cherie Posted April 11, 2003 Share Posted April 11, 2003 i need this process explained a little more clearer than the manual. on my rcp plan, i use the show ceiling view command but none of my door/wdws are visible not even in clg view. i've got them on the sills class (from using task manager). and when i go back to the floor plan and use the show floor view command everything shows up but my room names. also...what is the best way to add ceiling joists at this point? cherie vw architect 10.1/osX.2.4 Quote Link to comment
cherie Posted April 11, 2003 Author Share Posted April 11, 2003 i also just got an alert "task data.txt". i had just figured out how to make my doors/windows behave properly on the rcp. the sills class was not visible so then i use the show ceiling command and it was ok. i went back to the plan and used show floor view command....some of my rooms names did not show. i went to task manaager to go to the room names task and i got the above message. now the file is frozen and i will have to probably force quit the program to clear it out. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted April 17, 2003 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 17, 2003 Cherie, doors should be drawn in the 'Doors-Main' class, not the 'Sills' class. Note that the 'Sills' class is for objects that show up -only- on floor plans. If you are using the classing door libraries that come with VWA, this is kind of a non-problem, as the doors will auto-class into the 'Doors-Main' class. Quote Link to comment
cherie Posted April 17, 2003 Author Share Posted April 17, 2003 robert, i adjusted all doors to be on the door-main class, went to reflected ceiling plan, ran show ceiling view and i got the vectorscript message "the "ip resources" file was not found". Quote Link to comment
cherie Posted April 17, 2003 Author Share Posted April 17, 2003 and none of the doors/windows went to ceiling view. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted April 17, 2003 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 17, 2003 This sounds like a file has become corrupted or lost. I'd recommend another install of VW in a new directory and trying this again. Quote Link to comment
cherie Posted April 18, 2003 Author Share Posted April 18, 2003 robert, i reinstalled vw works like you said in a new directory and went through rcp process again. on rcp drawing, i used "show ceiling view" with no problems: everything worked and showed up this time. i then went back to the plan and ran "show plan view". the vectorscript message "the "ip resources" file was not found" popped up at the bottome of the screen, door and windows did not change from rcp view. i then got a beep sound and the doors/windows changed to plan view. i then went to task manager and got the same alert as before, "required date file "task data.txt" has encountered an undetermined error". Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 Can you close VW and open it back up and have it work? Quote Link to comment
cherie Posted April 18, 2003 Author Share Posted April 18, 2003 i closed vw and opened it again....task manager seems to be working now. Quote Link to comment
cherie Posted April 18, 2003 Author Share Posted April 18, 2003 upon further inspection....i'm missing some room names, doors, existing windows, millwork, toilet fixtures after quitting and reopening the file. Quote Link to comment
cherie Posted April 21, 2003 Author Share Posted April 21, 2003 i really need an answer on this one. is this a bug or is it something on my end? i've got this ceiling plan in a different file so that i won't corrupt the original and certainly cannot proceed in my drawings with this kind of problem. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted April 22, 2003 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 22, 2003 Cherie, I don't know what's going on here.. sounds like a classing problem? but call in to TS and email them a copy of your file. Quote Link to comment
cherie Posted April 22, 2003 Author Share Posted April 22, 2003 robert, thanx. i actually did that a little while ago. hopefully they can figure out what is going on. Quote Link to comment
dla Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 I had a similar problem (doorsselected from plug-in after using VW set up) and submitted to VW almost 2 months ago. I have to trun them into objects, ungroup them, edit the sill as sill class to get anything resembling what it sued to do automatically. Dan Quote Link to comment
JJG Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 A strange solution for problems such as this is to select the CREATE PLUG-IN menu command and open the dialogue. Simply cancel the request and all of the symbols are recalibrated. Symbols that did not show up often reappear! Quote Link to comment
hong Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 Is 'this show ceiling view' dropped out in VW 11? i don't find it in my PIO folder. Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted September 24, 2004 Share Posted September 24, 2004 in VW11 there is an option on doors to "Show Overhead Lines" is this what you mean? Quote Link to comment
hong Posted September 24, 2004 Share Posted September 24, 2004 Yes, and also I don't see this menu called 'show ceiling view' on VW 11 anywhere. Quote Link to comment
Ramon PG Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 1. I'd like to know in what layer (and what class) should you draw overhead stuff like bulkheads or beams that should show as dashed lines in Plan but solid lines in Reflected Ceiling. I am drawing them in Ceiling-Overhead which looks perfect in Plan but then show the dashed lines in Elevation. 2. Also I tried a 2D section but I did not get an elevation of the items I am supposedly looking towards (walls, windows, doors, etc) only the sectioned floor, walls and roof slab. Thanks Quote Link to comment
Ramon PG Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 More correctly I am drawing them in Mod-Ceiling with Ceiling-Overhead Class. Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Quick note to Users: To avoid re-installing and replacement of Plug-ins sometimes all you need to do is trash the '.ds_store' ( invisible database file which gets corrupted) within the Plug-in Folder. >Quit VW >use DSwipe or similar to trash '.ds_store' >Open VW and it will rebuild the data file for the directory. This trick works wonders with most apps. Quote Link to comment
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