hollister design Studio Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 What's up with all the "zNested" folders. I have zNested Hatches, zNested Textures, zNested Gradients. And then I have all kinds of hatches, textures and gradients that are not in a folder. What's the difference? Can I put all my hatches in a folder to help clean up my Resource Manager? Will VW find these or will it just create duplicates and put them in the top level anyway? Trying to clean up a new template file I created and realized I'm not sure how VW accesses textures etc. I just found that the new - completely empty -template file was 238MB!! Any one with a link to an in-depth explanation please let me know. The Help pages are less than helpful - "znested" and even "nested hatches" result in 'no results found'. ...VW seems like such a black box so often. Quote Link to comment
Tom W. Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 I believe VW puts the individual resources that go to make up the main resource you are importing into 'zNested' folders just to keep things neat + tidy + to distinguish one from the other. So if a symbol in the libraries uses textures, hatches, etc these will be imported along with the symbol + be contained within the 'zNested Textures' + 'zNested Hatches' folders. Then when you import more resources their 'sub-resources' will also go into these folders. You can do the same thing with your own resources by creating Resource Folders in the Resource Manager otherwise it becomes very messy very quickly. You can have loads of folders inside each other. Then when you import these resources into new documents you can choose whether to 'preserve folder hierarchy', which will import all the folders above the resource in question, or 'select destination folder' which will import the resource itself plus any associated sub-folders + put it in the location of your choice in the new document. 1 Quote Link to comment
hollister design Studio Posted April 20, 2021 Author Share Posted April 20, 2021 @Tom W. So VW will find the resource even if it's in a resource folder in a resource folder and not duplicate? Good to know. I've been trying to keep things structured... all my perennials are in the " PLNT-perennial" resource folder and my succulent are in 'PLNT-Succulents' in my library/favorite files and I chose to 'preserve folder hierarchy' when I first import them. Coming to VW from Maya I do miss the 'organization and hierarchies' that made everything so easy to find. Learning way to keep everything under control is very helpful. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 I find that there isn't consistency with what goes in zNested Hatches/Materials/Records/Textures vs Hatches/Materials/Records/Textures so I've just been moving everything into zNested to minimized the redundancy and never-ending paradoxical choice of "is it THIS or is it THAT" throughout the app. Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 I'm also curious who needs a folder for multiple Tile Blocks, Drawing Label Styles... Seems like "Dims & Notes" would be a better folder structure for title blocks, drawing labels, data tags, text styles, line types... Except of course we have different folder types which annoys me to no end. 4 Quote Link to comment
Tom W. Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 @Mark Aceto I agree see this thread: 1 Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 34 minutes ago, Tom W. said: @Mark Aceto I agree see this thread: Thank you—upvoted! Quote Link to comment
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