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I decided to improve the UI of my PIOs by hiding not only irrelevant parameters but also irrelevant buttons, based on the situation & user choice.
So, I have now tried function vsoWidgetSetVisible(), with interesting results. Unfortunately in the Chinese sense of the word.
Contrary to the advice in Vlado's learned article about Custom Shape Panes
the function generally seems to work without setting
result := SetObjPropVS(12, TRUE); {kObjXHasCustomWidgetVisibilities}
This is good, because that setting disables the SetParameterVisibility() call!
However, under this condition the button visibility is unreliable and now I have one PIO in which it does not work at all.
All in all, this seems to be something of a dead end altogether: even with the above setting, button visibility is totally unaffected by anything in this particular PIO. Regardless of anything, buttons remain visible.
Any experiences on this matter?
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Any comments, anecdotes or opinions gratefully accepted.
Most importantly: advice is never worth more than the money you pay for it.
You should state your problem first: whether you are interested in / focused on visualisation, BIM (including costs) or details. Maybe even the actual functionality of the building?
What are your clients and projects like? What's your selling point? Etc.
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Fine. It's a deal. Whatever your problem is, I'll remind you of your stance.
Err? Why do you want help from VectorBits?
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Your problem ...
Hardly.
Why would I help people like you?
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Thanks, guys!
You've confirmed my view that I should NOT try to sell anything related to VW via any Internet-services.
Think nothing of it.
Undoubtedly, the exact opposite of the posts in this thread would have confirmed your views as well.
Long exposure to the Reality Distortion Radiation from Redmond?
What exactly would you wish to say, if you only could?
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Thanks, guys!
You've confirmed my view that I should NOT try to sell anything related to VW via any Internet-services.
If I couldn't work 24/365, to immediately attend to a request for an order worth 20 pesos, you guys would start to scream and shout, blackball and slander.
Ohh, surely there are distribution mechanisms? Some of them take only 50%?
Right: get the stuff immediately, pay twice the price! As we all know, VW users are not at all conscious of the price?
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It does, but only in 2D/3D dicotomy. You can't change the 3D in 2D or vice versa.
If you have an extrusion, created in a particular view, how would the ?show others? relate to the current view when the extrusion has been rotated?
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Think of the 2D-part of an extrusion (etc) as an equivalent to the 2D-component of a symbol!
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Non-associative hatches are a kludge...though the official term is "work around."
I'll add that there's nothing in Vectorworks that even comes close to ADT/AcadArchitecture materials - allowing 3d objects to hatch for line drawings and render photorealistically.
There are things that Vectorworks does well, and that's why I still live with the tradeoffs.
But I doubt I'd ever roll it out across a multi-person architecture firm.
Fear not. You'll never be in that situation!
Sean Flaherty, NNA's CEO, recently described a visit to a Japanese firm with 5000 licences.
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Of course, I would not use VW as it ships even in a one-person architectural firm.
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With Floors it does not, but with extrusions the situation is a lot more complicated, since they may be rotated into any 3D-system/orientation. What & how would one need to see?
Whether the overall approach (a 2D-poly & a 3D-transformation of it ? extrusion, multiple extrusion & sweep, also Extrude Along Path etc) is appropriate or not, is a really big question.
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Conventions, not standards. Metric/decimal is, I believe, The U.S. of A. Standard.
Believing something does not make it so (even if you heard it directly from Cupertino).
Many US standards are based on feet and inches.
You really suffer from a massive Macintosh-envy! Have you sought help?
Since all US measurements are defined from metric units since the US Congress authorised the use of metric units in 1866, metre & kilogram are The Standard. Their use is perfectly legal.
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....but this primitive culture just won't give up on convoluted and archaic standards....
Conventions, not standards. Metric/decimal is, I believe, The U.S. of A. Standard.
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So true ? but Caesar was able to divide by three; Americans of the 21st century only by two!
Hail to the Belges, the most courageous of Gauls!
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I'm about to receive a tree survey file - job is a 19th C garden. Tree trunks and driplines have been picked up (approx. 2000 trees).
Been there? A most fascinating problem! (I have only had aerials and ? at best ? trunk locations.)
