pgym Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 I received a VW 2012 file from a consultant that several viewports containing benchmark PIOs in their Annotation layers. The existing benchmarks need to be flipped horizontally and a few viewports need to have benchmarks added, however, moving or flipping an existing benchmark, changing its class, or adding a new one, whether by copy/paste, duplicate, or from the tool set, causes the line style to change from continuous to dashed. This occurs on both design and sheet layers, and in both DLVPs and SLVPs, and attempting to change the line style via the attributes pallet has no effect. Has anyone else experienced this, and is there a way to force the line style to continuous? Quote Link to comment
Tom G. Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Oddly, I've just added a benchmark symbol to a V.2013 Designer file and found that the underline is dashed. I don't remember this happening ever. Selecting the benchmark symbol and clicking on a line style either on the Attributes palette or the Resource browser line styles library has no effect on the underline BUT DOES CHANGE THE LINE STYLE OF THE CIRCLE at the underline's end. My advice would be to ungroup and change elements individually and post this as a bug to NA. Tom Quote Link to comment
Tom G. Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Also noticed, in v2013, Designer, that when inserting a Drawing Label into a drawing, it won't accept a fill, at least not behind the text forming the title of the drawing. Oddly, the circle holding page number/detail numbers (which can be customized via the OIP) WILL accept a fill, just not the main body of text. Tom PS. I have turned both of these in as bugs. Quote Link to comment
brian-rwc Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 So far in v2014 Architect (and v2013 Architect before hand) I have noticed plenty of weirdness with the Elevation benchmark PIO. However in my case the main problem is that whenever I open the file the line type settings change; almost randomly changing from dashed to hidden to a series of faint dots and then to being continuous. The text also frequently flips upside down and/or gets mirrored reverse. (BTW - I always consistently keep the 'Adjust Flipped Text' option turned off so I know that should not be a factor in this. I have seen the text display correct and reversed regardless of how that is set). The latest bit of weirdness is that the benchmark line itself (drawn in the viewport annotation layer) suddenly increased in length by about a factor of 6 cutting across the rest of the drawing. I am tempted to just explode this PIO or just redraw it. Things like this become very frustrating when you can't trust them to display probably. Comparatively speaking I would think this would have to be one of the easiest PIO's for Nemetschek to create and hence you would expect a greater amount of predictability in it's display settings. Quote Link to comment
Jim Smith Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 I found the PIO buggy several iterations ago. Due to the work-arounds and the fact that in Ontario the standard is to draw a half circle with the elevation called out inside the half circle, & the PIO can't represent this standard, I just stopped using the tool all together. No biggie most of the projects I work on are rarely taller than five or six levels, but it can lead to mistakes. Imagine if the Dimension Tool had the similar issues... er, never mind. Quote Link to comment
gvlgvlgvl Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 (edited) Just wanted to bring this thread to life as I am still seeing this issue, even in the new VW2024. What's strange is that the elevation marker looks correct in VW but when you plot the PDF, it is mirrored. No idea how to fix this. Edited September 15, 2023 by gvlgvlgvl Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Nikolay Zhelyazkov Posted September 18, 2023 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 18, 2023 On 9/16/2023 at 2:37 AM, gvlgvlgvl said: Just wanted to bring this thread to life as I am still seeing this issue, even in the new VW2024. What's strange is that the elevation marker looks correct in VW but when you plot the PDF, it is mirrored. No idea how to fix this. Hello @gvlgvlgvl, Can you share a sample test file showing the issue? Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov Quote Link to comment
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