Alaskan_Son

Looked at your settings, and I think your main problem is that your line weights are EXTREMELY small. Almost every layer in your plan has a line weight setting of 1 with a few items have a line weight of 2 and just a couple with line weights of 3 and 4. OTOH, if you look at your layout, the items that seem to be printing just fine all have line weights of between 10 and 35. Now with regard to your line weight settings. Changing them to 1 = 1/10 mm might have been enough to fix your problem but it looks like you only changed that setting in the plan. Those settings needed to be changed in layout. Your settings are still at 1 = 1/100 mm in the layout file. So...increase your line weights or change the line weight setting in layout to something higher. 1 = 1/10 mm should probably do it but you could probably even go to 1 = 1/5 mm....or even larger. Note that if you decide to adjust your line weight scale rather than the line weights themselves that you'll probably want to adjust the line weights for your layout items to more closely match the line weights you're using in the plan. If you want my opinion though, go through and change all your line weights and leave the scale at 1 = 1/100 mm. You're not giving yourself much control by using such a large line weight scale. You basically only end up with 4 or 5 possible line weight settings.... 0 = can barely see it. Probably not useful for much of anything. 1 = normal 2= medium/bold 3= extra bold 4= too big for anything except maybe a border. Don't get me wrong, that's a perfectly valid method, but go with a smaller scale if you want more variation and control. That's just my 2 cents though. Take it for what it's worth. Hope that helps.

Here's my take on this subject... The leader lines moving around is simply a result of the intended behaviour of arrows...to "stick" to whatever you attach them to. If you don't like that behaviour, it would probably be a good idea to post a suggestion...maybe a "Disconnect Arrow" toggle (or something along those lines). The reason many of us suggest against notations in layout is not a result of the jumping leader lines but rather because we think it's bad practice anyway. Notations placed in layout are not actually associated with or connected to the model in any way; move the layout box, delete the layout box, move something in the model, change the model, etc...and your notations are all wrong now. You then need to go back and proof check all the various views and change things as necessary. When those notes are right in the plan, you can see what's going on as you make changes and can adjust accordingly (if the adjustments aren't automatic). Keeping those notes in the model is just where they belong IMO. Again, not because of the leader line issues, but because you want to keep them with items you are actually notating. Don't get me wrong. I place notes like that in layout sometimes myself...just not very often.

Still looks like a color/grayscale issue to me. Try posting the plan and layout files and you'll probably get a better answer.

Plenty of ways to do this. In addition to the suggestions above, you can also just use your reference display.

This is only a workaround solution here Johnny, but once you have the topography finalized, you can... Switch to your All Off set and turn on only the terrain Create a CAD Detail From View Group select all the text by either activating a text tool and shift selecting or by using Match Properties and either cut or copy all that text to your clipboard Go back to your plan view and turn off the automatic contour labels Paste/Hold Position that text into your plan view and then move it all to a unique layer in case you need to group select and modify later. You now have labels that can be moved around and resized as necessary. Again, this is just a workaround and you would have to delete the labels and repeat the process if you change the terrain, but at least it gives you a reasonably quick way to have customizable contour labels.

It sounds like you didn't read the whole post.

If you never had that happen before then you just got lucky and always had the sun in a better position. The fact is that unless you are using 3D plants that those plants are nothing more than 2D images that usually rotate to follow the camera (unless you specify otherwise). This means that if the sun is directly behind the camera (sun follows camera) or directly opposite the camera that you will get reasonably accurate shadows. The further you get from those 2 locations though, the less accurate the shadows will become. With the sun perfectly perpendicular with your camera direction you'll essentially end up with no shadows at all...or maybe what looks like a single line. If you want more accurate shadows you'll need to use a 3D plant.

I only looked at the plan just briefly but a couple quick observations… Running a plan check brings the label back on the first floor. The foundation though is a little unique. I'm not positive WHY but the label on that level is a little more stubborn. If you enclose a new room off to the side on that level you will get a living area level for that room however getting the living area label for the existing area back seems to be a different story. There maybe other methods that will bring it back but using Eric's suggested method seems to do the trick. No need to paste it into another plan though. You can paste it right back into that same plan and the living area label returns.

Just place a Ceiling Platform Hole and then place a attic stair symbol or model something yourself. Should be too difficult. Here's a simple set of attic stairs I got off Sketchup 3D Warehouse. File size is nice and small too... Attic Stair.calibz Depending on what you're after you may want to place the stairs on a unique layer and then build yourself a simple cover with a pull string and place that on a different layer. That way you can turn layers on or off and display either open or closed.

Just a thought here but are you sure it's a line weight issue and not a color issue? If you have lines that aren't actually black it's possible you are printing in black and white and they are printing in grayscale or in color.

Your Walls, Normal layer is just locked in your Default Set. Just unlock that layer (and maybe a few others) and you should be good to go.

Run a plan check...Tools>Checks>Plan Check. See if that brings it back.

She did upload it but it looks like she subsequently removed it.

You bet!

Go to Drawing Sheet Setup and take a look at your page margins.

Preferences>Appearance>Minimum Display Size>Labels I think that's about all the control you're going to get.

Ten four. Well, I for one will miss your knowledge and expertise. You've been an invaluable (and probably underappreciated) asset to the community here and I sincerely wish you the best with all your new endeavors.

Hey Gerry, Are you leaving us? Or do you just have an extra seat?

Absolutely agree. I noticed the same thing. The only thing I see as being truly unique and not easily reproduced with Chief about those drawings is the fills. That of course is to say nothing of some of the extra tools Vectorworks has that makes controlling and manipulating the linework, fills, and hatch patterns so much easier and more productive. I'm with you and Johnny on this...it's about time we see an improvement in some of these areas.

You actually don't even need to create the notch. All you have to do is place the necessary break(s). The key to properly using the Join Roof Planes tool that I think a lot of people initially have trouble with (myself included) is that you can't simply select the correct roof plane. You MUST select the correct EDGES.

Rest easy...me thinks it aint so. You should be able to do both of those. You just need to take the extra steps of converting the "Special Polyline" back to a "Standard Polyline" and then converting that to a Terrain Perimeter. Oh ya, one more thing...probably goes without saying, but just in case... You need to make sure you cut or copy all the elevation data along with the terrain perimeter.

Chief doesn't have X refs or anything like them. I'd say the closest thing we have is CAD Blocks and maybe layout boxes. Whoever told you that will probably need to elaborate a bit and tell you exactly what they need.

You're welcome, and I'm not really sure. I guess I could be wrong about my assumed reasoning but I do know I've heard the same thing recommended many times. Based on my personal experience it just doesn't really seem to matter though.

They plan file can be stored wherever you want as long as you tell the layout file where it's at. I think people just recommend the file remain in the same folder so that the path is less likely to change and so that people don't lose it.