Model Space and Paper Spaces Hatches Different

[Michael Siggers]

Hello

 

Here is another one of Vectorworks conundrums thrown in just to make me waste an hour trying to figure out what buried, (Mariana Trench sort of depth buried 😉),setting I need to change to make the Paper Space Hatches appear as they do in Model Space.

 

Attached are a couple of Screenshots. For the life of me, I can not figure out why they are different.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Kind regards

 

Mike

[Michael Siggers]

And....... attached is a close up.

 

The hatch can be seen, but for some reason there is some form of Mesh over the top.

 

Mike

[Michael Siggers]

So, figured out is is because the Viewport was set to Top View and Not Plan....... which is a bit of a bugger as I want to show the view looking down with the roof of the house, and not floor layouts.

 

Mike

[rDesign]

3 hours ago, Michael Siggers said:

So, figured out is is because the Viewport was set to Top View and Not Plan....... which is a bit of a bugger as I want to show the view looking down with the roof of the house, and not floor layouts.

 

Mike

 

Since 'Model Space' and 'Paper Space' are AutoCAD concepts, there are no such things in Vectorworks — we can assume that you mean Design Layer and Sheet Layers.

 

No idea how you created & organized your Model / Design Layers, but can't you just turn on your Roof Layer and have it show correctly in Top / Plan View? If your DL stacking is correct, the Roof object should obscure the floor layers in a SLVP. If not you can also change the DL stacking order in your SLVP.

Edited September 8, 2024 by rDesign

[Michael Siggers]

Thank you @rDesign

 

Yes, all set up OK.

 

The problem with Top/Plan view is it shows everything in Wireframe. I want the roof to show it's texture, ie the tiles.

 

Kind regards

 

Mike

[Tom W.]

2 minutes ago, Michael Siggers said:

Thank you @rDesign

 

Yes, all set up OK.

 

The problem with Top/Plan view is it shows everything in Wireframe. I want the roof to show it's texture, ie the tiles.

 

Kind regards

 

Mike

 

Give your Roof a Hatch Fill, Tile Fill or Image Fill. All of these will display in Top/Plan. Is your roof a Roof object or a 3D Solid? Sorry it's quite hard to help based on the info provided...

[Michael Siggers]

Hi @Tom W.

 

It's a Roof Object.

 

Mike

[Tom W.]

And where is it in your screenshots? What attributes does it have at the moment?

[Michael Siggers]

Hi @Tom W.

 

Apologies, I.meant to add that at the moment I split the Viewport using the Split Tool, then set the house to Top View, while the Garden Viewport is set to Top/Plan.

 

The roof tiles are a Roof Object and although quite easy to set up, changing the Texture to what I wanted was a bit of a pain. The hatch it does show in Top/Plan view seems to be already set.

 

Seems to work OK.

 

Mike

[Tom W.]

2 minutes ago, Michael Siggers said:

I split the Viewport using the Split Tool, then set the house to Top View, while the Garden Viewport is set to Top/Plan.

 

Can you post a screenshot of the end result? I'm interested to see what you wanted to achieve.

 

Another way would be to duplicate the VP in place (I often place a 2D locus in Annotations beforehand to ensure they remain correctly aligned) then use class/layer visibilities to show the landscape in the back VP + the house/roof in the front VP. So one VP stacked on top of the other.

 

 

[Michael Siggers]

Hi Tom

 

I will do, as soon as I sort another Frustration out.

 

Honestly seriously thinking about going back to Sketchup as I find Vectorworks so frustrating.

 

Mike

[E|FA]

5 hours ago, Michael Siggers said:

I find Vectorworks so frustrating

There's definitely a huge learning curve.