Mickey

ANYONE? Bueler?

I said it before. I don't want a new version with new tools that don't work. I just want an upgrade to the old version to fix or ammend the things didn't work. I do like the idea of VW lite. Isn't that what fundaments is supposed to be? What about VW 2D?

Floorplates, no. I make a symbol out of an extrude square, but coner blocks would be nice. Yes I can and do make symbols out of and extruded square, but when rendered it looks like a square, not a corner block.

Huh? What are you trying to achieve? Are you trying to make an individual instrument larger?

You didn't answer his question. What do you mean by update? I dropped an instrument onto a drawing, and gave it a color at the front of the light, and a channel at the back of the light, and I used a rectangle for the channel container. I then mirrored and duplicated and it worked fine. What else are you doing?

OK VW12 is different from 9-11.5. Yes it does many of the same things, but tools and menus are all over the place. I can't figure out where anything is. It's really frustrating. Can someone at Nemetschek please write a document spelling out where the tools where and now are? For example: Layer options used to be under organization. Now it's split. Layer visiblity is under view, and options are under tools/orginization. Is anyone else confused and lost?

You don't have to scale each layer individually. But they (They being our friends at Nemetschek) did add a coule of extra steps to make things easier for you. In my research to help you out just now I realize that I can't find the layer and class options. Yes there is a navigation pallete but there's no scale info in that pallette. In the information bar below the menus is the layer box. click the arrow that drops down your layer selections and click on "layers" That will open a "oranization" window. Here you can select all your layers, by doing a shift select. Then go down and click the edit button, and now you can change the scale for all your layers. How's that for a ball of suck! AH -HA ! I found it! Tools - Orginization. That should help!

No you can't do that. I know you think you should, and it would make some things easier, but you can't. You have to do it the long way.

So we have a massive library of VW11.5 drawings. We are just starting to use VW12, and when I try to do a refference I get: "The file xxx is not in the format used by the application version that you ar running, so it cannot be opened here. Use the Open caommand in the File menu and then re-save it" I need to duplicate our entire library? This must be a mistake?

OK I've tried it. I forgot you could do that. Excellent!

I do not have Architect. Which is why it's probably missing the tool. So why does it think it's supposed to be there?

Is it possible to run a report for an individual layer? I'm working in a multiuser environment. differnt folks are adding stuff to a referenced drawing. All I want to do is count the symbols on the layers that I'm working. But when I run a report I get hundreds of symbols from all the other layers.

Since VW 12 has completely redone all the menus I'm spending a bunch of time editing my workspace. When I exit I get this message --------------------------- The following Plug-ins are not in the Plug-ins folder: North Arrow --------------------------- OK --------------------------- --------------------------- Do you want to save the workspace anyway? --------------------------- Yes No --------------------------- Of course I say yes, but I want to know what gives?

If you use classic all the new menus go away. Yes I am building a custom menu set, but what a pain in the ass. If it was just me it would be one thing but it's all the designers in the office.

Thanks we'll take a look at it.

I submitted a file to bugs.

"The people that redesigned the workspaces, designed them from the perspective of a new user" Are you kidding? So the people that have been using the software the same way for years have to realearn how to do things. Excellent! Yes I know that all the menu items are still available and can be customized, but why changed the layout? Why punish the people that use the software everyday?

OK we bought VW12 so with our new ESP system. I was against it, but it works better with ESP. So after install I went to Tool/workspaces/spotlight, and there is no Spotlight menu on the menu list. If I swith to Spotlight Classic there is. What gives? I know there's the new bundled pallete, but that doesn't have the convert, or refresh tools. And while we're on the subject why did they have to move the menu's around? It's the old Nemetchek saying "why fix what's broke when we can add new things that don't work" Sorry I'm always bitter when VW releases a XX.0 version.

Holy smokes batman! We are encountering a similar problem here in our office. We thought we where doing something wrong. Have you tried then export/import the data into a new LW file? When we do this the data is in all kinds of differnt places. Like position being purpose, and purpose being isntrument type. Have you e-mailed John?

"The good news is that you can do it with an add-on macro editor. The mystery is why VectorWorks doesn't have a built-in macro editor, which would allow letter keys to be used to issue commands, and would solve most of the custom needs expressed in this Wish List." Brilliant a Macro editor. Is there one?

I submitted something similar, but the idea that the resource browser acts more like a folder in the OS is even better way to describe it.

Kevin, You statement that there is no report of this problem is very frustrating. Please see my link above and you'll note that there was a dissucssion about this topic in August of 2004. Here's a quote from that thread: "I have a symbol for which I created a label legend. (ETC S4 36?) That legend contains "circuit name" "circuit number" They both have circles as their container. When I place the "instrument" on the drawing the unit faces up (top of the monitor, and the circles are at the bottom. In object info I add "A" in the ciruit name, and "1" in circuit number, and they are in their appropriate circles. If I copy and paste they are in their appropriate circles. Here comes the winner. If I select, and mirror-duplicate they are reversed. I checked my File/Prference/VWPreferences/Display, and yes the box "adjust flipped text" is checked. I tried unchecking it and rechecking it, and still the info gets reversed when I mirror-duplicate. To correct this I select the individual unit and Tool/Rotate/Flip Horizontal, and the unit now reads correct. If I select more than one unit and flip they are treated like a group, and the whole thing gets flipped which is not the desired effect. This is a bug. What's happening is the circles are treated as graphic objects. The solution would be to halve a graphic object that could contain multiple data fields. Is that possible in Spotlight?" I'll submit it to the bugreport, but's sad that something that was a problem a year and a half ago isn't even recognized.

Even in 12 you still can't move the label?

What version are you using?

I take it from the lack of response that either nobody knows what I'm talking about or it didn't get fixed.