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Robert, In the ealier stage of planning, we are placing building blocks on a site as well as streets and plantations. We are using your space tool for these blocks so that we benefit to create a report on building footprints. On this plan, trees were placed with their own style meaning that it has shade and sketch lines. I was wondering if these building blocks, correctly polygons in space tool, can have the same style like trees with shade & sketch lines so that our drawing reaches the same level of effect throughout. At this point, we don't want to spend a great deal of time to do 3-d model and cast a light on the site. But a quick make-up of 2d plan to give some idea of verticality.

Is there PIO to draw building blocks with shades like tree styles in land use plan? Can space tool have shade style?

Is it possible to retrieve more than one record into one worksheet? Let's say I retrieve one PIO record into one worksheet. This makes cell rows as .1, .2, .3, etc to show they are data from drawing. Below these rows can I make another data block to show a different PIO data?

I tried this and VW crashed. I did not see this 'compose' on VW script reference appendix H where it lists menu list.

Is there a script command for this? Compose command is under pull down menu and I am trying to insert the same command inside of a script. But I don't seem to find it in the list of script command. Thanks in advance.

Thanks again. With your help, I made a script to find a specific hatch in a file and create one if not. However, when I applied this routine for a plug-in object, somehow it stop working! I think the command 'NumVectorFills' and 'Vectorfilllist()' are not getting the list or number of Vectorfills in a document. Is this mean that PIO is somewhat independant from a document file?

Raymond; Can I use this routine to find hatch names in a file, too. Unfortunately though, I don't see any of hatch related script commands such as' Fsymdef' or 'nextsymdef'. Or are they a part of symbols? I say this because they both move between files through resource brower.

Thank Raymond. I have revised the script as you recommand, but somehow the alert message doesn't go away when it finds an existing symbol name. Could you continue to help me? Var h:handle; result:Boolean; begin result:=true; h:=Fsymdef; Repeat If Getname(h)='C' Then begin result:=false; AlrtDialog('It is here'); end Else h:=nextsymdef(h); until (h=nil); If result then AlrtDialog('It is not here'); end;

Somehow this doesn't work. Could someone take a look? begin result:=false; h:=Fsymdef; Repeat SetSelect(h); If Getsymname(h)='C' Then Begin AlrtDialog('It is here'); result:=true; end ELse h:=nextsymdef(h); until (h=nil); If result=false then AlrtDialog('It is not here'); end;

Thanks.

Is it possible to retrieve start & end point from linear object? I am looking for something like 'Getline()' that gets information from a linear pio instead of mouse click.

How do I make a door whose frame has different thickness such as 2" on sides and 4" on head? This is a common door frame for masonry wall. 4" head frame is based on masonry dim when you use 7'-0" door. I can not find a different control on Door PIO for this. Jamb thk controls both head and side frame at the same time.

Thanks for your reply. Yes, i can set this by 1 operation so that autosave menu pops up. Then I say OK to save to back up and set my operation for usual interval by going to the preference menu again. Can I do this all inside of a script? Can I pause the script to bring preference pop-up, assign OK value, and return to the script so that I can reset my interval?

SetPrefInt(60, 1); sets 1 min. save interval. Is there a selector for operation interval?

Can I make a command to save to backup immediately after by clicking it? 'SetPref (41, true)' doesn't do it. I think this changes the preference setting, rather than executing backup. Thanks in advance.

I noticed this new fuction on V10.5.1 under resource browser. I thought this fuction was to allow a quick access to other files on a network because any file kept under resource browser as favorites can not be opened by others. Let's say when you need to import a hatch or a symbol from other files, you can use this function to browse a document and import what you need and by moving up & down of the favorites list, the file is disappeared on the list which lead me to believe that the file is removed automatically from the list so that others can open the file if necessary. However, we found out that this is not true. Even though you don't see the file under favorites list, it becomes read-only when somebody tries to open. Only way to open this file is to close out the current file where these resource were imported. It seems that the resource file, even though it is not on the favorites list, lingers through until the current file is closed. Any comments? VW 10.5.1. OSX 10.3 on G4

Thanks.

Is there a script to take a line by line text into one text block? Whenever I convert dwg to VW, all the notes becomes line text not a block text. I am wondering if there is a script to make my day little bit easier!

Is there anyway to scale a worksheet on drawing without changing text sizes inside of worksheet? Also is there a way to zoom in/out in worksheet editing mode?

So the 'foo' can be a PIO such as space objects, and 'garp' is the name of field in PIO. Am I right?

Thanks for your replay. I guess what I am asking is whether or not, I as an end user, can do this linking without going deep into script. Reason is because room name and number are one thing, but sometime I need to show other information like sq.ft. or occupant types etc from pio to a schedule. You might think that why one needs this information on finish schedule. But I am searching for this flexibility from PIO palette info to any record field, not particularily tied to this one example. There are many PIOs with inherent information and I am wondering if there is a easy way to connect them into a record field.

Is there any way to link a field from pio palette to a field in a record? For example space tool has 'space number' and 'space name' to type in. I was wondering if these information can be transfered to room finish record automatically so that I don't have to retype. In relation to this, I was wondering whether or not a PIO and a record can be in one worksheet side by side.

Is there a way to add more fields into Door Hardware or Room finish library? I can add more fields for its records but do not show up in dialog box. Any simple way to extend this dialog box?

I am looking for a script that allows me to create a new class and assign class attributes from the object that I select on screen. Usually I make graphic adjustments on screen with object palette and give a name later as a new classs. I am trying to see if there is a simpler way to do this.

Is there a way to insert a number of rows or columns at once in the middle of a worksheet?