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LOL love the playlist! Agree, Vw has come a long way in those 9 yrs. I just don't want them to rest on their laurels here.

hello. I'm tryind to adjust the door already 40 min, this is crazy, every action, starting from opening the dialog window is very slow, every change tooks minutes, even just tyiping in the numbers. Moving the door also took 30+ seconds. It is not possible to work like that. Is it possible to do smth with that? VW 24 update 4

It's Shift-Option-8 on a Mac. Don't know about Windows. °

Is there a way to type a degree angle symbol, the little 'o' above a number? There obviously is one as it appears on angular dimensions but I just want to add it to call out text... TIA

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Please see attached a test file, I deleted the information from the design layer because the file was quite heavy but I didnt change anything else. Thanks1683_300_ EDW 240402 Test file no info.vwx1683_300_ EDW 240402 Test file no info.vwx 1683_300_ EDW 240402 Test file no info.vwx

@Helga Heins so to me it seems like the Project Revision History should give you the results you want. As I said, this report reports on Issue Data and the Current Revision Number for each Issue, so in order to have anything in it you should first create Issues and then create Revisions. If you can share a test file or PM me the actual file I can check to confirm if you have Issues or not.

When I use the preformatted report it recognizes the pages but not the actual revision, so not sure how it works 🙃

I don't know what it is called but I mean the little command library that you open when you press the first button at the top left within the VS Script interface (Im using VW 2023). In the category Miscellaneous there is CE_TransformVector(h: HANDLE; VAR dx: REAL; VAR dy: REAL; VAR dz: REAL); with the description: 'Transforms a vector using h TransformMatrix' Maybe it doesn't exist in VW 24

Hello Nikolay, Thank you for your response, I tried creating it like that but the sheets are not showing in the worksheet, not sure why. Please see below. However, looking at the schedule, i am not sure it is what I am looking for, basically its the document/drawing issue for the record of all the revisions, we currently do it in Excel but it will be helpful if it can relate to the actual file. to display when it was issue and the latest revision letters etc. see attached. Thank you!

Have you played with the 'Simplification Tolerance' setting in the OIP? This was introduced in VW2023 I think.

I have also experienced this issue. The specific issues seems to be when the ui scaling different. I have a laptop with a 4k display with a scaling of 225%. The external monitor i am using is a 1080p monitor running 100% scaling. It seems that when hovering over the drawing area the cursor is using the scaling from the primary monitor, rather than for the external monitor. This then gives the effect of the cursor changing size when moving between the drawing space and the toolbars. Changing the ui scaling on the primary display to 100% resolved the issue. However using 100% scaling on a 4k laptop display is not usable. This is an issue exclusive to Vectorworks(2024). It did not appear in the 2022 version. I skipped 2023 so can not tel if issue is present there.

Hardscapes, and some other vwx objects, display faceted edges from smooth 2d source curves, eg bezier and spline. In the case of Hardscapes, Top Plan view does not show facets. But 3d views show a facet at each curve vertex. A workaround is to convert the source polyline (with curves) to a polygon. No curves, but probably lots of vertices which can slow down redraws and renders. Vertex count in this revised source can be reduced via Modify>Drafting Aids>Simplify Polys. Workaround is only a few steps, and helps the display at close zoom. But new edge is difficult to edit. Often easier to draw a new source polyline with bezier or spline points with subsequent and conversion and simplify. Big effort if lots of changes to several edges over design life. So save the original source poly! It might come in handy. Anyone have a better process? Example starts with 8 vertices. Convert to polygon produces 1027 vertices. Simplify Poly takes it down to 31. Facets nearly invisible at 31. But edits probalby best as do over. -B PS - this is not a 2d/3d conversion pref issue or render quality setting (both Very High), or layer raster resolution (300). Hardscape facets.vwx

I have not seen this before + have no idea what's caused it... Yes. Nomad generates a 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.pts' version of the point cloud which is designed to be viewed on Nomad (because it is oriented correctly) + a 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx_VW.pts' version which is the one you are meant to import into VW (which is upended when viewed on Nomad). Make sure you name your scans + save them to a dedicated folder as you create them as it's a nightmare trying to find the files you just created otherwise! (the names Nomad gives them are completely random + they can't be arranged in date-created order... And for the life of me I can't see how you rename them or move them into new folders after the fact!! That could be me though...)

Vectorworks 2022 SP6 Macbook Pro M3 Pro 18GB MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Asus ProArt 4K Display PA279CRV as main display connected over USB-C Terrible lag when especially when dragging view when window fully maximised (not full screen), but improved when window slightly minimised. Also improved if the Macbook is closed without being extended display. Previously used 2020 M1 iMac and this starting to not feel like an upgrade.

must resist switching to 2024.... I just experienced this great update today while coordinating a set of plans with 6 different enlargements used across 24 sheets. Salvage, Hardscape, Planting, and Irrigation. Nicely done Vectorworks! I look forward to doing more with this tool.

Or if you look in the same place, Vectorworks > Preferences > Interactive Click on Interactive Appearance Settings… is General - Background - 3D Views set to bright green?

Thanks for posting the image. That IS bright green. Never seen that before. Do you have any Renderworks Backgrounds? Look in the Resource Manager under Renderworks Backgrounds.

What function reference are you looking in? I can't find those functions in the version shipping with VW2024 nor in the on-line Developer version.

His post is nearly 9 years old, perhaps things have improved a little? @htranbos necromanced this thread and had a different concern. I don't know how C4D does things, but Vectorworks has a rudimentary stacking of transparency that actually exports pretty good, see video. What would be nice is to have by object and z-buffer exporting, but I can't fault VWX for not having those given it's purpose and audience. allmixedup.mov

Taking the Plan rotation into account has been a little more challenging but I got it to work now: Checks if Plan is rotated: plan_rotated := GetPref(92); Returns Plan Rotation: PlanRot := GetPrefReal(93); Then a little math: theta:= Deg2Rad(PlanRot); rotX:= X * cos(theta) - Y * sin(theta); rotY:= X * sin(theta) + Y * cos(theta);

@Jeff Prince It does support an alpha channel. But what it doesn't have is the object buffer system like C4D. Where you can render out multiple alpha channels for different objects. When I speak of alpha transparency export, that's what I am referring to. So to @Kaare Baekgaard's point, I read that as what he is wanting.

In the function list in Vectorworks there are the commands CE_TransformVector and CE_invTransformVector. They appear to be meant to transform a vector using a matrix (Matrix multiplication). It also says it requires the Handle of the transformation matrix (But I don't know how I can get the handle of a matrix). Has anybody ever used these commands? I can't find anything about them online. I think this might be quite a useful feature if it would be working somehow.

Thanks, duly noted. This is generally working pretty well. I've added a popup parameter to choose the number of colours required from one to three, which creates the same number of named classes to assign colours to, and the same number of colour cells in the tag. Only downside over a data tag is that a new position value in the truss won't trigger an update of the tag. I guess that is where things move in to event enabled, so I'll come back to that. Also, is there a way to force single-click insertion rather than click position > set rotation please? No big deal if not.

It's bright green in all 3D views. Custom, orthagonal, etc etc.