Sheet metal and wood screws

[KenD]

VW2025

 

I dont see sheet metal and wood screws in the tools. I have looked around, looked though the legacy tools and not seeing them.

 

Am I missing something or are they gone?

 

Thanks

[E|FA]

I have Sheet Metal Screws & Wood Screws showing in the 2025 Architect-BIM workspace.  They're in the Detailing and All Tools folders of the Workspace Editor.  There's a search option now to help you find things.

 

[KenD]

Thank you! Duh! I'm so thick I didn't even pay attention to the search feature! Why screws wouldn't be in "fasteners" as they are "fasteners", is beyond me, but I'm thankful they are still there.

 

I dont spend much time in the bowels of VW, I dont usually have the time. I need to get the workspace set up and draw. It would be nice to be able to transfer a workspace from one version to another but I suppose that's not possible?

 

I appreciate the community's help very much. Sometimes I (and I'm probably not alone) cant see the obvious.

[Tom W.]

2 minutes ago, KenD said:

. It would be nice to be able to transfer a workspace from one version to another but I suppose that's not possible?

You can absolutely do this. Try Tools > Migration Manager.

[rDesign]

6 minutes ago, KenD said:

It would be nice to be able to transfer a workspace from one version to another but I suppose that's not possible?

Yes, this has been possible for quite some time. The Migration Manager always runs the first time Vw launches after a new installation, but you can also invoke the command later at any time.
 

VW2025 Help File - Migration Manager

Edited September 21, 2024 by rDesign

[KenD]

Thanks Tom and rDesign, I thought I had done this when I installed this version but didn't see the results. When I just went to do this, the tool sets were not checked to migrate. I checked that and it appears to have very closely matched where my 2021 version is with a few tweaks still needed. I had to realize that I needed to select the migrated workspace too.

 

This will save me some organization time. This also imported my smaller attributes palette. The default one, I could not resize as small for some reason. The minimum resize I could do was about twice what just migrated.

Edit: Spoke too soon! Made the mistake of playing with it and now stuck with the larger palette!

 

I haven't dealt with this since last installing 2021, so I'm not regularly tuned in to the deeper setup stuff. It's a bit overwhelming for someone that rarely tinkers with this stuff. Like I said, I usually just need to be drawing. It's one of the reasons I haven't upgraded as time goes on. Kinda like getting the new Windows, people like me are reticent, we just want what we had to work! I'm a bit of a Luddite I suppose.

 

I appreciate you all!

Edited September 21, 2024 by KenD

[Pat Stanford]

Be careful with transitioned workspaces. Especially over multiple version you can end up with a workspace that does not have a lot of the newer tools/commands.

[Tom W.]

Yes make sure you check out the 'Recent Changes' sections of the Workspace Editor where new + removed tools + menu items for each version are listed.

[KenD]

On 9/21/2024 at 3:39 PM, Pat Stanford said:

Be careful with transitioned workspaces. Especially over multiple version you can end up with a workspace that does not have a lot of the newer tools/commands.

I also notice there are tools in the palettes I migrated that were not in the previous version. I am going through each palette and tool set to include/exclude.