Jim Smith

Maybe something like the Eyedropper tool?

I have been sometimes able to open a secure PDF in PREVIEW rather than Acrobat & copy & paste text that way. If you just want to show, rather than use the text you could take a screen shot & import the screen shot into VW.

Exactly! That's what I'd like to have for both kinds of worksheets.

Perhaps I'm still not getting this concept. In looking at the Revit Video I guess I wonder how this would be a better workflow than simply making adjustment in either annotations or just changing a symbol or a wall type?

For small projects we often just use a Worksheet rather than a report that's a Database. I just find it's lots faster. Not that this is a work of art, but I would to be able to format individual Rows & Columns in Reports (Databased) so the result could to be more similar to the attached:

Thanks Pat

Years ago I gave up on stair tools. I try them with each version of VW but I don't EVER use any of the stair tools. Modelling a 3D stair as hybrid symbol for me is the way to go as: -Takes less time - Doesn't crash the system - Is less confusing - Allows one to create what should be built - Makes a proper graphic representation - One may duplicate a stair you've modelled both in a document & between documents

Add it to the wish list, I'd like to see that, as well as other enhancements to the Arc & Angle Dimension tool.

I guess I don't see this being useful in my work-flow.

For small projects we often just use a Worksheet rather than a report that's a Database. I just find it's lots faster. I would like my Reports to be more styled like the attached & can't really figure out how I achieve this in a Database; or if it can be achieved in a Database. This is how my Door worksheet looks now:

We have a small projects client that we have to do this for as all of this Pharmacy "Banner" are owner operated & very cost focused (AKA Cheep!). We always offer a range based on our estimated hours. Our rule of of thumb is add 15% to the an estimate, and about 70% are right in the middle of the range, the other 30%, we (me) end up having to eat hours. Not the best arrangement, but if we didn't live within a range we wouldn't get the "good" half. We obviously have allowances for overages for CO's & other contract admin stuff. My wife is always telling me to estimate the hours required & add 50%, & this might be more accurate for the 30%; but then would we get the 70%? The issue is always attempting to identify who the 30% are. Not sure that helps or not.

A Marionette script possibly ?

Very nice work Dave! This speaks to the heart of Bernard's question I think as change is inherent in all types of design and IMHO using VW in 3D as you point out allows the Designer to focus on what's important at various phases of the process.

Dave is rich on here, & perhaps a little light on the upside being only 75% quicker. I was asked to assist a colleague as 95% of his drawing was not just 2D but lines, & moving the stairs in the home reno basically meant I had to redo the entire project, with the exception of the Elevations that he messed around with. So that gets near to being 100% more efficient. On a project of mine that's what I'd call BIM-ish for a Garden Centre we were able to solve several Structure /MEP conflicts that in a 2D project would have taken endless meetings & billable hours by the consultants to solve.

If I understand what you're describing it sounds like a set of classes that one may choose. Is that the idea?

So it comes down to who/what do you trust. Frankly I don't trust ANYTHING online, especially my livelihood.

So I think I have the criteria correct, but the result is 0. When I establish the Function & Criteria I do get a return of one item that meets the definition, & I have set the cell as an image. Note this is just a worksheet and NOT a database Any thoughts?

My inner Luddite has me distrustful of any Cloud based items, and exercise extremely caution in using anything Cloud based. At the incept of FB, Twitter etc I've evaluated so called social media & rejected it, with the exception of this forum, I have no presence on them. With that in mind I do use Drop Box on a limited bases & also have used the Cloud for some of the Service Select work. So I do see the need and value for some limited cloud based CAD interfaces but I'm convinced that the person/firm who has the overall responsibility should still have to maintain the "parent" file physically on their server or hard drive and act as the gate keeper of all information that is added or subtracted from the parent file. As Levy and Salvadori state in the title of their excellent book; Buildings Fall Down. That being said, there needs to be a way to both prevent this, and identify who, what, when, where, how, & why. If a parent file is on a cloud & as Mr Zuckerberg proved this week, even those supposedly in charge of data can't, or won't ensure the safety and veracity of data means Cloud drawing files would be next to useless in maintaining accountably.

Good idea, I think the entire Text aspect of the programme needs some tweaking.

Thanks Pat, I'll try that method. The last time I checked the forum about this issue, the reply was that a worksheet need to be a database for an image to reside in the worksheet. While worksheets are miles better than they were only a few years back, I hope that they continue to get some work so they're more like Excel or Google or Mac versions/

There are times I want a very quick worksheet and don't want to build a new database. In many of these cases I would also like to include an image. Presently I have to add viewports floating on top of these worksheets it would be helpful to have the ability to include an image into a worksheet that's not a database to make this process that much less time consuming.

Great idea, would save lots of time.

That may be an issue with some furniture & Doctor's exam rooms, so I'l check that but should not be the case for door swings in the SILLS Class...

Yeah, what I generally do in cases like this is exactly what you show with 1'-0 1/2" & offset the one dimension from the rest of the chain. You could switch to Metric and save some drawing real estate....

Funny eh? Sending a viewport rather than the Sheet seems to work w/o having to create a view. TKA, I restart my computron every day & restart VW after coffee break & luncheon every day...