Mathieu Hefti

Any update or fix?

Dear Wes, I've implemented the workflow suggested in the documents you sent to me. It's quite powerful and it increased a lot the speed of file opening. I nevertheless experience a strange behavior of VW regarding the shared project's library: I've created a file named VWLibrary.vwx containing hatches, line types, wall styles, symbols, etc. and referenced its content in each model and production files. That way we should be able to manage all the project's ressources in a single file and insure that everyone is working with the same ressources. I nevertheless get a strange result of this general referencing across all files: every time I update a referenced file or open a file, the referencing of VWLibrary.vwx is "lost" and all ressources are referenced from another model file instead of the common library... I mean that when I pass the mouse over a symbol in the ressource browser, I get the message: Referenced in modelA.vwx instead of VWLibrary.vwx. I also experienced that, if I modify a symbol into VWLibrary.vwx, it doesn't update automatically in the other model files. Is there any possibility to update it automatically, like a shared library should do? (otherwise I get conflicts between shared and own library). Thanks for your answer.

Dear Wes, Thank you for these great tutorials! I don't know where they come from, but it should be integrated into basic VW help! Thank you again.

Dear Michael, Thank you for your answer. I saw this script once but were not able to get anything out of it. I missed the "Select an object with an attached record format" step before to run the script... Your comment solved my issue. I still hope to get an easier way to access the information in the future, but it's a great workaround meanwhile. Best regards.

Hi there, We are working on a quite huge project and need several files to be referenced all together to be able to work as "team work" (manual old-style Project Sharing...). The structure of our files is: AAA Building part A (employee alpha works on it) BBB Building part B (employee beta works on it) CCC Building part C (employee gamma works on it) GEN General building file (nobody working on it, just to match all together) All the Sheet layers are created in and managed from the GEN file. We have the same Classes definition in all the 4 files and we set the GEN file's viewports on AAA, BBB and CCC file to "Use current document's class visibilities". This configuration allows us to set each Sheet layer to have different class visibilities depending on what we want to print. The problem is with the Class override not working on Sheet layers. Let's say we have a "Concrete walls" class, with green pen and blue fill in all files. I would like to override this setting in only one Sheet layer of the GEN file. If I do so, it's not working. But if I set the class override in the Design layer viewport in the GEN file, it works, but all Sheet layers are affected, which is not the goal. How should I do to be able to set the graphic attributes of each Sheet layer separately without to affect the whole file? Any help would be quite welcome!

Hi, Worksheets are a very powerful tool to extract data from a drawing. The "Excel" layout of the tool is quite convenient, the helper to set database criteria also. It gets quite more complicated when you set up each column of your database, using functions, keywords and plugins' field references. Functions and keywords are quite well described in the VW help, but plugins field references are very hard to identify: I mean, when you want a column to display the Space custom name, you have to guess the field name to be 'Space'.'11_Space Name Cust'. I know it's possible to set up a worksheet with the Report tool menu (Tools->Reports->Create report...) and from there to select the fields through the UI, but a huge improvement of Worksheets would be a selector for these fields (it might be in the right mouse click menu, for instance) directly from the worksheet. It would make possible to edit the database columns, to add a new field for instance, without to create a new Report from scratch. If this option already exists, and I didn't find it, please teach me how to access it. Thanks.

Hi there, We enabled the Snap to Grid option to avoid floating coordinates in our drawings. The grid is set to snap on a 1x1cm based grid and we are quite satisfied of the increased precision we get. We nevertheless experience a strange behavior with Spaces while editing their path with the Reshape Tool: the origin of the snap grid is temporarily moved to the Space origin (x, y and z coordinates of the Space) during the operation. It means that, if we have floating values in the Space origin, we will snap the Space path to floating absolute coordinates. Is there any way to force the snap grid to stay on the absolute origin while editing a Space path? Thank you.