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Thanks @Okpaku I'm probably too lazy to delete and rebuild all my palettes (and user preferences, shortcuts etc..). Particularly since this is affecting all 3 of the machines I use for Vectorworks (work, home, travel..). It seems to be a bug rather than a one off incident. I'll look forwards to the issue hopefully being resolved in 2025 when we upgrade. In the meantime would appreciate it being logged as a bug in 2024 for a future service pack!
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Rich Text Roundup
Asemblance replied to trashcan's question in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests
Just came on to search for better text editing functionality and stumbled on this; an essential upgrade! The thing I would find most useful here is more control over text when making annotation lists / key lists. I know there are tools for smart associations, but often for whatever reason these aren't customisable enough or suitable, so we end up writing key notes and callout lists in text boxes. Being able to create lists with automatic numbering, and more control over line spacing between numbered items would be amazing (i.e. line and a half spacing after each item in numbered list).- 10 replies
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Internal Origin Warning & Confirmation
Asemblance posted a question in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests
Over the years the number one issue which seems to crop up and completely derail our productivity, is vectorworks files with origin issues; i.e. geometry drawn miles away from the internal origin point. Sometimes this is due to someone making an error positioning imported survey files, or mapping a user origin to work with global coordinates. Sometimes it's from a user error, an accidental move or import of some geometry which is out of place. Then there is also anecdotal evidence of the randomly shifting origin points particularly with referencing files; theres a thread about that.. I've heard so frequently from Vectorworks Support that a file we are having issues with is down to bad origin position. So, the request - Add a prompt which warns the user whenever an action they are about to undertake would create an origin problem. Presumably there must be a 'safe' maximum value for the distance of the internal origin to the farthest datapoint. As soon as any action would introduce geometry outside the 'safe' zone for a healthy file, vectorworks should alert you and ask if you wish to continue.- 1 reply
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Tablet Version Mismatch Error on Starting Vectorworks
Asemblance posted a question in Troubleshooting
I'm greeted with this every time I start vectorworks 2024; I'm sure its an easy fix, I must have installed some sort of half baked tablet software a couple years back. But I can't for the life of me find and remove the offending sofrware or driver. Anybody know how to resolve this..? -
I'm having this same problem since moving to vwx 2024. @Okpaku did you have any success in sorting this out?
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Simple one; checked out layers in project file sharing files turn blue so you can tell what you have checked out. But when you are on the layer; it displays black in bold whether checked out or not. Can we have blue and bold for checked out selected layer please?
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Thanks for clearning that up! Interesting to know its a Mac function, hopefully somebody at Vectorworks is listening and will give us a similar option on the PC soon..
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@Tom W. I wonder if this is a Mac functionality we don't have on Vectorworks for PC... This is the options menu I have: Vectorworks - if this is the case, please give us the same functionality for PC!
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Ok so there was a previous 'UI Overhaul' post from a while back. But it seems to suggest, frankly, exactly the opposite of what I would like to see, so I can't upvote it. Therefore, new request time.. I've also posted this feedback in the '2024 - Icons' thread, but again not focused on what I want to specifically raise, which is about UI scaling and in particular icon sizes. We really need more customisability in icon sizes and scaling for different UIs. This was an issue before, but has got worse jumping from vwx 2023 to 2024. As you can see in screenshot below, on my laptop display (14", 2.8k, 16:10 aspect ratio), the icons and attributes take up too much screen real estate, and make it difficult to navigate to the various tools. This is always tricky to manage on laptops, however what I don't understand is why it has just been made worse. Ideally there should be a 'compact' mode for icons. Also, the 'attributes' part of the UI is really baggy compared to the rest of the tools and icons, and should be able to be made much more compact. Personally I'm also not a fan of the change in colours of the icons, which I find makes them harder to differentiate at a glance than they used to be, but this is more of a secondary concern. It would probably make everybody happy if an option was made available for black and white icons, or colour icons.
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@Tom W. thanks for the suggestion; but yes have tried, it only affects the view bar at the top, which is not really the problem area. No impact on the icon sizes noted, or the attributes, etc.
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Yeah the whole UI seems to be worse frankly. Its not too bad on my desktop, but on laptop (16:10 ratio 2.8k screen), the UI menu is significantly harder to use than vwx 2023. For instance look at the attached. Things that used to be the right size have got bigger or smaller, and I'm unable to find any customisability for icon sizes in order to get them to work well with varying display resolutions / sizes / ratios. I can't be bothered to do a side by side with 2023, but please take my word the scaling and UI was better in every way I've highlighted as problematic in 2024.
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We need to be able to model ramps compliant with building regs (UK; but presumably every country has similar reg's / codes). This would be much easier if: Essential: 1. The ramp steepness could be set and dispalyed as a 'gradient' rather than 'rise over run' (i.e. 1:20, 1:12) 2. You could add landings at set distances (building reg's require landings every few metres. i.e. a 1:14 ramp requires a landing every 5m) Nice to have: 3. More options for construction and buildup of ramps; more like stair tool 4. Ideally it would be great to have some smart features that would help you work out the most efficient ramps between two points. But this is more of a nic to have.
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Also bump - but from the UK! Think I might start a new thread under feature requests..
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Thanks Matt - good to know. We will do some tests our end in vwx 2024 and let you know if we have any difficulties.
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Hi All, Setting up a new project file from a new 3D Revit model we have received (from a surveyors firm; we also will have 2d dwgs coming in).. Is there any consensus on which of the below is the best way to set up our proposed plans files yet? Thanks,