jcaia Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 (edited) I've used VW mostly for 2d, and other apps for 3d. Im now trying to see about just using VW for everything. Other apps have some way to enter wall elevation modes for editing. Is there any such mode inside VW to isolate this type of editing? I've tried viewports but I can't seem to edit this way - only view. Here is an example in Chief Architect of what I am looking for (skip to 6:42 to see what I mean): Thanks! Edited September 3, 2015 by jcaia Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 One way is to use the clip cube to isolate the elevation you are wanting to work on. If you select the cupboards on one elevation and hit the Clip cube you will see that only and you can navigate to a straight view of it by the numbers on the keypad. Untick the cube and you see all the plan again and do the same for another elevation. Not the best but its an option. Make sure you double click outside the cube to edit within it. HTH Quote Link to comment
Mike_Borean Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 An easy way would be to create a special class and assign the wall to that class then in the Navigation Window, select "active only". Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Sorry Mike, Active Only probably won't work. Unless the wall and all of the parts of the doors and windows are all in the same class, When you go to Active Only almost everything will disappear. Active Only is exactly that. Show the objects that are in the Active class. Any objects that have a different class but are "contained" by an object in the active class (think groups, symbols, walls, etc.) will not display. Quote Link to comment
jcaia Posted September 4, 2015 Author Share Posted September 4, 2015 (edited) Kinda odd we dont have this feature in Vectorworks - as I can tell you from using it in other apps its very nice. If view-ports could on a design-layer and "active/live" that would be very helpful. Edited September 4, 2015 by jcaia Quote Link to comment
Ride Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Why not group the wall and the cabinets? Then you can see only what you want while you edit, then exit and ungroup. Quote Link to comment
Majic Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Jcaia- wonder what are your software and hardware specs. Adding them to your "signature" can be quite helpful in getting answers to your questions. Relevant in my response: because in 2014 I used a clip cube for isolating parts of my 3D model for editing. In 2015 the clip cube doesn't work with my hardware, yes, time for the upgrade with more graphics memory. So, I use a camera to get a wide angle perspective views which works quite well - even better than an elevation view, I think. ...those CA parametric cabinet objects looked pretty good to me. Quote Link to comment
VincentCuclair Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Kinda odd we dont have this feature in Vectorworks - as I can tell you from using it in other apps its very nice. If view-ports could on a design-layer and "active/live" that would be very helpful. Live section VPs have been asked for for a long while now...... Quote Link to comment
billtheia Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 If you watch that whole clip, CA's cabinet tool looks pretty nice. I'd kill to have that much functionality in VW cabinets. Quote Link to comment
jcaia Posted September 8, 2015 Author Share Posted September 8, 2015 Yeah, here is it being used in Archicad - so odd we dont have this in VW. Its a fairly big deal to me. Quote Link to comment
VincentCuclair Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 I like how easy to use and intuitive they seem to be! Nice if that came with VWs out of the box! However there are 3rd party plugins for this: Quote Link to comment
billtheia Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 InteriorCAD is nice but the last time I checked, it was pretty expensive. The cost of VW and InteriorCAD together was almost as much as a seat of ArchiCAD. ArchiCAD, though, seems to be a much more complete product than the combination of VW and InteriorCAD so it didn't make sense to me to buy InteriorCAD. Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 You should check out interiorCAD XS, the cut-down version of interoirCAD, its a lot cheaper Quote Link to comment
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