Create Mesh Fencing - Any Help would be appreciated.

[Michael Siggers]

Hi

 

Rather than continuing to waste my time trying to use the new fangled Fence tool, (wasted over an hour so far), can anyone help in creating the attached fence style please.

 

Mike

[Michael Siggers]

Why is the dialogue box in the attached greyed out?

 

Mike

[Pat Stanford]

See that arrow thing at the front of each line? That means that that parameter is defined by the Style rather than my the object.

 

You can edit the Style and set the ones that you want to be editable for an individual object to be by Object (the icon will look like some horizontal sliders.) Click on the arrow or the sliders to toggle between the settings.

 

Or you can change the fence to be Unstyled so that you can change all the parameters. This is in the pulldown where you set/choose the Style for the object in the OIP (Object Info Palette)

 

After you get it set the way you want you can then create a style from the unsettled object to make it easier to transfer the settings to other objects.

 

The above applies to all Styled objects, not just fences.

[Tamsin Slatter]

9 hours ago, Pat Stanford said:

Or you can change the fence to be Unstyled so that you can change all the parameters. This is in the pulldown where you set/choose the Style for the object in the OIP (Object Info Palette)

 

After you get it set the way you want you can then create a style from the unsettled object to make it easier to transfer the settings to other objects.

 

The above applies to all Styled objects, not just fences.

Absolutely right - if you learn about Object Styles, you will be able to apply that knowledge to so many objects in Vectorworks.
https://app-help.vectorworks.net/2024/eng/VW2024_Guide/Symbols/Concept_Plug-in_object_styles.htm

 

And here's a tutorial on Vectorworks University:
https://university.vectorworks.net/course/view.php?id=224

 

And here is a webinar on the Fence tool which I hope you will find useful. In this webinar, Katarina shows a mesh fence. 
https://university.vectorworks.net/course/view.php?id=2926

 

The Resource Manager contains many example Fence Object styles that you can use for reference also. It does include mesh examples that may help you. On my Resource Manager, I set the filter to Symbols/Plug-In Objects and type fence into the search box. You can also access these

 

You can also access these resources directly from within the Fence tool, using the Resource Selector:

[Tamsin Slatter]

How are you getting on @Michael Siggers?

Did you find the tutorials helpful?

[Michael Siggers]

Hi @Tamsin Slatter

 

Yes, I did watch the videos.

 

Attached a a screenshot of the fence I created, by choosing a similar Style, Making Unstyled and then creating a new Style. Seemed to work ok. Have not tried inserting any gates in yet, but will probably do those manually as one of them is a Sliding Gate.

 

One thing I could not do is assign a Class to the Fence in the OIP, as this was greyed out.

 

Mike

[Michael Siggers]

1 minute ago, Michael Siggers said:

One thing I could not do is assign a Class to the Fence in the OIP, as this was greyed out.

Although I have just done this in the Object Style in Resource Manager. Would it not be simpler to just be able to use the OIP to assign the Class? Seems a bit convoluted having to assign the class in the Object Style through Resource Manager.

 

MIke

[Tamsin Slatter]

The Class is also a property that can be set By Style or By Instance. 
The benefit of making it By Style is that you can have consistent classing without having to think about it. 

The benefit of making it By Instance is that you can set a different class whenever you use the style. So you can choose whichever best suits your workflow.