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Bruce Ferguson

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  1. This is only a problem on Windows. It will be addressed for the next release of VW. For now, there is a good work around, if you have 230 MB of free space on your hard drive. Go to the Regional and Language Options control panel. On the Languages pane, turn on the "Install files for East Asian language" checkbox. Then click on OK. You will have a few more fonts in your fonts menu, but the boxes will go away for every font except for a few Chinese fonts (and you don't have those fonts anyway until you turn this on). Once a new VW comes out without this problem, you can turn this off, and Windows will remove these files, and your font menu will be back to how it is presently.
  2. In VW 11.5, you can't pan with the mouse wheel held down, but you can do a 2D scroll. Rolling the mouse wheel will scroll vertically by default. If you hold down the shift key, it scrolls horizontally, and if you hold down the Ctrl key, it zooms.
  3. Ken, This is working as designed, and it is very similar to how things worked in VW 11. When you have a reference to a file, the Import command is disabled for resources in that file, but the Reference command is active. In VW 11 and earlier, there was only an Import command. If you had a reference to a file, when you clicked on Import for a resource from that file, it would not import the resource, it would reference it. If you want to be able to import resources from a file instead of referencing them, you can go to the Workgroup References dialog and delete that reference. Or you can Reference a resource and then Break Reference, as you did for one resource.
  4. Marek is right. You cannot snap to greyed objects. That functionality is being considered for a future release of VW.
  5. This is an issue with Quartz with some fonts. If you turn off the Quartz, you can get bold and italic with Geneva. This is being addressed for a future version of VW.
  6. That preference was added for 11. Before 11, dimensions are always created in the Dimension class.
  7. It looks like there were a couple of bugs entered that sound similar to what you reported, but they were resolved as fixed for VW 11. So I entered a new bug, pasting in some of your comments and referring to this topic.
  8. I have reproduced one problem with updating of referenced symbols. After editing a symbol, make sure you exit the symbol before you save the file and before you try to update other file's references to the symbol. This should not be necessary and will be fixed for a future version of VW.
  9. Kristen, Sorry to take so long to respond. I did a quick test to try to reproduce the problem you see, and I wasn't able to duplicate it. Please give me a scenario, such as a name of a symbol to edit, how you edited it, and what file it is in. Then tell me what file you expect to see the symbol updated in, and what you did in that file first (I assume you updated the reference if the file was already open). Send me the file you expect to see the update in and everything it references. Thanks,
  10. Ion, Sorry for taking so long to reply. There is a new setting for workgroup references for VW 12, which I think will do exactly what you want. When you edit a reference, there is a new "Update Classes" checkbox. If you turn that on and update the reference, you should have all the class attributes updated.
  11. Please send me your file. Thanks.
  12. Skot, At this time, there is no way to set a default font for dimensions. When a dimension is created, it is assigned the current font (the font that you see when you bring up the Format Text dialog when no objects are selected).
  13. You can set whether rolling the mouse wheel with no modifier keys cause it to scroll or zoom. It's controlled by the Mouse Wheel Zooms preference on the Edit pane of the VectorWorks Preferences dialog.
  14. Ben, It is by design that an associated dimension is deleted when an object it is associated with is deleted. Why would you still want the dimension to remain, if the object it is associated with is no longer there? You said that other associated objects can be deleted. That is not by design. I tried to reproduce this and was unable. Please send me a testfile and instructions for how to see this. Thanks.
  15. LiMei, Thank you very much for your assistance with this problem. When I tried to duplicate what you reported, I had my source file on the local harddrive. When I moved it to a network drive, I saw the problem you reported. With further checking, I found that this is only a problem on Windows. Also I believe it is only a problem if you have mapped network drives. For instance, I have an Engineers volume that I have mapped to be drive E: on my Windows machine. When opening a source file from the Engineers volume on the resource browser (either doing a Browse or an Add to Favorites), if I navigate to it by clicking on the E: drive under My Computer, I have the problem. However if I navigate to it by going through My Network Places, then I don't have the problem. So you can work around the problem by not using network volume mappings for now. This will be fixed for a future version of VW. -------------------- Bruce Ferguson bruce@nemetschek.net
  16. LiMei, Thank you very much for your assistance with this problem. When I tried to duplicate what you reported, I had my source file on the local harddrive. When I moved it to a network drive, I saw the problem you reported. With further checking, I found that this is only a problem on Windows. Also I believe it is only a problem if you have mapped network drives. For instance, I have an Engineers volume that I have mapped to be drive E: on my Windows machine. When opening a source file from the Engineers volume on the resource browser (either doing a Browse or an Add to Favorites), if I navigate to it by clicking on the E: drive under My Computer, I have the problem. However if I navigate to it by going through My Network Places, then I don't have the problem. So you can work around the problem by not using network volume mappings for now. This will be fixed for a future version of VW.
  17. LiMei, I'm not sure exactly what you mean. When you said that you tried but no symbols appeared, do you mean that you expected that all the symbols would be referenced by creating a reference to the file and not selecting any layers? That did not happen in 11.5 either. You said that after referencing the file, if you get a symbol form the resource browser, the symbol is just imported and the name isn't in italics. I tried doing this several different ways. It always referenced the symbol. The name was in italics. How exactly did you get the symbol?
  18. Gary, You are correct. The Libraries/Wall Styles folder is designed to hold any wall styles you might want. The Libraries/Defaults/Wall folder holds the wall styles that will show up in the Wall Settings dialog. You may want to limit how many default wall styles there are, so the wall styles menu on the settings dialog won't be too unwieldy.
  19. Dave M, If you are referring to the underlined hot keys for menu items, you are right, they are set by Windows. They cannot be customized. You can customize the shortcut that shows up to the right of the menu item name, such as Ctrl+M for Move... and Ctrl+Alt+M for Move 3D...
  20. Gary, Any file can be accessed from the Resource browser. If you create a new file and you want to add resources to it that exist in another file, you just need to make the other file active in the resource browser, and then you can import resources into the new file. To make a file active in the resource browser, click on the popup next to File and Folders. Then to have the file available temporarily (until you make another file active in the RB), click on Browse a Document. To have a file available permanently (until you remove it), click on Add New Favorite Files. A new feature for VW 12 is default resources. Inside the Libraries folder is a Defaults folder. Inside the Defaults folder are many folders. One of them is a Walls folder. The wall types you see on the create wall tool come from the files in this Walls folder. The hatch menu on the attributes palette and the hatch list on the Select Hatch dialog contain hatches from the Attributes - Hatches folder. You can edit files in these folders to change what the default resources are. I hope this helps.
  21. There is no batch process presently, Richie. We're investigating how to improve this for a future version of VW.
  22. Parametric constaints will only be seen on screen. They don't show up in a printout.
  23. You may need to have Turkish as the top language in the Language list in the International Preferences.
  24. RAM, EJ and malice, The 31 character limit on the Mac has been addressed for a future version of VW. I made a file in VW 10 on Windows with a name that was about 63 characters long, and when I opened it in VW 11.5 on Windows, I saw some truncation. RAM, do you have a lot of files with such long names? Thanks,
  25. Chris, Are you using it in the Angle between two objects mode? This will only work if the objects are selectable. Try using the Angle between two reference lines mode.
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