VW 2025 a strange release ?

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Doors,

 

Threshold Width for a Door with Side Light (?)

 

 

 

Top Plan View Representation of my Threshold that is 0.5 mm thick and located flush with

where my Door Frame ... ahm ... Jamb side.

 

 

 

 

 

And who would ever construct a Hinge axis at the Corner of the Door Frame... ahm ..Jamb ....

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18 hours ago, Tom W. said:

Don't the 'Right Side Wrap' settings give you what you want?

 

Thanks again,

 

2D Rectangle Recess works now for me.

(As I thankfully, currently, do only need Recesses from Bottom of Wall to a certain Height)

 

 

"Was holding it wrong", thought Wraps were meant for the left and right side of my Recess wraps.

(As I already feared for missing wraps for its top and backside ...)

Got it, it is about the left and right side of the parent Wall .....

So it looks OK in 3D now.

(Still no control or even same look in Top Plan View, for my 3 pretty similar Recesses)

 

 

18 hours ago, Tom W. said:

It will only do the sides mind you, not the head/soffit.

 

Now that you say, I deactivated the Slab and Floor Classes and looked at at my Recesses

from below. Indeed no top wrap.

Still better in this 2D source case than a 3D source Recess without any wraps.

[Tom W.]

10 minutes ago, zoomer said:

(As I thankfully, currently, do only need Recesses from Bottom of Wall to a certain Height)

 

If you did need to raise the Recess up off the floor you can use the 'Height' parameter in the OIP (assuming you can live with no component wrapping to the sill).

 

10 minutes ago, zoomer said:

(Still no control or even same look in Top Plan View, for my 3 pretty similar Recesses)

 

Do you mean because your Recess is placed underneath a Window? A Recess on its own in a Wall looks fine to me in Top/Plan. In your earlier screenshot where you had the Window above a Recess you could turn the Recess class off in Top/Plan to just see the Window...?

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Thanks,

 

yes, 2 of 3 Recesses are underneath a Window.

And both of these have a different appearance (?)

I think it depends if they are within the Window or exceeding.

The exceeding one seems to stay behind the Window.

Looks like hammering CMD+B or F for other Elements does not work

for Recesses.

 

All are about 70 cm in height above Floors,

my Layer Cut Height is at 2 m.

So I think I should see the Recesses in dotted lines at max in the best case ....

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I also noticed some Duplicates in my file, mainly Walls.

 

(Strange, I noticed that when one Recess had Z fighting.

I understand that a Window in Wall would be copied too by its parent Wall,

but I wonder how my Recess was created into both Walls (?))

 

Not sure if these were accidentally recreated in times when Walls disappeared

in 3D View, or that it could happen when accidentally pressing ALT+MMB

when trying to Fly Over navigation.

Tried ALT+MMB to copy, that does not happen. But not sure if when ALT still

pressed a next LMB click could copy and Object "in place" .....

[Tom W.]

22 minutes ago, zoomer said:

Looks like hammering CMD+B or F for other Elements does not work

for Recesses.

 

I had a situation once where the order the object was inserted in the Wall determined their stacking order. So Send Forward/Backward did nothing: all I could do to achieve the correct display was to take both objects out of the Wall then put them back in again in the correct order i.e. with the one I wanted to see on top inserted last. Can't remember the context exactly... Perhaps something like a Window + a custom sill symbol: I needed to insert the sill symbol first then the Window second to get it to display correctly in Top/Plan.

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Somehow in VW 2025 it is hard to select Walls in a 3D View (Iso) in Shaded Mode.

 

I can select e.g. Windows in Walls fine, even when I hover over a transparent glass pane.

Looks like Walls do some strange highlighting (in gray or so) but a click will not select.

 

I always need to hover over its Lines to be able to click Select.

 

I can't remember selection problems with other PIOs than Walls,

but maybe just because for Slabs I may have been always in Top Plan View Mode ....

[Michael Siggers]

On 10/5/2024 at 3:08 PM, zoomer said:

Walls were missing in 3D shaded but displayed in Top Plan View.

I've experienced this.

 

I also find that when inserting doors or windows and selecting either option for left align or right align, as soon as the window or door hovers over a wall, the cursor shows the dashed window/door with a central insertiin point. It does actually insert to the left or right align, it's just not displaying it correctly before the actual insertion.

 

Mike

[Matt Panzer]

16 hours ago, Michael Siggers said:

I've experienced this.

 

I also find that when inserting doors or windows and selecting either option for left align or right align, as soon as the window or door hovers over a wall, the cursor shows the dashed window/door with a central insertiin point. It does actually insert to the left or right align, it's just not displaying it correctly before the actual insertion.

 

Mike

 

Thank you for pointing this out!

Bug reported (VB-207692).

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Strange ....

 

was looking for Materials in VW App Library.

(Renderworks Textures in VW speech)

These are not installed by default but accessed via a VW Server.

If you want such a Material in your file you need to download it.

(better - that whole Library)

That worked for the last days.

I can click on a Material and see the Preview and download it if needed.

 

Yesterday I realized that I can't see every Preview of a library's material.

Preview appeared for the first content in a library, maybe for a second, but

not for all.

With a material select I waited some time if VW will load it. That did not happen.

I tried other Library files, same thing. Could be that when going back to a previous

library file, that one or two  more materials appeared but I am not sure.

 

So I decided that VW Server is lazy today.

But as I need Materials I thought about Downloading the whole Material Resource Folder.

Now VW said I can't download the Libraries as my Libraries are out of date !?

So I had to update my (all) RM Libraries.

Now the download started, speed was far from my VDSL speed available but it seemed

to work.

Not sure if the download stalled before or just because it would have needed longer but

unfortunately, after maaaany hours at some point at night my M1 Mini went to sleep,

with the result that VW was freezing.

(Not sure if it froze already in the evening, at least VW is frozen today)

I can only force quit VW and hope I do not lose too much work, as latest editing dates

of File and Backups are about from noon.

 

 

Strange, why would VW have to download the Previews at all, as they do not

look more detailed than the thumbnail ...

 

Which is my next point with Resource Manager.

Maybe the extended Preview will be better once the library files are downloaded (?)

But as it is the Materials can't be estimated because of the low res Preview quality.

 

I am a big fan of the Arroway Materials.

As often use Image Textures of larger areas, they look awful and totally

indistinguishable in RM Preview.

(Try to estimate the stack bond of a Hardscape Material)

So my current only workaround to estimate Arroway Materials is by going through

a Download of all Arroway "Image Fills" in Finder and once a Material found and chosen,

go Back to RM and try to find the corresponding Material in RM's (broken into small pieces)

Libraries by name.

 

 

 

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^ Restarted and Download seems to work reasonable now.

 

I also see now that other online Libraries do load a Preview image

after a few seconds, at a better resolution.