halfcoupler

YES, YES, YES ! I think there is a difference whether "preserve folder history" is activated or not, if it is not the last symbol keeps activated as replace symbol. But anyway it safes lots of time if the last replaced symbol or at least the last symbol folder is always still the active one. One more wish: How about the last symbol that was dragged from the resource browser is the active replace symbol? I very often copy symbols that have the right orientation and replace them with a new symbol that has a corresponding insert point. This is quicker than move a new symbol to the right orientation. One more question: After inserting a symbol, the dialog window openes and asks about keeping folder hirarchy. Once the option "dont show this dialog when drag and drop importing" is chosen to yes, this window will never again appear. Does anyone know how to reactivate it ?

Hi Jim, Vectorworks is a great program. It's clear that patches take time and can't be released the day after the problem occurs. What's annoying is that service select users feel misused as beta-testers, trying to run a programme that is announced as "ready to work", loosing lots of time with crashes and testing. If VW 2016 were released as "test it out, but we will call it a stable version a few months later" everyone had known what to expect and no one would be disappointed. So as always, its mainly a matter of communication. Meanwhile I have set the GDI handles to 100,000 or so, which results in a halfway stable version, but the delay when changing layers or classes is still there. So I'll be patient and wait for SP2.

One More Suggestion: Check wether the layers have the same scale, this causes selection problems as well.

I had a similar behaviour last days until I noticed that I had opened an extrude and was still working within that extrude-definition. So if this behaviour occours check the following: - maybe you did simply set the class of your symbol to invisible - maybe you did set a class invisible the affects parts within your symbol - maybe you are not working on a design layer but within a symbol definition, an extude or a solid addition/substraction or similar. Hope this hepls.

ok, so at least I have dreamed the impossible dream ... ;-)

Hi again and thanks for reply :-) What I intended to do is the following: Im using the "move by Points" tool a lot, and it is a bit annoying to swich between the "retain" and "No retain" option. ( It's always 3 clicks). So I thought two scripts for that would be fine, one that sets the move by point tool with "Retain" activated and one that does not... I've tried the scripts in VW 2015 too with the same result: The script works properly, but the preferances of the tool will not be changed, VW always keeps the last settings of the document. It seems to be no issue of VW2016. Maybe what I'm trying does not work at all... I've read a bit about the "PushAttrs" command, it seems that this command is responsible for the tool preferances, but there seems to be no Attributes list for the "MoveByPoints" command. But maybe I'm totally wrong...

Hi @ all , using the tool "Custom tool/Attribute" safes the current tool and attributes to a script. I tried to safe a setting including the "move by points tool" which workes fine, but it does not safe the preferances of this tool, for example number of copies, Retain etc. The generated script is as follows: Procedure CustTool; VAR Name:STRING; Result:BOOLEAN; BEGIN PushAttrs; CallTool(-352); PopAttrs; END; Run(CustTool); Is there a possibility to add parameters to the CallTool (-352) command, which safes the preferances of the tool ? Or is there no way at all to safe the preferances of tools ? Thanks for all suggestions :-)

Thanks for your reply. I already feared that there is no easyer way, although I think this should be standard to the database that is beyond the record formats. Up to now I haven't worked with scripting in VW at all, and my knowledge of python is reduced to "hello world". Maybe this will be a first script to start with... Salutations de l'autre côté de la frontière ;-)

Does anyone know whether it is possible to have something like "default date = now" in a textfield ? I want to have the printdate automatcally updated on a sheet layer when printed or published.

Good news: - an update of the nvidia driver made things a litte bit better - the new SP1 did the rest. Everything seems to work properly now.

Hello @ all, I have the same 'slowness problem' here. VW 2016 works fine as long as I don't use too many layers and too many objects. I have a file here that has 25 layers and about 250 objects, mostly Symbols. File size is 42MB. Switching visiblity from an empty layer to all layers takes 2(!) minutes (in wireframe mode, no rendering). I have testet it with imported 2015 files as well as new build 2016 files,- same effect. This seems not to be an importing problem. I even converted the sticky files back to 2015 format and they run properly in VW 2015. VW 2016 is definitely unusable in this way. I reverted back to VW 2015 and hope that a quick SP will fix it.... .