Forget ellipses. Your only chance (apart from tracing) is that the original survey data file has a logic, ie. that the point clouds have ?breaks? between canopies.
In absence of those: if the drip line points are in a logical sequence (as they should), a simple script could draw a polygon through each selected set of points. How to select? Well? Lassooing comes first to mind.
But what about overlapping canopies!
The original survey file (ASCII text) might be helpful.
Anyway, kudos to the client: someone obviously knows at least something about trees?
It's the first snowfall day here in Llareggub, North Pole, so I might give a bit more thought on this, including scripting.
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Especially considering the fact that the US measurements of (at least) dimensions are already, by Law, based on & defined by the metric/decimal system?
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It is? Never needed that, but then again, I've never used AutoCAD.
Pray tell what are the situations where converting a polygon/polyline to lines is useful. (But then again, I've never been a draughtsman?)
Anyway:
Phased, mate: you probably need to unlearn as much as possible.
I used to have these Rehabilition Camps for AutoCAD Users Anonymous. The withdrawal symptoms were horrific! The mere thought of not being able to tap commands on the keyboard threw quite a few recovering addicts to fits and convulsions.
I'm making the semi-educated guess that your ?new office? does architectural or building design. Just unlearn the convoluted process of deconstruction (of the idea to a drawing) and deconstruction (of the drawing to a building) and start to think via walls, slabs, doors, windows, roofs, column, beams etc. You know: the things buildings are made of.
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What does this fanboy of the OS where one uses the START menu to SHUT DOWN talk about?
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Fair enough? It really must be a priority then: everybody needs a Windows uninstaller for VW.
(What a curious linguistic concept, by the way. Reminds me of the hilarious windowsnewspeak term ?Unhide? in Excel.)
Whatever. Give these unabombers their uninstaller so that the rest of us can get on with our work undisturbed by the unhelpful unwashed 'uns.
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HP largely dominates the general CAD market, and unless you're into the "I'm different" lifestyle that's a reasonable place to start.
Dear me! I had no idea that HP printers would only work with lifestyle operating systems such as Windows! Those love, devotion and surrender -type of things: hare, hare.
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The "why would you want to uninstall" comment was a joke. Of course there are several reasons to uninstall.
And it's not seen as "good enough," as I said it certainly is a priority to create an uninstaller, there have just been other things that have been more pressing up until now. In the end, however, all the uninstaller will do is automatically do what the knowledge base article describes. So rest assured that is a complete uninstallation.
Right. Well? What exactly are the compelling reasons for wasting resources in such functionality, when the program itself cries for bug fixes?
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Here in the part of the world without dongles, there are quite legitimate reasons for which an honest person would wish to delete Vectorworks.
The good enough mentalty may work for applications some platforms, but on windows it tends to insure that the opposite is the case.
Maybe so. I just don't have any mentalty worth insurance.
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Moreover: who would want to delete any previous versions?
There can be any number of unexpected and unwanted consequences when a job is brought into a new version of VW. A wise user maintains the capability to open a file in the version it was created in/last revised with.
Disc space? Yeah, right. A terabyte costs less than 100 ?.
Beware of white cars and advice provided by owners of those. Their mothers can't afford new toys for their boys.
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I would imagine that in ArchiCAD, one also creates a new object?
The paint bucket is the way to go!
If only could it be made to ignore lines etc. in grayed classes? Be it via class properties or classes option.
When you get an AutoCAD file (without any coherent internal logic, as they always are), it'd be nice to be able to paint the town red, but still see the context.
So,
Show/Snap others: bucketing works with everything visible.
Gray others: Active class only.
Grayed classes: ignored.
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Maybe, but why bother? If another program does it better, what's the point?
Perchance, training provided by you to Zaha Hadid, Hani Rashid, Frank Gehry &al. would make them Converts, chanting Hare VW, hare VW, hare hare, VW hare?
No, I don't think so.
Class/Instrument Insertion Question
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Excluding selection of the symbol, I think this need could be solved with some 50 lines of VectorScript: a Point PIO which copies the geometry from the SymDef and assigns everything to the class of the PIO itself.
Why, the possible 3D part could even made independently tiltable?