[VW 2024 Slow Elevation Updates / Unusable]

If Cloud is having trouble with the file also, it sounds as if there may be a problem with the file.

 

I recommend that you get in contact with Tech Support directly and get them a copy of the file to see if they can find what is causing the problem.

 

Good luck.  What you are experiencing is not normal and you should take the time to get it cleared up.

[Rotation of Elements]

You should be able to use the Rotated Plan feature to work on the drawing at the angle you need to make the ADU square to the page.

[VW 2024 Slow Elevation Updates / Unusable]

How big is the file?  What Operating System and Hardware are you running VW on?  

 

Are you certain that VW is running on a high powered graphics card and not accidentally running on the built in graphics on the motherboard?

[Rewrite files to current VWX version]

Batch Convert in the file menu will open each file in a path and resave a version as VW2024.

[Educational License to Professional License]

The forum is designed for User to User support.  While some VW personnel answer questions here, those are typically technology based, not business based.

 

You might try and call instead of email for a faster response.  I think turn around on email is typically 24 hours.

[Truss inventory report - use hanging position data?]

I think you need to check the Sum Values box in the Column B database header row.

 

[Educational License to Professional License]

No idea of the time frame.

 

You may want to contact Tech Support or Customer Service directly if you need just a few file rush converted.

[Educational License to Professional License]

Contact Vectorworks at the link on the following page and they can convert you files for you.

 

Make sure you package up ALL of the Educational files that you want converted so they can do them all.  Then after you get the converted versions back Zip of delete the Ed versions.

 

Since Ed versions don't open in Pro any more it is less of a problem, but if you copy and paste or even import even on object from an Ed file (not certain how you would do that now), you will end up Ed watermarking the entire file.

 

https://www.vectorworks.net/en-US/education/student2pro

[script to import DWG's in place in several folders]

Glad to hear you are getting this to work.  You have been on my follow list, but I have not had the time to think this through properly.

 

What you are doing is pretty much what I was thinking.

 

Good luck.

[Same symbol and objects overlapping]

The Purge command has an option to remove Coincident Duplicate Objects. That would be your best starting point..

[Record Format and Formulas]

If you only want the output of a calculation to show in a cell then that is a much simpler ask than what the original thread was about.

 

='Record'.'Field1'+'Record'.'Field2'

 

Should work with any mathematical operator.

 

 

[Snap cues disappear!]

8 minutes ago, Bill O said:

I also didn't get an email on the topic replies even though I asked to be sent an email?

Check your spam folder and white list the forum address of:  no-reply@vectorworks.net

[Interior Elevation Markers from Sheet Layer]

10 hours ago, Jeff Prince said:

Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...

Talking Heads, "Once in a Lifetime", Remain in Light, 1981

[Vectorworks Worksheets Reference flexible (VW-24 Landscape)]

I am a Vectorscript guy, not a Python guy,  but your script looks ok to me.

 

Do you get database subrows when you se the row criteria to be DatabaseByScript [DATENBANKDURCHSCRIPT]?

 

Try putting the script in a script palette and remove the 120 from the start of the DATENBANKDURCHSCRIPT call. That way you can see if the problem is the script or the file location.

 

Here are a couple of posts I have made about DatabaseByScript:

 

 

 

[Is there a way to update a Current Date data tag?]

It will automatically update if you have the Update option set when you Publish.

 

If you want to update it manually you can choose Reset Plug-ins from the tools menu.

 

Or the following script will update only the selected Plugin Object.

 

ResetObject(FSActLayer);

 

[Curve]

If each of the arched sections is going to be flat, then you can probably use the window tool to make four single windows, angle then as appropriate and make a symbol from them.

 

If you want the glass to be curved you will need to model the window directly. The window tool does not offer a curved option for windows like this.

 

Your could model the "windows" as a symbol and then use that as a custom in a different Window object.

 

If you convert the window you have generated to a Group, you might be able to use the Deform tool to bend it to what you need.

[Custom Parametric Object]

This is a perfect use case for making a Marionette object. 

 

Marionette or Vectorscript/Python or SDK are the way you make parametric objects for yourself. There is no button to take an object you have drawn and just say "make this parametric"

[Unable to decompose title block as a symbol in sheets]

Another thing about the VW Title Block objects is that they allow you to link field to both Project and Sheet specific records.  Change the Project information and it changes ever title block in the file. Change the Sheet information and it only effects that specific title block.

 

You should be able to convert your existing title block into a VW TBB (Title Block Border) object relatively easily. Take one of your ungrouped title blocks and copy all the information and layout, Including the project and sheet data.  Paste that into the Title Block Layout window.  Then select one piece of the text blocks that is where you want a piece of dynamic data to go and elect the Use Dynamic Text option at the bottom of the OIP. From there you can set what will be displayed instead of the placeholder text you selected.

 

HTH

[Space Bar Shortcut]

Do you know that holding down the Control (Ctrl) key (maybe ALT on Win) and clicking the wheel button on you mouse will activate the Flyover tool?

[Naming Landscape Area styles]

Objects in VW can not have the same name.  So you can't have an LA Style and an LA that both have the same name.

 

You are going to have to adjust your hates and figure out a system that you can live with that uses similar but not identical names.

 

Maybe use LAS for the style and just LA for the LA?

[Cabinet Shelves]

Update 4 schedule for release March 12.

 

[FSActLayer VS LSActLayer]

No there are separate commands for FSObject and LSObject that return the first and last object in the drawing.

 

FSActLayer and LSActLayer actually do return only selected object only on the active layer.

[FSActLayer VS LSActLayer]

No way to easily get selection order.

 

You could create your own selection tool that would make a list of the object you clicked on an then use that, but not using the built in selection tools.

[Is there a way to make a worksheet that informs me if there is a data tag connected to a plant object?]

All I have time for tonight. I leave it to the reader to extrapolate to check that it is a plant object.

 

Tricky part of script is that the Associations use a zero based index.

 

The other tricky part is something in the script does not like the Forum editor. So I am posting the file instead of the script text.

 

 

Associated Data Tag.vwx

[Lock Site Model!]

You know you can lock any object in VW?  Won't keep you from selecting it, but will keep you from moving it.  

 

You will have to unlock it to update the site model.