Petri

Now, what is so difficult in opening a file? It's very easy on the Macintosh. Perhaps it is extremely difficult on Windows? (Good Grief!) Just get on with it - open the b*dy file. If you can't figure out how to open a file, hire a consultant to do it for you. (Good Grief!)

Architects, the lucky bastards, seldom need legends. Landscape architects, on the other hand, do every time. What would be the best way to produce a legend? 1. A specific design layer ("Legend") & a viewport (or more than one) - hoping that one remembers to exclude the Legend layer from all quantity reports. 2. A layerwise "empty" viewport with symbols etc. as annotation. 3. Something actually clever. (I know how it is done in VW 9 and earlier. Don't want to go there any more!)

I'm a programmerjack and I'm not OK! (This is what they sing every morning at NNA's Morning Sessions.) They should've seen this coming. There are people whose designs are just plain rectilinear boxes. For the twisted & oblique designers like yours truly, this is a great new feature. The ramifications of what you are after would, by and large, negate the progress. Just get used to it. A true Rotated Rectangle was my first PIO after the relevant object type was introduced in 2000.

Means Stuffit -format, the old Macintosh standard; expander is a part of the OS. I think there is a free expander for the Dark Side, too. You are missing a decent computer - tackle it by buying one!

Permissionwise, an unwise recommendation.

Ahh - I see.

Used to be that way in MiniCAD. Fortunately it was changed. Maybe your system works in drafting.

And - believe it or nuts - I agree with Christiaan! Quite honestly, the user interface is nowadays a mongrel's breakfast.

Right. So, how do you assign objects to classes or move them to other layers? Change this or that? Apply textures? Database? Once again, mea culpa. I can't conceptualise or understand Computer Hindered Drafting.

Is there any added value in a separate palette? Aren't line weights etc. a part of Object Info? What's the problem here? (Good Grief!)

These are shared by all users of the Mac-hine. The ones in your user library are For Your Eyes Only.

That was my reading of it, too. Would really save the little legs of the poor mouse who now has to run back and forth across the screen.

That would indeed be the most efficient way of doing it. You would have full & easy control over line thicknesses & visibility of details throughout all your drawings.

About insertion options: couldn't agree more! Now we have Objects Behaving Badly. Even I can't find the words to explain the brilliant & infallible logic behind the status quo to an interior designer, whose brand new chair symbol has just been sucked into a wall.

"The page cannot be found" (I'd really like to get to the bottom of this. I deal a lot with landscape designers who use "funny shapes". This is worrying!)

Copy? Convert? I don't think so, does not sound plausible. A PIO "draws" in its own little world and only what has been scripted. Hopefully I'm wrong!

Your Worship: the argument by my learned friend is so compelling that my client has decided to change his plea to guilty as accused.

Naww. There's no demand for this. At least no commercial demand, as the creator of Motivo (or whatever it was called) can attest. There was less than a handful of users who were willing to pay the whopping sum of 20 dollars (or something like that) for this functionality. EDIT Motivo it was. The price was $50, though. http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=35528&site_id=1#import

I'd also like, optionally, to see the plan image of the 3D representation in the 2D tab and the 2D representation in the 3D tab when that is in Top view. Maybe it is just me, but I have had problems in this kind of registration. And while we are at it: The logic of the insertion point should be reversed from the current perverse logic. Whatever objects you have, in whichever classes & hybrid components, the insertion point is what want to move, not everything in the symbol definition.

While you are not alone: they are just ordinary VW-files. But wait a minute... "Americans" use "Default Content". That does not come from "ordinary files" but special files in obscure, undocumented locations. The vast majority of VW users have to define their "Favorites" because - believe it or nuts - "Marvin Windows" are not a world-wide standard, so they, by and large, use "ordinary files" as sources in the "Resorce Browser". Fascinating!

I get "bad font".. But, hey: for the first time ever "Export PDF" did something! Progress! (Mac OS Print > PDF of course has always worked.)

I'm starting to like the idea more and more!

Repsonding anyway... You made several references to how magnificently any other program - not to mention "Windows Explorer" (whatever CAD-program that is) - works. By deduction, I assumed that you are a Power User.

Well, why do you then pretend to be one? Why can't you just let the program do its stuff? Why meander in & ponder on "Windows Explorers" and what have you? Precisely! Are you just that much of a "power user" that you can open a file?

Can't reproduce. Of course, I can only import back to VW, but Beziers, fillets etc. seem to move quite nicely back and forth.