jnr Posted November 12, 2001 Share Posted November 12, 2001 Robert: Can you tell me why when I use the wall type tool and choose a cmu wall with brick veneer(wall-ext-veneer), and the default class is none, that the wall defaults to wall-int-full class? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted November 12, 2001 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 12, 2001 jnr, are you saying that the wall class defined in the wall style is 'Wall-Ext-Veneer' and the class assigned to the wall by the Wall Type Tool is 'Wall-Int-Full'? This obviously should not happen. I unfortunately can't reproduce your exact situation without all your external preferences files. Please re-check that the wall style you are using has the desired class. Quote Link to comment
jnr Posted November 12, 2001 Author Share Posted November 12, 2001 Robert: Yes. For a scripted drawing using the setup assistant, if I use the wall tool, and choose say a simple 2x4 stud wall draw it, it defaults to wall-int-full. If I then use the wall tool again and select say a brick veneer over 8" cmu, and draw the wall, it puts the brick/cmu wall on the wall-int-full class and not where it is supposed to go on the wall-ext-veneer class. Why? why does it default to the wall-int-full class and NOT AUTO-CLASS to its supposed assigned class? This did not happen in 8.5.2 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted November 12, 2001 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 12, 2001 jnr, I have tried to reproduce your problem but don't observe it happening. Here's what I do: In a document set up with Setup Assistant, I do the following: 1. Menu command: Select Wall type;2. SWT Dialog: push 'Add' button;3. New Wall Type dialog: choose 'Wall-Ext-Veneer' from the 'Assign to Existing Class' dialog; fill out other settings appropriate to a brick-on-CMU wall;4. Click OK;5. SWT Dialog: select newly-created wall type, click OK;6. Back in document: Use Wall Type tool and draw serveral of these walls;7. With wall selected, look in Object Info palette. Walls are 'Wall-Ext-Veneer' as expected. Quote Link to comment
jnr Posted November 12, 2001 Author Share Posted November 12, 2001 Robert: I understand how to create new wall types. However NNA has gone to the effort of creating a library of wall types built in to the program. When I select a "cavity7 5/8" cmu w/brick" the least it could do would be to use the default class (which is how NNA has left the default settings for the wall) in this case I have "none" set as my current class. When drawn, the wall still defaults to the wall-int-full class and not the default class or what 8.5 used to assign the wall-ext-veneer class. Quote Link to comment
jnr Posted November 12, 2001 Author Share Posted November 12, 2001 Robert: Here's some more. Just for kicks I have tried to draw different wall types from the list provided by NNA. They are inconsistent. A 1/4" glass wall defaults to an interior wall instead of a glazed wall class or a 2-hr rated wall with type x I would think would default to the wall-fire class. If I draw the brick with cmu veneer wall, in one instance it puts it on the wall-int-full class, the next time on the wall-ext-veneer class. However it is inconsistent. One never knows which class it is going to default to. This is extremely irritating. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted November 12, 2001 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 12, 2001 Now you're describing a different problem. In the posts above I asked if a wall was drawn in a class different to the one explicitly assigned to it. That is what I tested, and this did not occur. Now you're saying that the problem occurs when the wall type has type has the class <<default>> set. I'm able to reproduce this, and will enter it in the bug list. The workaround for this is to enter an explicit class in your wall type, as the <<default>> entry seems not to work. Quote Link to comment
Don_dup1 Posted November 16, 2001 Share Posted November 16, 2001 I am having this very same problem, walls being miss auto classed. Windows 98 VWA 9.01 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted November 16, 2001 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 16, 2001 As I say above, this is a bug (<default> setting not recognized) and the workaround for this is to enter an explicit class in your wall type. Then autoclassing works fine. Quote Link to comment
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