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liberian

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  1. Mikael, would you mind sharing your large collection of hatches?
  2. Christiaan thank you! I did manage to get to similar stage. Then I had three main problems: 1. Why does the dash line seem to run at a slightly different angle even though it is set at the same angle as the original lines? It seems to do the same in your example 2. I need a dot in the dash line - I tried to make a very short line layered over the dashed line, but never managed to have them spaced uquelly the entire lenght. Somehow they start going different ways after a while. 3. I struggle with achieving the correct scale - is there any way how to create a hatch and then use it at different scales? Or do I have to make a different one each time? Here is the sad result of my effort:
  3. Sorry, I didn't realise there was such section. It doesn't seem to get many visits though... Christiaan it tells me it is an old file or the version is higher than mine - either way, I cannot open it.
  4. Oh, unfortunately, I have vw2008 and cannot open it.
  5. The ones I find most difficult to make are diagonal ones with one of the lines a dash line (including dots).
  6. Thank you, I didn't know about the depot. There still aren't the ones I need. Never realised I lived in such a hatch-specific country.
  7. I need different hatches than those provided. I know I can make them and I did try, but the results are not good enough and I finally lost patience with it. Especially hatches that include dots - these are not provided at all and I did not magane to make them. Please if there is anybody who has quite a wide range of hatches made and would be willing to share them, it would make me sooooo happpy!
  8. Hi Jonathan, I am not sure what you mean. I did manage to do what I wanted but in a rather labouries way - adding the trees as separate viewports to the same sheet layer where I had the isometric view of the buildings ...
  9. Hi Ozzie, no, I would like to use 2D trees in a picture showig an isomentric view of several buildings. I dont like the 3D trees provided and I will not need to rotate the view in any other way. So I extruded the buildings and in an isometric view added 2D trees, thinking that if I tick the "Project 2D Objects" option, it will show in the viewport the way it showed on the design layer. But instead of trees I only get flat rectangles. I wonder if there is a way around it for a simple drawing where I dont need all the properties of a proper 3D environment. Many thanks
  10. I made a simple 3D view of a few buildings and - in isometric view - added some 2D trees. When I make a viewport, the trees only appear as rectangles, even though I selected the Project 2D object option. What do I do wrong? Is it not possible to combine 3D and 2D in one view? Many thanks
  11. I did offset the line so that the text does not colide with the drawing line .... Apart of the non-flipped text in the viewport, I think I can do what I need now. The local standard is a combination of vertical and horizontal text, i.e. text aligned with the dimension line. I will try to stick to that and not flip the text ... Many thanks!!
  12. I don't know why but Adjust Flipped Text makes no difference to my viewport. I tried unchecking the Auto Position Text in the design layer and it sent the text to the top of the dimension line. BUT in the process I realized that there is the option to have the text horizontal, which answers the other question I had - what to do to have all the dimension text all the same orientation as Ray suggested. That makes the text to intersect the dimension line though ....
  13. Ray, unchecking Adjust Flipped Text made no difference If the dimension text should read all the same orientation - how do I do that? It is automatically positioned along the line .... how can I make it horizontal when the line is vertical? I only found the "flip" option ...
  14. Unflipping it in the design layer made no difference, but rotating the viewport does flip some of the dimensions the other way - so it corrects some but incorrects the others - depending which way I rotate it .... Why is this happening? And what should I do to have the dimensions the way I want - some flipped and some not? Thank you for help
  15. On a simple 2D drawing I have flipped some of the dimensions so that they would not colide with the lines they were dimensioning. It looks fine on the design layer, but when I make a viewport the dimensions are back the original way - not flipped. Any idea why this is happening? Thanks!
  16. Alchemilla could you please explain in more detail how I add the files with favourite plants to the resource browser? I uploaded the default plant symbols and then defined a number of plants using these symbols (changing their size, spread etc.) ... but saving them in a template was the only way I could think of so that I would be able to use them in another document. I don't understand how to add them to my favourites. Thanks.
  17. Is it a good idea to uninstall the program and install it again?? I don't know what else to do.
  18. I followed one of the video tech tips to add new plants to the plant tool. It worked fine and I did the same for the xfrog library. It seemed to work fine too, but when I opened VW next time and wanted to use the plant tool the program froze. I restarted many times now, but it is always the same. The program works fine untill I open the plant tool, then it freezes. PLEASE help, I have no idea what to do.
  19. Thanks. Yes, I am new to CAD, very new indeed and I find it somewhat painful. There are no tutors in the Czech Republic, nobody seem to use VW Landmark. There is a local program available, but I thought VW was better .... anyway, sorry for the runt and thanks for your help!!
  20. What is your upgrade strategy? Do you upgrade every year? Skip years? Don't bother upgrading, just buy a new licence every few years? Decide depanding on what modifications there are? I bought 2008 in July last year and now wonder ....
  21. right ... this is very useful, thanks! I never worked in any CAD program before and am only learning from Archoncad manuals, hence the not-so-professional terminology. But I am getting there, thanks a lot!!
  22. Thank you. I think I am doing fine now following your advice - I rescaled the scan using a simple math formula and work now in 1:1 scale basically. Thanks again!
  23. Sorry if this is too trivial ? I am a beginner. I am drawing a site plan at a 1:500 scale. I have all the layers set to 1:500. I have imported a scan of the site boundaries and draw over them, then scaled the whole drawing so that it would be the right size (for example one length of the boundary that is 40m in reality is 80mm on the screen (with a 100% view)). But when I draw a rectangle, which in reality should be 3m times 10m, and I used a dialog box entering 3000 and 10000, the object info confirms it is 3m wide and 10m long, but on the screen (with a 100% view), I can see an object 3mm wide and 10mm long, so it is a scale 1:1000. What is wrong? Many thanks.
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