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Yes.
Probably.
Mostly.
Here's an example on slab doors and drawers that actually works.
To make it work:
- Put the doors and drawers in a class.
- In the criteria look for extrudes in that class. Include objects that are part of Plug-in objects
- Get the volume of those extrudes. Divide by the thickness of the doors.
- Do any necessary foot/inch math if using imperial units.
- Sort by area.
- Summarize by area
- divide the count by 3
That's kind of weird. The cabinet tool makes 3 duplicate doors and drawers. At least with slab doors and drawers.
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SetWSSelection(WSHand,12,3,12,3,0,12,3,0);
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As far as I can tell the topRangeSubrow and bottomRangeSubrow always return 0 no matter what when using GetWSSelection.
I'm able to select cells using 0 in those values. If there are subrows it always selects the header row.
currentCellRow and currentCellColumn should be in the range of the topRangeRow,leftRangeRow,rightRangeRow,botttomRangeRow
I've found that it may let you set (1,1,10,3,0,14,7,0) but you might be force quitting Vectorworks soon after.
The only way I can see that a user could select a range of rows with a mouse would force currentCellRow,currentCellColumn to be equal to either topRangeRow,leftRangeRow or rightRangeRow,botttomRangeRow.
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After you create the extrude along path in the OIP set the Scale: to Exponential.
A positive number makes it get bigger, a negative number makes it get smaller.
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I'm not seeing that here.
Does it work if you are not in a rotated view? Or if you use a different round wall mode (not tangent mode)?
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Does it matter if the reference is absolute or relative to the document?
Are these DLVP references or the old school references?
Do the file names have punctuation?
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For sheet indexes it's really useful to have a worksheet that does it for you.
@Cristiano Alves for handling all the sheet specific data, you can also just make one worksheet to cover all the sheet data. Type or copy/paste into the worksheet and it changes in the title block.
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Classes and Design Layers are independent.
It might help to think of it like this:
Design layers are like stackable sheets of mylar in the old days of drafting. You can change the stacking order of them and that will determine what stacks on top of what.
Classes are used to control visibility of objects AND graphic attributes. Classes are in alphabetical order. The order cannot be changed. They have nothing to do with stacking.
So in a typical architectural project you might have separate design layers for the first floor, any roof that covers only the first floor, the second floor, the second floor roof, etc.
But you might have a plumbing class that controls the visibility of all the plumbing fixtures as well as the line weight, line color, fill color.
The short hand advice is usually: Use a design layer for where it is. Use a class for what it is.
Check out the university for some examples. https://university.vectorworks.net
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This is a Vectorworks forum. It looks like you have Solidworks files.
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I bet if you started with a blank file, inserted a lighting device, created a Label Legend it would work.
If it doesn't then it's not just this file and it's a bigger problem 🙂
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I got the same thing. I tried to create a new label legend (there were none in the drawing). I was able to start the process of creating the Label Legend, assigning fields to include, but I couldn't assign any containers. It failed when trying to set the legend layout. I noticed your container symbol folder was empty. Not sure what that means.
I grabbed a random fixture out of one of my light plots and copied it into your drawing. The lighting device pasted with all of the rectangles that you would see in the LLM set layout dialog.
That label legend came into the drawing and after that I was able to create new label legends.
After that the container folder had container symbols - even symbols that I didn't use in my label legend.
Seems like it just need a swift swat in the side of its head to reset it.
Artesian 3D Vectorworks Drawing 2023 Base Plot v2 v2024~.vwx
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Or maybe one of the container symbols is missing?
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Welcome to the forum.
I've not seen this before. I wonder if the missing symbol is a Label Legend?
Do you have any working Label Legends in the drawing?
If you need a solution right away you can post a file here with a bunch of lighting devices or send it to me in a PM and I'll take a look at it tonight.
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@MullinRJ I have no idea what VS quirks you might be talking about 😱. I'll keep an eye out for them.
@Sam Jones I just want to learn it better. The few small things I've tried have all worked. And there are more applications for it outside VW.
If I ever get time to do something outside of VW…
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3 hours ago, Jayme McColgan said:
@michaelk you can't do vs.RectangleN(-12",-12",0.03,0,24",24") in python... I would have to convert all those values to a string first and that defeats the purpose of all this... lol
I did not know that. What a bummer.
Learning this is just going to delay my inevitable switch to python 🙂
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If you specify units it will honor those units no matter what the documents units setting is.
So vs.RectangleN(-12",-12",0.03,0,24",24") will draw the expected rectangle even if the units are millimeters.
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When you reopen, is the Nav Palette set to sort by DL name or visibility rather than #?
Is there a filter active?
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We're happy to help.
If your surveyor is using Vectorworks, they can also export it straight to .dwg if that's what you need.
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Convert to DWG 2.zipIt's 2024.
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Pretty impressive job of sleuthing, Pat.
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If the text flag is odd, then the dimension is centered and above the line.
If the text flag is divisible by 2 - but not divisible by 4 - then the dimension is immediately to the left if negative and right if positive.
If the text flag is divisible by 4 then the dimension is offset by the text offset value to the left if negative and right if positive.
I don't see any way to make the text offset vertically.
worksheet question re: cabinets
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Interesting factoid about cabinet objects.
If the drawer door type is Shaker Frame then the frame is drawn at the Door/Drawer Thickness in the OIP, but the panel is 3/16". I don't see any way to change that.
So you could search for extrudes of the door/drawer then use =LENGTH, =DEPTH, =WIDTH.
=LENGTH will return the thickness of the door panel. The other two will be the dimensions of the panel.
If the door/drawer is one of the shakers the panel is only between the frame, no inset. The other dimensions are the frame or panel dimensions.