So, I am preparing to drag myself and various drawings from VW2018 to 2021. Immediately on a test run I am seeing various problems with the way sections have imported. I'd be grateful if anyone can let me know how many of these are known problems/easy fixes:
1. Some of my sections seem to have shifted. There's nothing in the viewport, but if I crop out, I find that the section is there, outside the crop box, and rotated. Both of the sections I've found where this has happened are neither vertical nor horizontal (they are cut perpendicular to a slopnig roof pitch).
2. What were called "section-elevation markers" in VW2018 now seem to be called "section-elevation lines" and the text is displaced from the bubbles. Am I best just to redraw them? They are not linked to viewports, just ones I've drawn manually.
3. Why have all my section line thicknesses changed? I have my sections set up as "separate cross sections" and "use attributes of original objects". So, cut line thickness is determined by the class the object is in. Has something changed here? What were previously thick lines are now all thin lines. For example, I tend to use 0.35 as my "cut line" thickness but to get something looking like that it appears that I have to go and change all my class settings from 0.35 to 1.00. Why is this?
4. Does the "Zoom line thickness" toggle now work differently? If I turn it 'on' then it seems to work as predicted for things in annotations, but not for lines in the section viewport itself. For example, those lines where I've set the class attribute of the sectioned object to 1.0 ... the thickness of those lines does not zoom, whether I have "zoom line thickness" turned on or off. Is that a bug? It leaves me unable to judge what the drawing's going to look like when I convert it to PDF.
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So, I am preparing to drag myself and various drawings from VW2018 to 2021. Immediately on a test run I am seeing various problems with the way sections have imported. I'd be grateful if anyone can let me know how many of these are known problems/easy fixes:
1. Some of my sections seem to have shifted. There's nothing in the viewport, but if I crop out, I find that the section is there, outside the crop box, and rotated. Both of the sections I've found where this has happened are neither vertical nor horizontal (they are cut perpendicular to a slopnig roof pitch).
2. What were called "section-elevation markers" in VW2018 now seem to be called "section-elevation lines" and the text is displaced from the bubbles. Am I best just to redraw them? They are not linked to viewports, just ones I've drawn manually.
3. Why have all my section line thicknesses changed? I have my sections set up as "separate cross sections" and "use attributes of original objects". So, cut line thickness is determined by the class the object is in. Has something changed here? What were previously thick lines are now all thin lines. For example, I tend to use 0.35 as my "cut line" thickness but to get something looking like that it appears that I have to go and change all my class settings from 0.35 to 1.00. Why is this?
4. Does the "Zoom line thickness" toggle now work differently? If I turn it 'on' then it seems to work as predicted for things in annotations, but not for lines in the section viewport itself. For example, those lines where I've set the class attribute of the sectioned object to 1.0 ... the thickness of those lines does not zoom, whether I have "zoom line thickness" turned on or off. Is that a bug? It leaves me unable to judge what the drawing's going to look like when I convert it to PDF.
5. Anything else I should watch out for?
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