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    Text value from Text Object

    in Workflows

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    On 8/22/2020 at 12:03 PM, Pat Stanford said:

    I responded to the wrong thread. Sorry about that. 

     

    How about to make it up I answer your question also? 😉 Or at least the easy part.

     

    The following script will return the text of a text block to a worksheet cell. It is designed to work in a database and will return the value of the text block for each subrow.

     

    Copy the script below and create a new Vectorscript in your file. I named the script 'Text to Ws' In the column where you want the text, enter a formula of =RunScript('Text to WS'). Click the Always Allow button when asked it you want to run scripts.

     

    The values in the worksheet will be updates when you recalculate the worksheet, not when you change the data in the text block on the drawing.

      

    Procedure TextToWS;
{August 22, 2020}
{©2020 Patrick Stanford pat@coviana.com}
{Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License}

{No Warranty Expressed of Implied. Use at your own risk.}

{Returns the value of a text block to a worksheet cell.}
{Run usinging a cell formula of =RunScript('TextToWS') or}
whatever neame you save the script as in if the script}
{is stored in the local file.}
{Edit the _SetResStr line in the Else statement if you }
{want something other than a dash for objects that are}
{not text blocks.}
{If the text block has manually entere line breaks/returns}
{you will only see part of the data depending on the height}
{of the row. Increase the row height to see all the text.}

Var	H1:Handle;

Begin
	H1:=WSScript_Getobject;
	If GetTypeN(H1)=10 then
		Begin
			WSScript_SetResStr(GetText(H1));
		End
	Else
		Begin
			WSScript_SetResStr('-');
		End;
End;

Run(TextToWS);

     

     

    Took me a while to get to this and implement it, but this works really well - I'm using it to scrape non-keynote text from drawing sheets to coordinate spex - thanks -

    Working with Bluebeam

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Chad Hamilton HAArchs

    On 4/29/2021 at 9:42 AM, rDesign said:

    According to this Architosh article about Nemetschek Group’s 2020 Annual Report, Bluebeam will “begin its conversion to a cloud and data-centric offering (SaaS) in the second half of 2021”.

    Got this info from Bluebeam support -

     

    "We are working on our journey to cloud-based delivery solutions with Project Rover and Atlas, which are internal names. Our first cloud-based, mobile-first offerings are new capabilities for the following:
    1. Workflow & Collaboration, purpose-built for Punch, RFI and Submittal Management.

    2. Geo-locational insights for field workers and project managers.
    We are working towards an initial release sometime in mid-H1 2021 and will continue to roll-out new platform capabilities and additional products and solutions over the coming quarters."

     

    In other words, they are working to compete with Autodesk's field work programs, and not working on a cloud based mark up and collaboration program to replace the desktop based version that worked on the Mac - so nothing on the horizon.

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    Working with Bluebeam

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    5 hours ago, jeff prince said:

    I wonder if Bluebeam ever did anything with their Project Atlas acquisition.  That software had so much interesting potential for navigating a site and its information.

    If you go to https://atlas.bluebeam.com/, you can sign up for a beta account - looks a little premature right now, but it is a live website, and you can sign up and noodle around -

    Working with Bluebeam

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    11 minutes ago, rDesign said:

    According to this Architosh article about Nemetschek Group’s 2020 Annual Report, Bluebeam will “begin its conversion to a cloud and data-centric offering (SaaS) in the second half of 2021”.

    Thanks for that info - this would be very helpful!

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    Working with Bluebeam

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    57 minutes ago, michaelk said:

    @Chad Hamilton HAarchs I'm able to still run the old version on my Mac running 10.15.5.  The download link isn't easy to find, but I think you can still download it here.

    True, but if you need more licenses because your office has adopted the workflow, you cannot buy them.  I'm still running version 2.1 on 10.15.7, and it's getting less stable.

     

    I just think it's slightly humorous that they put a product on their website that they don't support.

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    Working with Bluebeam

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Chad Hamilton HAarchs

    In this image from the Bluebeam (a Nemetchek company) website, the "architect" is clearly using a Mac - three Macs, in fact - but Bluebeam dropped support for the Mac platform a couple of years ago and no longer sells a product for Mac users.  Questions about a future product that Macs could use go unanswered.

     

    False advertising?  

