Urbanist

Curious! Of all disciplines I can think of, the geographic location of items seems to be least relevant to showbiz lighting and gear. I find it hard to believe that there are surveyors on site placing Super Troopers for Cats or Phantom of the Opera, but who knows, Sir Andrew is reported to be quite particular.

Excellent! I have lectured to dozens of VW users and prospective users about the dichotomy of implicit and explicit data and their uses in advanced CAD. The access and usefulness of explicit data is nowadays VW quiite good (close to geographic information systems) and implicit data can be efficiently reported. So far so good, Some of the more than few missing tagging capabilities are a/y/z -location. A few of years ago I wasted several days scripting a PIO to a prospective new user (a surveyor) just to show the x/y -locations of points measured on site. The funny coordinate system and strange non-geographic angles did not help! The PIO worked, but the surveyor disappeared as he obviously wanted a simple, built-in and free> mechanism.

Please tell me that this can already be done, but if not it should be immediately implemented Due to retirement I'm a few releases behind in doing actual work with VW and can't just now bothered to find my dongle, launch VW 2017 and check. I'm somewhat a database person myself, have created and used databases in my work since the early 1980's (starting with dBase II on CP/M) and have created quite complex applications and business systems with FileMaker Pro. in VW, I have encouraged the use of the database functionality to users when training, but the user interface would certainly win a prize in the category of most awkward and user-unfriendly UIs. When I show the dialog "Link text to record" serious trainees leave the room and the humorous ones ask "Do I insert a CD now?" At the moment I have a prospective new user possibly in need of training, a colleague of an existing training & custom development client of mine, and also a young friend who may start her own domestic interior design business. I would dearly like to persuade her to overspend (in comparison to Ketchup or whatever they call it), but she would faint if I showed how to tag furniture items etc. in a useful way with the VW I know. I've known it for quite a while: if my memory serves me right, I originally bought MiniCAD 3.15 on a 3.5" diskette in 1987 or thereabouts.

Works generally well enough in my lines of work and workflow. There is one improvement I have in mind, though. When in symbol 2D editing mode linework incl. arcs, polys & text should by default use screen plane.

Details are such a key issue (liabilitywise also depending on jurisdiction) that only a fool would rely on ones by someone else. In simple repeating drafting jobs (e.g. U.S. houses) perhaps, but not in architecture or related professions.

Neither Diehl Graphsoft or Nemetsheck by any name has never had any serious interest in nurturing or supporting 3rd party developers. Well, actually, in ancient times when DG's support forum was on CompuServe, even Rich Diehl himself occasionally helped aspiring developers and the then MiniPascal macros were open code for anyone to learn from. Then everything changed.

It would be very beneficial if the Dev team had at least some members who have been practising designers of the relevant discipline.

Site model should generate a legend of slope analysis.

You could try the free plug-in Double polygon, a part of this set: http://www.vectordepot.com/downloads/Doubles.zip

Does not seem to work here. I guess I could write such a script myself, but I'd rather not. Cheers, Urbanist

This is a known issue, but in most cases getting the tangent at, say, 1 mm from the end point gives an acceptable result; with truly funny shapes a smaller value may be needed.