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Thanks Raymond, Since I can export the VW2022 file to VW2021, and it works in VW2021, then I shall have to report this as a bug on the Windows platform. Thanks for your help.

Hi Raymond, Are you saying that after the script is run, that all objects except the large polygon have the MyRecord attached without additional interaction ? I only see this attached to the wall object on a Windows PC.

Hi, I've been using this abridged macro for years. However, it doesn't seem to work with VW2022. Can anyone suggest why all the objects within the large polygon will accept the attachment of MyRecord (change this name as required), except the Wall object ? procedure Fetch; var hFSA : handle; procedure Test (h : handle); begin SetRecord (h, 'MyRecord'); end; begin DelName ('Tmp'); hFSA := FSActLayer; SetName (hFSA, 'Tmp'); ForEachObject (Test, (Loc = 'Tmp')); end; run (Fetch);

Hi Peter, Yes, I did migrated it across. Your question prompted me to look at the standard workspace and I have found it. However, it doesn't work when I add it to my migrated workspace. All other right click options have disappeared and only the Recent Commands is visible. Clicking on it crashes VW.

Hi Peter, I am not using 2022 until the bugs are fixed. The above is a picture of 2021. However, I don't see any difference in 2022 when I compare them. Where is Repeat Last Command?

Hi Peter, Am I missing something here? I don't have Last Command and Recent Commands under right click. I even looked in Workspace Edit to see if was there. Can you expand your suggestion please? Wow, a search on the web for "Repeat Last Command" goes back to before this new platform. All asking the same thing as below. Below left is what I currently have thanks to Pat ( Previous Tools ), however, on the right is what I want. An example list of commands/macros that I frequently use. 5 to 10 would be good.

Thanks Pat, Got that one, but I was really referring to commands like Move or Save or more importantly - the macro commands I make myself.

Hi, My wish would be to add to the Smart Option Display, a selection of last used commands/macros. Maybe the last 5 macros I used, so I can use them again repetitively for a while.

Thanks Tom. With your confirmation, I've tried several tests and have found the reason why. We draw with Document Preferences/Use Layer Colors "on" by default. For some reason, "on" won't print worksheets in colour, "off" will. So, can any one tell me if this is a bug or intentional please?

It seems that it is possible to highlight cells in colour by changing the cells pattern to solid and choose a colour. However, those colours don't print to a printer or Microsoft print to PDF. What's the point of having the ability of highlighting if it can't be printed? How can I print them in colour?

Your a champ JB 😊

Thanks JB, Where do I get a list of these Preference numbers and their definitions from ?

Hi, Is there a script procedure that can can allow me to change the custom distance in VW Preferences? I often change this from 3 to 5 and back again throughout the day 🙂

Just printed another 35. Hi Pat. It's been suggested that I use Viewports, however, it's too slow from what I can achieve. Just imagine a small jigsaw and taking each piece to dimension. Include a Bill of Materials and a quantity and a title specific to that piece. I'm open to suggestions in another thread but I'm not seeing the speed advantages since I can copy and paste a piece into another file and run a macro that adds dimensions and all of the above from just one click, or use a worksheet that achieves similar results without listing all the other pieces in the GA file. My continued vote is still 10 or more 😉

I'm printing 140 files today. 8 at a time 😔 Not unusual to print many. We use VW to create a construction GA ( think of a house ). For fabrication, we draw separate drawings for each item ( 10000 x bricks on one drawing, 1 x front door on another, 2 x windows on another, etc. ) If it can't be infinite, at least make it 10. I hate counting in eights.

Therefore, this would be the Centroid or center of gravity. Thanks 🙂

Hi, What is the + sign for near the center of a polygon for? It's not the center since the diagonal lines I have below show the center.

Has anyone noticed that this has not been fixed even now we are up to VW2021

@Ivaylo Stanchev That's the reason for the Response := StrDialog ('Search Data filename:', Concat (SearchDataPath, FName)); After this DoMenuTextByName ('Export Worksheet', 0); the windows file save menu popped up. Knowing what the file name and path would be, I put is into the StrDialog so the user could copy and paste it into the windows file save. eg. concat ('c:\user\xxx\documents\worksheets\', GetFName); If FName could be another string parameter then that would be great.

Hi Aleixo, Have you tried page setup? The horizontal should be set to 1 and the vertical to 1. Printer setup will offer you the Scaling option to fit it onto the page perimeter you choose.

Looks good Ivaylo, I can see that when your 'Export Worksheet' appears, it has the name of the active/open worksheet, and I can't wait to try it. This WS name change for export is not happening in SP1 - maybe another bug fixed in SP2. I'll be happy that the problem is resolved if VW remembers the settings as default after closing and re-starting. Otherwise, VW has a whole heap of WS procedure like ShowWSDialog, etc. and many more new ones to expand upon functionality, if there are many people exporting, and that's the reason for the latest additions to the menu, then why not make a procedure like .... WSExport (Worksheet name, Format : string, Range All, Recalc, Open Viewer : boolean); to replace the show WS, export WS and close WS.

Thanks Nina, Thanks Ivaylo, I'll let you know when the update is available in Australia to test.

After using VW2021 for a while, I suddenly noticed that the export menu is not exporting the data I am asking for. In VW2020 this worked but VW2021 has an additional feature to overcome. Response := StrDialog ('Search Data filename:', Concat (SearchDataPath, FName)); ShowWS (GetObject ('Search Data'), True); DoMenuTextByName ('Export Worksheet', 0); ShowWS (GetObject ('Search Data'), False); The above code works for VW2020 and all we do is save the file in a folder with a file name "Response". This is repeated for various worksheets. Now we have the following which will not only remember the ticks (fix happening in SP2 hopefully) but also has the worksheet drop list and always defaults to "Banding Cutting List". Can anyone suggest any further solutions or is it just a matter of hounding VW to create the procedure WSExport (WSName : string; Tab, All Rows, Recalc, Open : boolean) or similar ? Regards

How did we get from the just released SP0 to SP2 so quickly? I'm ready 😃

Hi, We have skipped from VW2019 to VW2021 so I don't know what happened in between, however can someone help with the following please. We have a number of worksheets that need to be exported to a tab delimited .txt file. VW2019 allows us to do this with DoMenuTextByName ('Export Worksheet', 0); VW2019 does not have the option to automatically open them in the default view so it's quick and easy. However, VW2021 has a tick box that defaults to "Open file in default viewer". We don't want to view the file after export. It is only for data collection. How can we DoMenuTextByName ('Export Worksheet', 0); without the file opening? The .TAB file type is remembered in the stationary sheet, or last used, but the tick box continues to default to SELLECTED. Also there doesn't seem to be an WSExport (WSName : string; Tab, All Rows, Recalc, Open : boolean), procedure or function yet, which would be idea with the improvement of the export options. Regards