Popular Post bjoerka Posted March 21, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted March 21, 2023 Please add the ability to group layers in the layer tab! Please let layers be linked to others with drag & drop. Please do not implement a grouping like it is done with classes to sort them by a prefix. This would be to complicated to have a flexible layer structure. 15 Quote Link to comment
0 Popular Post Christiaan Posted March 21, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted March 21, 2023 Quite a popular wish, including one from me back in 2007: https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/102316-nested-layers-wanted/ https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/96185-design-layer-groups/ https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/87753-group-layerssheets-and-viewports/ https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/66960-group-layers-like-in-photoshop/ https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/55984-separate-sheet-layers-and-design-layers-in-pull-down-menus/ https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/56819-organising-grouping-sheet-and-design-layers/ https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/60380-collapsable-sheet-and-layer-folders/ https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/58271-organisation-design-layers-saved-views-sheet-layers-viewports/ https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/43404-better-layer-orginization/ https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/42924-design-layer-and-sheet-layer-hierarchy/ https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/16256-ability-to-group-layerssheet-layers-like-classes/ 10 Quote Link to comment
0 Popular Post bjoerka Posted March 21, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 21, 2023 this is a so essential wish... it can´t be wished as often as possible. maybe someone can write a marionette to wish this once a week automatically 🙂 7 Quote Link to comment
0 E|FA Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 @bjoerka Any estimate of how many extra hours you've spent clicking little X's, Checkmarks, and Eyeballs over the years? 4 Quote Link to comment
0 bjoerka Posted March 22, 2023 Author Share Posted March 22, 2023 So, as i started many years ago with Minicad4 and i am still working with Vectorworks i would guess 4 years of my life .-) And the concept of not structuring layers has not changed over these years .-( 1 Quote Link to comment
0 Josh S Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 It's maddening that there is no way of doing it. But to be fair even if we could add a "-" to allow a heirachy system like the classes use, it would be an improvement. Being able to link them though would be great too, although I guess that is mostly done through saved views and editing from within the viewports? This is our current work around to try and keep files organised. We would welcome any tips on improving this? 1 Quote Link to comment
0 bjoerka Posted April 5, 2023 Author Share Posted April 5, 2023 yes - that is the way we actually do it too. but we are missing the rectangle to collapse these groups... Quote Link to comment
0 E|FA Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 I do something similar, with the workaround (welcome to VW...) of setting up saved views for groups of layers. Quote Link to comment
0 bjoerka Posted April 6, 2023 Author Share Posted April 6, 2023 Exactly. Everyone has a workaround, but vectorworks has not improved the structuring of the layers for daily use for years. Instead, complex new features come along, but they also need one or two versions until they really work (groundsupport calculation in braceworks as an example). and small things like layer groups have been on the wish list of many users for many years. and these are certainly not only those who write in forums. 3 Quote Link to comment
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Please add the ability to group layers in the layer tab!
Please let layers be linked to others with drag & drop.
Please do not implement a grouping like it is done with classes to sort them by a prefix.
This would be to complicated to have a flexible layer structure.
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