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    set color and fill mode via vectorscript

    in Vectorscript

    Posted

    hi,

    i am looking for a way to set color and fill mode of an object via vectorscript.

    i want e.g. se?ect a rectangle, press a shortcut and get a filled rectangle in cloro grey.

    i tried with that script which i recorded with the "multitool" (multiwerkzeug in german translation) but it doesn't work:

    Procedure CustTool;

    VAR

    Name:STRING;

    Result:BOOLEAN;

    BEGIN

    PushAttrs;

    PenFore(257);

    PenBack(256);

    PenPat(2);

    FillFore(257);

    FillBack(1236);

    FillPat(1);

    PenSize(2);

    PenPat(2);

    Result:= SetDefaultBeginningMarker(0, 15, 0.125000, 0.000000, 0, 0.000000, FALSE);

    Result:= SetDefaultEndMarker(0, 15, 0.125000, 0.000000, 0, 0.000000, FALSE);

    CallTool(-203);

    PopAttrs;

    END;

    Run(CustTool);

    any help greatly appreciated

    greg

    simplify printing

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    ok, that's the way i'm used to.

    but still i'll have to adjust paper, choose printer etc.

    i would like to make a default set (e.g. din a4, laserprinter 1, portrait-mode etc.) and evertime i draw a rectangle after hitting a certain key whatever is inside the rectangle is printed.

    no more dialogues etc.

    (i don't know how many times a day i adjust all that for over and over again the same result: a really really simple print to work with, no special plan layouts etc.)

    simplify printing

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted · Edited by carpenter1234

    hi there, two inquiries:

    1. is it possible to set up a supersimple printing environment that lets one print just whatever i draw my cursor across, without further dialogues and anything?

    (just like in os X, where you can get the screen capture tool by holding apple+shift+4 and then pullup a rectangle of which the content is then saved as an image)

    2. can i get rid of the annoying printing dialogue? in adobe cs3 you can select if you want to use the osX-printing dialogue or the one of adobe. is something like that possible in vectorworks?

    vector script: replace font type?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by carpenter1234

    is there a possibility to replace any font type in one drawing with a specified new one in a batch mode without selecting each one?

    font size should not be touched.problem is there are lots of text in groups , symbols and layout areas in my drawing, so i can't selct them all at once(and i don't want to cycle through these myriads of objects).

    import/export "multistamp"?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    we are frequently using this very tool of which i don't know the correct english name, in german it is called "multistempel" which would be something like "multistamp" in english.

    i attached the icon of the tool.

    well, here's my question:

    we do have several special multistamps we created ourselves, e.g. there's one tat lets you stamp in and gives you a window where you can tpe in special measures etc. that are written into a database.

    now the problem is that the stamp seems to be living in a drawing and cannot be exported.

    you can export the databasethat is used by the stamp, you can export the smbol that represents the stamp including the variables (#number#), but ypu can't export the stamp.

    as pur stamps are quite complex it alos is no option to create them from scratch in each drawing.

    already we are having efault files, but once you improve one of zteh stamps while drawing you have to revert your current drawing later on into a new default drawing.

    i would like to store a file with all the stamps on our network and access it from each machine.

    that possible??

    select items by size

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    is there a possibility to select similar object in VW that do not have exactly the same size?

    the wand lets me select by size, but only applies if exact size is fund.

    is there a possibility to specifiy e.g. line length >0 && <10 and that would select me any line between 0 and 10mm?

    Convert many polylines to circle

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by carpenter1234

    thanks for the hints, but both don't work.

    exporting and reimporting changes nothing, and converting to polygon leaves me with several hundreds single dots for each circle. ->absolutely uncountersinkable.

    closed polygons are also not ok, i really need circles.

    now i am trying to do it with vectorscript, but as a beginner it'S quite hard.

    any hints highly appreciated!

    Convert many polylines to circle

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    i have to get the following done:

    i have a vw-drawing with about 4000 circle-like formed polylines, but each of them is a polyline consisting in about 50 single dots.

    these circles shall be countersank later on, so i have to export them as dxf for the cnc-program.

    the machine won't accept those polylines, so i need a way to convert them automatically into real circles (see the difference? the polylines have a x and y position and consist of lots of dots, a real circle has a middle and a radius).

    does anyne know a way to do this?

    either in vw or in any 3rd-party-program?

    help urgently appreciated!

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