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I've never seen that happen. Just tried it on my computer (I have an almost identical machine) and it works fine. Can you copy an object with a gradient that won't edit from your file into a blank file and post it here? We'll take a look at it. mk

Johnathan I didn't know that. So Fundamentals has viewports, but not section viewports? mk

And does this happen using exactly the same file?

Monadnoc I've never used Filter Forge, so I can't say. Pixplant isn't perfect - the UI is a little clunky. But it's really fast. It's nice if you have to crank out 6 textures for a drawing. mk

The part of the help you quoted was for a command that no longer is part of the standard workspaces. You can still add it back to a custom workspace, but yikes - glad those days are over! If you just select a section viewport that is rendered in hidden line rendering mode and then Modify > Convert > Convert Copy to Lines you will get a group that is just the lines from the original section viewport. One thing to be aware of: If the section viewport is on a sheet layer and the section viewport is in a scale other than 1:1 then converting to lines and moving those lines to a design viewport will necessitate scaling the group of lines (Modify > Scale Objects...) to match the design layer scale. - once you convert the viewport to lines, the lines become "stupid". The easiest way around it is to first make the SLVP 1:1 scale then convert copy to lines. That way it doesn't matter what the design layer scale is. hth mk

You don't actually import them through the file menu. You just "import" them when the texture is created. The only time you see the word "import", curiously enough, is when an image texture is edited and the original image is replaced. Then the option is to "Import an Image File" or "Reuse an Image From Another Resource". When the texture is created you are just asked to navigate to the image file. Once the texture is created, it lives in the RB like any other resource. mk

I've been using an app called PixPlant http://www.pixplant.com/ to create seamless textures from photos. Once created, there's no reason to keep the image. Just keep the texture in a library file. hth mk

Are you using an older version of vectorworks? That's a legacy command that I haven't seen for a long time. If you are using a relatively recent version, you will have much better luck using a section viewport. If you really need lines, you can Modify>Convert>Convert to Lines. hth mk

I could be really wrong about this, and I hope someone will correct me in the very likely event that what I'm about to say is baloney. I've never understood why, but space objects don't like to be locations. And, to compound your problem, the location of an object can be a criteria for a database, but not a function call. (So you can tell a database to look for all the doors in a specific location, but you can't ask each door in a database where it is) There are a couple work arounds: Work Around 1_______________________ 1. Create polygons that have location information. Draw a polygon, (or polyline, rectangle, circle, oval, etc.). 2. In the OIP click on the Data tab and enter a name in the Name field. You can now use this as a criteria- LOC=Name - when setting up a database. And the location objects don't need to be on the same layer as the rest of the objects - so you can create them and forget them. -It's possible that these objects need to be on the screen plane, or at least not on some crazy working plane, I've never investigated. It's always just worked. NB. - the door object "lives" in the location that contains the door swing. NB. (2) HOWEVER, if you try to use the auto generated space name from the same field of the space object as a criteria, it doesn't work. Don't know why. But this won't get you the format you asked for. Work Around 2_______________________ Create a new column and use the function: =('Door'.'UserFld1') As in many other VW baked-in objects, there are user fields. You can manually type in whatever you want. The attached example does both. hth mk

Yes. Inside the symbol duplicate the screen as many times as you need images. Put each screen object in its own class. Make all the screen classes invisible. Now holding command and hitting right and left arrow while in OpenGL rendering mode will scroll you through the images. (see attachment) The solution is trivial for one object. More complicated for many objects. For more than one object, create a new symbol for each instance. Probably wise to create a frame symbol and nest it. Then each class contains a set of screens across all the symbols with different textures. hth mk ps. file is over 5mb. If you're interested I can email it to you

shr The reason I asked about importing dwgs is this: Objects drawn in locations like "+300,000,000 x +5,811,814,000" is something I've seen in my dwg-importing life. There is a dwg import option to "Use World Origin Instead of User Origin". I can't tell you exactly what this does. But it does sound bad, doesn't it. I don't know if that could cause the origin move problems you are seeing, but it's a possibility. btw - you can save yourself a lot of dwg related headaches by never importing a dwg into the "real" drawing. Import into a "sacrificial" .vwx drawing and then reference that drawing in the "real" drawing. The 210 useless and empty classes will be confined to the design layer viewport referencing the sacrificial drawing (and will not show up in your class structure!), and you can crop and position the dwg where you need it without regard to its position in the dwg. hth mk

