Popular Post Bill Treen Posted November 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 6, 2020 Currently the Elevation Benchmark tool only permits the use of document units. If the units are feet and inches, the elevation benchmark units will be in feet and inches. There is no option to choose meters, for instance. Dimensions have the ability to use secondary units. The stake object tool will allow users to choose units other than the document units. It is very important that this incredibly useful tool be changed to permit the use of document units and / or user specified units. In most drawings I produce I am required to use metric and imperial units. Vectorworks is very good this EXCEPT for this tool. I would like to see this tool able to display units other than document units. 5 Quote Link to comment
0 EricK Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 I voted this up but it would be helpful if you could vote up my same suggestion here Quote Link to comment
0 Scott Schwartz, AIA Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 We use feet and inches but want benchmarks notated in decimals of feet, to match what the surveyors work from. They laugh at us if we show a 235' - 7 3/16" benchmark. Does VW talk to US Architects at all on this kind of detail? Call me. 3 Quote Link to comment
0 Matt Overton Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 We actually generate our elevations and sections in a reference file so we can set the file units differently to get dimension tools like the benchmark to display correctly. Every dimension like thing should be able to change the display dimensions. 3 Quote Link to comment
0 rDesign Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 45 minutes ago, Matt Overton said: We actually generate our elevations and sections in a reference file so we can set the file units differently to get dimension tools like the benchmark to display correctly. Wow. That's quite a workaround. Let's hope Vw is listening... 1 Quote Link to comment
0 Matt Overton Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 3 hours ago, rDesign said: Wow. That's quite a workaround. Let's hope Vw is listening... Not really a workaround for us as we break up files that way then kind of just discovered it. But yes dimension handling needs work. 1 Quote Link to comment
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Bill Treen
Currently the Elevation Benchmark tool only permits the use of document units.
If the units are feet and inches, the elevation benchmark units will be in feet and inches. There is no option to choose meters, for instance.
Dimensions have the ability to use secondary units. The stake object tool will allow users to choose units other than the document units.
It is very important that this incredibly useful tool be changed to permit the use of document units and / or user specified units.
In most drawings I produce I am required to use metric and imperial units. Vectorworks is very good this EXCEPT for this tool.
I would like to see this tool able to display units other than document units.
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