AN Design Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 VW2009 w/SP1 When creating joists from Polygon (Simple 75'x 45') Creates rafters as opposed to Beam which I selected, after completed it disappears. after 5 more attempts it worked (spinning beach ball & crash each time) Just wanted to create simple I joists (no longer an option, I joist was available in 2008) Got a I joist profile from Framing members , selected I-Joist Profile from custom, crashed again. Worked fine before SP1 update, how do I get the older plug in back. Once this project is finished, will again go back too VW2008. The bugs and problems w/ 2009 are to numerous to get into w/ this post. Any solutions for the Framing Tool ? Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 andesign, you're right. This is a bad bad bug. I can reproduce it easily, and will file it later when I have time (unless of course you do it first ;-)) Quote Link to comment
dtheory Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 (edited) temporary solution: also reinstates the i-joist! It seems to work fine to substitute the relevant plug-ins from 2008 for the corresponding ones in 2009. (I have not tested this extensively, but it seems to work for me). They reside in the plug-ins folder in the root level of the Vectorworks folder the plug-ins are: Create Joists from Poly.vsm, Framing Member Tool.vst, FramingMember.vwobject For safety, put the plug-ins from 2009 somewhere of your choice for safekeeping to put back (hopefully to be updated) when the next service pack is issued. FYI: I am running 2009 sp1 on an 2.8Ghz octo-core Mac Pro w/ 10GB of RAM OS 10.5.5 Edited December 6, 2008 by dtheory Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Follow-up: after quitting and restarting VW's this command seems to work fine for me. Very odd that it would fail, then work. But hey, it's software! Quote Link to comment
dtheory Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 update: create joists from poly seems to have been fixed... at least it works perfectly for me. regarding the i-joist being missing, it never was missing... the procedure changed. to get i-joists, choose "wood truss" once you do that, another option becomes available: "use solid web" Then choose .75" for "web width" and you're good to go... to hazard a guess, the term "i-joist" might have been too generic or brand specific for the entire english speaking international user base... (or they just made a bad call) Quote Link to comment
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