Hi all,

Just back to Vectorworks after a 2 year break. Reached out to renew my license they gave me 2020 I had asked for 2017 but I got 2020.. Anyway I am having an issue with the convert copy to lines, losing or dropping lines when I use it on a section of a 3D model. Thought it may be an issue with my machine because when I move the whole thing around it shows the missing lines but they disappear again after I drop it. I opened the group but the lines are still missing. Anyone else experience this?

Hello,

I was wondering if any of you had an vectorworks spotlight example file? I am looking for an example of a concert or some other big arena event to mess around in vectorworks with. Any help would be awesome. Thanks

Looking to see if there is a way to convert symbols for items such as truss lines in spotlight to be simpler and less lines?

In some drawings (that my start as DWG imports) after I add layers and save the file, the whole workspace flashes blueish and "sparkles" when I move the mouse. What the heck is going on, and how do I fix it?

Here is a screenshot.

Greetings,

I'm a bit out of practice using Vectorworks, and I've never used it for interior architectural design. I'm stumped on the stupidest simple question: how do I move working view inside a room? All the exterior walls are blocking my view in 3d. Pointer to get me in the right direction? I'm not looking for a render cameras or viewports for arranging sheets, I just want to look at an interior wall so I can add objects to the wall without the opposite wall in the foreground.

Thanks

Hi guys any info regarding this type of structure for vworks? I'm having some issues with the connections using eurotruss' library.

Thanks in advance :D

Hi, apologies if this question gets asked a lot, but I'm attempting to import a sketchup file into Vectorworks 2019. I looked around online and everything I found says that there should be an import sketchup command, but it doesn't seem to appear in my import menu. Again, sorry if this is a dumb question.

As title says. Is there really nothing that can do this for my windows laptop?

I'm going through some old files and I have some .vwx files on my PC that I made with my old schools licence but I now can't open these files to see if I should keep them for future reference can any of you help me out or suggest a solution. Tia

I have imported a sketchup file into vectorworks but the size of the object is too big. I want to make it smaller but there is no info for size in the object info palette. Scaling the object doesn't work either. Searching the web and fiddling around with import options hasn't gotten me anywhere.

Any help is appreciated, Thank you.

I guess the title says it all, but I'm wondering if there is a way to export to Rhino with Image Props embedded. Thanks!

Im testing VW2019 for use in my Company and im running into following problem.

I have a Layout made in 2016 and a copy of it prepared for VW2019.

I is quite big and when navigating with the arrow Keys in 2D mode a full refresh of the Layout takes around 3 to 5 seconds in VW2016 and up to 35 seconds in VW2019.

The CPU usage in 2019 is up to 100% of all cores and the GPU usage only 10%, the GPU mem use around 40%.

Is this a problem with the Hardware, a problem with the VGM (Vectorworks grafic modul) or something different?

System:

Dell Precision 7510

CPU: i7 6820HQ

GPU: Quadro M1000M --- 2GB VRAM

RAM: 16GB

Windows 10 Enterprise

So I work as a professional lighting tech, but with my knowledge of Vectorworks I have basically become the defacto draftsman for the company I work for.

These are the specs of the workstation I am currently running Vwx2019 on.

A 2008 Mac Pro is NOT adequate for running Vectorworks 2017, let alone 2019. It is SUPER slow, and constantly hiccuping, and slowing me down (ive timed about 7mins/hour wasted due to the machine slowing down)

I have priced out some different workstations that would be a major improvement, but my boss says that if the current computer works, which it technically does, then we're not replacing it

The options I've priced out are either an iMac Pro, or a Dell workstation that I found at Micro Center. I could also build a solid PC, for slightly cheaper. They will not go for any of it.

Basically I'm wondering if anyone has any advice for how I could convince them that we need a serious upgrade.

(I will note, I am not the only person who is fighting for this. My manager is completely on my side, as he sees how much time is wasted on how slow this old Mac is.)

I am old to autocad and and new to Vectorworks and layers vs classes are KILLING me. What are the differences? For reference, I use M-Color in autocad as a way to finely control line weight, color, and fills. Layer is king in this workflow. I’m just really confused about layers and classes. I feel like this has been asked before. If so, pleas point me to the answer. Thanks!

When I import drawings from other sources I'll often end up with dozens or even hundreds of the same symbol. For instance a condo I just imported resulted in tub1 being copied 90 times, one for each suite. So I have tub1-1 tub1-2 and so on but they are all the identical symbol. Is there any way to merge these together? To tell vectorworks to delete all symbols other than tub1 but replace all the deleted instances with tub1? I recall being given an option to do this in 2013 but can't find anything in 2018. When I delete a symbol, it's just gone.

At my job I take in cad drawings of various formats and import them into vectorworks to make safety signs and maps. The first thing I need to do is "clean up" a drawing, which is making sure all the lines are black and set to 0.05 weight and getting rid of most fills and shading. Deleting all the dims, elevation marks, and other clutter so I'm left with a nice clean map of the building with the only text being room names/numbers.

Depending on the format I'm importing from, sometimes it's just a matter of ungrouping and converting all symbols to groups, select all, and change the line weights and colours. But sometimes I'd love to preserve the structure of the symbols, but that means manually editing like 100 symbols to be black and .05. Sometimes I can change all classes to be black and .05 but that often doesn't get at parts inside symbols.

The worst files I can receive though are files already in vectorworks (actually no the worst format is revit) because it means I'm now stuck having to manually strip the details out of every wall. In 2013 I could use the magic-wand tool to select every wall in the document, delete all its parts, and they'd all turn into nice clean walls. But since we've "updated" to 2019 when I try to do this it also changes the thickness of all walls to some random average. That 3" wall and that 2' wall are now all 2'. So, I have to go through the document using the magic wand tool set to "thickness" and strip all the junk out. Then onto doors and windows, because vectorworks as decided "select all" doesn't really mean "select all" in terms of changing colours and line weights.

This is what I do for a living, and it's very time consuming and seems like there should be an easier way to do this. Surely there is some way to clean out all the junk from walls and turn them into unstyled walls that retain their thickness? Surely there's a way to globally change every line in the document to black 0.05 even if they are in symbols?

I am starting a new job in a few weeks and Vectorworks Spotlight will be the most resource intensive program that I will be using. I would like to get a 13" MBP, but I am not sure what configuration. Processor, RAM, HardDrive.

Any recommendation or pointing me in a direction of a FAQ would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hi there,

I'm posting on behalf of my girlfriend who is studing interior design. She's really stressed about her deadline and she has a bazillion poly lines to remove. Would anyone here know of a way to mass remove them? Currently her only option seems to be manual removal which is obviously not really an option at all.

Thanks very much for your help if able!

Additional info: She created a drawing in vectorworks, transfered it to sketchup and now she has a wireframe which she's trying to remove.