Pat Stanford

I believe this is a known bug. And if I remember correctly, it is fixed for Update 6 expected in July.

If you upload a simple file with a couple of hoists with your customer record attached I might be able to make some time to see what I can do for you.

There was another thread on this yesterday. The decision there was that it could not possibly be by design. Please submit an official bug report to get this on the tracking radar. https://www3.vectorworks.net/vectorworks-bug-report

There was a problem with the forum Monday morning Pacific Time that appeared to be an excessive load on the server. I have not heard the final resolution, but by Noon PDT the forum seemed to be running normally to me. Just got back on at 11:30PM PDT and it seems to be ok now also.

Can you post a small sample file with one of your Groups and information about what objects should be in the Top/Plan view and which should be in the 3D view. It will make it much easier to help you. And did you use ChatGPT or similar to write the script? Because most of the functions you have used don't exist in Vectorscript.

Post them here and someone will convert them and post them back. Or if they are confidential, you can get a 1 month subscription to VW and do the conversion yourself.

What field are you using for the cable length? I don't use hoists much, but a quick review of the OIP for a hoist does not show a field for this. If I look at the parameter record I see chain length, but not motor cable length.

As Tom tried to explain above, if you custom model the window you still want to use the Window Plugin Object, but check the Use Symbol Geometry check box and then choose your custom symbol. BUT, what you really want to do is spend the hour or two learning about the Window Plugin Object and what it can do so that you don't have to model every window from scratch. Unless you are doing something really custom, at least 80-99% of the windows you will be using can be modeled using the Window object.

@Sam Jones Do you have something like this in Autopilot?

No, it doesn't. In fact when you hide an object on the design layer that is in a Section Viewport, the viewport also appears to be hidden. And if you hide an object and then create a section viewport, the object shows in the viewport. 😞

The function separator in worksheet functions is dependent on the system language. The best description I have come up with is that for languages that use the comma as the decimal point (versus the period used in the USA), the semicolon is used as the separator. Otherwise it is the comma. But I know that the German version uses semicolon instead of comma. You will just have to change on samples you read here.

More detail on what you want would help. If you want a script that activates that specific field in the OIP, then I don't think there is a way to do that. If you want a script that opens a dialog box so you can make a selection and then stores that information into the PIO parameter record and resets the PIO, then I think that is probably possible.

This has been a capability of VW for a long time, but it has been removed from the workspaces. I think due to the tech support issue of people hiding objects and then not being able to find them. Here are two one line scripts that will help you. Show(ALL); Hide(SEL); The first restores all hidden objects to be visible. The second makes all selected objects invisible. You can enhance the Hide script to: Hide(SEL); DSelectAll; So the hidden objects are not selected and accidentally edited by the next actions. This used to be in the operator interface under a command called Custom Visibility that was removed a decade or more ago.

@JuanP Any leads on why CH_R( without the underscore causes a 404 error on the Forum when trying to post?

I don't believe that there is a scriptable way to change workspaces. If Stream deck offers a way to click as a specific location you might be able to get it to select the workspace you want.