markdd Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 (edited) I would like to add a custom door leaf to a door plug-in object. Where do I need to store the custom door leaves that I have made. I can navigate fine to the default content but would like to know where else the PIO can look to find custom door leaves. Many thanks Edited July 11, 2017 by markdd Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 In your User Folder there is a Libraries folder. Within that there is a Defaults folder containing a folder named Door - Custom Leaves. Save a file with a unique name that has your custom door leaf symbol in it. Then place that file in that folder called Door - Custom Leaves. You can access your User Folder from the User Folders tab of Vectorworks Preferences. 2 Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted July 12, 2017 Author Share Posted July 12, 2017 That does the trick, thanks. Mark Quote Link to comment
Steven Swaby Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 I have produced my first custom leaf and saved it as above, but when I used it through the door tool it shrinks in the Z plane, and I cannot figure out why. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted July 14, 2017 Author Share Posted July 14, 2017 In settings under General, change the size reference to: leaf size. That should do it. Mark Quote Link to comment
Steven Swaby Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 Unfortunately that did not work. Still got a squished door in a normal sized frame. Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 (edited) Sorry, something went wrong, post felt in wrong thread. Edited July 14, 2017 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 Post a file with that door in it so it can be looked at. Quote Link to comment
Steven Swaby Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Here is a file with the door leaf symbol that I made as it should be and then a door object with the leaf being used in it, and you can see that its shrunk in the Z plane. door.vwx Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Steven, I can't work out why. Submit it as a bug. Quote Link to comment
Taproot Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 I"m convinced this is a bug as well. A few years ago, I built a whole library of custom door leaves. They stopped scaling correctly (in the vertical dimension) around 2016. Now, they will only display correctly if the height of the door is the same as the original symbol. Doors still scale correctly in width. 1 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Mike Lamb Posted November 1, 2017 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 1, 2017 I just encountered this myself, and I think it was because I did not set the insertion point to the bottom center of the door. Hope this helps someone else! Quote Link to comment
JMR Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Just to confirm: Custom leaves can scale with the door size? I did a custom leaf some time ago but it wouldn't scale at all. Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 That is what I asked myself too ... Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Mike Lamb Posted November 3, 2017 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 3, 2017 (edited) I drew my leaf to the exact size that I needed, but I tried it and it does scale, it just stretches. custom_door_leaf_scaling.vwx Edited November 3, 2017 by Mike Lamb 1 Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 I like that answer and it is very good to know. Quote Link to comment
JMR Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 Indeed! Will have to try again. Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 (edited) Why in the world can't the Door tool access custom leaves within the file you're working in? The custom leaf pop-up should look like other Resource Manager Pop-ups where you can select the location in the lefthand column. An overview of my experience just now, as a first-timer to the process of making a custom leaf: Choose a default custom leaf as a starting point. Via RM, modify 3D geometry in leaf symbol to suit my needs. Rename symbol now that it's customized. Door tool doesn't auto-recognize that the symbol name changed, so it reverts back the default leaf I had chosen earlier and re-imports that symbol into the RM. Assume that it's simply not seeing my symbol because of the name change, so I go back into the Door object and click on the Custom leaf flyout. Become confused that there's no way to choose the symbol I just edited. Play around for a few minutes trying to figure out what's happening. Realize there's only the finite list of leafs to choose from. Search "custom leaf" in VW help which eventually tells me "Custom leaves must be 3D-only symbols made from generic solids, saved in the default content location." Ok, good info. Not what I would expect, but at least the limitations are documented. Copy my symbol into a new file. Save it into my User Folder after spending a few minutes trying to find the right folder (this will be easier in the future now that I have a Custom Leaves file started). Go back to my first file and try to find the custom leaf. It's not there. I wonder if I did something wrong? I wonder if it doesn't actually look at User Folder content? [It does, I just hadn't restarted yet]. Search this forum and come across this post, and watch the video above, which helped me realize I had to restart VW, which I do, and reopen my file. Go into the door object and success! My custom leaf is there. Realize that this all took 7 times longer than it should have, but thankfully the available resources did answer my questions. Suggestions for VW moving forward: Allow the door tool to pull a custom leaf directly from the current file. If you rename the leaf symbol it shouldn't break the link with the door objects using the symbol. Have a better description about where the "default content location" is and say that you must restart for it to show up. Add a link to the video tech tip above, within this section of VW help: Edited December 22, 2018 by Andy Broomell 3 Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 I just realized I now have a question: the custom leaf in my current project file is related to a library file in my user folder called "AEB Custom Leaves". If someone else opens this project file on their computer and wants to do something with the door object, will they run into issues because their machine doesn't have the same "AEB Custom Leaves" file within their user folder? Will it reset to some other door leaf? How does this work? Quote Link to comment
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