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  1. I understand all that. But what I cannot seem to achieve after a viewport has been created is a color setting that has BOTH the 'black and white only' and 'use layer colors' checkboxes UNCHECKED. Solid fill colors other than white or black do not appear in a 'black and white only' or a 'use layer colors' environment. It seems that unless the viewport is created with these two options unchecked, it's impossible to achieve this setting through use of the document preferences or OIP. This seems like loss of functionality to me.
  2. Okay then how do I change the preferences to black and white only, or to use layer colors or to none of the above? If I want a gray fill color to appear and print I have to uncheck both of the above options and that doesn't make a difference if I created the viewport with 'use layer colors' selected for instance.
  3. Seems that a viewport 'remembers' the ducument preferences display setting for use layer colors, black and white only, etc. Even if I change these preferences, the viewport stays unchanged and holds the setting from when I created it. Any suggestions? Is this a 2010 bug?
  4. Peter thanks. Seems the circle is the source of most of the problem. Still need to fiddle with it as you suggest but the polyline is definitely the way to go when using this function.
  5. Trying to use the 'Text Along Path' function to make a line of text go around a circle for this plaque I'm designing. But the text consistently gets all bunched up at 3:00 and 9:00. Is this an issue associated with using a circle and some new issue I have discovered?
  6. After a long time of wondering I finally decided I would ask. What's difference between the two? Or rather why are there 2? When I select the drawing label tool from the tool palette it defaults to drawings label. I like drawing label simple a whole lot more just for the default proportions of the bubble etc. But I don't know where it originates from. Maybe the symbol library...
  7. miles

    Plant Database

    Well said Keith, especially your desciption of the graphic symbols. In your experience is there an 'easy' way to use my symbols in combinations with automatic labeling numbering? Or should I just stick with what I'm doing now?
  8. miles

    Plant Database

    I just went back and read all the entries from February and I think this is a good doscussion. Yes, it's a scary thought that someone might be doing a planting plan and needing the plant information about height, spread, habit from the database. But maybe more scary is the thought that a programmer was the one deciding what info about the plants should go in there...yikes. I'm a landscape architect, have been using vectorworks forever and I have never used the plant database, the plant place tool or any of it. Mainly because I customize everything so much that it seemed overwhelming to try and make the vw database work for me. Honestly I have not spent a lot of time really digging into it but here is what I do: I have made all my own plant symbols (trees, shrubs, perennials, vines & groundcovers). Each symbol is a simple circle, or mabe an octogon or something for a little visual difference on the paper for the contractor. Occasionally I'll have a symbol that has an 'illustrative' class if I want to use the drawing for presentation purposes right out of the printer. Each symbol has a two letter code in the midle that corresponds to the plant list which is a worksheet. The lettering has a class assignment so I can print the drawing without the text for rendering purposes. Each circle is sized to correspond to the appropriate plant spacing. So my plant list is a worksheet that has the size, name, root, etc. for the plant and a column that automatically counts the symbols on the drawing to show the proper quantity. I also have a label on my sheet layer for each plant or plant mass that I place using the annotation tool. The one thing I need to spend some time with is my labeling process though. I know that if I use all the stock vw plant stuff my label will automatically show the quantity of the plants it's pointing to. But I have not yet taken the time to see if I can get that same automatic labeling to work with my own custom symbols. Is anyone else working this way? I'm pretty happy with this system except for the labeling.
  9. Brilliant!! Thanks Jeff.
  10. I'm dropping a 3-d model of something in front of an existing photo to show a before/after. But the rendered object is showing up in really low resolution. Anybody have any suggestions?
  11. Another problem has occured since messing around with this. Now when I select "no fractions" in the object info pallette after placing the dimension (which I have been doing successfully forever) it does not change the dimension. It keeps the fraction. I checked the settings in the primary dimension dialog and it's set to no fractions also. Aaaargh!
  12. Jonathan I had figured out the new drop down that appears when you select dual. So I now have my custom dimension set to use secondary dimensions, and my secondary dimensions set to Feet and Inches, but there is a problem. When I dimension something the dimension is always 0 (zero). No unit mark and it doesn't matter whether I'm in a viewport or design layer. If I select dual dimesions the primary appears correctly and secondary still appears as 0. What do think about that?
  13. Tool preferences are stored on a session by session basis. I would like changes to these preferences and plugin objects to be remembered when VW is closed and opened again.
  14. I watched the podcast but I don't have a dropdown in my custom dimension dialog to select primary and secondary dimensions. Is this a MAC only thing? I'm on Windows.
  15. There are a couple settings that always revert to a default when VW is closed and reopened: The Revision Bubble settings, Callout Tool settings & Plant Line tool. I'm sure there are more but these are all I can think of right now. Is this a bug or an intentional thing? I would like VW to remember the settings I assign as if it were a VW 'setting'.
  16. Jonathan that option didn't work. There is no option to set a custom dimension style to primary or secondary units. Additionally, under the primary units tabs everything is grayed
  17. Thats a good idea Jonathan. I'll play with that. Thanks
  18. I do have a template drawing that I have created from scratch that has all the symbols, worksheets classes, etc. But I'm always tweeking class attributes and creating new ones as the project demands. All my drawing is really customized to the project. Being small allows me to do this. So when I'm working on drawing A, I'll remember that I created a good class with attributes I liked on drawing B (which is not open and sitting in the server). (I use classes alot to maintain graphic consistency in conjunction with doing worksheet calculations where the classes are part of the calculation criteria) I want to be able to just import a class from drawing B like you would import symbols or worksheets through the resource browser. Right now I have to find drawing B, open it, copy the objects that have been assigned the classes I want, and paste them into drawing B. Sounds like I can't do this through the resource browser. Katie this would be a good thing for the wish list.
  19. Is this an Acrobat setting that I need to change to get the transparancy to work correctly?
  20. Katie does using a document template aloow you to move classes from one drawing to another using the resources pallette?
  21. Seems my question is a bit of a hot potato. Anybody?...
  22. Hi Katie. I want the class name, attributes and everything. No I don't use VW document templates.
  23. Christian are you giving me an answer or adding your own thoughts on what you would like to see?
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