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Tom W.

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  1. Do you need to recalculate all the worksheets prior to exporting? If the worksheets are already up to date you can disable 'Recalculate worksheets prior to exporting' in the Export PDF Settings + then you won't get this message anymore. It doesn't relate to all worksheets, only those containing worksheet scripts. I'm not sure why clicking on 'Always Execute Scripts' isn't preventing the message from coming up. How many such worksheets are in the file?
  2. As far as I know, the only option is to copy VPs from the first file + paste them into the second file. So 'Import Sheet Layer' will bring in the sheet layer - number, title, DPI, page setup, TBB - then you will need to copy + paste the VPs as a separate operation... I think... I have only done this once.
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    Yes, change the tag field definition to #DATESHORT#
  4. I think you will need the InteriorXS/Interiorcad add-on in order to do this...
  5. See: https://app-help.vectorworks.net/2023/eng/VW2023_Guide/Objects_edit2/Clip surface.htm?rhsearch=clip surface&rhhlterm=clip clipping clipped “clipped” surface surfaces https://university.vectorworks.net/mod/overview/view.php?id=2155
  6. If this is all 2D + the veg beds are Polygons, you could Clip them from the white polygon behind (right-click > Clip Surface), then the white polygon will display the correct area. Or you could create a Worksheet where the area of the veg beds is subtracted from the overall area (based on the polygons being in different classes). Or you could just do the calculation on a calculator + make a note of it!
  7. Very cool thank you! That's very kind thanks. I don't doubt the help is there, what's lacking is me pulling my finger out 🙂 I have my 1982 'Pascal for Beginners' book at Pat's suggestion so I've made a start 😁
  8. That is very very nice Michael! Be interested to know what @line-weight thinks. Not expecting you to do this but I am interested: 1) what would be involved to make it so you could draw the path on a Working Plane rather than the Layer Plane? + 2) what would be involved to have it so the Object Preferences could be saved as sets, so you didn't have to type in all the info each time? My learn-how-to-script efforts are getting nowhere but one day... 🙂
  9. Hi Michael see attached. In the EAP the profiles are aligned correctly on the X axis but are compressed on the Y axis. I tried increasing the Y offset in the symbols to see if I could get the profiles to line up correctly but it had no effect. But it's possible I'm missing something really obvious Both the symbols themselves + the geometry inside them are classed but the resultant EAP ignores the classes + the class attributes... MK Extrude Test-2.vwx
  10. See this video from about 37:40: https://university.vectorworks.net/mod/overview/view.php?id=5243 Katarina uses a Grade Limits + the Define by Contours function to tidy up the contours in a particular area - next to a path funnily enough so seems very similar to your case. This is a new feature to VW2023.
  11. Maybe try the new 'Define by contours' setting for Grade Limits to tidy up those contours. 'Edit Proposed Site Model Contours' has always made things worse for me...
  12. Thanks Michael what is the best way to set up the alignment of the symbols relative to the path? I think the symbol geometry is centred on the path regardless of the symbol insertion point: is that correct? I have tired moving the 2D geometry around inside the symbol but it doesn't seem to affect the alignment of the geometry in the EAP. I can Cmd-[ the EAP + it gives me an option to edit the profile but there is no geometry inside the edit group... On the left is the arrangement I'm trying to achieve + on the right is what I'm getting in the EAP: Does it make any difference which order you arrange the symbols in the OIP? Also, is there a way to texture the 3D geometry differently? I have the 2D symbols in different classes but those classes aren't transferred to the 3D geometry: the resultant EAP is a single object rather than three separate objects in a Group. Thanks for experimenting with this + sharing it with us!
  13. Agreed! Then you can draw all manner of shapes, in 2D or 3D.
  14. Ha ha nope that wouldn't be a good idea... But having the existing conditions modelled relatively accurately allows me to pull straight lines over the front of those timbers + anticipate with a degree of precision the size the interior spaces will end up being, so there is a method to the madness...🙂
  15. You can do this using a styled Structural Member, by editing the style + changing the Custom Shape symbol it's using. You can also do it with Framing Members by editing the profile symbol the Framing Member instances are using.
  16. I think it's a really useful + powerful tool in the right context. I had an old building to model a year or two back: I had a laser scan of the building + found extruding solids then 'sculpting' them with Taper Face + Deform (+ rotating them with Rotate) was the best way to recreate it, as it was just a matter of manipulating the solids until their faces fell into line with the point cloud geometry. Bent/twisted roof beams for example: Like you say it depends what your source material is + what you're trying to achieve.
  17. @suz another technique you could try is to extrude a rectangle then use the Taper Face + Deform tools on it. This would be a very quick + easy way to achieve some of the forms in your images.
  18. Yes this is correct + I did wonder if this was kind of what you were getting at in your original posts. The final EAP is a single object which can only be in one class + have one set of attributes. So you'd have to duplicate the EAP + break it up into separate objects in order to class/render them separately which takes us back to your original point. I am sure @michaelk is taking all this in + applying it to his programming... 🙂 It would certainly make for a very useful tool if you could generate several different EAPs from a single path + be able to edit that path + all the EAPs respond accordingly. Or go in + edit/replace individual profiles.
  19. You can do this already can't you? This is 9 separate polylines: Resultant EAP: Path resized: Probably not the greatest choice of profile as VW is struggling with all the vertices but it was what I had to hand...
  20. See: https://university.vectorworks.net/mod/overview/view.php?id=2136
  21. Or use Create Wall Recess... command: If you needed the cutout to go around the corners then you could do it using a 'Wall Hole Component Symbol' (Wall Recesses only work in the middle of Walls - you can't run them right up to the ends):
  22. In that case apologies. I am pretty sure I heard @Katarina Ollikainen say in a video the tool itself was unchanged, just been renamed to more accurately reflect its function, but obviously not...
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