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TimG

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  1. I remember a new feature of 2011 being the roof connect / combine... however i can not get it to work... I am using the right combine/extend tool shown in various you-tube videos... can someone tell me if there is a trick to it... is it because my I used the AEC create roof command to create it... can i convert my AEC roof to whatever it needs to be to be able to utilize the combine/ connect feature? any help or a point in the right direction appreciated.
  2. that's exactly what I was looking for, but it does not seam to work with the =int('Space'.'Room Dimensions')... any way to accomplish that.. thanks so much for your help
  3. hey all, looking for a way to round gross perimeter to the nearest inch or even foot in my worksheet... tried =(ROUND('Space'.'11_Gross Perim')) but get a return that looks something like 79'3.799" to 658,061,065.0 any ideas?
  4. I Think i figured out a work around so i can utilize SLVP class overrides to referenced layers... which is to go to tools-organization-references-settings and change it from DLVP to imported layer... can someone tell me the difference between the two referencing methods?
  5. Pretty simple request... I would like to control my DLVP display settings with my SLVP class overrides... no point in referencing something if i can't make it print out the way i want it too... i talked about my problem here originally if anyone cares...
  6. bummer... no comments... so i take it i can not control my DLVP classes with my SLVP override settings... seems a bit odd to me?
  7. Can Sheet VP class overrides work with the content inside the VP being a Design Layer VP with the same named classes??? I'm hoping the answer is yes! I started a large project with all floor levels in one file, and developed the all the floor plan partial area Sheets from that... now that the project is bigger i separated the floors into their own files for various staff members to utilize, however my Design Layer VP's don't seem to recognize their classes have overides in the various sheet VP's... In the VP class properties the "Ues embeded DLVP class overrides" is unchecked... i thought that would do it, but its ignoring the class overrides. any help would be appreciated... its going to be a bear if I'm forced to keep 1 huge file and can't reference these floor plans thanks, Tim
  8. I have a custom drawing index tied to my title blocks... Is there a way to call up next to each page the latest issue date... something like =('Issue Data'.'Date-current') rather than date-1, 2, etc...
  9. I know this is an old topic... and I am assuming things have not changed much for VW2011... i guess I am going to make our office standard not use the incandescent tool just because of this reason, but rather use symbols with attached records to get the graphical look we want... but it would be very helpful if you could choose a custom symbol graphic for the fixtures similar to how window object work...
  10. Hey Hey... thanks.... I assume that was from the help file?... I tried searching that and the forums first but i guess my searching skilz aren't as good as yours.... thanks again!!!
  11. I have a custom title block with text linked to a record... my problem is i format the text in my title block symbol to a different font... but when I hop out of the symbol the title block on the sheet changes the text to something other than whats in the symbol... any ideas to why this is happening?
  12. NM... i found what you meant in the text menu "format text" or ctrl+shift+t.... and no... the anno object is set to unstyled now that its working... that would probably be a faster way to correct it if starts behaving like that again... thanks.
  13. Sorry Jonathan... I'm a little lost... I don't see the option for "format text" in the Object Info when I select an annotation object... If i'm using the regular text tool now by default it says "text unstyled" in the object info palate now that is seems to be working correctly... is that what you mean?
  14. Hey Hey... I found a work around... it had to do with that text spacing... and i just had to figure out a way to change it on the section line instance... which i did by doing the following - I typed some regular text lines with line returns (spacing was set to "other") - changed that regular text back to single - Used the eyedropper tool to set as default - Then I selected all my section line instances, changed the text style temporary to just Dwg, then back to item over Dwg and it fixed itself... thanks for pointing me in the right direction Robert and Johnathan Cheers, Tim
  15. If by using unstyled text you mean removing any custom stuff... i did with no success... see attached... is with Arial, size 11, no syle (bold, italic, etc...) although i do notice the spacing is set to "other" it will not allow me to switch to anything else... if i do, and re-query thru the text menu the spacing is still set to "other" is there a command to remove all formatting or something of that nature?
  16. Just updated my VW2011 to sp2... now I'm noticing my drawing instance markers/keys that are set to Dwg. No. over Item No. are displaying both text fields on the same line, not over one another... any ideas on how to fix this... I think i am going to stop using auto documentation with my section line instances, as they seem to take more time keeping the right font/attributes every other day than it would to manually change "dumb text" if i change a page number or something. I attached an image of whats happening... this should be item 4 over sheet A1.0, but as you can see its stacking both on the same line... any ideas on how to fix this would be great
  17. This keeps happening with me as well... marker text font and location changes for no apparent reason... can't reproduce it either, but it seems to happen once a day or so... too bad too, its a pretty cool feature with auto documentation in the markers, but if i can't grasp why text is moving or change font type/size, i will probably join J Lucas, and resort to doing it manually as well
  18. Thanks Dave, I had the same problem as Domer1322... Changing the default compression back to PNG in the preferences fixed the problem for me... my Viewports are utilizing custom renderworks again. thanks again,
  19. @ markuskolb I've been having one of my section markers (out of 8 different cuts) keep going back to Arial for some reason... no idea how to get it to stick to the font I keep changing it too... the other markers stick to the changed font though which is weird... If you ever figure it out post the solution.
  20. Did you or anyone ever find an answer to this... I have the same problem...
  21. i have two identical casements (one right and one left operation) however when i flip the window it moves the exterior trim and hinge direction around as it should, but it won't display the hinge direction on the outside of the window for the left hand operation... it does for the right hand operation though I did a search and came up with some similar old posts from 3 years ago... is there any new trick to get the 3d hinge direction on windows to show up correctly on the outside of the wall?
  22. I'm playing around with the electrical circuiting tool... but for some reason I can not get the circuiting lines to show up after I click the end of the circuit and select yes for homerun. What am I missing... is there a trick... could not find much documentation on these tools, but would like to know more. thanks
  23. never mind, sorry for the post... but, i figured it out... format the cell to show value as a general number, put a trailer of " and for the value of the cell I multiply it by twelve like this... =(Window.OverallWidth)*12 however things will get messed up if I ever do change the units (which i probably won't)... does anyone know of another way to do this, or is this the best way to achieve this?
  24. I there a way to get a value of a worksheet cell to show different units from the rest of the document? example: I want my drawing dimensions to be in feet and inches, however in my window schedule I want the frame sizes to be in just inches (to match window manf. catalog)... is there a way to do this??? any ideas appreciated. Thanks
  25. sweetness... it worked great... thanks again.
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