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panta rhei

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  1. It seems I only do wrong mouse clicks... Jon, it appears that only positional locking is requested. For PIOs, that is quite conceivable - and not a bad idea at all: when NNA reveals the Mystery of the IFC-organism, I shall reveal the Secret of the Positionally Lockable PIO. Right. No-one will ever know how it is done. What a shame. I guess I'll take it to my grave.
  2. Dear Mr. Mullin, Re: Let me see By any chance, you wouldn't be a FileMaker Pro user?
  3. Even for me, Ray? (Actually, it isn't. I hate doing dialogs...)
  4. A cry from the field (this would be an arhoolie, then?) Plant Image Props should not by default auto-rotate, but should have Crossed Planes. On both counts the User finds NNA guilty.
  5. A tick box in the dialog - if TRUE, 3D move, if FALSE, 2D move? Current status in command preferences. My enthusiasm is based on the fact that I often miss the ALT-key.
  6. I fully agree. The bulldozer is totally inadequate for any artistic land form design. And you don't have to have particularly high ambitions to realise that... The old DTM function was, I think, much better in this respect. I am in fact working on a contour tool for our internal use, but there are some interesting problems, which wouldn't be there in the old system.
  7. Sorry, I was perhaps unclear. The normal Lock -command is not what you need?
  8. Mickey, it's your lucky day: I happen to be in a good mood! Instead of adding a prefix when importing, one can rename existing classes with a script PROCEDURE RenameClasses; { ? Petri Sakkinen 1997 } VAR className, newName, firstPart, secondPart : STRING; i, n : INTEGER; BEGIN FOR i:=3 TO CLASSNUM DO BEGIN className:=CLASSLIST(i); n := POS(' ', className); firstPart := COPY(className, 1, n-1); secondPart := COPY(className, n+1, LEN(className)); newName:=CONCAT(firstPart, '-', secondPart); RENAMECLASS(className, newName); END; END; RUN(RenameClasses);
  9. About posting images http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=107262
  10. I realised that, too... Running out of keys... Maybe I'll write my own command that deals with both. If 2D-objects are in the selection, only 2D move. I think. Or maybe not.
  11. Exactly, David! At present, managing the drawings and versions of large & complex projects is far from satisfactory. The totally un-funny thing is that the introduction of sheet layers & viewports made the situation worse than it used to be. Looking from my corner, this should be resolved not by introducing a specific & project-centric mechanism but rather with ODBC-connectivity to a real database. Why? Because that would enable significant improvements for many aspects of BIM, too. (In fact, the latter would be the main reason for ODBC.)
  12. Well, it's mainly vegetation and any water bodies. No rendering? With a normal texture it certainly works. If you happen to be a Windows-user, there is at least one free, open-source program cabable of this function and huge terrain models. If I only could remember what is is... Saw it at a University 4-5 years ago.
  13. It would indeed, a very good idea. Just use the Workspace Editor to assign the keyboard shortcut to Move 3D. (I might do it myself, too!)
  14. I beg to disagree. The requirement for persistent GUIDs for all objects is anything but a subjective ideology or expectation here in the real world. Your use of symbols is simply due to poor software design. The fact that VW 2008 (and 2009) is not capable of good BIM practice, is a poor excuse. OK. This is how I do it in my objects: Each object has a "type" (prototype) parameter. A button in the OI makes all objects of that type similar to the selected one, so I can also change them in one place, that being the context. Simple, ain't it? One just have to design the software properly. In the trade we call this object-oriented approach. Of course I have no use for the persistent GUIDs because NNA refuses to document the creation of IFC entities with VectorScript. (No, Charles Chandler's example at VectorLab does not work.) So, how about this: I gave NNA valuable expert advice on software design. Wouldn't it be fair to document the software (VS, that is) in exchange?
  15. Ahh, yes, you are definitely right: there are situations, when an aerial on the topo makes sense. But it still looks ridiculous... Anyway, I don't think that VW is the right platform. There are programs that simply place a georeferenced aerial on the terrain model. I haven't tried large, complex DTMs & aerials ever and not even small ones in 2008 or 2009, but technically applying a texture is possible.
  16. Textures can certainly be applied to a DTM, but as Peter says, aerials have to be exactly the right size. And they do look funny, if not ridiculous. Can't recommend.
  17. I've created a 2-axle vehicle turning PIO years ago. However, the sad fact is that VW users are not willing to pay for work done by others.
  18. I get the objective of your posts very well! As a long-time user and an independent developer of add-ons I also have an informed ? but not necessarily correct! ? picture of NNA's lines of thinking. I have gathered that the key component in their quite successful strategy is the price point. For the existing users, $50 is a huge sum to pay for an add-on.
  19. How frustrating... This call does not work with 3D polygons and I can't control the users! I think I have to bury the entire idea. EDIT It seems to work only with extrusions and solids. I wonder if this is By Design...
  20. Thanks, guys! I was afraid of this... HScale3D one by one then ? and then I have to move them one by one, too.
  21. Even if someone would be CAPABLE, he or she might not want to spend huge amounts of time in something no one would buy. But if you think there is a market, why not set up a firm and employ a C++ -programmer to do the coding. Retire rich and early.
  22. For a single object, I can 'Set3DInfo', but that does not work for groups. The 'Scale' call is 2D only. Is there a simple way to scale a group of objects in 3D? Am I missing something glaringly obvious once again? Luckily, 'Get3DInfo' does work with groups, so I have a start. I can then enter the group and scale & move each component proportionally one at a time ? but I'd rather not.
  23. Fascinating! I don't think I'll ask you to email the file! From AutoCAD? Due to what I think are internal data compression schemes etc, the average (if there is something like it) file size in VW is 4 to 10 times larger than in AutoCAD. But who cares! Not from AutoCAD? 2D or 3D? If 3D, how? Never encountered a VW file that big, even with tens of thousands of (2D) polygons representing the cadaster.
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