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Arfitact

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  1. re: VW 8.5.2 MacOS 9.2.1 quote: Originally posted by joe newell's ghost: My question was of course... is there a way to force it. That is, can I change my mind and have it ask me the question again after I have already effectively turned it off by answering yes always.. NNM Tech Katie: would you PLEASE answer that specific question? (Your suggestion that we try learning the behaviors of the dialogue/Classes setup choices does NOT address its behavior nor his specific question - mine as well - of how to UNDO the action from having accepted ?Yes, always.? Please explain why it is sometimes impossible to make an object's Attributes change... for example, using the Attribute pallette with a single object selected and any change made in the pallette popups instantly revert to whatever state they were in before trying to change them to something else. Also, please explain all the circumstances why a Class?s attribute settings apply to an object even when the user does not want them to:1) Class settings window: Use at Creation2) Attributes pallette: having selected one or several Class Style or Class Color etc. popup3) Groups4) Symbols5) Plug-in Objects6) others... What I observed in doing YOUR exercise: When I copied an object (created in the None Class, w/ its default attributes set per a ?new? VW file, not based on a Template) and pasted it into a Class whose ?Use at Creation? box I had subsequently checked, it took on those attributes. NB- I did NOT create this object in a Classs with ?Use at Creation? box turned ?on?. NB- I did NOT get asked by a dialog box about whether I wanted to have those attributes apply to this object (the object was sitting there on its original None Class; I selected it; I changed its Class assignment in the Obj Info pallette; it instantly took on the new Class?s attributes without asking or alerting me AND without ?Use at Creation? being turned ?on?). I hope that is clear enough. WHAT I OBSERVED which surely might affect the results: if any of the Attributes of an object are set as using the Class?s attributes, then it will take on those attributes even when copied, pasted, Class- and/or Layer-changed... in other words, the attributes ascribed to an object will govern its behavior first. Then it will be governed by its Class settings. If these words are correct, then something simple like that should be prominently displayed as instructions/alerts/reminders/settings. BUT - even in an object which was set to take on its Class?s settings, when I added some text to it the new text did NOT take on those atributes: i got one single text block whose entire background did take on its Class setting, but whose original text only took on its Class setting while the added words were just plain, default-black. It is not consistency unless the User can expect/anticipate a particular behavior (i.e. it isn't only how well the brilliant software coders have done their design/execution work... it is also the ability of most/all users to use those behaviors predictably). Bill [ 07-22-2002: Message edited by: Arfitact ]
  2. quote: Originally posted by Steve Anderson: I don't have the time to come up the learning curve and create a set of floor-plans for a 2-story 4,500 sq. ft. house. Am interested if someone could take what I have on paper and convert it to a vectorworks set of floorplans in 3D...If interested please let me know cost/timing. Thanks I will do it. Charges will depend on purposes of drawings, # & type of 3D views needed, etc. Am free immediately - reply to <arfitact@aol.com>. posted 9/7/00 5:40 pm ET
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