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Asemblance

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  1. Thanks Jim - I think I'll give it a go, although I'm sure we'll run into some headaches first time around!
  2. @Jim Smith - How do you create this Hybrid 2D & 3D Grid exactly? Is it a case of effectively drawing a 'cage'? So.. you draw lines up vertically from the end of each of the 2D plan gridlines, on each side? Not sure best way to create this really.
  3. Hi All, A resurrection for this topic, as we are just getting into BIM (Rapidly, as of course implementation was left to the last minute and now we are trying to deliver a project using it..). Now that it is 2 years later and BIM is much more established, how have people been finding dealing with these classes? They look like a nightmare to me, and its slowing me down significantly. Any advice on the best way to deal with these would be greatly appreciated! Also - any idea if there are plans for Vectorworks as a software to help us out a little more in dealing with these codes in the future? A
  4. Quick bump again for 2018, this time with graphics...
  5. A follow up to this - Please add the standard UK column steel sizes to the Steel Member tool! Since the shapes for these are already present elsewhere in the software (Theres a full range of UK Steel sizes in the 'Wide Flange Tool Set'), it seems crazy that they haven't been added to the Steel Member Tool.. I'll add in wishlist I guess, unless its already in there..
  6. Hi All, We tend to have a layer in each drawing/model file for Grids, section cut lines etc. I think this is fairly standard? (Although I could be wrong, please feel free to recommend a different approach). This layer is generally stacked at the very top of the layers, so it can always be seen above other graphics. What I tend to find is that people jump into a file, go to a sheet layer and in through a viewport and edit from there. This defaults to the top layer (i.e. the Grids layer) and people draw on it without realising. Anybody have a good way around this? It would be useful if a layer could be designated as 'guide' or 'construction grid' etc, and then somehow locked or greyed out so it isn't accidentally drawn on.
  7. Also suffering from this issue big time - I was blaming it on the lack of dedicated GPUs in our office machines, and basically harassed our business manager until I was furnised with a new Imac pro (which is specced well above Vectorworks requirements). However the problem of extremely slow pan/zoom/redraw time on sheet layers is still persisting, must say it makes working a real pain! It seems to exist even in relatively simple drawings, and gets pretty much unworkable on A1 sheet sizes and upwards.
  8. @JimW - just installed the service pack and can confirm slow startup appears to have gone, hurrah! Thanks to the team for sorting this one.
  9. Great, thanks! Good to see a few project sharing items picked up in the list there. P.S. Worth mentioning that there was no alert for the service pack in our copies of Vwx (i.e. the little red bell bottom right), so only just noticed the update had been released! I had assumed the alert would flag up any new service packs - pretty sure it did SP2.
  10. Thanks for everyones responses - As @halfcouple suggests ideally this would be for title blocks to self regulate after any changes. Not sure if this is one for wishlist or bug report..
  11. Hi All, Quick question (I'm sure there is a simple answer to this!). I have updated a title block which is used on 30 or so sheets. All seems to be fine, except the field which displays the 'current revision number' does not refresh unless I go into that individual sheet and exit again which seems to prompt the title block information to refresh. Is there a button hidden somewhere to force a refresh on all the information in every title border in the file? Thanks! A
  12. Hi @Nikolay Zhelyazkov Fantastic, Thanks! Sorted our issue right out - We just weren't looking hard enough at the custom field options.. A
  13. Hi All, I am hoping that the ingenuity of this forums inhabitants can help me once again with some title block issues. We are using the automated title block coordination, and have made a custom title block which for the most part works very well. We are using 'Issue Numbers' (rather than 'Revision Numbers'), displayed twice on the title block. In one instance we want to show only the Latest issue number (this is essentially forming the sheets titles, which would be for instance AL(0)210.B1, the '.B1' being the current issue number). At the other instance we want to show All (or at least multiple) Issue numbers (this shows the various changes that have been made to the drawing over various past drawing issues). The attached screenshot shows it more clearly. Can anybody tell me how to achieve this?? Thanks! A
  14. Hi @Tolu Thanks for attempting to help with this. But yes we have tried 'direct safe save', and using AFP (as suggested for Mac users). We've pretty much been through this process with Vectorworks select support and also on the forums previously, and the conclusion seems to be that it is a problem with the software (probably in conjunction with NAS servers)
  15. @Tolu Unfortunately whether or not it can 'disassociate' this is in effect what it sometimes does in reality! I have discussed my issues with project file sharing before elsewhere on the Forum, essentially the answer seemed to be to do with connections to NAS servers. However looking at the above it may be that this is not the case if people are suffering on other types of servers also.
  16. @ptonerWe have that problem frequently - often perseverance pays off (keep trying, after a few attempts it usually works). This is not always the case, as it seems sometimes the file disassociates (which can require recreating the entire vwxp file).
  17. Hi All, I was just wondering if anybody knows of any 'advanced' Stacking Order tools? We have a complex 2D elevation of a multi-tiered auditorium I'm currently working on. Sometimes new geometry needs to be in a specific place in stacking order to display correctly, but there can be a huge number of them (lets say 5-50 'stacking' layers?). If I need something to stack at say, 25 out of 50, this is quite time consuming! This may end up being one for the wishlist, but I'm imagining a tool which allows you to move the stacking order of an object to match another object (i.e. just in front or just behind) Does anything like this currently exist? Thanks, A
  18. Also have this problem - as @Kevin McAllistermentioned above I believe it is a known problem (which I am really hoping will be fixed soon..). Causes a delay to getting on with it every morning!
  19. Hi All, To resurrect this slightly - Did 2018 introduce the Mark field we were hoping for? Or still using the workaround mentioned above..? Trying to put together a large door schedule for the first time and basically want to have a field which shows door 'style' for each door (I think this is what you are describing above). A
  20. It would be great to have a standard door for use in disabled/accessible WC's. i.e. the UK Doc 'M' Standard (image of a typical Doc M wc below). It is massively useful to have the hardware shown on this type of door, mainly the pull bar. Helpful for determining clear opening widths etc. even from early stages. A
  21. @markdd Thanks for replying - Could you talk me through the steps to make this work? You've promoted me to revisited the custom selection tool and still can't seem to get it to select objects which are contained within a group (where to group has differing properties to the object contained within it).
  22. Hi All, Got one of those queries I feel will either have a simple answer, or be impossible.. I'm trying to locate all geometry on a certain class- Easy for the most part. However say I'm looking for an object in class 'X', but that object is in a group, which itself is in class 'Y' - How do I locate the class 'X' object in the group? Thanks A
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