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Where is your bitmap rotation point? I'm unsure off top of my head what VW uses as reference point, in many systems it is the centre of the upper left pixel for each image tile.

That .shx sounds like you have a file missing or mangled. shp files are actually multi-part files that look something like this structure (but can also contain many other file extensions): nz-meridional-circuit-boundaries-nzgd2000.cpg nz-meridional-circuit-boundaries-nzgd2000.dbf nz-meridional-circuit-boundaries-nzgd2000.prj nz-meridional-circuit-boundaries-nzgd2000.shp nz-meridional-circuit-boundaries-nzgd2000.shx nz-meridional-circuit-boundaries-nzgd2000.txt nz-meridional-circuit-boundaries-nzgd2000.xml Key to success is knowing what the datum is, the surveyor should supply this to you. I do all processing in Qgis (or other tools) first - as it processes this data faster (altho' it has its own learning curve) and knows what it is dealing with. Also QGIS is open source freeware. VW promise too much and give users the idea this stuff is simple, and that VW is some kind of GIS which it is not, and cannot be.

I try to keep it point to top of page, and If that really doesn't work find the best north angle for the entire set of probable drawings, but then I only have to disagree with myself. Straight up is best as if that's what the architect and the server are doing it's easier to compare drawings ... But even after doing this for over 20 years I still see drawings from architect servers and others that are lacking a north arrow and a scale bar.

Hi Neil, Amazing work, I had got to the point of wondering if some palletes change names. I will have a look early next week when I have some head space.

I might still be Cervantes but I've found a few VW users in the past who have managed to get autohotkeys to work - with some difficulty. Maybe there's another way to do this this as when I open vW for the first time each day and then move the toolbars and palettes to my other screen to where I want them, and then shut VW down and restart it those tools are still sitting where I had placed them. So VW Must maintain a data file somewhere to enable this. But this file must get overwritten / destroyed daily. Am I on the right track? There are several possible files here: C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\Nemetschek\Vectorworks\2018\Settings file SavedSettings.xml gets updated whenever VW opens, and has toolbar and palette names, and apparently screen coordinates for those objects. So I have the object names, progress, Don Quixote has some tattered sailcloth on his lance.

Thanks Pat, from what you say it seems this key functionality remains unsolved in the newest versions. I've been working with VW for 20 years now and its tiresome doing this several times a day.

I am hoping to write an Autohotkey script to move toolbars from their startup positions on my screen one to my screen two, but to do that I need their handles. I have searched forum in depth and found nothing. How do I find handles for palettes and floating toolbars ? • Resource manager • Object info • Basic • Attributes • Snapping • Resource Browser ... and ... probably an impossibility; Handles of any open • Worksheets (without knowing their names beforehand). Is this information accessible / extractable by an application outside of VW? OR Could VW on start up run and automatic script to output all currently-open handle names to a text file so my as-yet-unwritten Autohotkey script can parse it and run it? Every other program I have retains toolbar & palette positions.

It may be too basic for you but something I looked at recently was trying to count the area of symbols within a named polyline - and excluding symbols within an inner island region/ named polygon. My symbols were squares as in graphic, and I was trying to get a sum of the pixel area, but what I found was the function LOC only counted the pixels were fully inside of my region i.e. there is no Boolean math in this it's extremely basic. But for your case it may be suitable to count plants underneath tree canopies. I'm on 2018 so I don't know when you're referring to tree canopies if you're referring to some tree canopy function within VW. I prefer to use VW in very basic ways as I've had it fall over when doing anything complicated.

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Thanks twk and Benson, that works .. most of the time, and sometimes drops thru. to Layer Plane, as do 3D loci sometimes. E|FA That sounds ideal but I've never Data tags and it looks quite a mission to set up.

What is the vwx version?

In other software - QGIS, Sketchup etc. - there are handy tools when one just needs to know a spot height for a particular place. Does VW have that?, or via plugin that works in 2018?

What does your city / county / state jurisdiction have (assuming you're in the US)?

I don't use the linz plugin, so in cxase it doesn't work well for you I do this: In the linz website use the box tool to select my data area and the DEM images I want and download it, and then to QGIS If this more than one DEM.tif tile you need to merge them before you run the contour tool. Then - still in QGIS - Menu: Raster: Extraction>Contour and in the dialog: select the input layer select the interval under advanced parameters select 3D And assuming your data is reasonably good quality click run Then in the dialog save the file as a .shp file What I normally do it this point is go back to the menu: Project>import/export>Export project dxf, and import that into VW. I especially do this with contour lines, with normal polygon .shp data I just drag them from the base folder on my system that QGIS is working from.

Just drag it into Google maps - all the action is on the senders end. I don't use G maps much but it's very useful for larger sites, e.g. over multiple Km across. When I've wanted to bring kml data into VW I've normally converted it in QGIS. klm (in G Maps) is useful in early stages of large-area projects, for instance when formal survey data is not yet available.