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    Making a hydroslide

    in Solids Modeling

    Posted

    Thanks Mike thats a cool little tool.

    Is there any kind of spring object that you know of? Ive had a look at the available tools in my workspace and cant see one.

    Or do you know a way of using that Torus tool to appear like a spring, even if only for 360?.

    Worksheets and Odd Fonts

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    In my VW file I have the font set to "arial" with no "styles"

    In my VW worksheet I have selected all cells and changed to "arial"

    When I view the edit mode of the worksheets all the text appears to be arial but when I exit some cells are showing as like "arial narrow" or something.

    When I edit the format of that particular cell it says it is arial.

    Does anybody know why this is?

    Using worksheets to calculate floor area totals

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Markuskolb:

    In VW, go up to "help" > "vectorworks help" then in the search field enter: Additional Worksheet Operations.

    That should help you on your way.

    PS in regards to your earlier reply, I have never had to learn Imperial, I would be lost if I had to use it. If your speaking to the president any time soon you can pass on that CS1 says metric is good :)

    How to use the sum tool for databases

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Ok I Im not sure in this case the definition of identical.

    The set criteria has already grouped the particular items according to layer, type, class etc.

    Then there are various lists showing the selected objects lengths, heights, layers, areas etc.

    If I was to drag the sum tool to the Row Header that showed the length.

    What is it summarizing? What is it seeing as the identical database item? Is is summarizing all walls of a certain height together etc?

    How to use the sum tool for databases

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    OK im feeling really stupid now, I just tried it and still cant see what it is doing.

    I did the above and my list of values shrunk from about 20 to 10 but I cant see what info has gone or being added together?

    In each Header Cell the total is shown there anyway, does the sum tool provide a different value than this?

    RW Backgrounds for Viewports

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Yeah I have experimented with changin the size of the background, but its like 90% of the image is up to the right of my perspective, I have to increase the image (x10) or (x100) for the blue of the sky to cover the complete perspective, by this point the clouds are massive and look pixelated when printed.

    Why is the RW Background not centred behind the view?

    RW Backgrounds for Viewports

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I have taken a perspective view of my model.

    Saved as a viewport.

    Then in the OIP of the viewport I have set the "RW Background" to an image.

    For this particular viewport the image background doesnt fill the background.

    How do I get it to work?

    I have tried using the "translate tool" but that just distorts the perspective.

    Using worksheets to calculate floor area totals

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Yeah sure thing, Im pretty sure the area unit is controlled by the Document Settings.

    I use a PC so not sure where to find it on a Mac, but try:

    File > Document Settings > Units > and change the format there from inches to feet or whatever

    As far as the deicmal places go there are a lot of formatting things you can do to each cell or groups of cells.

    Try selecting a cell or group of cells then right click, then select format cells.

    You will see 5 options.

    Number/Alignment/Font/Border/Patterns

    If you go to number, then click Decimal you can change the number of deicmal places (top-right), and you can also enter a trailer, for example you could type in: mm?. (sorry I work in metric)

    Using worksheets to calculate floor area totals

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Unfortunately, as you can see in the attached image, even thou I only have around 7 floors, because I have many Design Layer Viewports the: "Objects that meet the criteria" says 129. This is because it Multiplies the number of objects by the number of viewports that that floor is shown on.

    You have to click "More Choices" and add:

    List objects whose:

    List objects whose:

    List objects whose:

    List objects whose:

    List objects whose:

    List objects whose:

    etc depending on how many floors you have.

    or Im pretty sure if all your floors were classed the same hopefully you could use

    List objects whose:

    Hope that helps

    Using worksheets to calculate floor area totals

    in Architecture

    Posted · Edited by CS1

    Yeah I do it on all my jobs now.

    In your worksheet pick a row and change from spreadsheet to database.

    In criteria:

    List objects whose:

    Then in the header of the row just use the equation =AREA

    you can use the =SURFACEAREA to give you the total surface area (EG for a cube the area of all 6 sides)

    How to use the sum tool for databases

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I have read the help menu but still doesnt make sense to me.

    I have a database in a worksheet.

    I have selected the header cell and at the top of the column there is the ability to:

    Organize in decending order

    Organize in increasing order

    The sum function

    I drag the sum icon on the the column and it takes a few seconds to have a think, but then I dont notice any change.

    Do I need glasses or am I missing something.

    Working out averages for databases in worksheets

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    My brain must have temporarily stopped working because I cant think of a way to do this and Im pretty sure its easy.

    I have a database in my worksheet, the criteria is set to retrieve all objects whose type is walls.

    In Column A I have used <=LENGTH>

    I want to work out the average length of all my walls.

    Now, at the moment there are 10 walls, I know I could simply use an equation , since A1 (header of database) shows the total length and there are 10 walls

    But if I add a new wall I would have to change the 10 to an 11.

    The equation would need to read

    I know I could set the criteria twice (once for the database, once for the average equation) but this would mean updating multiple criterias if anything needed changing.

    Hope all that makes sense.

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