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Petri

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  1. AppleScript would not help. At least not outside the Home of the Courageous.
  2. I thought I had already responded, but obviously not: Dear me! It is there! And now you tell me - just a day after I've issued a printed 40-page Tractatus Vector-Philosophicus.
  3. Ion, You chose badly. Cheers, Indiana
  4. Working Planes dialog? AHHHHHHH! Yes, when one chooses the (unused & unmodified) Designer workspace there is a minimised palette called WP! I've just closed it every time: I've never liked WordPerfect. So, there is something expertly hidden "in the bottom drawer of a locked filing cabinet, stuck upside-down, in a disused toilet with a sign on the door saying 'BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD!" I love this user interface!
  5. Maybe, but there are better programs for modelling unbuildable things... I would have been a great contributor to Gehry, Libeskind or Hadid - or even Saarinen... I'm sorry Eero, I'm afraid I can't do it. Has Zaha actually built anything, by the way?
  6. Contact your reseller and ask them to contact the Finnish VW-distributor Ultirender for this. A two-axle vehicle only, though: articulated vehicles are another kettle of fish. Also, circular turning only, no clotoids.
  7. I don't think Richard wanted a working plane but a view. A fair request, if I may say so; I don't know how to do it. It could be - set working plane - set 3D view axis to the norm of the working plane. Do we have anything like it?
  8. Michael, Access to saved views is now even easier than before. Switching between layers has always been easy. But, as you attest, the Nav Palette enables - nay, encourages - a disorganised working style, including "setting layer and class visibilities on the fly". Right. Having the Designer Suite with RW is somewhat problematic: one does not really know what other set-ups are capable of. (Not that the sketch mode would be of any practical use, but in the "Hello, World!" -league of programming it is cute.)
  9. Chris - you've hit the nail in the head!
  10. Full Designer suite. It varies: I'm a freelancer. Or should I say "itinerant worker"?
  11. Aren't sketch styles part of RenderWorks? I agree with Shaun: fundamentals first, possibly more later.
  12. I can't see much value in Architect unless one does residential work (or Goverment sector space planning) in the USA. The two useful components, wall styles and IFC, are, however, worth the price if one needs them. Navigation palette is nice and may even be useful to those who work in an unstructured or chaotic manner. Having said that, it's not hugely expensive.
  13. NYanmarians are obviously shy about their nationality.
  14. Maybe easier, but that is not the question. WHAT can you edit is the question.
  15. It's good to hear that the important European markets of Liechtenstein and Luxembourg are covered... Read: Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein (not sure about Austria, but...) are all parts of the territory of ComputerWorks, while Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg belong to DesignExpress. Greece and Cyprus are likely to be covered by the same distributor & same localisation, too. So, let me see: there may be six or seven European distributors with actually localised versions. Meanwhile, the Australian version is, I believe, very much localised, despite the language.
  16. Fair enough. The tool palettes may, however & notwithstanding, be just what you need: you can customise them, remove them, make your own etc. to your heart's content. It's a different user interface, but it is a different program. If the other one worked for you, why not stick with it? EDIT There are 653 items in the Standard Issue of VW Designer Plug-ins folder (tools, commands, objects). The core program might have 100+ functions. I'd hate to be in charge of keyboard shortcuts for 700+ items.
  17. VectorWorks Preferences, Display, Zoom line thickness (Slow). Don't worry about the "slow" unless your computer is driven by a steam engine. Colour is NOT the solution. Colour has nothing to do with line weights in VW.
  18. This is an excellent idea! While one can override classes (even all at a time) to b/w & no fill, a toggle would be much more user-friendly as comes to the said annotation mark-up. In some of my templates, I have separate sheets for colour & b/w output, but the system falls apart when someone adds a class or layer. Yes, overrides can be transferred with the Eyedropper, but the problem is that the ears of the users in question are not exactly pointy.
  19. VW is definitely not ideal, probably not even suitable, for something like this. Perhaps doable, but there must be better programs for it.
  20. I can. These are my general rules, applied (very quickly) to your situation: The file under production should never change its name, especially if it is used in WGR; if interim versions need to be kept (as they should), those would then have date-specific or otherwise relevant names. Filenames should be only as long and complex as absolutely necessary. Drawing number in file name is relevant only in draughting offices, not in design firms. * Copies in Current Issue may or may not have dates in their names; I would not use them. Superseded should. Each issue and stage archived both on-line and off-line. Folder name should be sufficient for indicating the purpose of the file, without a hugely long filename. Only one copy of anything in the network - now, this is the hard part! (Good old dumb terminals were quite clever!) Aliases to make it easier to find one's way to the official depositories of data. EDIT *) Titleblock data should include the filename, so the automatic drawing register system (ie. a database) tells from which file a drawing is generated. Sheet layers names = drawing numbers, also automatically or semi-automatically entered in the titleblock. The introduction of sheet layers have, I believe, made it impossible to have a central drawing register within VW (or maybe there is a trick I have not yet discovered). This is probably called Progress in Maryland, U.S.A.
  21. One of the things I check with every user... "Off" usually means tens of duplicated object on top of the originals. "Why can't I see the selection handles?" "These quantity report calculations are not correct!"
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