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Pat, Charles and Orso, Thanks for the feedback. It was definitely a handle issue. I worked around it by doing some clipping rather than all the CIS calls. It's ok for now. BobD.

Hello All, I am running 11.5 on an XP machine. I have a PIO in which I am doing a few Combine Into Surface ops to finally get the required object shape. When run, the resulting polyline is invisible. The only way to display it is to manually hatch/fill it. I have tried to SetFPat within the code, but it does not matter. I am doing tons of other similar stuff within my system, and this does not happen at all. It seems to be directly related to the CIS operation. Any hints on what is going on would be appreciated. Thanks, BobD

Charles, I have it working. It was a simply the order in which I was doing the update to the 1/5 PIO. SetRField and ResetObject from the param PIO works just fine. Thanks for your help, BobD.

Charles, There are 5 different types of PIOs, not instances. On any given layer one of the 5 would be on a layer along with the PIO that sets the params. By linear I meant the update would have to be to one of the PIOs, not recursive among 5 PIOs. So linear does not mean a type of object in this context. Thanks, Bob

There could be up to 5 PIOs to update, however this would be linear - not recursive. I am running 11.5 on Window XP Pro SP2 on Pentium D Duo 3.2GHz box.

Charles, Thanks so much for your reply. Yes, I agree with all that you said. The only issue is synchronization. In the executing PIO I use SetRField and ResetObject on the second PIO and when the first PIO is done, indeed the params in the second PIO are updated, but no redraw occurs in the second PIO unless I move it, etc... , so the second PIO drawing can be out of synch with its own param values. However, if I update a param in the first PIO twice in a row, then the second PIO will redraw correctly. I guess this is the best I can expect at this time. Thanks again, Bob D.

Hello All, This seems to be an ongoing question. I have a PIO with parametric data which other PIOs read and are then generated. What I want to happen is to immediately reflect parameter data changes in one PIO in other specific PIOs. I have tried all combinations of ResetObject, resetting class name, RedrawAll, as suggested in this forum. The best that I can get to happen is to modify a parameter twice in a row, and the second time I can get the other PIO to regenerate correctly. Any ideas out there? thanks, BobD.

Hello, In moving from 11.5 to 2008, one of the first things I noticed was the pixilated zooming in 2008. From reading the threads, seems like this was introduced in 12 to speed up drawing. I find zooming on 2008 very annoying as parts of the drawing disappear as you zoom. I do a lot line drawing across a document by selecting a point and then zooming in to the next point. I am sure that this does speed up the zooming process, and must be appreciated by those displaying tons of vectors. Since this is implemented in the VW software, I am requesting a switch in preferences to turn this on and off. That would enable a user to decide when he/she would need the zoom speed up. Bob D.

Peter, Thanks for the reply. Yes, I started doing a list box. The checkboxes are so clean to implement vs. the list box. All in all, the VW dialog interface is a bit of a duct-tape job.

Hello, I have a custom dialog box that contains a check box for each layer, and an 'ALL' check box to select all. Problem is, once I have >40 or so layers, I cannot get to bottom of the list to do any selections. Is there a built in way to scroll the dialog? Thanks, BobD

Hello, I have >1000 layers that I want to export as individual dwg/dxf files. I am running 11.5 without any batch printing capability. When I export now, it requires a bunch of manual entry to export a file, and then each file is placed in its own directory. Is there any way to batch this and have a bunch of dwg files go to one directory? thanks, BobD

Nick, Duh! You're so right! Cheers, Bob

Katie/VW Tech Support, Can you answer my question regarding supported projections for RenderWorks? Does RenderWorks support oblique cabinet projections? Thanks, BobD

Nick, thanks, that's what I found also. My second post details what I really need to understand - can I get high-quality renderings using renderworks and oblique cabinet projections. Cheers, BobD

grant and Ray, Thanks for the inputs. Ray, that's right, OpenGL does not render in oblique cabinet projection. The documentation says that OpenGL does not support the oblique cabinet projection in the standard non-renderworks release of VW. I need to produce high-quality renderings, so OpenGL is not a requirement as long as renderworks would render the oblique cabinet projection. Since I am trying to decide on upgrading to Architect 12, I would like to verify that renderworks would provide this. Could someone please try this out and let me know? Thanks, BobD

Hello, I am building a catalog with many moulding profiles. Using VW 11.5, I currently use oblique cabinet 30 projection to give me a nice scaled object. The problem I have is that OpenGL on the standard VW does not support this projection. So, my fills are rough looking. Would Renderworks enable me to use oblique cabinet 30 and improved filling with OpenGL? Thanks for any suggestions, BobD.

Dave, thanks. So I'll have to draw the top/plan view in the pio. Bob

Hello, I have 2D PIOs that when I instantiate them, the default view is Top/Plan. What I need to do is to set the view to Front, as what is drawn by the PIOs is really a front view. When I start a new doc, I set the view to Front but as soon as I include a PIO, it switches to Top/Plan. If I ungroup the PIO, I can then copy it to another layer and display it using whatever projection I want. When I select the PIO in the VS editor and look at the Properties the Projection box says 'Requires 2D' and is grayed out so I cannot select a 3D option. Appreciate any help, Bob

Yes, Katie, they are.

Hello, I have 2D PIOs that when I instantiate them, the default view is Top/Plan. What I need to do is to set the view to Front, as what is drawn by the PIOs is really a front view. When I start a new doc, I set the view to Front but as soon as I include a PIO, it switches to Top/Plan. Appreciate any help, Bob

Charles and Miquel, Thanks for the explainations. Charles, always good to 'hear' from you. I will give the redraw/redrawall a shot. Miquel, I am trying to include groups on a drawing form which were created at a different scale than the drawing form, and I need them to not scale when I include them. Por ejemplo, I take a group from a layer that is scaled at 12 and include it on a drawing that is scaled at 20, the group is way small. Yes, I can use scale objects on it and scale the group at 20/12, but I was thinking about doing a number of them per drawing. Best regards, Bob

Hello All, I am copying groups from one layer to another layer and want to rescale the group to the scale of the target layer. I want to do this as part of an existing PIO script. So far I can select the groups by using SelectObj((T=GROUP)), but when I issue the scale command, I get a message that no objects are selected. When the PIO completes, the groups are indeed selected. Any help would be appreciated, Bob D.

Charles, thank you for the suggestion, you're always on the money! Bob

Andrew - thanks for the suggestion. I did a little research on NURBS and ended up calculating the necessary control point locations and then used ArcTo. This resulted in the polyline object I needed. Bob D.

Hello All, I am trying to build a polyline which represents the outline of a segment top door. It is composed of an arc and three lines. I need to take this polyline object and do an intersect suface against a grid of windows to then create a segment top window grid. I am creating the arc with arcbycenter and cannot find a way to create one polyline object with the four pieces. I have tried to do an addsurface of the arc, but it seems that arcbycenter does not create an object from which I could grab a handle. The only vw arc command which creates a polyline is arcto, but I don't how to algorithmically calculate control points. Any ideas out there? Thanks, BobD