Jonathan Pickup

i have the same mouse and it hasn?t caused me much pain. My hand get tired, but that?s after a lot of work. One thing I did notice was that moving form a one button mouse to a two button mouse caused me some pain. I have swapped my mouse buttons over so that the left click on the right hand side. When I grab the mouse my hand is more relaxed and I don?t get any pain... (the right mouse click is on the left button) use the Microsoft Mouse settings to change the buttons.

maybe you could ask the person that made the file what they used....

if you are using the symbol from the 00_arch sheets library, then you can duplicate this symbol and modify it. I suggest that you start with the symbol in that file and edit one for your vertical title block and one for your Horizontal title block. Then store these in your library... You should take a lot of care when making your custom title blocks, they are the public face of your company and represent you... This is a hard topic to answer in a short time, there are many steps involved. I have covered this in my Architect Tutorial...

I thought my answer on this topic lacked any advertising... but I'm sorry to have upset you. Where the answer is short and easy i tend to answer it with out advertising, but where the answer is complex and hard to answer in this forum, i thought a pointer to a full answer would be better. I also answer so that others, who may not have posted the problem but still suffer from the same problem, may want to know where to find a full answer. Again, sorry to have upset you.

I write training manuals for VectorWorks and for Architect. The manuals are designed to teach you. They don?t just cover how to use VectorWorks I try to give your the benefit of my experience as well. The people that have bought my manuals have found then to be good value for money (even at the cost...) there are demos of my manuals on line...

i haven't tried this, but you could try setting the Zoom to 100% (that's the 100 button on the view bar at the bottom of the window).

email me the file off line and let me see it please..

yes, it?s that simple. You can edit the setting of a viewport after you have made it using the Object Info Palette. I often use one viewport to make others, you can drag a copy of a viewport on a sheet layer to a new location. Then use the Object Info Palette to edit the layers and classes to make a new viewport.

the only way I have found the reactivate the yes/no Always is to quit VectorWorks and restart. As for classes without class attributes, in the edit Class dialog box make sure that the Use at Creation is NOT ticked. Only classes with this ticked should use graphic attributes.

get Brendan. It allows you do a lot more.... Save movies from the internet, export movies in several formats, add movies together and export them, add text to movies

before the Architect CD there are a series of foundation CD?s. These should show you how to set up a drawing (but maybe not a whole project) using layers and classes. I think that learning about layers, classes, viewports and sheet layers is so important I devoted over 100 pages to it in my Essential Manual. If you learn how to set up your drawings correctly then you don?t the standard set up command and you don?t need the task manager.

when you first assign a class to an object you get a dialog that asks you if you want to assign the graphic attributes, if you choose no then it won?t assign the graphic attributes. But the real question is why you have graphic attributes assigned to your classes that you don?t want to use. if you remove the graphic attributes from the class then it won?t assign the attribute... this is covered in my Essential Manual under Organising Drawings for those that have my manual.

select the viewport on the Object Info Palette click on the layer button, not the layer pop-up... on the dialog box, find the layer with the text... click in the black diamond column for the text layer.... then click on the OK button

using layer and classes on sheet layers with viewports is a big topic. This is covered in my Essential manual with several exercises to show you how to make drawings.

well, there are my manuals .... :-)

isn't the learning curve for architecture never ending? new products, changing codes, regulations etc? Then of course the wish list is full of stuff that we want changed and improved, so VW needs to be updated....

Mike, i think the BIM definition is different for each person. For example some people think of the BIM as containing everything, including all the details in a 3D model. I think of the BIM as having choices, for example, i see the use of windoor as a kind of BIM. It appears in 2D/3D and has size and if i change it in the floor plan it changes in the window schedule. Roof, walls, joists are similar. We can asssign a database to doors, windows, beams, etc and report this information. This is under the definition of a BIM. I think we get a choice of how far we want to take it....

Mike, i think the BIM definition is different for each person. For example some people think of the BIM as containing everything, including all the details in a 3D model. I think of the BIM as having choices, for example, i see the use of windoor as a kind of BIM. It appears in 2D/3D and has size and if i change it in the floor plan it changes in the window schedule. Roof, walls, joists are similar. We can asssign a database to doors, windows, beams, etc and report this information. This is under the definition of a BIM. I think we get a choice of how far we want to take it....

also for viewports I?d like to see: the ability to select more than one viewport and then be able edit the classes and layers at the same time. The ability to choose which viewports the new class is visible in when you create a new class... like you can do at the moment with saved views.

yes, a complete reinstall. You should not have things missing from the plug-ins folder...

i guess you could go though the set up utilities that the error message tells you to go though, then use that file for the exercise. Isn?t there an exercise file for you to use? Otherwise go on to the next exercise. I don?t use the task manager because I don?t like the file structure that the standard set up commands give to the file... My belief is that you should learn how to set up your own layers, classes, viewports and sheet layers so that you can make drawings that suit you and your drawing style. However good the programmer is for the standard cammands they can?t guess how you would set up a particular drawing for a specific project.

there are sometimes where the 3D modeling is just faster, there are some times where the 2D is faster. For a particular part of a project choose the best option..

it shouldn't leave lines. you don't have duplicate objects do you?

yes, if you try to run the task manager before you have given a "structure" the the file, the Task Manager can't do it's job. it relies on the standard layers and classes created by the set up commands to be able to work.

it sounds like your installation didn't go as planned. have you moved anything?