jmd Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 I have trouble drawing acurately in vectorworks. I'll work with a design for a while and it's accuracy seems to degrade over time. items which were 12'4" long last week are now 12'3.894" today. I spend a lot of time just going back and cleaning up the drawings. It becomes wearing since i can't depend on a file to be consistent from one day to the next. any advice on drawing practices, recommended SOP's? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted July 26, 2005 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 26, 2005 Dimension accuracy (the number of decimal places which a dimension is rounded to) is a document preference. What may be happening here is that you're working in different files, each with different unit settings? You might try setting up a default document (a "template") with the unit settings predefined. Quote Link to comment
propstuff Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 I don't think that's it Robert. I've experienced the same thing; (more than)one document randomly appearing to "loose" a tiny increment of dimensions with out any settings being changed. That was in VW9 and VW10 -don't know about VW11 N. [ 07-26-2005, 06:24 PM: Message edited by: propstuff ] Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted July 26, 2005 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 26, 2005 In that case, jmd, you might try posting this over in the "general" forum areas, because this is not an architectural-feature-specific query. You'll get better "eyeballs" reviewing the posting over there. Quote Link to comment
jan15 Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 JMD, When I first started using VectorWorks (then called MiniCad), I used to set the size of objects I was drawing by watching the data display bar value change until I saw the number I wanted, and then clicking the mouse to select that dimension. I remember noticing that the dimension that showed up later in the Object Info palette usually turned out to be slightly different, by increments similar to those you described. So I started typing the dimension I wanted instead, using the numeric keypad, which turned out to be faster than my old method, and after that the dimensions always remained precisely what I had entered. Quote Link to comment
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