Steve Cox

Jason, thanks for that. I tried your script, and after a lot of tweaking came up with this one. PROCEDURE Rotate3; BEGIN Beginxtrd(0,6); {draw shape} Rect(0,0,2,1); EndXtrd; Duplicate(6,0); Rotate3d(-90,0,0); Duplicate(6,0); Rotate3d(0,0,90); END; RUN(Rotate3); This seems to always rotate the first shape, but duplicates the duplicate, so I think I am not selecting the right object to rotate. When I work out how to do that I may have got it sorted. Then I tried this, to duplicate and rotate the selected object in the drawing. PROCEDURE Rotate4; BEGIN Duplicate(6,0); Rotate3d(-90,0,0); Duplicate(6,0); Rotate3d(0,0,90); END; RUN(Rotate4); This doesn't rotate any shape, but duplicates the original OK All I was trying to do was generate 3rd angle views of an object in my drawing. Perhaps as a non-programmer I should have stuck to the simple method. :-) Steve

Thanks Jason, I tried removing the 'd's , now using Duplicate (0,120); Rotate3D (-90,0,0); but it's made no difference.

I'm new to scripting so this may be a dumb question. I can't get the Rotate3D command to do anything. This is my script: Duplicate (0,120); Rotate3D (-90d,0d,0d); the Duplicate command works OK, but neither object rotates. Any ideas? thanks Steve

This has to be one of the best kept secrets of VW9. It's not even mentioned in the user guide

that worked for me, thanks everyone

Sometimes (usually 10 minutes before a print deadline) an "export image file-jpg" will result in an image that looks like the horizontal hold on a TV screen has failed. I'm exporting an image 2400 wide at 300dpi. Anyone else experienced this? Using VW9.5.1 with 128M RAM, under Mac OS8.6