Laura Stone

Can referenced layers be merged in layer mapping? I have just tried and there was nothing on my new layer. Any ideas?

Agreed

Landscape walls are incredibly clunky at the moment. I'm trying to model an existing site and would like to use walls as kerbs (the road tool is useless for this). The survey of course has the top and bottom kerb level in the same place so not possible to model 'as is'. Is there not a way that a variant of landscape wall tool can be made that starts at the surface of the site model and has a certain elevation above it, with a choice of the top sloped or stepped, and in all other respects acts just like the existing retaining wall tool? Also would want it to be applied to the existing site model so that it wouldn't appear in a cut/fill exercise.

When I use a texture bed on a site model the orientation of the texture when rendered seems completely random which looks terrible for some kinds of paving. Anyone know if there's a way of controlling the orientation, preferably by individual texture bed? Thanks

Yes I did mean on a worksheet. I can see from your scenario that it could be useful in some circumstances but still think I should have the option to not have those items counted.

We've encountered a problem in VW 2011 where if an object with data is in a viewport on a design layer any numbers in the data are doubled. This doesn't happen if the viewport is on a sheet layer. I can't think of a reason why I'd want the data to be doubled, but even if there are people out there who'd want that as a feature there really should be an option to include or not include the data in the object info palette.

Was there an answer to this? I'm having the same problem.

Whenever I try to open a file across our network using the last location drop down menu at the top of the 'Open' dialogue window VW 2008 crashes. This doesn't happen for any other application. Is this a bug?

Hugues, Thanks very much - that works. You have saved us a whole load of time! Laura

We use a system of symbols with record formats to make co-ordinate tables for setting out. This worked fine in VW12, but we're having problems in VW2008 to do with references within the formulae. We use excel to make the list of numbers and then copy them in to the first column. As an aside it would be nice if the worksheets had an excel-like feature where you can add the first couple of numbers then select and drag to get the rest. We then have a formula in each of the next two columns that references the X-centre and Y-centre of the symbols with the record given in the first column. In VW12 we could do that using e.g. =XCENTER((('Co-ord'.'Ref'=A2))) but this doesn't seem to work any more for new worksheets (bizarrely old worksheets still update OK). See the enclosed drawing with three symbols with records, the first two rows contain the formula and a reference to the cell containing the record number - this has not worked. The last row has the record number entered manually and does work - however with some of our drawings having 600 co-ordinate references I'm not too keen to have to revise each record manually. Anyone have any ideas??

Thanks Pat - that works perfectly. Laura

As far as I can work out these two methods recalculate all of the worksheets, I only want to recalculate the one I have open, or even better only one cell. Is there any way of doing this?

We have lots of worksheets on our drawings and generally only want to update one at a time as it otherwise can take up to an hour. Is there a way of doing this? Laura