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Thanks for the reply but I guess I did not clearly state what I need to do. In some cases dimension values get very messy and unclear because the dims. are so close together. This is more a question when using Imperial dims like 16's &32's. To resolve this I would like to "split" the dimension similar to a stacked dimensions. What I would like to see is the number of feet above the line, & the inches & fractions of inches below the line. From my experiments I don't think it can be done as a custom dim. (even if it is stacked) a stacked dimension will demension the whole value not the "remainder". (BTW I use this function all the time with survey info on site plans to reflect the the survey info from an old survey in Imperial & a conversion in Metric.)

Is there a way to edit the dimension tool to ?stack? a single dimension values? In other words can I show the value of feet above the dimension line & the inches & fraction of inches below the dimension line? I attempted an edit but the best I could get was the total value above in feet, and the total value in inches below. The reason I want to do this is to save space so values are more clear (i.e. not smashing into one another).

Thanks nam

Thanks to all who have offered advice, & my apologies if my frustration got the better of my manners. Perhaps I was using an odd way of presenting drawings, but it is simple and elegant and if not spelled out specifically in the VW10 manual, ?sheets? (VW10 term) was the way to present drawings until a few months ago. My frustration stems from the fact that rather than a better way to layer link, viewports seem to be a different way to organize a set of drawings. To take advantage of this function, drawings must be reorganized. Viewports still require ?turning on & off? layers and classes with a user still must organize the drawing. But to repeat, to recreate the templates for one firm to take advantage of the viewport function will take a hours (NON BILLABLE TIME). Saved ?views? (VW11 term) need to be recreated as layout sheets, new templates saved. (FYi no layer links are used in my templates.) For some this may be a tempest in a teapot, but think of it this way: what if symbols were replaced by ?blocks?, symbols still existed as ?block? but to be able to use an EXCEL worksheet a new ?block sheet? had to be created for each old symbol. I feel this is analogous to what I am now looking at. Travis, thanks for the help, but my IKEA furniture was put together with cams, hex hardware and cordless drills, a nail gun would only mar the veneer.

PS, as for the name convention. This is F'd. What was a "Sheet" is now a "View" What is a "View port" exists on a "Sheet Layer" Why not call Classes Layers as AC does and call layers Boogers!!

I guess I feel the opposite way; the "old speak" sheet was a piece of paper. Everything "lives" relative to this piece of paper. Build a footing, on one layer, the CMU that sits on the footing, sits in the same placed, just in a different "z" space, but it remains in the same XY location. It seems to me the advantage VW had over AC was this premise. Abandoning this convention can make VW projects as inaccurate as many AC documents I now import. My hope was I could just add a viewport like I now add a layer link. I get from your reply this is not the case.

I am having some trouble with viewports. Having spent some time creating custom ?sheets? for different clients in VW 8, 9, & 10. I am now moving clients to VW 11.5. The trouble (for me) is viewports & the ?new? sheet layers. If I understand what is happening I can still use old speak ?sheets? in VW 11.5 (for some reason this is now called a view, & a viewport is a sheet?! Note to Nemetcheck folks, consistency; perhaps you could look this term up.) So does this mean that to take advantage of viewports I must recreate all my old speak ?sheets? as Sheet Layers? Do I have this wrong? I would like to just ?add? a viewport to some existing ?views?; can I do this? If I can, how do I do it? If not, well, for my money, a viewport is junk, so why have I convinced clients to upgrade? I will continue to layer link. (Just so you know, client?s i.e. Architects and manufacturers don?t take too well to upgrading software only to find the result is their consultants needs to spend additional non-billable time altering templates, just to take advantage of a new feature.) I would have thought that a change of this size would have been better explained in the manual. If anyone can help me with this subject I would very much appreciate it.

Thanks Katie

I have noticed the ability of the object info pallet to edit 3-D object "on the fly" seems arbitrary. Sometimes one can edit sizes of a 3-D object from the info pallet, other times one must edit the shap by going back to the originating 2-D poly. Why would this happen? VW 11.5 Mac G4 OS 9.2

Andrew, In addition to Jonathan's suggestion (and after you have purged the unused classes) one can go to the class listing & take a screen shot (or several). This is the only way I know how to get a listing of classes (or layers) I know of. Having the ability of printing a list of classes & layers from a file would be a helpful addition.

Hi, Generally opening AUTOCAD files has some "issues" howerver I got this message today: "Critical open DWG error". I have had the client give me both AUTOCAD 2004 & 2000 exports & I get the message with both. In looking at some older posts I see this has been corrected by removing corrupted hatches. I have removed all hatches, symbols, & worksheets from the document & get the same error. (I have asked the client to send a new file removing his hatches.) The memory has been boosted to over 100 Any other tips? Jim VW 10 on MAC G4 OS 9

Thanks Travis, I did mean Mb. I just looked, it is set to 150mb. I will try boosing the memory, I have never had this message if it is a memory issue in the past. Regards, James