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lucylou

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  1. thanks however the old trick of turning the computer on and off seems to have worked!!!! )
  2. Hi have just tried for the first time in 2008 to customise my windows (in 'sash operation' = 'custom') and then select number of rows, columns size etc, however when i click ok it just ignores everything ive just done!!! have always doen my windows this way but like i say this is the first time ive tried it in 2008. any ideas what im doing wrong, or anyone experiencing the same?? ps also noticed for a while i have to log in twice everytime i visit the forum... hmm!!??
  3. David, didnt mean to cause offence! only put that as i have read previous posts and people have said to put it in a certain area of the forum! so i didnt want to get told off! and no i haven't replied to anyone elses answers as you can probably guess that i obviously dont know much about VW! i didn't realise it was compulsory to answer other peoples questions in order for mine to be answered, i thought this was a helpful forum to help us in-experienced??
  4. installed VW2008 last week and noticed our page setup in the sheet layer has moved about 10mm so it now cuts off the end of our page! (printing A3) has anyone else experienced this? cant seem to move the page either without cutting off the other side of the page! Any ideas? ps posted this in print/plot forum last week but got no response!!!
  5. More queries!!!.... as said in yesterdays posts we installed VW2008 yesterday and are just getting to know it (or not as the case may be!) we have now tried printing and our page setup in the sheet layer has moved about 10mm so it now cuts off the end of our page! dont know why this has happend. do we have to physically move the 'page' to now fit our layout? (on every single page of every single project???....yawn!) (sorry if it doesn't make sense but its hard to describe without seeing it!)
  6. ooh thanks for your answers! although some sound as long winded as the way im already doing it! i think il try the copy and paste one! thanks very much though! )
  7. whilst im in the mood for learning new things and asking questions... does anyone know a way to crop an imported image/photograph in vectorworks? it takes ages to put open it in photoshop, crop, save as, then to re-import it into VW. Even in Word you can simply crop the image. Any ideas?
  8. no i agree entirely! its a good thing that dimensions automatically go into their own class (shame text doesnt do the same...) so why cant you easily set the type/font whatever you want to call it! Thanks for your help though, at least i know im not the only one! (as i often am!) im sure we all understand bad days at the office!!! )
  9. i just clicked on them and dragged them in from the resource browser? does that mean i have to get rid of all the symbols and then put them back in again? bit of a pain if so!
  10. here here mike!!! My point exactly! )
  11. oh i see, yes i have a wc and a sink symbol that i have put into my drawing from the Furniture Knoll sampler. it is saying it is in .mcd format and needs updating. does that mean i have to open all my sampler files and re-save them? (VW in process of crashing for 2nd time since upgrading - not a good start!)
  12. yes it is the correct file that opens... but i have no idea what the referencing bit is! i didn't know i had any references???!!!!
  13. Is this not a question Petri?!!! Thanks for your help though! )
  14. Does anyone know if there is a way to decide beforehand the size, font, style etc of a dimension? currently you have to set out the dimension and then click on it to change its style/size etc. which is ok if there is just a few dimensions to change but if you have a whole building that is dimensioned then it can take a while! if only you could even in the OIP change the font there like you can text? just discovered the dimension exterior walls button - great one!
  15. We've just installed VW2008 so are just getting to know it and have noticed that sometimes when i open an old file (V12.5)it says the folliwng: "One or more referenced files are not in the format used by the application version that you are running, so they cannot be updated. Use the Open command in the File menu to Open and the Re-save those files" you can then click OK and the file opens. We are just concerned that this may be problematic later? thanks
  16. Unfortunatly the only way around is for us to change the font to arial. obviously adobe has a strange problem (but only sometimes) with different fonts. its a shame that technology has let design down.... again!!!!
  17. no its black and blue. when its a pdf it is as though its white as you can select it but can see it. There are 3 pages to the presentation and i tried converting the 3rd page first and it worked fine, and the other text is all on same class, style, font etc.
  18. thanks Keith although just tried that and it just shuts the whole program down with no warning!
  19. Hi. the competition deadline is looming and we are having trouble exporting to pdf. we have presentation sheets with images, viewports and bits of text on and when we export to .pdf you cant see the text. even if we group it it doesn't appear, however in adobe acrobat it seems we can select the text but you just cant see it!!!! help!!! many thanks
  20. Thanks mike. i had tried the 3d Conversion Res thing however nothing happened. i am now aware of the secret way of making it work byt clicking into the object!!!1 thanks very much )
  21. hi. this is quite hard to explain so bear with me!!! we have 'oval' / elipse shaped floors (created from the floor command) that are perfectly oval when in 2d however when they are in 3d either in the viewport or even in the design layer they have straight(er) edges... like a hexagon?! im sure there is a way to fix this but not sure how. please help! )
  22. wow thanks so much for this. ive been wanting to know how to do that for months!!! so you do learn something new everyday )
  23. Im working on the same machine all the time and the class is definitly turned on. thanks though! )
  24. Hi. bear with me on this one, its hard to explain! Sometimes when I've inserted windows (in particular) into a wall all is fine, however when i go back to the drawing, say the next day (i think its once i've closed the file and re-opened it) the windows in my wall appear to be there but when you go to click on them (to edit them) they either disappear or wont move at all! It also seems to be that my walls are no longer joined and i have to compelety re-do the whole wall. this is really frustrating me! Please help!!!
  25. Thats the one!!! excellent. thanks very much! )
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