Nikolay Zhelyazkov

Yes, When you create a new Issue, it will get the last Revision Number as its Current Revision Number. This is what gets displayed in the Project Revision History worksheet.

Hello @DaleW, In the Project Revision History is displayed the Current Revision Number of each Issue of the TBBs. If you want to see a detailed report about the Revision Data, you could try the Sheet Revision Log report. Let me know if you need any help or have any other questions. 🙂 Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

- This is a regular expression formula. For worksheets it means 0 or more characters. For example A* means any string starting with A, *A means any string ending with A and *A* means any string that has A somewhere in it. - Not sure what are you trying to do this way. However, I suppose you could get the cell value and concat it with * in both ends so that you end up with this formula. If this is not what you are trying to do, could you send me test file or image of what is the desired behavior?

- I just want to mention that this is no longer needed in VW2020, as there is a Display property of the Project/Sheet Data fields that could be used instead. 🙂

Hello @Pat Stanford, - The dublication of data is special case for Revision Data. It is caused by the old way revision data was stored - in the Title Block Revision Data record with concatenations with '\b' in between and the new way of using separate record for each revision for simpler extraction of revision data in worksheets. This "automagical" functionality is handled from the TBB, so it cannot be achieved by simply adding dashes to custom record names. - if you add the blank symbol '\b' in the end of the desired Revision Number, like "Rev C'\b'", you will only get revision numbers ending with C. In regular expression words Revision Number = *C. So, depending on your numbering system, it should not be that problematic to get the desired unique results. Just to clarify, this workflow that we are discussing now is simply a side effect caused by the old and new way revisions are working, it is not designed for this purpose. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

Hello @Amorphous - Julian, You could use the formula: =IF(('Title Block Revision Data'.'Number'='*A*'), 'Y', 'N') Check the syntax to be sure there is no error on my side as I tested this with =DATABASE(INSYMBOL & INVIEWPORT & ('Title Block Revision Data'.'Number'='*A*')) Also, this will get any revision number that has A in it, such as A1, AA, etc. To narrow down the results you could add one '\b' (blank) symbol as a suffix of the Number value, that way you will get only Revision Numbers ending with A. I have not added the blanks here because the web edditor is omitting them... Let me know if you need further help. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

- Yes, it is new to VW2020.

The only way to get a Sheet Size Name is to have it in the xml file. It is located in <VWFolder>\Plug-ins\Common\Data.

Hello @grant_PD, You are right, there is an xml file with the standard VW units used in the TBB, but it is not recommended to edit it - "DwgSizes-Universal.xml". The result you are getting is because if a Sheet Size is not found in these standard sizes, it is displayed with its dimensions in document units(width / height). If you switch to inches as document units you will get a Sheet Size Name "13 / 19". Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

@Boh, Yes, this is the correct behavior of by instance parameters. When creating new object with style, it gets its values from the style, if they are set to by style, otherwise it gets the default parameters set in the preferences. About the DataTagField, simply put =DataTagField('<TextObjectValueFromTheLayoutHere>') in a database row and you should get the value of the formula of this text from the data tag. Note that the text value of the field is case sensitive, so you have to put the exact value. Example file attached. DataTagField example.vwx

Hello @Boh, 1) Yes, if the other object meets the requirements to be tagged with the Data Tag tool you should be able to duplicate an existing Data Tag and dag the object using the control point. 2) It depends on the Data Tag's formula. If the record format is not the main formula, for example you have IFC or PIO formula too, then the record will be attached. 3) I do not think that this is possible for now. You could try making a worksheet with the Data Tags and filtering them by their style. 4) Could you send a test file showing this issue? I was not able to reproduce it with simple tests. 5) Again, there is no way to extract information for Data Tags from their tagged objects. However, if your worksheet is for Data Tags, you could use the DataTagField formula, which should get the job done for you. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

Hello @Steve Nield, You could use the Data Tag, edit its layout and insert text objects with the General Functions for Sheet Name(Title) and Sheet Number. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

Hello @Steve Nield, Do you have Title Block Border in your sheets? If so, you could use Tools->Reports->Create Report, then select predefined report and select Drawing List. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

Hello @Boh, As far as I know I do not think that this is possible at the moment. You could change the class to which the new object will be assigned by changing the active class, but I suppose this is not what you are looking for. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

You could try using the TBManager and the multiple pages worksheets. If a worksheet is multi page it will collect information from all TBBs in the TBManager selection, including external files.

Hello @Ccrouch, Could you make a screen recording showing the issue? Thanks, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

Hello @livespace josha, You could make the Data Tag use the formula <your record>.<Zone> -> <data tag attached record>.<Zone> and that way automatically transfer the Zone Value to the record attached to the Data Tag. Below is attached an example how to achive this. Data Tag Data Viz Demo.vwx Let me know if you need any further help. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

They should be in your VW user folder in the 2020 folder. You could find this from Vectorworks Preferences->User Folders->Reveal in finder.

Hello @Amorphous - Julian, I tried following your steps from the video and was not able to reproduce the crash. Do you happen to have a crash log from it? Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

- yes

Hello all, This is currently possible by making custom text link formulas. Simply, in the TB layout, select the text that you want to display this, select Link Value for Data Type, Custom for Parameter and Add Config... for Config. Then you will be introduced to the Edit Custom Linked Text dialog which allows you to make custom formulas. Just make sure you do not split formulas in two and you are inserting formulas only from the Insert Field popup. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

@Amorphous - Julian, - correct - I think there is nothing else that relies on the sequential order - once again, correct - If you could send me the project file with the TBB still checked out, I could check what caused the crash if I am able to reproduce it Will keep you tuned here when there is progress about this topic.

Hello Julian, @Amorphous - Julian Currently we are not using multithreading for the TBB and its functionalities, so we could check if this is possible as an improvement for the future, but I am not sure about this because we have some sequential data, such as the Page Number, which will not work well with multithreading at all. It is sad to hear that you have such difficulties and delays with the TBB... We will see if we are able to think of any improvement in the future and hopefully we could speed this up. In the meantime, maybe you could take advantage of the worksheet editing of TBBs, which should be faster? Thank you for your feedback! Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

Thanks @Andy Broomell, and thank you for updating the status of these threads in the forum. Always happy to hear feedback from the users with an assessment of the tasks! 🙂

Hello Jon, Not sure what could be going wrong. Could you send me a test file to see if I get the same results? Thanks, Nikolay Zhelyazkov