     

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    Stair tool - top tread dashed in plan

    in Architecture

    Posted · Edited by Chad Hamilton HAarchs

    1 minute ago, jeff prince said:

    @Chad Hamilton HAarchs Looks like the 2021 stair is not compatible with 2020 😞  I was able to open the file, but due to changes in the stair tool, I can't edit it or investigate what settings are creating the problem.  Hopefully someone with 2021 will help you out.

    Thanks so much anyway - much appreciated!

     

    Stair tool - top tread dashed in plan

    in Architecture

    Posted

    One difference with the stair example you sent - I have 'Show top tread' checked - your example has it un-checked, at least when I opened it in 2021.  When I un-check show top tread in mine, the dash goes away - I'm just trying to include that band in my model, for BIM consistency.

    Stair tool - top tread dashed in plan

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Thanks - good idea, but doesn't have any effect - the original view was set to 'Plain - no break' - I reset to 'below break only' (actually I tried all the settings) - no change.  I also toggled the 'Show outlines at break', which I originally had checked, also to no effect.

     

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    Vectorworks User Interface Overhaul

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted

    FWW - I like having OIP, Nav and tool palettes on all on the same side, so I don't spend time mousing back and forth across the screen - then I keep the Resource browser and a Keynote editor palette hovering near the title bar, so I can open them quickly be hovering the cursor over them, and they automatically close when I scroll away.  Won't work for everyone, but I find this very efficient.

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    Text object listed in spreadsheet

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    8 hours ago, Pat Stanford said:

    I posted a worksheet script a while ago that pulls the text out of a text object.

     

     

    Thanks - I will explore this approach - here's what I worked out yesterday - crude, but works - I blocked out a marionette sequence that grabs text on any sheet (intended to grab notes from non-keynoted sheets), writes them to records, then use a worksheet to gather and report the results.  You can see from the worksheet that the intent is QA on notes written by multiple people, plus helping to coordinate spec writing.  I added a detail sheet from a set as well - 20050_A7.6 Roof Details.vwx

    210216 Get All Text from Sheet.vwx

    Why do you not draw in 1:1

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    FWW - I try to draw everything in a design layer while viewing the title block and detail module - even if the drawing will eventually be viewed on a Sheet Layer - this lets me format the drawing to the paper space it will be formatted on.  I've always thought the ability to draw this way was a strength of vectorworks.

    Text object listed in spreadsheet

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On 2/29/2016 at 6:17 AM, Marissa Farrell said:

    Marionette might be able to help you with this.

    I'm attaching a simple file with some text objects and a Marionette script.

    This script will traverse through all text objects and insert their values into Column A. This script can be modified to better suit your needs.

    If you're interested in trying this method, and want to give me more information as to what else you need accomplished (i.e. appending to an existing worksheet, adding more information, only adding strings that are numeric, etc.) I'd be more than happy to help.

    This script is not longer in the post - do you still have it?  I'd like to look at it for a project -

    Access to finishes field from worksheet

    in Architecture

    Posted · Edited by Chad Hamilton HAarchs

    You are right, you don't understand my question.  This is not a question about two way editing.  But the "Finishes Schedule" above is listing data from the Finish Key field, I think, and that's what I'm after.

     

    Look in the finishes field in your schedule - the wall finish reads "[W-1]    TBA".  You don't show the W-1 finish on your finish legend, but if you did, you would see in the key field "W-1" - no brackets.  The finishes field in your "Finishes Schedule" does not have the brackets.   The sample Finish schedule VW provides in the resource browser fakes this - if you expand their finishes column, you'll see that the data is a concatenation of data from the finishes editor - it adds the key and the description of the finish into the finish record field in the space database, and reports it in the finish schedule.  They hide the finish description by narrowing the column width, but the brackets still show up.

     

    If you would upload the second worksheet called "Finishes Schedule", I would like to look at the header definitions.

    Access to finishes field from worksheet

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Does anyone know how to access the Key field from the Finishes database?  For example, [CT-1] would be the key with the description Ceramic Tile, 4" x 4", etc.  In VW we enter finishes by editing a database and entering these values, but in a finish schedule report, we only have access to a concatenation of Key and Description (which would be Floor Finishes Edit, or Space.Finish Floor and read as "[CT-1]     Ceramic Tile, 4" x 4", etc." in the finish schedule), or alternatively the finish description only (which would be Static Floor Finishes, or Space.Floor Finish and read as "Ceramic Tile, 4" x 4", etc." in the finish schedule).  Ideally, we would want to use the Key field in a finish schedule, not a length description.

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