Check the criteria. You may be counting windows in viewports. hth mk

Did you import a dwg into the drawing? mk

Select both objects Model > Subtract solids > use the arrows in the next dialog box to select the piece you want to remain > OK hth mk

Here's another method..... There's probably a way to get the unit count to work too, but my brain is too slow this morning. mk

James I think this will do what you want. I thought I could get clever and bury the sum in a concat, but it refuses to update. At least in 2011 it doesn't. If you change the units on a position and recalculate the worksheet the concat doesn't update, but the regular cell does.... hth mk

No, I mean when editing the criteria for a database using the GUI. If you have 5 criteria and you want to delete the 3rd criteria, you are out of luck. You have to delete the 5th, 4th, and then 3rd. I have been able to drag columns in the past, but lately it just refuses to go. The little grey line appears where I'm about to drop it, but then nothing happens. mk

Can't believe I forgot this one: - Allow for criteria to be subtracted from the non-final criteria on the list.

Another one: - fix the bug that stops the scroll wheel from scrolling up past the database header. James I can get the hand, but it doesn't actually move a column of a database. Surprisingly, if a column is selected, you can get the hand on any other column and it appears to try to move the non selected column. But then nothing happens. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.... mk

Nice list, James. Here's a couple more: - formatting buttons on a bar at the top of the worksheet. Replace everything in Format Cells... with icons, pulldowns, etc on a bar. The goal is to have the effects of formatting selections visible immediately without going in and out of the Formatting Cells... window. - formula bar: more characters and wrap contents of bar - Drag & drop reordering of columns and rows - make ALL attributes of ALL objects (or as many as possible) accessible. (like insertion point of symbols (different from coordinates and centers), bottom z, top z, rotation, extrusion - if it can be entered or viewed in the OIP, I'd love to be able to put it in a worksheet.) - a more user friendly way to access the drawing revision data - a function similar to Pat Stanford's script that lists all possible fields of record formats, parametric objects, and all attributes of other objects. - a page break feature and database headers that reapply themselves after page breaks. - make all fields with numeric data values easily calculable. (ie. fields in stock schedules that start with 11_) - when editing data in a database in a sorted column: After new data is entered and the "return" button is pressed, move the curser down one row and then reorder the database. The current behavior results in the curser skipping a row every time the database is reordered. - Allow cell values that are pulldowns to be copied and pasted across individual cells or ranges of cells. - An addition to Select Item in databases: After an item has been selected and the drawing has zoomed to the item, allow the up and down arrow to select the next or previous item in the database. This allows users to graphically zip through objects in the database. - A reverse of the "Select Item" in databases. ie. right click on an object that is listed in a database choose "Show in Database" and have the database become visible and the row highlighted. This would be a huge timesaver. - symbols or other geometry in cells. (for keys) -Top and Left split scroll windows for larger databases and worksheets

So you've never been able to render w/ final/fast/custom rw in 2011? Have you tried opening a new file drawing an extrude and rendering? If that doesn't work, I would suspect a corrupt install of RW. mk

Do you see the progress bar running in the lower right hand corner? ie. does the render happen and you get a white screen or does it not even render? mk

James I share your frustration w/ worksheets. I keep thinking every year that this will be the year of the worksheet reboot. (Making a cell aligned center takes six mouse clicks!) There has been a trend w/ 2011 of making more fields that are values (like area or volume) be non-integer and non-real fields in default schedules. It's pretty to show the units, but it sure would be nice to also be able to add the values. If you want to start a new worksheet wish list I'll happily join in. Until then, could you change the values of the weight and wattage fields for the instruments you use, since you've already changed the field type in the record format... ? Are you just trying to calculate the dimmer load on each dimmer or the load per phase? 'Cause that would be cool. mk