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  1. Olaf Pfeifer
    Awesome! Exactly what I was hoping for. Thanks a lot!
  2. Olaf Pfeifer
    Hi there, does anybody know a quick hack to apply color to b/w lines of bitmap images? I end up dragging b/w drawings from spec sheets etc. into drawings on a daily basis, usually just to check if something fits. It is great that the background of those bitmaps can be set to transparent! But as soon as there are multiple bitmap drawings on overlay, it becomes confusing. Usually, I go to photoshop then to replace the color black with another one in the original bitmap file, and re-import it. But since Vectorworks has image effects - could this step be done in Vectorworks? Unfortunately, it seems impossible to change the black part of a bitmap without loosing the whiteness of the background ... anyone?
  3. Olaf Pfeifer
    Hi all, is there a worksheet function to determine the (projected) area of a 3D solid ? For quick numeric evaluations of Urban Design Proposals, I would like to calculate the sum of all (floor-)areas of all 3D-objects with certain selection criteria. Unfortunately, not all 3D objects have a floor area, only extrusions – and extrusions won't show up with a fill in the plan view. 3D-Solid-Additions work best for me, but they don't have an area - is there a simple way to calculate the projected area of any kinds of objects inside a worksheet?
  4. Olaf Pfeifer
    We have been using a hosted OwnCloud Service for all our files, including all Vectorworks and CAD files, for almost four years, with very little to no problems. We use it to sync our three office macs plus 4 laptops / home workstations and it works seamlessly, and it saved our asses during corona times. There are some occurrences of failed synchronizations, usually due to two offline users accessing the same file simultaneously, but most of the time these are handled correctly (exclamation mark on the file, local copy renamed, necessity to decide which file to keep). We have also tested Vectorworks file sharing (2018) on the local office LAN, but sync times were a nightmare, so we didn't even dare trying to upload a project sharing file to own cloud. Does anyone know if own cloud integration is on the roadmap for Vectorworks Project Sharing? We would prefer this to VW Cloud Services because 20GB are obviously not enough for a complete production environment, and splitting CAD and other files would mean a hassle and double filing nightmares.
  5. Olaf Pfeifer
    Awesome! Thank You, that saves so much work when browsing through older file sets. Any way to include the File name?
  6. Olaf Pfeifer
    Update: There is a 'RESET' Node by DomC that also does the Trick of updating a Marionette Object after it's Parameters have been changed. He uses it with the "Set Marionette OIP field" node. I could see how the "RunScript" Worksheet function would be able to trigger that in theory, but I don't see how to prevent that from happening each time a worksheet is updated, which then in turn would trigger all the marionettes to update, which takes too long. I ended up NOT implementing it, mainly because parameters read from the record fields regardless of the variable type come in as Strings, sometimes even with units, and first have to be converted to numbers by means of complicated string operations ... too much for me.
  7. Olaf Pfeifer
    Hi, I just ran into that problem, too. @DomC Is there any news on the issue, or can you elaborate on the above workaround ? I'm afraid I don't understand how a new field would regenerate the popup ...
  8. Olaf Pfeifer
    yup, for a while ...
  9. Olaf Pfeifer
    Thank you for offering, Marissa! It looks like the "scale" operation (with a vector of (1;1) does the trick to reset (=update) my marionette objects and can be applied to them selected by criteria (other than "move", which won't work). If I only knew how to run such a marionette script from the worksheet ... can I ? Maybe even to a single database row handle?
  10. Olaf Pfeifer
    I would like my marionette object node to read parameters from a database record (instead of OIP input parameters). However, it will not update instantaneously when I change the database record via worksheet (database row) or 'data' tab of the OIP. What are my options to 'bump' it, besides moving it ?
  11. Olaf Pfeifer
    If a marionette object node reads parameters from a database record (instead of OIP input parameters), it will not update instantaneously when I change the database record via worksheet (database row) or 'data' tab of the OIP. What are my options to 'bump' it, besides moving it ?
  12. Olaf Pfeifer
    Let's say I create a parametric Door Symbol with Marionette, that has about a dozen parameters for the sash profile, most of which are typical to certain sash types. Then I would like to create a style "steel sash, shadow grove" that I can apply to fix the appropriate parameters. Is that possible?
  13. Olaf Pfeifer
    The Application Help says Plug-In-Styles can (only) be created for Objects that have support for Styles enabled by the Developer. (How) can I support Styles for my own Marionette Object's Parameters?
  14. Olaf Pfeifer
    I know this post is old, but seems VERY useful – I am another one looking for the symbol insert node ... could you repost your collection?
  15. Olaf Pfeifer
    Awesome! Thank you so much! It works !!
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