[3D rotation...is it really that hard?]

IAND frustrating considering how bloody easy it is in AutoCAD.

OK. Let's assume you have your truss & lights in AutoCAD. Now you rotate the truss to be in rake.

Where do the lights point now?

[mass model]

Depends. How do you generate the mass model?

[geometry lines]

They do? They used to, but no longer appear to.

[Wishes for VW 2011]

Including yours truly.

I have scripts that generate lists of legendary candidates, but there's a long and winding road from those to become a true legend.

This is, BTW, another case for a need of a ?reverse? parts-assembly -solution.

Should VW be a genuine object-oriented system, it wouldn't be particularly hard. Pity it isn't.

[Help system]

Add in the horror which is the native OSX help browser

Aww, shucks! Your welfare coupons were not good at the Wal-Mart, so you still don't have a life.

[Help system]

If is the operative word here. If this, if that. And if not, you are stupid and can't even launch an installer in a folder.

Since every installation of MacOS and Windows has an HTML-browser, why can't the Help system utilise such a fundamental OS-feature, instead of an arty-farty hot-air system?

[post from 2d to 3d]

Hi All & a pleasant Holliday Season to you,

1, 2, 3, 4, motorway! This must be a record: the same question spammed to four discussions.

then tried to extrude them to the proper height. No worky.

I can't reproduce this. The only (2D-drafting) object type that can't be extruded is the 2D-locus.

[Second Seat or seperate License]

While I'm not a lawyer? (Lucky me!) Additional licences are, AFAIK, available only for employees of the owner of the main licence.

Since babagre does not state his or her country of residence, I have to assume that to be the Land of the Countryless, i.e. the U.S. of A. Therefore he or she can, technically, just let his or her partners or business associates to install any number of copies of VW from his or her installation-DVD and no-one will be any wiser.

Thus, there is no advantage from adding another seat. Costs money and may be illegal anyway. Just get the one upgrade and ?share? it, as encouraged by NNA.

[List of classes]

You're welcome, Vincent.

As you see, laziness can make life easier: I'm too lazy to do the same thing over and over again.

[List of classes]

Ahh, few of us are geniuses, but some of us are seriously lazy?

If you can get Ozzie's trick to work, that is a much better solution. If not,

- copy the code

- paste it to eg. TextEdit

- make it plain text

- save to a convenient location

- when needed, issue Run VectorScript command (Tools/Scripts) and point the Open file dialog to the said convenient location

What we're doing is very simple. We get the number of classes (NumClasses) and process the list of them (ClassList), ignoring None and Dimension (nos 1 & 2), and create a locus in each class.

[Mapping classes in dwg export]

Definitely seconded!

Especially the silly classes created by PIOs should be able to be mapped to a user-defined standard.

[List of classes]

Yes? I can imagine??This took a minute? But then again, I'm not an engineer!

PROCEDURE DummyClasses; { ? Petri Sakkinen 2009 } 
VAR
i : INTEGER; 

BEGIN
FOR i := 3 TO CLASSNUM DO BEGIN 
	LOCUS(0, 0);
	SETCLASS(LNEWOBJ, CLASSLIST(i));  
END; 
END;

RUN(DummyClasses); 

[Section/Vertical Scale]

Sorry: I just don't get it.

What do you mean by vertical scale?

[Foundation Best Practice - And Adding Rebar?]

Indeed. Humans are animals who make tools; engineers are lifeforms that can't even make their shoelaces.

[Match a custom color.]

Hee, hee??I was 32 years old when I bought my first (CP/M) computer in 1984. I guess my generation is more able to learn new things than you kids!

My only prior experience was a one-week Basic-programming course when entering the Uni 1971.

EDIT

The latter using a Hewlett-Packard 2000B time-sharing machine with 32 Teletype terminals across the campus. Programs were saved on paper tape?

[3D Crop]

By this time one would expect the "Cut 3D Section" -command eg. to recognise solids as solids??

[Drafting overview question]

Thanks, that works pretty well. The only problem I am still having with it is the Class issue. If I have a bunch of repeating elements in the same class, but I only want to have an ortho of one of them, do I have to select one and put it in it's own class so that when I do a section viewport, I only get one? (Selecting in class options).

Otherwise, when I do a section viewport I get everything in that class. Is there another way around this?

I think you have a conceptual problem here. The issue at hand seems to be a ?parts ? assembly? -type of situation and you want the program to generate a list & drawings of a set of arbitrary parts. I don't think you'll succeed.

If all your parts are symbols, it is doable, but if you have ?drafted? parts, it's not. With parametric objects it is theoretically possible to find all similar instances and isolate the unique types, but only theoretically.

So, in short: you may have to reconfigure your workflow.

[Tell Me Variables]

I'm thinking the WriteLn function might be a very powerful tool... with it you can write a script to write a script. In the TellMeVariable I included a function that picks up all the parameter names then creates assigns the internal variables to the object parameters.

I am just starting to play around with Dialogs- is anyone using WriteLn in scripts to auto generate Dialog Scripts?. If this question make sense and there a couple people interested in seeing how it might be done, I've been looking for a project to give Google Wave a go on- and I have a couple spare invites.

See also

http://www.nemetschek.net/support/custom/vscript/vstool.php

Dialog Builder 5

and everything at

http://www.vectorlab.info/index.php?title=Category:Examples_-_Dialogs

Scripts that generate scripts are a favourite of mine. I also have FileMaker Pro databases that generate scripts. However, as comes to dialogs, I'll leave that to the experts and aficionados. (We hatess dialogss?)

[Match a custom color.]

Surely you are not encouraging these el cheapo yeahbabies to disregard software licencing conditions?

[Match a custom color.]

He also needs a a professional-level computer/OS, not a yeahbaby from some Dell.

[Match a custom color.]

Kool: Unfortunately Windows does not come with an equivalent to OSX's system-wide colour-pick/drop utility (or at least, not as far as XP).

It doesn't? Well, then our friend, the baby, got a rather raw deal from Dell. Yeah: tough.

[Why does my keynote legend appear outside the viewport?]

Indeed.

Gramophone, see phonograph.

Phonograph, see gramophone.

People, who don't know what they are talking about, should not offer to answer.

Could Mother Brudgers provide some useful information?

[How to change visible classes in a viewport?]

Sound advice, brudgers: for once, we agree!

When importing AutoCAD-stuff, it is a good idea to include a class name prefix. Any reference files, when replaced, should be in the same location and have the same file name as the old versions; the same applies to current versions of work files. ?Save as?? should be used only when one knows what one is doing and even then only after a cup of non-instant coffee and a smoko (inhaling not compulsory.)

[Match a custom color.]

Would any of these methods work?

[Architectural modeling in VW or other software?]

We design buildings that can be built ? and will be built according to the 3D model.

Almost everything in 3D.