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michaelk

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  1. Make sure your layer options are set to show/snap others or show others AND make sure all your layers are set to the same scale
  2. The file you posted is 2023. Do either of these work? Robe Test 2024 v2023.vwx Robe Test 2024.vwx
  3. That used to be an issue. Are you using a symbol from a previous version? Can you post a file with a misbehaving symbol?
  4. LSOH Block Diagram v2023.vwx
  5. Maybe it's not a little quirky. Medium quirky?
  6. The Create Interior Elevation Viewport… command is a little quirky. But I find that the juice is worth the squeeze. It's way way faster to create interior elevations from a 3D model than it is to draw them in 2D from scratch or exploding a section viewport. Especially if things change down the road.
  7. I find that I never need to edit the hinge direction. Do you have projects where you need it to be handle sometimes and hinge other times?
  8. @E|FA attached is a simple example that is, I'm sure, much less complicated that the giant worksheet that @Tom W. has made 🙂. There is one door worksheet and one window worksheet for display. Then there is another 2 worksheets just to edit styles. You will notice that the style worksheet displays all dimensions in mm. But you can enter a value in feet and inches and it works just fine. (I believe you're in the US (?)). In the "regular" worksheet you can't edit the by style parameters of the doors and windows. Some parameters - like the ID number - can be edited. In the fancy Style worksheet you can edit the parameters that are by style and it gives you a warning that your are about to do something big. Agree to it and then you will have to update all worksheets or update the "regular worksheet" to see the changes. Style Worksheet Example.vwx
  9. @Tom W. I think you found a bug. I wonder if it's related to the display in mm, but accept document units bug. I'll add your discovery to the bug report. Does the mm vs document units even show up for you? I assume you are working in mm anyway. So HingePref of 0 means point towards hinge. HingePref of 1 means point towards handle. You are correct that it Style.HingePref always displays 0. But if you change Style.HingePref to 1 it WILL change to pointing towards the handle. But still display 0! Entering 0 in for Style.HingePref has no effect! Weird.
  10. Henley Street Drawings_Pre App v2024 v2020.vwx
  11. There is a cool trick you can do with worksheets to edit styles. For example if you have a door and the width is controlled by style. The door schedule call for that data is =Door.Width in the database header. If you change it to =Style.Width you will be able to edit the style settings in the worksheet. And the word Style will be in blue while the word Width will be in red. There is a weird bug (that I think is still there). Style dimensions will display in millimeter values, but you can enter document (ft/inch in the US) measurements in the database cell and it works fine. It's a much faster way to edit styled doors and windows. I usually have a separate worksheet just for editing styled plug-ins than the one that is the on the drawing so I don't have to keep changing door. to style. and back.
  12. Ha! Yes I DO know why that happens! The plug-in uses a lot of vector mathematics. When I wrote it 3 or 4 years ago (w/ a lot of help from @MullinRJ who helped me relearn my college vector mathematics) the vectorscript function that returns the normal vector at any point on a polyline path had a bug. It didn't work correctly for the endpoint of the polyline. And sometimes it failed for points very near the endpoint. We (mostly Raymond!) made several heroic gazillion-lines-of-code attempts to work around it. I took a less strenuous approach. I did a few tests and realized that the function never failed more than 1" (25.4mm) from the endpoint. You can see where this is leading. The perfect is the enemy of the good. Right? I took the users polyline and inset everything 1" from the starting point and the end point, where the normal vector function never failed. Because it worked. And who would ever notice a 1" inset?!??!!? Apparently… you! I've never checked to see if that function was fixed. I've been happily drawing seating rows 2" short for years. :-). If you use the arms it's hard to tell. If you really want to beta test it, I'll make you a new version with the offset removed and you can see if the last arm or seat sticks out at a weird angle :-). But I don't have time right now to fix it if it breaks something!
  13. Here's what I was thinking when I made the tool 🙂 : 1. Make sure the seat symbols are created with the seat facing up on the screen and the insertion point in at the back of the seat. 2. Always draw the seating row from House Left to House Right. My intention was that you could use the edge of the riser behind the row you were drawing as the guide and then offset seat, arms, and seat numbers as necessary in the OIP. In this video the last row of seats has space behind it. But I still use the back of the riser or wall or whatever architecture is there to draw the row and then offset it in the OIP. TheateRow Video.mov
  14. Yes! (If I understand your question.) If you double click the TheateRow tool in the tool palette you can set the default parameters, including the default seat spacing. You can also set the default seating symbol. (Keep in mind that the tool expects to place a seat symbol with no arms. The arms are handled separately so there aren't two arms between seats.) You can change the numbering - starting number, direction of numbering, increment, placement on top of the seating symbol at any time. But those options can also be set to your particular default by double clicking on the tool.
  15. In the Door Settings, General Tab, set Insert Relative To: to Center of Jamb. That solves half the issue. I'm not sure why the door is being pushed to the left side of the wall. It doesn't do that on other walls, but I can't find the setting in your wall that causes it.
  16. Hi @MartinBlomberg. I made this for theaters, but it should work for an arena: https://www.verysmallgroup.com/theaterow
  17. Try this. All that line work wasn't drawn on the layer plane it was in a 3D plane. Possibly different planes. That's probably the issue auto cad was having with it. I swung everything around and set it on the layer plane. SL-001-D1-01-R0 Log Burner Planning Drawings.dwg
  18. Yes. That will be in the design layer folder.
  19. Attached. File is mostly empty. Convert to DWG 2.zip
  20. It is very possible to get perimeters, areas, and volumes of objects by layer in a worksheet. The question is what kind of objects you want to extract perimeters, areas, and volumes from. Do you have an example file?
  21. These are plug-ins written in VS in a forum about python. 😛 But I think the simple ones will translate directly. Just add vs. to the functions and throw away the variable declarations. Python IF statements are just slightly different, but I think you will be able to follow. Post back if you have questions.
  22. Please add your VW version and computer specs to your signature. Here's my attempt and Jonathan's better attempt in 2023. Roof Puzzle_2 v2023.vwx Roof Puzzle v2023.vwx
  23. Here's a first stab. Someone will have a clever solution soon, but this is one idea. I made a 4:12 roof face but I made the bearing line 10 degrees off. That gets falling ridge line. Then just mirror around and use the Connect/Combine Tool. Roof Puzzle.vwx
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