billtheia

November 10, 2015

OK, Josh. I see what you mean now.

I think that Michel is right about the best way to "automate" this type of system - creating a door from a symbol so that you could make global changes to the symbol while maintaining individual PIO records for each individual door.

You might consider just doing this all manually, though, to avoid complication. It will require a little more manual coordination but you're going to have to do some level of manual coordination anyway. You could create symbols for each of the door types (with default data set for each) and set the symbols up to convert to PIO on placement. You could then just use a user field for Door ID. Much simpler and less prone to unexpected problems.

Please let us know what you do in the end. I'm curious to see how you ultimately work this thing out.

Good luck.

November 5, 2015

tessaro, I'm confused about what you are trying to achieve. Exactly what are the "slight differences" between various instances of the same door? And where are you going to call out these differences (another worksheet?) How will someone reading your drawings know which D001 you are talking about?

It seems to me that either all of each door type (D001, D002, etc.) are the same or they aren't the same door.

November 5, 2015

+1

October 6, 2015

Thanks, MullinRJ. That worked like a charm.

Did NVW change the pref number?

September 24, 2015

I thought that the ReDrawAll command would do the trick but it doesn't.

When I change the setting through the Unified View dialog, though, the screen refreshes as expected.

September 24, 2015

Thanks, Pat.

Yes, 127 does the trick.

September 24, 2015

I've just started using VW2015 and have discovered a problem with a script I created to toggle showing of 2d info in 3d views. The script is changing the setting as intended but the screen is not refreshing to show the new condition. The update only appears after I change views.

Can someone help me figure out why this isn't working as it was in VW2014 & before?

Thanks.

Here's the script:

PROCEDURE ToggleShow2D;

BEGIN

SetPref(95, not GetPref(95));

SetPref(102, TRUE);

ReDrawAll;

END;

RUN(ToggleShow2D);

See screen shot for the setting in question.

September 24, 2015

Thanks, Pat.

It looks like the Perspective values aren't quite right, though. The toggle to orthogonal works fine but toggling to a normal perspective doesn't work using '2'. It does, however, work using 1 which sets the perspective mode to normal.

The other setting that I was hoping to toggle wasn't the render mode but the cropped perspective mode. Do you know the number for that setting?

Where did you find the information about these settings?

September 23, 2015

Is it possible to create scripts that will toggle the default projection mode and cropped perspective? I looked through the vectorscript reference and couldn't find anything.

See attached screen shots.

Thanks.

September 21, 2015

I, too, would love VW to do this.

Maybe they can just hire the stoners in Colorado

September 21, 2015

This still hasn't been fixed in VW2016, making the use of "openings" useless to me. Does NVW have any intention of fixing this?

September 21, 2015

This still hasn't been fixed in VW2016, making the use of "openings" useless to me. Does NVW have any intention of fixing this?

September 16, 2015

Jim.

First, congratulations on releasing VW2016. It looks like NVW has made some great improvements and I'm looking forward to digging in and exploring.

However, I was also wishing for greater improvement in the door, window, and stair tools. Can you give us some insight into why NVW hasn't paid more attention to those tools? It seems like anyone who uses VW complains about the door, window, and stair tools but they haven't been improved nearly enough (in my opinion) since I started with VW12.5.

I've really appreciated the rendering, drawing coordination, and other improvements made since VW12.5 but I'm always surprised when a new version comes out and those basic tools (doors, windows, & stairs) don't seem to get the attention they need.

Is it that there aren't enough people asking for improvements in those tools, that the effort required to fix them is too great, or something else?

Thanks.

September 16, 2015

Agreed. Congratulations NVW!

September 9, 2015

InteriorCAD is nice but the last time I checked, it was pretty expensive. The cost of VW and InteriorCAD together was almost as much as a seat of ArchiCAD. ArchiCAD, though, seems to be a much more complete product than the combination of VW and InteriorCAD so it didn't make sense to me to buy InteriorCAD.

September 8, 2015

If you watch that whole clip, CA's cabinet tool looks pretty nice. I'd kill to have that much functionality in VW cabinets.

August 27, 2015

I have all of my resources in a non-hidden file (in my documents folder) and then have an alias to that file in the appropriate library folders.

This way my files are easier to find (and back-up.)

August 27, 2015

Thanks TuiWalker.

That worked like a charm.

August 26, 2015

Can someone help me figure out how to update the object info palette (OIP) after I use a script to change an object's class?

Here's the script I'm using:

PROCEDURE SelectedToDemo;

FUNCTION ChangeToDemo(h :HANDLE) :BOOLEAN;

BEGIN

SetClass(h,'Demolition');

END;

BEGIN

ForEachObjectInLayer(ChangeToDemo, 2, 0, 4);

END;

RUN(SelectedToDemo);

This does change the class of selected objects but it doesn't refresh the OIP so I still see the old class until I click elsewhere and then back on the object.

I've tried ReDraw and ReDrawAll but neither worked.

August 26, 2015

If your renderings are of individual rooms you could override the interior wall finish class in the sheet layer viewport.

If your renderings need to show more than one room at a time then you might be best off simply manually setting the colors for each room. With the issue of exterior walls running past multiple interior rooms, I'd probably slice the exterior wall at the centerline of the interior wall. Not elegant, I know but I don't know of a better way to do it. If your building isn't too big, manually setting the wall colors isn't as bad as it sounds.

Good luck.

August 24, 2015

Thanks for submitting, MK.

August 24, 2015

Thanks, MK.

I was afraid that was the case. Seems ridiculous to me.

Most of my files have the same or very similar layer and class structures. It would be really helpful to be able to share saved views between files. It would also be useful to be able to export new or edited saved views to my default template.

August 23, 2015

Is there any way to transfer the saved views from one file to another? I've tried importing and exporting from the resource browser and get messages that saved views can't be imported or exported.

I use saved views to quickly turn sets of layers and classes on and off. This makes moving around a file much easier.

Can someone help me?

Thanks.

August 18, 2015

That is exactly the condition I'm talking about. There needs to be a stair nosing and riser at the top of the stair but, in order to make it look right in plan, the edge of the floor obscures them.

August 18, 2015

When using a detail viewport in VW2014, is it not possible to modify instances of the detail callout as you can with section viewports? I would like the detail callout to show up on a design layer as well as a sheet layer viewport but there doesn't seem to be a way to do so.

Based on VW2015 help, it looks like this feature is available in VW2015 but I can't find any mention of it in VW2014 or VW2014 help. Did VW only just add this now, after releasing this tool in 2013?

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