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Yes all lineweights in a document is my goal.

I have written a script to change the lineweights of objects in a drawing based on there existing lineweight and it works fine in a layer but I can not get it to work in a symbol. Does anyone know what I could do to make this work. One Idea I have is to cut the objects out of the symbol and place them on a layer make the change and then put them back in the symbol but I do not know how do do this in a script. my script is below. Procedure Lineweight; Label 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106; VAR H1 : HANDLE; P1,P2 : real; Begin; DSelectAll; SelectObj(INSYMBOL & INOBJECT & INVIEWPORT & (LW=7)); DSelectObj(INSYMBOL & INVIEWPORT & (T=TEXT)); H1:= FSActLayer; 100:SetLW(H1,3); H1:=NextSObj(H1); if H1<>Nil then goto 100; DSelectAll; SelectObj(INSYMBOL & INOBJECT & INVIEWPORT & (LW=10)); DSelectObj(INSYMBOL & INVIEWPORT & (T=TEXT)); H1:= FSActLayer; 101:SetLW(H1,4); if H1<>Nil then goto 101; DSelectAll; SelectObj(INSYMBOL & INOBJECT & INVIEWPORT & (LW=14)); DSelectObj(INSYMBOL & INVIEWPORT & (T=TEXT)); H1:= FSActLayer; 102:SetLW(H1,6); H1:=NextSObj(H1); if H1<>Nil then goto 102; DSelectAll; SelectObj(INSYMBOL & INOBJECT & INVIEWPORT & (LW=20)); DSelectObj(INSYMBOL & INVIEWPORT & (T=TEXT)); H1:= FSActLayer; 103:SetLW(H1,8); H1:=NextSObj(H1); if H1<>Nil then goto 103; DSelectAll; SelectObj(INSYMBOL & INOBJECT & INVIEWPORT & (LW=28)); DSelectObj(INSYMBOL & INVIEWPORT & (T=TEXT)); H1:= FSActLayer; 104:SetLW(H1,11); H1:=NextSObj(H1); if H1<>Nil then goto 104; DSelectAll; SelectObj(INSYMBOL & INOBJECT & INVIEWPORT & (LW=39)); DSelectObj(INSYMBOL & INVIEWPORT & (T=TEXT)); H1:= FSActLayer; 105:SetLW(H1,12); H1:=NextSObj(H1); if H1<>Nil then goto 105; End; Run (Lineweight);

Why don't I get the Linewieght to color table when I export a DWG and I have selected "Map Line Weights to Colors"

Yes that was it, thanks

Is there any way to define the printable area in a Vectorscript?

Yes it's annoying, but it not just the "save as" is whenever I want to open another file, export a file, export a Pdf. The path never changes with the open file it remains at its last location. That would be fine if I dumped all of my files into the same location but I don't.

When I open a file from Windows explorer the "save as" path does not set to the current file location, instead it is at what ever the location of the last path that I directed VW2009 to. This is the way that VW 12 worked and we were all pretty used to it at my office. Is there any setting to change it back to the old way.

Thanks, I'll do that.

Using VW 12.5.x If I replace the wall style in the attached file it deletes the symbols that are inserted in the walls. I have tried this on every computer in our office. Is there any way to correct this?

Often we have details that we pull in from other projects and or we rearrange the details on the sheet. Hence the need to renumber each label in consecutive order. It would be great to have a tool that I could set to a start number and click every consecutive detail mark and renumber them sequentially without having to edit the Object info for each item. This would save a great deal of time and my hands from carpel tunnel syndrome. P.S. it would be great if this worked on door and window marks, detail marks, and any other object that has record based number field.

I need to revert the dashes in a drawing to the original dash styles that are included in a standard blank file. Is this possible.

I would like to bring this issue back up again. Many times things get drawn or symbols and hatches are in line weights 1 and 2 mils and this is just to small for our printers or our desires. It would be nice to have a setting that beefed up all line weights to a minimum and our minimum would be 3 mils. Seems like a simple request and a simple fix.

Katie, The boxes still appear when using PDF export, but not when printing to a PDF printer, after the workaround David

Is there any way to print out a Workspace and all of its shortcuts. This would be very helpfull. thanks

Thinking a bit more about my wish. I would like to be able to keep items grouped and polylines and such. It would be nice that if the viewport crops something then it is recreated as a smaller piece but if it doesn't then the object stays intact. And I said single layer but, I have changed my mind on that one, Just as long as the Dwg is produced in model space and no paper space.

One thing I would suggest is save the file you want to export to a seperate file. Then purge it until you cannot purge anything else. I would also suggest geting rid of the viewport all together bringing everything to design layers if you can. Then export. I have placed in the wish list for the capability for VW to use the print command to export. Hence producing a 2D single layer Dwg that is a replica of the drawing as viewed when printing.

Yes you can, still slower than all the other programs, and doesn't have the versitilty of a reference point move.

Yes, both

I have my system set not to confirm, and I have had it crash in the same way that you stated.

I have tried to go to Vectorbits.com for several days now, and I get nothing. Has Vectorbits closed down.

I understand and live with x,y but it isn't the fastest and easiest way. Most other CAD programs give you the option to grab an object, pick a reference, start motion in a certain direction and then type in a distance for it to move from the reference point. I am a competent draftsmen in, Autocad, Generic Cadd, DataCad and Vectorworks, and in my opinion Vectorworks has the slowest move system of them all.

Yes, Design layers would be good but mostly Sheet Layers. I just remember back when everything was drawn as printed. Now we hide so much stuff in turned off classes, Layers and Cropped viewports. It would just be nice to export a clean simple representation of what is displayed on the screen at any given time.

I am not so much looking for a work around. I know how to get the information in the format I need. I am just trying to save time. It doesn't do me much good to use viewports if I must rework it all on a new layer to give it to the engineers . I just would like to be able to convert what I see on the screen to a new drawing, I can save it as an image, but not a drawing.

THANKS FOR THE ADVICE, BUT NOT WHAT I NEED. I NEED A AUTOCAD DWG THAT IS NO MORE THAN WHAT YOU SEE WHEN YOU PRINT. VECTORWORKS HAS MANY GREAT FEATURES, AND I LOVE IT, BUT THE ENGINEERS MOST OF THE TIME JUST NEED A SIMPLE FLAT PLAN. NOTHING SPECIAL. WHAT I WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO IS KIND OF LIKE THE FLATTEN LAYERS COMMAND IN PHOTOSHOP. YOU HAVE THIS COMPLEX IMAGE AND THEN YOU JUST FLATTEN IT ALL TO ONE LAYER. SIMPLE...

When using the batch print command the print files should be named the same as the Sheet Layer name. This way I can print a whole set of documents and not have to rename the files.