections with details that can easily be blown-up and cropped? I thought of creating my Section VP's as "design layer section viewports," then adding my details right there in a design layer, thus making cropped VP's from that, but alas Section VP's can only be placed on Sheet Layers. Any ideas for improving this workflow?
  19. Sheet layers are organized in alpha-numeric order based on the sheet title. One thing to note, since VWks is sorting digit by digit and not complete numbers, A10 will be placed above sheet A2, to avoid this you can simple add a space, yes just hit the space bar, before "A1-A9," then they will be in order. If you have 20 or more sheets, add two spaces before A1-A9, and one space before A10-A19. In terms of the saved batch print set I have never needed to use that feature.
  20. I had the same problem, hopefully someone will know...otherwise we just have to try to keep referenced cells above where we might, one day, in the future,at some point, want to add a new row.
  21. I see the need for both, so that data stamps can be set to either remain static (such as with the date and time of creation) as well as an option to auto-update by some trigger, such as saving or printing. For now I just have to remember to check it frequently.
  22. Enough to drive you insane, or prompt you to upgrade to '08!
  23. I can't help with what CS1 is describing, but offer this: After creating my Section VP's (which I tend to create in sheet layer space by selecting on existing regular VP's), I just Edit Annotations, drop in my own section markers where the automatic ones are placed. This is nice because you can move the section marker slightly (without moving where the actual section was cut) so that the marker itself is not conflicting with other objects such as notes or dims. Then select all of the auto-generated markers and turn them to Non-plot class, rather than deleting them, so that in the future I can turn them back on and move the location of that cut if I need to without re-creating the section VP from scratch.
  24. You could use the "Find-Replace Text..." tool under the Text menu. It is not exactly the same thing as you are suggesting, but it does change all text in one step. However, I just played with it and found that it did NOT find text that is an annotation of a viewport! A bummer considering I tend to label rooms using annotated viewports. If you do as well then the "Find-Replace Text..." tool will not work for you either.
  25. The walls may be unstyled, but the components of that wall may be set to different classes. This is new for 2008, check that all of the associated wall component classes are set to visible in your navigation palette.
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