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Thank you so much, Pat! So from what I understand, I need to set the class I want as the active class before running the script. Is there any way I might be able to also have the class active with the script? That way I wouldn't need to manually switch classes in the OIP.

Hello all, I'm hoping my explanation of this will make sense. I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around Python. I'd like to create menu commands or even just a script palette where I can run a script and be able to immediately start drawing in a polyline that already has set class attributes. I've figured out how to set the polyline tool thanks to a code I found on the Vectorworks Developer website, but what I can't figure out is how to set those class attributes. Is this something that is even possible? Thanks in advance! Here is the code I have been using: def SetPolyline(): vs.DSelectAll() def resultCallback1(): h1 = vs.FSActLayer() vs.DSelectAll() def resultCallback2(): h2 = vs.FSActLayer() h3 = vs.AddSurface(h1, h2) if h3 != None: vs.SetFPat(h3, 5) vs.SetTool(-204, resultCallback2) vs.SetTool(-204, resultCallback1) SetPolyline()

@Letti R, My vectorworks crashes every time I try to run it as well!

Hey all, I'm still fairly new to Marionette, so forgive me if I'm asking something that may not be possible. But I'm looking to generate a popup dialogue that would allow the user to choose multiple items at once to insert them into the document, rather than one at a time. Is it possible to do this? My thinking was to use check boxes for choosing the items, rather then the drop down list. But I don't know if this is doable. Thank you in advance!

I am new to Marionette, still learning the ropes. Is it possible to use it to change a field value for a symbol? In our production process we generate custom to-scale graphical plant legends on our landscape plans. As of now we just insert a copy of each plant symbol that's in the design and make sure that the box for "On Plant List" is unchecked under Insertion Options in the OIP. We then go on to align and distribute the symbols as needed and add the plant names next to them. We're looking to try to automate this process, and are curious to know if we could automate that box being unchecked.

My coworker and I just downloaded VW 2024 to give it a try. Before doing anything with projects, we both tried to get our resource managers set up the way we have them in VW 2023. We've both tried linking the Workgroup Libraries, but nothing shows up in the resource manager after refreshing. We haven't changed the file paths or anything. Is there something that changed between VW 2023 and VW 2024 that we're missing?

I am also having this same issue!

Thank you, Tom! It does add some space when I move it to the right of the origin if the data tag is aligned on the left.

I'm using VW2023 Landmark for landscape design. I have been using Data Tags to label my plants, but I have noticed that when I align the tags on the left the shoulder line overlaps the text. This happens whether or not mirror elements is checked. I can edit the data tag layout and move the entire thing to the right to add space, but I'm wondering if there's a setting somewhere that would fix this instead? I've attached a screenshot of what the tag settings look like in the object info panel. Thanks!

I'm fairly new to VW, so there's a lot I'm still figuring out. But I was adding plant tags, and we do one tag per plant type and change the quantity to the number of plants. I changed the plant grouping of some trees to accommodate this, but it sent the symbols under the sidewalk next to them. I can't send them to the front or send the sidewalk to the back, and I made sure to activate the correct layers while trying those things. Does anyone know why this might be happening, and how I can fix it? Or should I just delete the existing tree symbols and replace them?