Petri

I think the problem may be in printing: do not use "shrink" or "enlarge" when printing.

In metric system, the area is 90.90725 times too large...

According to Wikipedia, Countries where a comma is used to mark the radix point include: Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada (French-speaking), Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Faroes, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg (uses both separators officially), Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa (officially, but dot point is commonly used in business), Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam whereas Countries where a dot is used to mark the radix point include: Australia, Brunei, Botswana, Canada (English-speaking), Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea (both North and South), Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, People's Republic of China, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States (including insular areas), Zimbabwe. So, let me see... Ah - there are a couple of civilized countries in the latter group: Israel and Japan.

Demand? That, in my Capitalist Market-Economy Dictionary, refers to Commercial Demand, ie. things that people want to pay for. Here we have a vocal contingent of people who "demand" but who don't want to pay for what they want. They must all be Communists.

How about my MiniCAD 5? I hope that Bob, Damon, G & Melshimber support my plea to have MiniCAD 5 to be made to work with OS X Leopard. Of course I won't pay for it - I just expect NNA to listen to my concern, do the right thing, care about the user and so on. (I could say MiniCAD 3, but I no longer have the installation disk for that version.)

Umm.... What, if anything, are CAD Managers and Job Captains - sorry, job runners - supposed to do except manage the CAD system and/or the job, including ins and outs? Frankly, my dears, I don't think you can program a computer in such a way that it at the same time does what the user has not done and does not undo things the user has done, in case he or she has accidentally done the right thing. Computers are usually no more intelligent than the people you are working with: if ever possible, they're even less intelligent - but at least consistently so. I have no iDea what iArchitecture's iDrawing iManager can do (no iNfo aVailable), but i'M enough of a FileMaker Pro wizard to know that iT cannot iRead the minds (if any) of the iUsers.

It's an euphemism for "architects who cannot afford professional software or who are just cynical, ie. know the price of software, but not the value of it." In these latter days we can't call short people short but vertically challenged, so I guess we can't call VW users cheapskates or tightwads, not even stingy.

A very simple VS function will do it.

Mike's suggestion implies the SDK: nowadays you won't find a single student knowing or interested in Pascal (which is what VectorScript is based on.) Apart from "students", also books and other stuff on C++ are easy to find. Training? Just take a course at the local university. Three or four years of full-time study and you'll be a C++ -programmer.

Was it? I've been in this game for over 30 years and have always needed to show levels relative to the MSL. Well, whatever: these are the latter days. Authorities are starting to have 3D models of the built environment & infrastructure - and even of planning controls (such as envelopes) and they expect that they can just plonk in the model of an application and consider its merits and ramifications. The Authorities cannot have different rules for softwaretically-challenged architects, who instist on using a program that makes it practically impossible to work in real world coordinates (eg. VW).

Indeed. They are acting against the EU legislation - or at least the intention of it.

Until one can create IFC-entities with VectorScript, VW cannot really be called an IFC-compatible BIM-program. The standard issue of the program does not have a useful suite of IFC-compatible objects. While it may be possible to create cheap imitations of what one needs in developed countries with the Happy Meal -tools/objects provided, no-one can afford to use VW, if the BIM is supposed to be delivered as IFC. EDIT By "really" I mean something that would work even outside the U.S. of A. - the bright beacon of BIM. If IFC-compatible objects can only be created with the C++ API, I think Estonians, not to mention Icelandians or Tuvalese, can buy half a dozen of copies of the expensive [deleted] for the price of one localised VW.

I've never had much luck when importing more than one "world" coordinate AutoCAD file into a single VW file - not even in VW 2008. Unless there are pressing, urgent and compelling reasons & needs (of nature unknown to yours truly), imported data should be kept in separate files and referenced to the work file.

Why would they then need sections from you? If they need sections, let them create those themselves from the model data you supply. Perhaps you can convert a section viewport to lines - that would probably be fine in their flow of work...

You can open the "trees" data file and add the new tree there. It is plain text. On the folder location I'm afraid I can't help. At present (and without trying) I have something like 6 versions of the so-called database (ie text files) on my single computer with one user. They proliferate like mad bunnies and I'm not sure how one can tell which data set the Plant Tool is supposed to use. Well, the tool is a total disaster, so I'm not missing much.

I believe Estonia is part of Ultirender's territory. At least the good people at Ultirender have, I understand, spent a lot of time doing demos etc. to Estonians.

Not possible in Finland - or even Australia. All levels must refer to MSL (and all x/y -coordinates to the origin of the National Mapping Grid.) This is, mind you, hugely inconvenient and counter-productive... If the site is even some 400 metres above the sea level, the z-values are difficult to understand and the poor surveyor need to translate them. A datum, a datum, a kingdom for a datum!

I'm sure that AutoCAD has a superior user interface... One "merely clicks" - well, well, well: when I've been sitting among AutoCAD users, it might just as well have been a typing pool, as the Power Users are merely tapping away. Anyway: one can switch snaps on and off easily in VW, including "tangent". Priorities for snaps would, however, be most welcome.

Weird? Well, of course one 10th of a millimeter is a bit weird... Other than that, what's your problem? The radix point?

Ask Bill, your Lord and Master. They're reserved by him, not by VW.

You have automatically removed all design layers and everything is just fine?

Is it? Were there? Will I? Really? At least setting default graphics has been made extremely painful. One little error - creating the DTM in a file that is not based on a template with DTM settings - and you're done. There's no realistic way of configuring the look of the DTM to be what it is in another file. OK. At least one seems to get a DTM every time, which used to be a novelty... Even a horribly ugly DTM is better than no DTM, so there's been progress.

Not in 11, not in 10, not in 9.

It was, until you made it impossible. Clever, huh?

Will or may?