Another skylight insertion question

[hollister design Studio]

What am I not doing correctly?

• I imported a Velux skylight symbol.
• Selected the roof class and layer as active.
• Double clicked the skylight in the resource manager (in the 'selected file' mode.)
• Hovered over the roof until it was highlighted.
• Clicked and then clicked to set the angle.

The skylight just sits perpendicular to the roof with no cutout.

 

Also tried from Top/Plan but the roof will not highlight.

 

Video capture: 

 

 

 

 

 

[rDesign]

See this related thread, it should answer your question about the current limitations when inserting skylights.

 

 

Edited November 15, 2023 by rDesign

[Tom W.]

That particular symbol doesn't have 'Insert in Walls' enabled. When this is disabled it won't let you insert it into a Roof using the Symbol Insertion Tool but bizarrely you can insert it if you drag it onto the Roof from the RM. So either drag it from the RM or enable 'Insert in Walls' in the Symbol Options + then you can insert it using the Symbol Insertion Tool as you're trying to do in your movie. Crazy I know...

[Christiaan]

Definitely due for modernisation. Roof lights are the only thing I didn't bother modelling on a recent project. Can't see them on the roadmap but maybe once this is sorted we'll see some movement on this:

https://www.vectorworks.net/en-US/public-roadmap?url=roofslab-modernization

[Tom W.]

6 minutes ago, Christiaan said:

Definitely due for modernisation. Roof lights are the only thing I didn't bother modelling on a recent project. Can't see them on the roadmap but maybe once this is sorted we'll see some movement on this:

https://www.vectorworks.net/en-US/public-roadmap?url=roofslab-modernization

 

From @Matt Panzer in the thread @rDesign linked above:

 

 

 

[Christiaan]

Great!