michaelk

This should probably be another thread, but I'm baffled by what is happening when a bunch of VPs are duplicated and one or more of those VPs contains a section line and it's linked section VP. They all renumber in a really cool way. Except for the section vp. The duplicated "parent VP" doesn't link to the duplicated section vp. Or maybe I get so confused by it, that I end up deleting the section VP and trying again.

Little wish: I wish that viewports would have an option to sort numerically -instead of/in addition to- alphabetically in the Navigation Palette. It's a bad habit, but when there are many viewports, I don't bother naming them. So VP 2 comes after VP 11 or VP 100... ...Or use a system similar to the way layers are sorted, so they can be user sorted. ...Or group them by Sheet Layer and Designer Layer michaelk

Is 4 really the limit to the number of columns for keyed notes? Is there a workaround to get more columns? michaelk

Thanks, gentlemen Nuking the duplicated fonts in the font book seems to have made it happy. michaelk

I hope one of the font geniuses can help me with this. I'm getting crazy behavior w/ fonts in 2010. Last week I upgraded to the OS, but drafted very heavily for a week w/ no problem. The problem seems to have started last night - while working on a drawing shared w/ a windows user. The fonts go crazy. 1. I get invisible text boxes that show no text but are as tall or as wide as VW will go. Miles. 2. Changing the font solves it. Sometimes. If it doesn't solve it the first time then changing the font again solves it. 3. Sometimes VW behaves like it has no default font. Text in symbols or dimension objects are blank. Changing the font fixes it. But which font VW finds acceptable seems to be a moving target. 4. Sometimes when creating a dimension object, it piles all the characters on top of each other. 5. Changing the font will change it. Or sometimes creating a new dimension object will fix the previous dimension object. There were some duplicate fonts on my font book and I told font book to resolve the problem. No other applications are affected. Any ideas? Help! Thanks in advance michaelk Currently VW 2010 will not accept a default font.

Yes. Attached is a trivial example of a way I often find useful. (I hope all this works in 2008) The database can be used to quickly enter and change data connected to the symbols. The key is just a worksheet that counts specific symbols in a specific layer. It makes working with large amounts of data attached to symbols much easier to manage. The symbols in the key are no longer symbols. They were inserted and converted to groups - so they won't get counted. There are also symbols on another layer that are included in the database but not counted in the key. You can see how the key could easily be set up to count objects by layer or space or... ie you could easily count the number throw pillows by room, by floor, and by total project using this method. I'll attach a 2010 file also. Pat's the master of this sort of thing, and I hope he (or any of the other users who know this stuff far better than I) will catch anything in the worksheets that isn't backwards compatible to 2008. hth michaelk

Peter I am running time machine, but I also have a couple previous versions - 1 with the problem and one even older that is correct. The problem is how to pull it into the current document... The section lines are gone. But the section viewports still have the correct numbers in the drawing label. What I ended up doing is exactly what you suggest: changing the numbers of the corrupt section viewports to something much higher, then creating new section viewports, and copying and pasting the annotations from the old section viewports to the new section viewports. Wish I knew what caused the section lines and the geometry in the section viewports to go away... michaelk

I hope there is a way to fix it! There are a couple palettes and dialogue boxes like that - that always need to be adjusted. Like the Label Legend Manager. The "Active" column is too narrow for the heading. Always looks like "A..."

Those were my first ideas, too. Nothing got moved on a design layer. Tried turning all classes on. None of the section viewports have a crop or limits on the depth or length of the section lines. Even though the carcass of the section viewports have a drawing and sheet number in their drawing labels, they don't appear in the Nav Palette list of viewports. The section lines corresponding to the missing section viewports are gone. All the missing sections were created from one SLVP. All the sections in that SLVP are missing. No other viewports, including section viewports, (135 so far) are affected. The affected VPs are on a sheet layer that I did 3 days ago, and haven't really done much with since. Is there a keyboard shortcut that nukes all the section lines in a SLVP? michaelk

I just had 4 SL section viewports vanish. All the annotations are still there, but the section line instances are gone from the SLVP where they were created and the geometry is gone from the section viewports. Is there any trick to get them back? I do have an old version of the file that still has the section line instances. I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but is there any way to copy and paste the section line objects? Thanks michaelk

Is this a known bug? Or do I have something set incorrectly? In a SLVP, hidden line doesn't update correctly when the geometry on the design layer is changed. Both foreground and background rendering are affected. In the attached example, the sweep at the top was of the object was edited in the design layer and the SLVP was updated. The Open GL background render updated correctly, but the Hidden Line foreground render retains the old (pre edit) geometry. The only way to fix it that I can find is to change the render mode away from hidden line and then back again. Then updating the SLVP works. Anyone else seeing this? Thanks michaelk

Has anyone found any good expanded metal hatches? Thanks michaelk

Not to confuse the issue... But it might be easier to use a worksheet rather than a database so you can have more control over the order of the items in the key. I find it easier and more flexible that way.

Matt I've found the same thing. Data bases report correctly. Some worksheet functions don't. I'd love to find out what the actual limitations of 3D orientation are. I'm also having other issues w/ 3D orientation: http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=140911#Post140911

Sounds like you may have interactive scaling disabled. Make sure the 2D Selection Tool is in "Single Object Interactive Scaling" Mode. This will make the blue handles appear on all the label legend fields. Hit Escape, then double tap the X key. Then keep tapping the U key and you will see the modes toggling through in the upper left hand corner. You want the second mode with the single set of diagonal arrows. hth michaelk

Kevin The reason I asked is that I always build my own inventory reports and keys. Some of them get very weird when mixing stock and rental gear, fixtures w/ different lamps, rep plots, etc. I'm curious what fields will not respond correctly to a count query when an instrument has a 3D orientation set. michaelk

Kevin What specific parameter fields are lost when the 3D orientation is selected? What is the built in inventory report looking for? michaelk

What version of VW? One of the standard built in reports, or one of your own?

=COUNT(S='symbol name')-1 Or, (especially if the symbol has record(s) attached that you don't want on the schedule) you can "desymbolize" the symbol in the legend. Command-K or Modify>Convert>Convert to Group. Then you don't need to subtract 1. hth michaelk

Kaare My experience w/ the parasolids engine is that it is a) faster and b) pickier about failing to create self intersecting solids. -I love the idea of each vertex on a nurbs curve having its own weight. -Loft w/ one rail in 2010 does allow for multiple nurbs profiles. I think it also worked in 2008. But I could be wrong about that. -I would also add to your loft requests: ......Feedback when creating the loft of where the along the rail a loft is failing and options to a) create the loft anyway and delete the duplicated parts of the geometry or b) squash the profile or smooth the rail to make the loft object "happy" .....Double click editing of loft object ala extrudes, sweeps, solid additions, solid subtractions, etc. (One of the great strengths of VW.) -EAP twist control is a great wish! michaelk

If you do it on Safari pages is also shows the navigation path of the website you're visiting. It's probably been there since the beginning of OSX, but I only figured it out a couple years ago. There must be a similar function in Windows. michaelk

On a mac you right click (or control-click) on the title in the banner on the top of the window. It doesn't work if the file has never been saved. hth michaelk

I think the term is, "not supported." :-) It runs, but it does weird things. If you were running 10.6, that might have been an explanation.

Are you running OS 10.6?

Is there a way to stop this: When editing a the criteria for a database (I'm trying to specify a range of field values) every time I go back to edit the criteria VW has added a new criterion "Record _______ IS PRESENT" (R IN 'type') Eventually, after taking a couple attempts at editing the criteria, the character count is exceeded. Is it possible to make it stop doing this? thanks michaelk