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Robert, I deselect because when I go thru and am at the point to add text to my drawing I've ended up adding alot of text and it all stayed selected and when I would zoom in and move a text line other text would still be selected and move unknown so I just select the text I want to move and I know that's the only change I am making Thank you all for the help on this Tom

I've modified the script to your sugestions Robert, works great thanks. Alot of the predefined parameters were to stop errors as certain types of drawings have thier own standards, but the versatility of this should be very useful. Tom PROCEDURE Note1; VAR Note : STRING; P : REAL; pX, pY:REAL; Name:STRING; Result:BOOLEAN; x1, y1: REAL; x2, y2: REAL; TextHd:HANDLE; verticalAlignment:INTEGER; h:HANDLE; BEGIN BeginGroup; Note := StrDialog('Enter the boxed text:','ABC'); BEGIN FillBack(0); FillPat(1); PenSize(7); PenPat(2); END; TextVerticalAlign(3); GetRect(x1,y1,x2,y2); Rect(x1,y1,x2,y2); RELATIVE; TEXTJUST (2); TEXTSIZE (10); TextOrigin(x1+(x2-x1)/2,y1+(y2-y1)/2); BEGINTEXT; Note ENDTEXT; SetTextVerticalAlign(LNewObj,3); EndGroup; DSelectAll; END; RUN (Note1);

Thanks Robert your comments are greatly appreciated I will take your advice. This forum is a great addition esspecially when the feed back is so possitive and helpful. Thanks again

This is simple but, I hope it helps some new users get started. PROCEDURE Note1; VAR Note : STRING; P : REAL; pX, pY:REAL; Name:STRING; Result:BOOLEAN; gridDistance:REAL; xValue, yValue: REAL; gridDistance2:REAL; TextHd:HANDLE; verticalAlignment:INTEGER; scaleXR,scaleYR:REAL; h:HANDLE; LScale:REAL; BEGIN SetOriginAbsolute(0,0); { NameClass('Symbols'); Layer('Symbols'); LScale:=(1/1); SetScale(LScale); gridDistance:= .5; GridLines(gridDistance); gridDistance2:= .125; PenGrid(gridDistance2); } BeginGroup; Note := ('Enter your text Here.'); BEGIN FillBack(0); FillPat(1); PenSize(7); PenPat(2); END; TextFont(GetFontID('Arial')); TextVerticalAlign(1); P := 0.0; pX := 0.0; pY := 0.0; GetPt( pX, pY); MoveTo(pX,pY); RELATIVE; Rect(-0.5, -0.875, 0.5, 0.0); RELATIVE; TEXTJUST (2); TEXTSIZE (10); TEXTORIGIN (-0.0, -0.063); BEGINTEXT; Note ENDTEXT; P := 0.0; pX := 0.0; pY := 0.0; EndGroup; DSelectAll; END; RUN (Note1);

Hi : Go to support / downloads / Fundamental. Then you can select the update you want Tom

Hi Two reasons I have had this happen to me is the smart points is deselected for some reason or if I hit a number key by accident and change the view I hit "0" and put it back to 2d view and everything is working again. Tom

Thanks Katie; I'll work around it that way

Cris: Is this what you were saying and I miss understood? To solve the problem I moved the attribute pallete off off my Basic Tool pallete and that allows me to change colors without changing tools but, I would still like to have it on top of the bottom of the Basic Tool pallete so it is not taking up more of my workspace. Thanks for your sugestions and help.

Cris: Thanks but my palletes are docked and my constraints and attribute palletes are located on top of my basic tool pallete at the bottom I can drag and drop those but I can't move the actual color pallete with the color squares on it. do you know how to change the location where this pops up?

Katie: We just noticed that what it is doing is selecting the tool that resides under where the color pallete is opening on the desktop. That is the pallete color indigo is on top of unconstrained dimesion tool so when you select that color it also selects what is under it which is the dimesion tool in this case. Is there a way to move the pop up location of this color pallete?

Katie: Sorry I was in a meeting then at lunch. I tried changing the workspace with the oldest one I had, it changed the sequence of the commands. The verions were installed from a disk for 12.5.0 and updated to 12.5.2 from the updates on your web site.

We checked out some other CPUs and it's about 1/2 that does it.

Katie, That is what is happening. Can you offer any insight?

When I select certain colors in the color pallete the color changes but, the active tool also changes from the one that I have selected to one of the tool set pallete tools. Certain colors select the same tool each time ie: an Indigo will select the center mark tool. This happening on other machines but, different colors select different tools. Has anyone else ran into this problem? Any ideas how to fix it?

Hi I do not know if this applies but on VW2008, but on 12.5.2 (71041)in August VW started crashing on me like crazy at times it would go to 50% CPU and if I touched another key it would crash. I started checking task manager and one time found a file pop up called Verclsid.exe ref: ms 06-015. I uninstalled the file and removed the patch it came from (908531) and have not seen any problem since. my system has ran great. The patch came out in 2/07 but did not rear it's head till 8/07. If you go to MS site it discribes this problem. Tom

Christiaan; I hope your correct about "vector import capability". That would be such a great benefit for both time and quality of a drawing. Also, not having to convert pdf's to dwg's then to mcd's can only help. Have a great day, Tom XP PRO Dual 3gh w/3gb ram VW F 12.5.1

Quigley I was exporting as eps but the components were not on there own layers, did you find this to be true with your's? Tom XP PRO dual 3gh 3gb VW 12.5.1

Bruce: Version CS of Illustrator Tom XP PRO Dual 3gh 3gb VW 12.5.1

When I had this problem tech support had me go to regional languages\languages and check the install files for complex scripts box. Tom XP PRO Dual 3gh 3gb VW 12.5.1

I find the eps or the DWG format maintains the vector aspect of the drawing. Using DWG we get the layers set and the file size is ok also the grouping helps to maintain the structure and dimensions. Tom XP PRO Dual 3gh 3gb VW 12.5.1

Bruce I found out today that if you structure it as I said and export as dwg then import into Illustrator it is all layered exactlly as your classes are. Tom

Bruce: I often have to draw exterior elevations for the group that uses Illustrator for designing. I found that by setting my different types on different classes helped. What I do is make the frame work for a window then add the components or draw a rectangle and place the glass rects inplace and subtract them. With this on it's own class and grouped. Then when I export to eps then they come in as a selectable object which you can click and chg the layer to it's own. This is the basic process which works even with a number of Classes the selection options in illustrator allow for ease of selection, except when the components are mixed on one Class and not grouped as you want to work with them them in illustrator. Hope this is what your looking for. Tom

Bruce I used to have trouble exporting to illustrator, but I found that structuring of the mcd in classes and the way that I made the components and grouped them was a huge part of the problem. Also, the way that it was brought into illustrator solved the problems so that it is smooth now. Hope this helps. Tom XP PRO dual 3gh w/3gb VW12.5.1

Thank You for the info. I only asked because before it was recommended not to go higher then 7.0 and I didn't know if it had changed. Thanks Again Tom

Hello: Can you tell me what is the latest version of Quicktime that is compatable with VW12.5.1. I am running version 7.0.2. Thank You Tom vw12.5.1 Dual 3gh w/ 3gb XP PRO SP2