[Position Summary]

When the position is selected, change the size of the font in the text menu

[Viewport/Dimension issue]

I have just noticed an issue with dimensions in viewports. My custom (coming from hand drafting and being left handed) was that for vertical dimensions I would run the text oriented to the left side of the page so that in VW, I would flip the text on those dimensions. Now when I then put a drawing with flipped dimension text into a viewport, those dimensions unflip and read from the right side of the page. If I dimension in the annotations and flip the text, they stay flipped.

[Change colour of Instrument symbols]

Another thing to try is to do the label legend in the color.

[get my instruments to have class colours]

I get around the inability to change the color of a lighting symbol by have different color label legends.

[Inserting a multi-circuit instrument]

I would also be interested in solutions to this problem as well. I have all four sides of a rectangular grid as different positions but at the corners sometimes fixtures hung on the bottom or top position will get assigned to the side position.

[Custom Title block video]

It is also in the help file but the video had some tricks and better explanation on how to do it.

[Custom Title block video]

Recently I got an email with a link to a video of step by step instructions how to do a custom title block. I watched it but now that I am ready to do one, I cannot find the link or locate it on the web site. Any body know where it is or can send the link? Thanks.

[Dongle/Serial # issues on a neww 2008 install]

Problem solved. I got two stand alone versions and I was using the serial number from the other stand alone. I did not realize that the last 6 digits were the same from version to version. Had I used the other serial number every thing would have been fine. Thanks for the help on the phone.

[Dongle/Serial # issues on a neww 2008 install]

Thanks. I am running windows xp. Were is the preference file located?

[Dongle/Serial # issues on a neww 2008 install]

I did not get new dongles with this upgrade. I was told the previous dongles would work. Again when the Serial number window opens with the new 2008 serial number already in the left window and when I go to "add" a serial # the message is that the serial # will end with the last digits from my 12.5 version. If I enter that serial # the message is that # is not a valid serial #

[Dongle/Serial # issues on a neww 2008 install]

I just received 2008 (15 seat lab and 2 stand alone)and installed one of the stand alone on my laptop. I did the install of 2008 with the "B" serial Number and then the dongle driver. When I go to start up 2008, I get the message "A VectorWorks dongle has been found but it does not match the one specified by your serial number, You will now be given the opportunity to enter a new serial number" It then opens up the Serial Number window with the new 2008 serial number I entered at the installation highlighted in the serial number window. Clicking on the add button gives me a message the the serial number for your dongle will end in the numbers from my 12.5 version of VW. It will not accept the 12.5 #. I am using the dongle that I have had for the last gseveral versions of the program. What do I need to do. Thanks

[Chain dimension wish]

Yes. The flip text command in the OIP.

[Chain dimension wish]

The new chain dimension command no longer has the flip dimension option. I found it useful on occasion. It is still there on the regular dimensions.

[Color-coding sets of instruments?]

I color code by having different label legend colors

[Help problem]

Turns out the problem was that Windows did not have a default browser assigned. Now that it does, help will run even though VW is not on the primary hard drive.

[Help problem]

The folder for help was not changed from the installation. It is located on the E drive in a folder called "Vectorworks 12.0.0". It was not moved there from another location, it was installed there. The help command did work previously after I upgraded from 11.

Tom

[Help problem]

I am having a problem with the help in VectorWorks. When I click on the VectorWorks help command in the menu, I get an error message that says ?An error has occurred while opening the help system. Make sure the ?VWHelp? folder is in the same folder as the application.? When I go to the WVHelp folder (which is in the same folder as the application) and click in the ?index.htm? file, the browser (Firefox) opens with VW help. I know it had worked previously from the program.

Running VW 12.0.1 Windows XP

[Rendering Problem]

As per Mike M Oz's suggestion, I put the stage floor in to the same layer as the set and now it will render. Will the program only render one layer at a time?

Tom

[Rendering Problem]

As per Mike M Oz's suggestion, I put the stage floor in to the same layer as the set and now it will render, Will the program only render one layer at a time?

Tom

[Rendering Problem]

I have been having a reoccurring problem with rendering parts of some of my sets. I have been using a polyline to draw the rather complex outline of my stage and then extruding a little bit (.05?) so that I can give it a fill and a texture. It is in its own layer and class and is then locked to prevent if from being moved. I put the set pieces on top of this in different layers (all in the same scale) and classes with fills and textures. It works in wireframe but when I try to render it with any of the Renderworks commands, I get a number of different results. The most consistent is that I will get the stage floor to render with no set and then it disappears from the screen and then it renders again but this time I get the set rendered with no floor. I also had the floor get stuck in a rendered view even when the wireframe view is checked. I have tried various aspects and ways of doing the stage floor, locked when rendering, unlocked, turning the polyline into a floor. I did get it to work successfully for one set but I am not sure what I did on that one drawing that worked. I am using 11.51 on PC but it is not machine related as it happens at both the home and office. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[Update to 11.5]

It worked better the next day. It seems to make a difference if the dongle is unplugged during the installation. Since the dongle just lives back there in the hub, I forgot about it.

I am going to like some of the new features such as the sketch rendering option. I haven't found out yet if it can do hidden line in sketch mode.

[Update to 11.5]

I did another update on my home machine and there it worked fine. The difference seems to be that my office machne is not initializing the dongle after the upgrade. I am not sure and it is not clear in the upgrade instuctions whether the dongle should be plugged or unplugged during the upgrade. At home I didn't have it plugged in and after the restart that the upgrade does, I plugged in the dongle in and windows "found new hardware. I am going to try again today between classes.

[Update to 11.5]

I have just done the update to 11.5, twice and both times after the installation completes and the restart, when I try to open the program, I get the message that ?VectorWorks requires that up-to-date dongle drivers be installed. Please install the drivers and relaunch VectorWorks.? As part of the update I saw a box that the drivers were being installed. The dongle is lit. The driver is listed as file version 1.11 for akscoinst.dll, 4.10 for akshasp.sys and 3.33 for hardlock.sys. I will be going back to the backup copy of 11.0.1. Thanks.

Windows XP

[Changing Colours of individual Fixtures]

I tried asking this on 2/18/2004 (See "instruments in color") . I couldn't get the solution to work (limited amount of time to play) so I went with a label legend in color.

[Paperwork Problems]

Open the worksheet, Click on the worksheet menu arrow (right under the check and X in the upper left corner), chose "Preferences", and deselect the "Show Tabs" button under Display. That removes the Headers. For more info see page 111 in the manual.