tomhaupt

AMEN! All the above. I have been a long time user of VW and it always has been a real pain to have to go to the menu to make any changes to dimension text. Lots of easy options from OIP for regular text but none for dim text. What is the diff? Text is text. Menu text options are great for setting the default file parameters but a real pain for subset requirements. Let's hope enough people read this and concur. Would be a very welcome improvement to daily use of VW.

Please ignore. Right after I sent this, I found the spot.

For the life of me, I can not find how I can change my computer equipment profile associated with my posts. Could someone please point the way.

Let me preface this with the fact that I am not a super user of VW; much to learn yet. I had not thought of trying the extract surfaces tool (if that's the one your meant), but I did try that. It does work well if the parts are a single extrusion of a rectangle. It does open the option to set the Z height, but for my parts that are produced with solid subtractions consisting of dados subtracted from the extrusion or solid, the extract tool requires me to select a lot more surfaces to achieve my desired part TOP view with the dados shown. It certainly does work but seems like leaving them as 3d parts and dropping them to the plane accomplishes my desired TOP view without having to do so much selection of surfaces. My little cabinet is a copy from another layer. I placed the copy on a different layer so I could ungroup it for the parts. If you have looked as my drawing, take a look at one of the inside faces of the cabinet sides that has several dados. It seems, using the 'extract' tool and having to select all the multiple surfaces becomes a chore in itself. But I realize I may be missing something or misunderstood your suggestion. I have yet to delve into writing many of my own scripts much but look forward to using those tools more.

I attach an example file. In the file you will see I have drawn a simple cabinet. In order to determine the best layout of the parts on standard 4x8 sheets of ply material, I wanted to ungroup my cabinet, flip the parts around so they all would lay flat to the layer plane, and drop them to the rectangles representing my ply sheets. Breaking the parts out and flipping them around is easily accomplished. What I would like is to have a command to simply drop my parts on to the designated surface (in this case the ply rectangles). Since I draw primarily in 3d now, all the parts are at different Z heights. A command to drop all parts to the layer plane or chosen plane would be a real time saver. In the past, I have had other projects where that would also be a useful feature. As you will note, many of my parts are 'solid subtractions' or some 'solids' option. Such objects do not allow for setting the Z height in the OIP. And yes, they could be either 2d or 3d but since I would do a printout in TOP view, in this case, it would not matter. My aim is simply to be able to create optimized ply cut sheets more simply. VW has a similar tool in the Terrain modeling environment for dropping symbols to the terrain. That would be a lovely feature to add for many other uses other than terrain modeling. Hope this helps explain what I'm asking for. I don't quite understand your meaning in the "You don't want to go the effort of making the start . . ." phrase. 1590966172_WalkInClosettoVWForum.vwx

I would like to see a command added that would drop 3d objects to any specified working plane (or the layer plane as well). For instance, after drawing a staircase in 3d, it would be so useful to be able to drop various components of the stairs onto a designated plane in order to prepare cut sheets and layout onto 4x8 ply sheets.

I have long wished for the ability to edit the 'text' size of dimensions from the OIP.

I know many requests have been made to add the ability to edit the recent files list before but I would like to add my own request. I love the new Home Screen but it makes it even more desirable to be able to delete some files that are not in my current working list. Any time I open a file for reference, it remains in my 'recent files' list and clutters up the Home Screen page. It would be so nice to have control over that list without resetting the whole preference file.

Thanks Matt. Perfect. Your short explanation would be a great addition to the VW Help site. Have a great day.

Hi Joseph: I have seen the document preferences you mention and per your attachment and VW help does address it some but it is a bit cryptic to me. Extracted from VW help: "For symbol definitions with detail levels defined for 3D components (see Customizing detail levels for 2D and 3D components of symbol definitions and plug-in objects), automatically displays the detail levels designated for the drawing scale. Define the scales at or below which the design layer will display the Low and Medium detail levels; the High detail level automatically displays for drawings with a scale set above the level defined for Medium." Is there a video on the channel addressing how to go about modifying the defaults shown as 2, 1? Or perhaps please give some examples as related to design layer scale.

RussU: (a few months later): I was having same problem on a file as the above folks. I checked your suggestion and it did the trick. I was stymied because I have other files that worked just perfect. As it turned out I had imported some symbols or objects from other files of vastly different scales and some of them ended up in 'outer space'. In addition to the striated lines, I had very poor OpenGL rendering. Losts of my object edges had wavy/scalloped edges. Your solutions solved both problems. Kind regards,

Duh . . . Figured it out by myself.

Thanks Pat. I was thinking it might have gone in as a built-in plug-in but I don't see it there either. I have no idea how or where to find what the actual internal name would be. Obviously there has got to be one because it works in the program. Thanks for the response though. One more request for info please: I think PIO stands for 'Programmed Input/Output', correct? Not sure what DMTBN means though?

I have used many DoMenuTextByName scripts in the past to automate menu command selection but am having no luck using it for Modify>Drafting Aids>Simplify Polys... Can not find any reference to 'Simplify Polys...' in any of the Appendices. Has anyone had any better luck with it?

Proper mapping of textures happens automatically on 3d views of roof objects. Is it possible to map the attributes of a tile fill (or hatch) on the top plan view of a roof object?