Tom Mierau

Thanks a lot. As you might have guessed, I'm a bit of a "Techie" but I'm not the guy who works with Vectorworks. I'm going to go in and experiment with this today and see what I can do. Circles? Thanks for mentioning about Vectorscript and sharing the syntax to 'draw' circles. All the circles are different size and this will help a lot. Vectorworks has a sort of 'Pascal' familiarity to me... I think I can do this. Symbols? Astually there are some parts that ARE 'little drawings' and there are three sized of these. In Autocad, they would be called 'blocks'... Your instructions regarding symbols will be a big help. One quick question regarding the symbols... If I'm placing a group of these symbols (let's say Symbol-1), can I use a parameter to place the symbol at different degrees of rotation? Or, do I need a separate symbol for each angle of rotation I may require, even though they are the same size?

My employer has and uses Vectorworks. I have been asked to help with some matters. I am aware of working with worksheets and have put a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet together that generates a table of logarithmitically generated diameters of circles. I can produce a comma-delimited file and import the file into a Vectorworks worksheet. I want want to have Vectorworks treat these circles as Symbols and place an array of these symbols on a surface using the X/Y data and diameters taken from worksheet data I just imported... "Diameter", centers at location "X", and Location "Y" Can anybody help me? My sincere thanks in advance...