JMRoth

Excellent. Thank you!

For years my workflow has included importing PDF tax maps downloaded from City Planning and then drawing over them, snapping to their corners and such. Today I did it for what I'm thinking is the first time in VW2015, and there's no snapping. I thought it might be a change at the city, but I tried it on a file I downloaded a couple years ago, one that I definitely used for this purpose, and same deal. It seems insane that Nemetschek would remove this functionality, but I can't find any sort of preference or toggle that would make it not happen. This would be a huge downgrade; anyone know what the deal is?

I'm happy to use VW's built-in electrical objects, but the sconce symbol is awful. I can't figure out where its appearance is stored. Is it a script I'd have to edit? Back in VW 8 I knew how to change e.g. the Drawing Title PIO, but I'm not sure I could manage that via VectorScript anymore. Also: I found an old thread about changing PIO defaults, but I couldn't actually follow the discussion (again, VS seems to have gotten really complex over 14 years). Would it be possible for me to make it so that, every time I insert the first window in a new file, I don't need to change every single setting (IME the defaults for windows are unlike any real window I've ever spec'd)?

OK, I kind of answered my own question from last week's post - I learned about how keynotes can now appear on whatever sheet you dictate. So I went through and told the callouts to put themselves as Keynotes on the relevant sheets. BUT, the Info box ignores my input! I use the drop down menu to change from Default to KEYNOTES[A3], but the moment I release it it reverts to Default again. I'm dying here. These drawings are going to be a week late, and that's even if I can solve this pronto. Notes from A1 are showing up on A3 (but, of course, not when I click the Edit Notes button). I cannot make them go away. Do I need to convert every note (on 5 or 6 sheets) back into a callout, delete every Keynote Legend, and reconvert them into Keynotes, taking care that they don't go to the wrong sheets? Would that even work? So far it hasn't helped on A3.

I have a project with several sheets, each with its own set of Keynotes. Somehow the Keynotes for A1 are showing up on A3, and I can't get rid of them. When I Edit Keynotes in the Info Box, the A1 notes don't appear (only the A3 notes do), and when I convert every Callout in A3 to being NOT a Keynote, all of the A3 Keynotes disappear from the list, but the A1 notes persist. I've checked, and there are no hidden copies of A1 Viewports on Sheet A3. If I delete the Keynote Legend and then reconvert all the A3 Callouts into Keynotes, the A1 Keynotes reappear (also, their numbers don't correspond to anything on A3 - Callout #1 is a note about a roof, but #1 on the Legend is about some columns on A1; the roof note shows up as #41 or something). I need to get this drawing to a contractor, but it's nonsense right now. Please help!

Just discovered this. Very frustrating, as I'm about o go to bid on 3 different projects, all with multiple schedules that will have to be kludged together. The weirdest thing is that, when I went to edit the Default file (to make fonts & sizes per my preferences), the vertical text started out vertical, but when I edited and closed the edit window, it all went horizontal.

Ah! Thank you. I was trying to do it in the Design Layer (which worked before), not from the Viewport. Done.

OK, thanks for the tips. In the end, I resorted to OpenGL rendering (I hadn't realized at first that, with appropriate OpenGL prefs, you can get decent results) at good speed. I don't think I knew that symbols render faster than groups, and I'll have to test a few other of those things. But I'll tell you what - it was a pretty simple model - I'm not sure there were any curved objects. And my hard drive has 10s of GB available. Anyway, thanks again. The client was pleased. I think my procedure - at least until I get a good rendering machine - will be OpenGL walkthroughs supplemented by top-notch fixed view RW renders.

Is there any correctable reason that, when I'm generating an animation, the Time Remaining keeps increasing and increasing? Last night I set up a render to run overnight. When it started, it projected ~7 hours; 4 hours later, it was projecting 13 hours to go, and this morning, after 13 total hours of rendering, it had rendered less than 1/3 of the animation, and said it had 22 hours to go. I need to know whether these things will ever, in fact, finish. I've cut it down from about 1300 frames to 283, but I still see the Time Remaining creeping up with each additional rendered frame. PS - I know this isn't a great rendering machine, but that doesn't explain never-ending renders.

OK, that worked. But I still don't see why the Room Finish Schedule tool doesn't work, esp. since the Room Finish Legend does.

But wait, what about the Room Name tool? Is this now non-functioning? I just spent an hour dutifully assigning and modifying with the rather nice interface, but I can't get that data to appear anywhere*. Looking around, I see that someone else complained about this last August, but never got a response. What's going on? * Not quite true - the Room Finish Legend reflects the changes I made in the Room Name tool, but the Room Finish Schedule resolutely refuses to display the data I've entered. And it appears to be impossible to simply create a schedule manually, as the Room Name tool doesn't create a Record of any sort.

I seem to recall that earlier versions of VW included a wall niche tool, but I can't find anything with that function. My goal is to make a half-round niche (ideally with an arched top) in a garden wall. I'm fiddling with inserting symbols in the wall, but that just creates cutouts in the wall, not recessed. I suspect I could also just put a window in the wall, offset it, and make the glass opaque, but that's not a great solution. Can anything be done?