Paolo

Give a try with "Moulding plugins", a set of tools I developed sometime ago for the Vectordepot Market (now shut off). Start here: https://fitplot.it/vwplugins/mouldings.html The tools are all updated for Vectorworks 2018. I have decided to share these plugins free of charge, but if you find it useful in your work, well, a little PayPal contribution is welcome.

I am proud to announce that some of my plugins and scripts (previously hosted on Vectordepot) are made available for download here: https://fitplot.it/vwplugins/ These are a few items developed by me (Paolo Marcuccetti) in the past years, updated and working with VW2018. I give these softwares free for download and usage, not for distribution. If you find these softwares useful in your work, please consider a little paypal donation. You'll find instructions on site. Contributions will be used to keep the site updated, to bring in new contents and to give any technical assistance. Paolo Marcuccetti

The above mentioned FitPlot site has changed to www.fitplot.it The application is available (Mac only) through the Mac Apple Store ($18.99), last update (4.8) has been released 2013 november

The OSx printing system it's hard to override, Apple takes care of its own user interfaces. For a quick print, Benson's way is the more straight. If your work is organized in (many) sheet layers and not just one design layer, you may find useful to print to PDF, then use a simple app like this: http://digilander.libero.it/kiaradot/fitplot here you can easily compose all your sheets in the plotter layout (packing tool). You can print also a portion of the PDF (if you have a small printer) or get a "mosaic" of the whole drawing (with overlaps). It's also easy to resize (rescale) the PDF for different scale needs.

Thank you, Peter, for your precious suggestion. However I agree with DWorks, a section fill (or even line) property (properties) in the class setup dialog would be the more "natural" place to set this.

I have tried, but even in VW2011 this still misses. In Viewport section, advanced properties, tab attributes, my best options to achieve what I want are: separated transversal sections radio button on then you have to choose between 1. using object class attributes 2. choose from the classes in the popup (Section Style is proposed) The 1 uses the same class that in plan view (not right!) the 2 uses one class for all (not right too!) If there is a way, please post it...

It would be a good thing to have a "section fill" class attribute. Currently, in section view, we have two fill choices: 1. Using section class (one class for different elements) 2. Using element class (each element has its inherited fill class) Fills/hatches in section may differ from fills / hatches in plan views, usually you should have different diagonal hatches, exclusive for each class/material. Since options 1 and 2 does not this completely, I have to make this final step by hand, so it would be appreciated to see this feature implemented in a future release...

There is some new on this subject here: Mouldings plugins on Vectordepot Seems promising...

Thank for your answer, Raymond, Ok to scale the line from midpoint, but the problem is elsewhere. LineLineIntersection is good for polygons, not for polyline with curved strokes, as far as I know, Split2DObjectByLine is the natural way, but it sometimes fails ( read here in the VectorScript Function Reference, annotated version) . Paolo

I need to get the first intersection point (if any) of a polyline with a given line (extended if needed) via VectorScript. I have tried to use the Split2DObjectByLine procedure, but it seems not reliable. Here's the script. To test it, draw a polyline, then a line, run the script and select first the poly then the line. A point should be placed at their intersection. Not always it works. Sometimes it even crashes VectorWorks : procedure lineToPoly; VAR polyHandle: handle; lineHandle: handle; punto :Point; function intersectionLinePoly(lineH, polyH: Handle): Point; VAR tmpPolyH, tmpLineH : handle; begPt : point; endPt: point; resultHandle, temp_h: handle; BEGIN {faccio copia della linea} tmpPolyH := CreateDuplicateObject(polyH, NIL); tmpLineH := CreateDuplicateObject(lineH, NIL); GetSegPt1(tmpLineH, begPt.x, begPt.y); HScale2D(tmpLineH, begPt.x, begPt.y, 10,10,false); GetSegPt2(tmpLineH, endPt.x, endPt.y); Split2DObjectByLine(tmpPolyH, begPt.x, begPt.y, endPt.x, endPt.y, resultHandle); IF resultHandle <> NIL THEN BEGIN GetPolyPt(resultHandle, getVertNum(resultHandle), intersectionLinePoly.x, intersectionLinePoly.y); END; delObject(tmpLineH); delObject(tmpPolyH); END; begin GetPt(punto.x, punto.y); polyHandle:= PickObject(punto.x, punto.y); GetPt(punto.x, punto.y); lineHandle:= PickObject(punto.x, punto.y); punto := intersectionLinePoly(lineHandle, polyHandle); if not ((punto.x = 0) and (punto.y = 0)) then locus(punto.x, punto.y); end; run(lineToPoly); Is there a more reliable way to get this? Thank you in advance for your help.

Try this: http://www.vectordepot.com/market/vm-034_adobe_illustrator_im.html

Can I invert a NURBS curve direction with VectorScript? With polys it is easy, with a "downto for cycle" through all components points, you can get another poly assigning point in the inverted order, but with NURBS? Thank you for your help. Paolo

I have the same Designjet HP 500PS and the same problem that I solved. To get exact A0, A1, A2, A3 I have create my custom equivalent formats including the margins that are (for the HP 500PS) 1.7 cm (top and bottom) and 0.5 cm (left and right). For example A3 Horizontal trimmed is 42x29.7 cm, including margins is 43x33.1 cm. Doing this way it works. Another way is to print to PDF and using a simple layout program like this (Mac only): http://digilander.libero.it/kiaradot/fitplot/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/fitPlot%20help/index.htm The advantage is that you may print more drawing at once optimizing paper waste and having the margins under control.

Your suggestion has been the key! Thank you! Here's a procedure to increase all the extruded object in a selection of a user given value: [font:Courier New]procedure increaseExtr; {the goal is to increase extruded objects in the selection of a user requested value} var oggetto:HANDLE; increaseValue : REAL; FUNCTION increase(h:HANDLE):BOOLEAN; var height,width,depth:REAL; xRot, yRot, zRot:REAL; p0X, p0Y, p0Z: REAL; p1X, p1Y, p1Z: REAL; result, isMirroredXY: BOOLEAN; begin {check if the obj is an extrusion} if (GetType(h) = 24) then BEGIN result := Get3DOrientation(h, xRot, yRot, zRot, isMirroredXY); Get3DCntr(h, p0X, p0Y, p0Z); SetRot3D(h, 0,0,0 , 0,0,0); {here depth = extrusion value} Get3DInfo(h, height,width,depth); {I increase the depth} Set3DInfo(h, height,width,depth+increaseValue); Set3DRot(h, xRot, yRot, zRot , 0,0,0); Get3DCntr(h, p1X, p1Y, p1Z); {move of the misplacement p0-p1} Move3DObj(h, p0X-p1X, p0Y-p1Y, p0Z-p1Z); Get3DCntr(h, p1X, p1Y, p1Z); END; increase := FALSE; end; begin {ask the value to increase} increaseValue := RealDialog('Increase extrusions in the selection of this value','10'); {apply to the selected set of objects} ForEachObjectInList(increase, 2, 0, oggetto); end; run(increaseExtr);[/font]

Hi all, Is it possible to get the extrusion value of an extruded object in VectorScript? I have checked the VectorScript Reference but found nothing appropriate. Thanks for your help!