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Kool Aid

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  1. A link to additional resources is in the top left frame of the VSFR. That opens another frame with the VectorScript Appendix.

    Documentation of HScale is on the VW Developer site

    There are almost 200 VS-functions there that are not included in the ref guide that comes with VW (ie. almost 1700 functions?)

    It is surprising that there isn't a function to change the radius! Since I do mainy parametric objects, I had not realised it.

    You can calculate the scaling factor using GetBBox.

  2. No, it doesn't!

    As comes to HScale: what HScale? Not documented?

    An excerpt from VW2010 VS Function Reference:

    GroupToMesh

    H

    HAngle

    HArea

    HasConstraint

    HasDim

    HasPlugin

    HCenter

    HDuplicate

    Height

    HExtrude

    HHeight

    Hide

    HideClass

    HideLayer

    HLength

    HMove

    HMoveBackward

    HMoveForward

    HPerim

    HRotate

    HUngroup

    HWallHeight

    HWallWidth

    HWidth

    I

    ImportResourceToCurrentFile

  3. And as Kool-Aid's post points out, Windows users are viewed as problems by the local distributes who represent NNA around the world.

    Ha ha ha ha haa! Viewed, indeed! Why should VW/Mac -users subsidise you and your ilk: idiots or users of the inferior OS that requires huge amounts of support.

    I know already what you are.

    edit: Ms. Brudgers, I gather, has not contributed to development lately. She expects others to pay for that, too.

  4. VW has decent building modelling capabilities (substantially augmented by yours truly to select markets) and may one day even have BIM interoperability.

    Not holding my breath, though, since in the last couple of days it has been made clear that NNA salaried employees expect users to work for free for the Glory of the Chicken Maryland.

    edit: clarification re markets

  5. As a former ArchiCAD consultant, trainer and developer:

    VW has particular strengths, not (to my knowledge) available in competing software.

    Jeffrey already referred to the possibility of defining any geometry as any IFC-entity. The value of this feature is significant: it extends the concept of a ?VW workaround? to IFC-based BIM.

    In short: whatever means you can/choose to use to create the geometry, the result can be anything you want.

    In one of the dozens of IFC/BIM implementation and research reports produced in Finland (costing roughly 50 million ?), there is a telling tale by an ArchiCAD-user: ?The solid, free-form balustrades needed to be modeled as a series of straight walls.?

    Yeah, right. How is the System supposed to know that these particular walls are not walls but a balustrade?

  6. Based on my personal experience with NNA's technical support for the Windows platform, I would consider Jeffery's attitude and platform knowledge as typical.

    So would I, until there are different prices for different operating systems. Why should NNA subsidise Windows-users, who can't even install a printer?

    Your hobbyism, dear Windows-cult members, is costing us professional users money!

  7. Maybe so, but the first truly successful personal computer for professional use was the Apple II. Among other things, it spawned the concept of the spreadsheet program. Macintosh, on the other hand, was the mother of graphics and desktop publishing, not to mention the GUI. The key components of Microsoft Office, Excel and Word, were originally Mac-only programs. As were MiniCAD and ArchiCAD.

    There has not been a single software innovation in the Windows environment. If anything, Microsoft has held back innovation and progress, with of course substantial help from IBM. Without those, we'd be so much more advanced.

    EDIT

    And had MS had its way, we'd still be typing on Command Lines of various programs. Just like AutoCAD users still do.

  8. Thanks again everyone for your comments. When I started this thread I tried to head-off the Apple vs MS/Windows debate by stating that I am interested in spec's for a new "PC". "PC" usually is taken to mean a Windows species operating system.

    Oh yes: Concept Appropriation, so commonplace in Cults. PC in fact means a Personal Computer.

  9. I've been searching for two days, and my emoticon accurately describes my current emotional state.

    Anyone?

    (And where can I find the object property index listing?)

    The (documented) Object Variables are listed in the Additional Resources of VS Reference. There's no such thing as an ObjectAttributeReal.

    Get/SetBBox should work in your particular case.

  10. I, for one, agree with the Kool Aide. Get two systems for the price of 1 1/2. Buy the iMac and buy a Windows 7 license. Best of the best(MacOS Intel) with the bonus of the rest(Windoze ...sorry Ben).

    We all know NNA's offical party line is "Buy a Mac" and their official policy is not to help people specify their PC's.

    Here I have to make an exception to my ?Ignore Brudgers? -rule.

    I happen to know several VW-distributors, resellers and consultants, some even personally, many others virtually, in various countries.

    Some 90% of their ?free? support is wasted on Windows. Not how VW works in Windows, but Windows in general. How do I print. How do I save files. How this, how that.

    I'll leave it to you to decide whether only complete idiots buy Windows or whether Windows is an inferior OS.

  11. Oh come on all we essentially have to do is produce drawings, calculations and presentations? They are only tools, some better some worse, how hard can it get? How much you are willing to pay to get there is up to you!? I don't really know what the complaints are about?

    While I sincerely wish that no other country goes to the ridiculous extremes and with that speed Finland has done, I believe that the BIM (modeling) -concept is the best thing after the Paraline that has happened to architects.

    The tools are still in the making, but unlike with the introduction of CAD (drafting), the productivity (=profitability) has increased. In my (fantasy) world, profitability translates to better designs and better buildings.

    With proper BIM-tools, the time needed for the preparation of drawings and schedules goes down easily by 40% in average; in repetitive work even more. At least for the (short) time being there may even be an opportunity to higher fees for BIM.

    Please do not judge the concept on the basis of NNA's pathetically useless tools. Forgive them, because they do not know what they are do. (They can't even design a project to be used for IFC-certification? I wish they had at least one architect on staff?)

  12. VW of course knows when a cylinder (or anything 3D: all extrusions are created the same way, so VW does not know if one is a cylinder) is rotated and if, whether in 90? angles. However, behaviour based on viewing angle & projection sounds somewhat difficult to implement in a sensible, easy and error-free way. What happens to VP dimensions if the view is changed?

    (Actually some peculiarities of 3D-objects and their editing are caused by the mentioned ?knowing?: the object's actual geometry is stored in the original location and it is shown using a transformation matrix ? or whatever it is called ? which calculates the current position and rotation.)

    I'm not against the suggestion, on the contrary, but there are certain complexities.

  13. I've reported (as requested) directly to Biplab Sarkar & cc:d to Vladislav Stanev: my testing concentrated on custom IFC-compatible plug-ins with VS. (You know: those that, according to your bugsubmit system, are not supported? Pretty much all feedback I've ever received?)

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