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Thank you Dave, for now I have solved going back to Update 3, thanks to the Italian distributor that has helped me. Since the main reason for me to update was to try the AI visualizer I will wait for the fix.

The same problem here. Any success in solving the problem? And also here: and here:

The same problem here. Just installed update 4 and Vectorworks freezes after launch. Actually, it is not completely freezed, just very very very slow and unresponsive. Have you solved the problem?

I see that nobody seems to have any suggestion. Does anybody know if this would be at least possible? Vectorscript or maybe marionette? thank you,

Hi to everybody, I have a large symbol library to be created starting from obj or 3ds models. I have to do a plan and two sides views Do you think that would be possible to automatize the process? I know that it is possible to batch create symbols from a folder but then I would need to enter in each one and create the 2d components. I gave a look to scripting manuals but I am just starting to understand and I don't even know if this would be possible to do. I would like to make a script that would: Option A: batch create symbols from a folder and then create 2d components from 3d (but I would need probably to optimize meshes first outside Vectorworks to have clean results) Or Option B: batch create symbols from a folder with 3d models and then add 2d components taking them from another folder of dwg views that I have yet for each symbol. I made some research and I haven't found anything, this task sounds to me a (quite) common problem. Do you have any suggestion? Thank you!

I have just seen that you have posted the script yet! Its 2 a.m. ... thank you!

Hi Ben, I know that this is an old post, would you mind explaining how you set up the script to batch create materials and the add properties from worksheets? I was looking exactly for this, I would build a material list according to the products list I use in quantiy estimate takeoff. I intended to use materials the same way you do, putting in wall components, slabs etc Thank you!!

It works! Questions: How can I find in which object is a material used? Right-Click/select the object on drawing seems not working (probably because the data is referred to multiple objects). Yes, I use spaces a the moment the formula returns "0", actually the walls are *around* spaces, not inside, does the command work anyway? (bytheway I have tried to make a big object space to comprehend the objects and it seems not to work) Maybe this happens because rows are summarized. How to see one material instance per row? (but now I have tryied to make a material used in one space only and it still doesn't get the location) Thank you!! Thank you!!

Wow, thank you Pat, you open an entire new world to me. I am going to try it! Do you think that I could find a way to show the place where those material are used? i.e room 202, 1st floor, building 2 thank you!

Yes, I have found it, and it looks that they are insensible to criteria such as layer+class or whatever. I'm understanding that Material is a kind of an abstract entity, with no location, only objects has locations, but actually a construction work is a combination of material+manpower. Probably you are right. Yes, I found this too! I was breaking all my nice styled walls to insert compound materials with the feeling that I am fragmenting and breaking everything, having then to check wall orientation for each little piece (you have seen it, here in in Italy we deal with old historical walls). And, the final discover, I am struggling to understand how to link materials to a location (it doesn't look like I can use the "inside" function, correct?). Plus, a wall, usually, is inbetween two rooms... what I would need is a simple ( 🙂 ) table with a few columns: id, work/material, quantity, Room, Floor, Building; for everything, all formatted in the same way, project items, doors, windows, restoration of existing walls (that's the tricky part), paints, ceilings (?), floors... Tom, I'm spending a week to build a system in Vectorworks and I really don't want to make it traditionally with a calculator on my desk, an external quantity take off software nor Excel. I would like now to build a system that I can use in the future for this project changes and for other projects! Thank you!

I hope I am not posting too many questions... is it possible to attach materials to space tools? the question may sound odd but I thought that this system may replace the old "room finish" what do you think?

I feel to be close, or at least "closer" to my goal. May I ask you another advice? How to exclude compound materials to be listed in the worksheet? at the end I only need what is inside them. I couldn't find a criteria to exclude compound materials but only materials in general. Thank you again!

Thank you very much Tom, from your attachement I understood how to properly format formulas for materials, now I am trying to make a worksheet to have all columns I need The only limit to this system looks like the necessity to manually make a lot of materials, I would like to be able to batch a long list of them (I have them on excel and filemaker database) p.s where are those formula list stored? are them available online?

Now I am trying to use data stored into materials, but I cannot find the material id formula. I see that it is used in the "materials by category" report, but how can I use that formula to populate a column? I cannot find "material id" in the fields that can be added to a report, see below: Again, I hope I have been able to explain what I mean, Thank you!

I got it, this could be a problem, it may happen often to improve work descriptions. Also, my work list is has actually 600 items, but I could divide them per type, i.e. constructions, demolitions, etc. but then, how to link area properties to each "true" line of the record format? should I make a criteria for each item? I would like to have a kind of a simple "tag" to attach to any item