Christian Fekete

I guess I will answer my own question 1&2, both controls are in the respective door and window style settings under jamb depth. As far as the outline of the cut wall, still not sure, if I hide the wall details the wall thickness includes the baseboard !

In the image plan below you can see the trim at 3/4" for both window and cased opening. I see three issues here: 1/ the window, in blue trim is not on top of the drywall layer of the wall (the outside layer of the wall is the base plate which is below the window) Can I arrange this properly to 4 3/4" 2/The door in grey has trim which is inside the thickness of the drywall. Can I arrange this properly to 4 3/4" 3/ The wall cut line should be 4 3/4" also and the baseboard should have a thinner line shouldn't it? window_trim.vwx

Thank you, it did the trick Best CF

Gosh these stories drive me crazy, my walls and the windows in them are not based on the same heights, I think i need a fresh set of eyes here. Thank you Amerchem_exist.vwx

it is much easier for basic modeling, just remember to group things and you will be fine.

what does the edge weight do?

3D Conversion need to be at higher resolution, I think JimW has it right

I have seen this in sketchup also and I remember reading that it is related to how close you are from the model in perspective view. Is VW doing the same thing now is surprising. Could this be inherited from SKP?

Interesting design, I am not sure how to do that in vectorworks. I personally would do it in Sketchup but maybe the new division option of VW would be fine. Good luck

That's IT Thank you Alan for your time, Best CF

Can someone tell me how to render the door panels of the example below as transparent? Thank you CF door with glass panels.vwx

I will look at this again, must have missed someething. Thank you

thank you for confirming that you can see it. I do not use Reader but will download it. Best CF

My question is how do you create this brick layer height which is lower than the rest of the wall? Where is the control for the wall layers, I cannot find that

My resulting PDF file is blank whether I select object or setup the export to all in all layers. What am I doing wrong? Do I need Adobe PDF or the mac viewer is enough. Tried to load the pdf into chrome and it shows a beutiful white page that Malevich would be proud of. Please help 317_Mill_Road_existing.vwx 317_Mill_Road_existing.PDF

Thanks Michael, the reason why the scale was 1:1 is that I copied the wall from my drawing at scale 1:48 to a new file where I did not make the change but thank you for this anyway, always good to recap essentials. as far as the rest is concerned, it all looks good and will implement as suggested. Again, thank you for your follow up, it really helped me figure this out and I realize now that I learned a great deal going through this exercise. I hope you have a great weekend. Best Regards Christian Fekete

Here it is after a few hours (before I figured out the hole in the wall and the symbol thingy... a storefront symbol in a brick wall. Now the challenge is to show the floor plan without the beam... Any suggestions? and show the "curtain wall door" with a handle, is this possible? storefront in brick wall.vwx

Option B is BRILLIANT, I did not know that you could do such a symbol, very useful. thank you very much. I never used the 3D Wall Hole Component edit option, could you explain what the intent of this tool is?

Here is an elevation of a beam pocket drawn with a window opening in the wall. As you can see the floor plan shows the opening and the beam, how can I avoid that. I suspect I am not doing that the right way. Could anyone help me out on how to do that the proper way. Note that I tried to do that with a wall recess but I end up with an exterior wall flange on the right side of the opening. Is there a way to limit the height of the section for the floor plan? Any help is much appreciated, Thank you all

A couple of questions on workflow regarding wall modifications: 1/ I was wandering if there was a way to pull down the brick layer component of the framed brick cladd wall provided in VW 17. If I pull down that layer the wall type changes and I loose the original setup. On the image below I extended the whole assembly which is not what I was looking for. 2/ I plan on installing a curtain wall starting 18"above the floor and ending with the top of the transom (redline). I will then add a lintel and the brick wall will go up to the top of the walls to align on the right and the left. I have a few options on how to do that a/ create two knee wall, then put the curtain wall on top of that and finally add another wall in the upper portion b/ erase the left side of the wall, join the corner and insert an opening where to fit the curtain wall, effectively like a window What would you recommend? Thank you

VW crashed while I was repositioning the brick texture with the attribute mapping tool, restarted tried it again and crashed again.

the wall ID tag is drawn but empty, the mark name of the wall is not showing, why?

wow! pretty annoying i guess, glad youfigured it out

Thank you Tom, much appreciated

what does IFC bring to the model reporting that normal schedules do not? How is IFC related to walls, doors and other data that come out-of the box?