GJ

Thanks Fuge!

These are great scripts. Now anybody have a simple script that will turn all classes back on?

I'm trying to work out a way that I can show only portions of a large referenced building (without creating a lot of masking rectangles around the drawing) and it occurs to me that this ability is right under VWorks' nose. If there were a transfer mode (similar to overlay, paint or invert) that would allow filled objects to reveal layers underneath them, I could create a view layer on top and draw filled rectangles (or other filled polygons) that revealed the layers underneath. I was playing with a variety of layer transfer modes above and below each other, but could not come up with the desired effect with the given transfer modes. This would be a very easy, but very valuable implementation. ...also bring back the "single click extend" option.

This is great information... However, I do hope that Apple and VW work on this to make it simpler. (just being able to set your paper size manually without having a printer driver would be handy.) I agree pdfs are a very handy feature, it's just too bad that OSX and 9.5 had to complicate things. GJ

Great idea and probably simple to include. This may just be well hidden, but I would like a tool that turns classes off, or isolates them (with NONE still on of course) by clicking on an object in the drawing. This might be a vectorscript solution. You can set the eyedropper tool to set the class to active, but "class off" and "class isolate" would be handy.

It's not the scales I'm having trouble with, it's the cropping. In order to show and enlarged portion of a building I have to draw these awkward masking boxing that need to be locked and sometimes don't print to a Post Script printer correctly. Clipping an objects visibilty could either be resolved in Workgroup Referencing or in Layer Linking.

jodawi- I'm interested in your experience with 2000 translation in VW9. Let's say I'm reticent about the stability of VectorWorks 9, but I'm currently saving many files to R14 and bringing them into Acad2000 for a larger firm that I do work for. Obviously there's still text issues, but what's new in VW9 that would make my life easier?

I'm watching a few colleagues struggle with 9.0. Instead of upgrading, I put a little extra money into some different software packages with "real" advanced modelling and rendering features. From the looks of it, this was a wise choice. I was amazed at how fast these other programs redraw and render. (a 2.3 million polygon civic center) I work in an office with both VW and AutoCad2000 and I'm ashamed when I see my piece of junk PC handling enormous files with networked references from 500 miles away, and my PowerbookG4 is struggling to redraw a few layers. I wonder if Dhiel is beginning to have this problem because more users are finally expecting to do large commercial production on VW? Whereas from versions 5-6-7, when they had far less users (or "glowing reviews" from the mac magazines), we were pleased with whatever new gadgets they included, even if we couldn't join walls properly (...we still can't.) Remember- "ooh the wall wall framing tool, how neat - it must have...several uses." I'm loyal, but I'm getting worried that it will only get worse, because they are spending all of their efforts porting to OSX and not improving its speed or simplicity. I can wait, but the Construction Managers can't. GJ