[Worksheet Criteria Help Needed.]

Perfect @Pat Stanford. Yea, classes selected are not important until I get the count correct, and I have that good now. This info will be helpful now that I am doing the cabinet construction. I'm cutting parts today.

 

[Worksheet Criteria Help Needed.]

48 minutes ago, Pat Stanford said:

Rearrange the criteria so the ALL comes first and then the ANY is a subset inside the all.

Good. That is working. Thanks @Pat Stanford

Now I want to add some of the other cabinet parts to the worksheet list. I tried this, but no luck.

[Worksheet Criteria Help Needed.]

I want my worksheet to show all the cabinet backs in the East Wall Uppers, North Wall Uppers, and West Wall Uppers layers. The real count is 8, the worksheet counts 1937!  I have yet to find the correct way to setup the criteria. I need help!

[Make every search field a filter.]

33 minutes ago, Andy Broomell said:

To clarify what I think Bruce is saying:

 

In this particular Viewport Class Properties pop-up, you must hit enter before any search results are shown, whereas in other places search boxes automatically begin showing the results as you type. There doesn't seem to be a clear reason for this inconsistency. This has been commented on several times since list search was implemented years ago, so I think it's about time to implement Bruce's suggestion - it's a good one!

 

(Correct me if I'm wrong, Bruce, but you're not talking about the "Filters" dropdown at all, right? Just the immediate feedback of Searching...)

@Andy BroomellExactly! It may be called Dynamic Filtering, but I have always called it filtering. I have used it on my web pages.

[Make every search field a filter.]

Some search boxes are filters. Those are great. Others like this are not, that is bad. As I type the list should show less results (filter).

[Automatic View Annotations?]

27 minutes ago, markdd said:

I needed to do this once before and created a data tag to read the Object Name of the Viewport. The Name field is filled in with the View when viewports are created using the Create Multiple Viewport Command.

 

That's the only solution I found.....

I don't think that method is automatic. I would need to enter the name as the view, say "Front View". Problem there is if the VP's view is change to say Top, then the name has to be changed to Top View. I ask last night here about a Data Tag formula to do this. I can't find one. I thought about your method this morning, but realized it was no better than my just using a text block.

 

I have to think there's a simple way to do this. Hard to imagine that an annotation as important as stating the view is not automated.

[Automatic View Annotations?]

Is there a tool that can "grab" and place the view orientation as a VP annotation? A tool that could place the text Front View and Top View like I manually typed for these VPs.

 

[Is there a Data Tag formula to display the view that is shown?]

If there is, I can't find it.

[Add hyphen to inch and fraction dimensions.]

I think they would leave the feet & inches as is and add the hyphen only to the units when set to inches, but as an option would be WAY better than how it is now.

[Data Tag Flip Text Option?]

12 minutes ago, Pat Stanford said:

Attaching the record and then using Data Tags allows you to get the information from the object and only put the tags where you want them instead of loading up with lots of classes so you can hide unwanted tags.

I see what you did there, and I see benefits. I need to examine that further. Thanks for your help @Pat Stanford

[Data Tag Flip Text Option?]

Looks like you make the symbol, flip it, then attach the tags to each symbol. My symbol is a door with 5 components. I attach the tags to each component inside the symbol, then mirror the symbol. That's why my tags flip. I now understand what you are doing, but I don't think that will work for me. 

[Data Tag Flip Text Option?]

@Pat Stanford Thanks. What makes the text flip? I looked everywhere in the setup and I can't figure it out.

[Pease add vertical aligned text for dimensions.]

Just made the comment in the request form. Thanks @MarcelP102

[Add hyphen to inch and fraction dimensions.]

Let me elaborate... I noticed today that when the dimensions are set to feet and inches there is a hyphen between the feet and the inches. I do woodworking, we work in inches and fractions. I also remembered the fraction settings in the dimensions settings. I could place the numerator over the denominator with those settings. I never used that back in the day when I did my woodworking magazine technical drawings because the printers could not figure out how to display the fractions that way. Today my eyes are old so I need the fonts larger.

 

 

[Pease add vertical aligned text for dimensions.]

@line-weight I still don't see the vertical option. Here are two horizontal set dimensions. I ungrouped the top one so I could rotate the text to vertical so you could see what I would like as an option for a dimension. Problem with that is it is no longer a dimension.

 

[Give us curved leaders on callouts.]

Hi @mike m oz Thanks. Somehow this post got duplicated last night. I know I edited the post within a minute of posting. This was the first version. And again thanks, others made the same suggestion on the second post.

[Give us a curved leaders option with callouts.]

9 hours ago, rDesign said:

Do the existing Arc or Bezier options for Callouts not work for your needs? Under Leader options -> Leader Type

@rDesignThey do! Thanks. It does seem odd that those options are somewhat hidden inside the dialog box. I would think a better place for them might be in the Mode options bar of the tool.

[Give us a curved leaders option with callouts.]

This is how I always placed my callouts in the technical drawings I did for the woodworking magazines. I think it looks nicer than the two line leader in Vectorworks.

[Give us curved leaders on callouts.]

This is how I always placed my callouts in the technical drawings I did for the woodworking magazines. I think it looks nicer than the two line leader in Vectorworks.

[Add hyphen to inch and fraction dimensions.]

I know I've ask for this before. I still want it BADLY! This could be read as 21/23. Add the hyphen please so it looks like this 2-1/32.

[Pease add vertical aligned text for dimensions.]

I've had many occasions when being able to align dimension text vertically would be helpful. Here's one:

[Data Tag Flip Text Option?]

8 hours ago, Pat Stanford said:

I don't think the classes thing will work if you need to show them both at the same time.  You would need to have four classes.  Right-Correct Text, Right-Flipped Text, Left-Correct Text, Left-Flipped text.  And then I can then of cases where even that would not be enough. Like if you have doors on the front and back of cabinets.

 

I will try to give you more about data tags tomorrow.  

 

You know how to make a record and attach it don't you? If so, tell me the record and field name so I can use them in the data tag

 

Good point about my classes idea.

 

I do know how to make and attach records. I would use Tag Text as the record name, and Flipped as the field name.

[Data Tag Flip Text Option?]

1 hour ago, Pat Stanford said:

Best work around I can think of is to remove the text from the symbol. Put the identifier in a Record.Field and the use a Data Tag to tag the objects.

@Pat Stanford Can you give me more info how this is done? 

 

I had a thought of another workaround. Apply the Data Tag to both sides of the object in the symbol, then create two classes, one for Data Tags, one for Flipped Data Tags. I have not tried this yet.

[Data Tag Flip Text Option?]

Is there an option to flip the text for Data Tags? Here the Tag is applied to the a Door symbol while viewed as left doors. The right doors are flipped versions of the Door symbol.

 

[Data Tag If/Then formula?]

@Tom W. That's cool. I have it working.