Petri

If I select two or more polygons (or even polys and rectangles), I can see the total area. If I select two or more lines, why can't I see the total length?

Workflow-wise, I'd rather go for two or three cheaper and slower printers than one fast one (which may break down). Or maybe one really fast for BW jobs, one or two for colour. Colour is, after all, the future. HPs seem to be nowadays OK - I've almost forgiven them the headaches of the 400-series caused.

And on the eight day of the week (1), he picked up the mouse and said to it (2): "Computer, let there be (3) a hybrid symbol." Well, in my training I have always referred to menu commands with the verb "say", to avoid any confusion between them and selecting. (In fact, there are languages where the same verb would be used for both a menu command and object selection.) So, it is SELECT for objects, PICK (UP) for tools and SAY for commands. Easy. Oh. Forgot footnotes. (1) The Beatles (the band) (2) Star Trek: The Voyage Home (3) Genesis (NOT the band)

I do. You did not ask HOW to do it, but: Draw the 2D stuff. Draw the 3D stuff so that it aligns with the 2D stuff. Select both. Say "Create Symbol".

Redlettering one's nick is another annoyance... You might consider toning it down. How about auto-recalc being the global default?

Get a mouse with a scroll wheel.

How nice it would be to have automatic tagging of walls by the above (by choice). I may have a supplier's wall type ABC-456-X (2-0-2) Z, which I call, not Al, but IW-7 in this project. However, in this project I may have changed the name of the style to be IW-7. Before I write a wall tag PIO: can we expect tagging in the foreseeable future? In the Civilized World, we do things this way. And use metric. And drink only coffee from freshly ground beans.

Walls can have a fire rating - very good! Now, can we improve the communication between a wall and a door so, that one would be persuaded by The System NOT to place an el-cheapo hollow-core timber door in a wall with 2 hour rating?

When using certified wall types, one very often has the maximum height specified. Suppliers in the Civilized World provide this information and it would be nice to be able to store this information and use it. Preferably in an intelligent fashion: if the height of the wall exceeds the certification, a warning would be issued (one way or the other - maybe we might have pulsating red lines?)

?Ay, caballero! Not quite. Cavalier is a "front view", military a "plan view. And, to take a cavalier view on this matter: a non-technical intro at http://www.itedo.de/E/171.php, for those who missed their tech drafting classes at their architecture school. Cavalier 30 retains, I think, dimensions, but plan angles are changed.

... I should have known... Thanks, Raymond!

Why does this work in some files but not in some others? PROCEDURE SetDefaults; { ? Petri Sakkinen 2006 } VAR insertMode, breakMode : INTEGER; cName, sName: STRING; sdHd : HANDLE; PROCEDURE SetGraphicsByClass; BEGIN { add code } END; BEGIN insertMode := 1; { edge } breakMode := 4; { no break } cName := 'WHAT-Ever'; NAMECLASS(cName); sdHd := FSYMDEF; WHILE sdHd <> NIL DO BEGIN sName := GETSDNAME(sdHd); SETSYMBOLOPTIONSN(sName, insertMode, breakMode, cName); sdHd := NEXTSYMDEF(sdHd); END; END; RUN(SetDefaults);

What does it look like? If they are text files of coordinate triplets (x, y, z), then either yes or easily doable. EDIT If longitude, latitude, z - hmm. I think there are routines for projection of these, too.

The advantage is that the plan is not distorted (remains a "map") and heights are not shortened, so can be measured.

Ahha! I got your attention. Well, I don't actually mean military perspective, but military projection. There are many situations, where this ancient projection mode would be ideal. Today I managed to circumvent the situation by creating a series of mock-projections: all necessary items were of type Floor and with a clever little VectorScript I was able to produce what was needed.

Even further investigations show that nothing related to textures is exported, not even the texture used in objects. This is getting very annoying! VectorScript files are a good way to merge documents, but Essential Information is Lost in Translation.

I run my work machine with rwx permissions to the entire Programs-folder and subfolders, but new Plug-Ins are still placed in my User Library.

Yesss, but... OK, Programs -folder is Read Only for Joe Average. OK, Joe may be a Prolific Author of Essential Plug-Ins. But he may be Joe Forgetful or Joe Sloppy in his spare time. Is there the possibility that the Greatest Plug-In after the famous (and mostly harmless) Bread Slicer Tool cannot be used by Mrs Joe, who shares the Puter with Joe? Can she add Coffee Making procedure to the tool?

Are we sure that the location of new plug-ins is good? (We hatesss OS X...)

Say "select all". The rectangle may have zero line width. Or maybe there isn't a crop - in that case, the viewport shows all objects in the layers & classes it is defined to show.

Symbols. They can be listed in a worksheet report. Easiest, if they are on their own layer or in their own class.

Enter the viewport (double-click it), choose Crop, change the size of the object (usually rectancle) that does the cropping. It is in the manual...

Change their scale.

Smaller margins in Word? Perhaps even a custom page size, if you want a narrow column.

I'll have a look, thanks.