Robert Anderson

This is a VSM (i.e. a menu command plug-in), not a "raw" vectorscript, which you run from the Resources palette. Drop the .vsm file into your Plug-ins folder, then use the Workspace editor to add it to your current workspace. Then use it as a menu command. No need to add it to your document, because now you can access it from VW.

The keynote database does not appear in the Resource Palette. Please re-read the sections of your manual on Notes Management.

This precise capability is available in VectorWorks LandMark. It's a two-stage process: first you place stakes (objects) along a polyline at a pre-determined station interval, then you create a road from those stakes. This gives you better control over road grade, etc.

Please elaborate on your irrigation wishes.

Doors and windows have a property called 'Ceiling View' that displays them differently for floor plans and RCPs. You can set this property globally (for your entire document) by using a utility available at the Nemetschek NA Downloads site for VWA.

Here's a simple script that converts 3D loci to stakes in place. Even easier than exporting/importing. Cut and paste this into your document as a document script, or just save this script as a text file, and use Import VectorScript to run it: {==========BEGIN VECTORSCRIPT=========}PROCEDURE ConvertLoci2Stakes;VAR DeleteLoci:BOOLEAN; LName:STRING; PROCEDURE DrawStakeAt3dLocus(h:HANDLE);VAR x,y,z:REAL; Hstake:HANDLE; BEGIN Get3DCntr(h,x,y,z); Hstake:= createcustomobject('Stake Object',x,y,0.0); Move3DObj(Hstake,0.0,0.0,z); END; BEGINLName := GetLName(actlayer);DeleteLoci :=YNDialog('Do you wish to delete the source loci?');ForEachObject(DrawStakeAt3dLocus,((L = LName) AND (t = Locus3D)));IF DeleteLoci THEN ForEachObject(DelObject,((L = LName) AND (t = Locus3D)));END;RUN(ConvertLoci2Stakes); {===========END VECTORSCRIPT==========}

Ted, we don't have such a marker at the present time. It is easy to make one using symbols and linked text. We'll put it in our wish list.

You can't do this at the present time. Be aware that 'Floor Plan-1' is only the system sheet name (i.e. the name shown in the Sheets popup). It is not the name printed on the sheet. Printed sheet names and numbers are whatever you want them to be and are easily established (and changed whenever you wish) using the Issue Manager command.

These items all come with VectorWorks and VectorWorks ARCHITECT in libraries, and they should be installed in your Object Browser window library popup.

ErichR, when referencing layers with page scale objects (e.g. text and worksheet images) try this: reference the layer at the same scale as in the master document, and if you want to change the scale, make a 2D layer link in the target document of your referenced layer. See if that works.

ErichR, I agree -- this does NOT sound like a job for workgroup referencing. If you're going to do a half-sized set, why use WGR? Why not simply use the Scaling field in the Print Setup dialog and change your sheet size accordingly in the Drawing Size dialog? This takes _maybe_ 30 seconds to do. Far easier than setting up WGR to do this, which seems to me to be using an elephant gun for a mosquito.

In particular, look at the "style-#" class popups in your windows and doors. These are classes used to assign graphical characteristics (colors, etc.) to subportions of objects. These are set by popups in the window and door objects. If they are set to 'none', then they will take on the characteristics assigned to the window or door. If they are set to one of the style options, then that class is created and must be visible. The subportion of the object that is in the style- class will be displayed during render in the display attributes of that class.

Here's a quick work-around when you want to change the contents of a record field for all instances of that record: 1. Let's say your record is 'Door Record' and the field you want to update is 'Fire Rating'. 2. Open the Resource palette, browse to the current document. 3. Highlight the Door Record and click the Edit button. 4. In the dialog that appears, scroll the field list until you find 'Fire Rating'. Highlight it and (gasp!) delete it. 5. Create a new field, 'Fire Rating', with the information for the default field value being the value you want to insert. 6. Click OK, exit back to drawing. Now all your records have the desired value for 'Fire Rating'.

There's no way to use strings of text per se, but you can modify your document template to have special fill patterns that are letters. There are enough editable patterns to do A-Z and 0-9. I used to use a Minicad template like this for facilitie management.

You can use a combination of the Insertion Tool offset mode along with the Snap to Distance to get a precise offset the first time. For offset symbol insertion, see VW9 manual page 11-10. For Snap to Distance, see VW9 manual page 4-7. Snap to Distance works nicely along the face of walls, etc.

LandMark can produce the profiles / sections, but it doesn't label or grid them.

OK, if you are using VW9.5 now, you will in my opinion see a =very slight= slowdown in MacOSX compared to MacOS9, coupled with a =significant= increase in stability and ease of use (that is, ease of use as regards memory managment). There are user interface issues, particularly regarding the Finder, that have many Mac users frustrated, but I have had little trouble making the switch. (I would regard some of the little differences in UI annoying but not negative in productivity.) I also expect many of the performance issues improve over time as Apple further tunes the OS, but I use OSX as my default Mac OS, and feel that a (minor) loss in speed is well worth it in terms of stability. My $.02.

This sounds like an OS/keyboard glitch. I'd try restarting and seeing if the problem persists.

Are you using VW9.5 now on MacOS 9, or a previous version of VW?

Check the Vectorworks Preference "Adjust Flipped Text". It should be in the Display tab of VW Prefs. Set it to be checked and your callouts should be fine.

This happens when you have what we call a "name conflict". Some nameable object in your file (might be the name a symbol, a hatch, a record, or even an individual object name) is called "Guides". The Make Guides command is trying to name the class it puts Guide objects into "Guides", but it cannot because something else is already named that. So it does the next best thing; it names the class Guides-1. The next time, Guides-2, and etc. Here's how to fix: 1. Find out what is named "Guides" in your file and delete it. If you have a class called "Guides" then the name is corrupt, so delete it also.2. The Make Guides command should now work properly and should re-instate the "Guides" class in your document.3. Reset the previously created guide objects to the "Guides" class.4. Use the Purge Unused Objects command to delete all the "Guides-#" classes.

The eyedropper tool did transfer wall cavity information in VW852 and does not do so in VW9.X. I have entered this as a bug (25343).

This is easy. 1. Insert your symbol or plug-in object in the wall;2. Make sure your symbol is selected (it will have its own "handles" showing);3. If it's not open, open the Object Infomation palette. Click on the Position button.4. A dialog will appear allowing you to position the wall-inserted object precisely relative to the wall extents.

These are great ideas. Keep 'em coming!

Nedzad, there are a lot of questions here: what system are you on, which version of VW do you have, etc. etc. I suspect it will be faster and more effective for you to call our TS phone lines rather than hash this out in the bulletin board. Call (410) 290-5114 or, if you are overseas, your distributor.