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This could work without external hosting .. ...omit the parentheses

Thanks Pat and DWorks, but formulas are insensitive to whether they are written uppercase or minuscule.. But I finally found the "root of evil" ... my OS is set to use commas for separation of decimal places. I had to replace them with semicolons...

Same criteria .. tab - concat

You can upload pictures..

CONCAT function is in 2009 I tried your example formula in 2009 and 2011_eval, and this is the result.. 01 02

What is the syntax of a formula I should enter into database row, If I want to list for example north keys and east keys in one column? ='Space'.'East Key' & 'Nort key' (doesn't work..)

Wall components heights could be also edited in 3D view using pushpull tool.. Now it converts wall into dumb solid object ..

Jeffrey, I can see wall components names in object criteria database settings, it should be somehow doable/scriptable .. pic Maybe using this?? .............??

How can I make spreadsheet with a list of wall components in VW2009? pic

Pat, the script above works good for many PIOs in VW 2009 except for spaces. It works fine in VW 2008.

Thanks Pat, works great - :cool:

How can I extract room finishes descriptions? Now I am able to get r.f. codes entering variables like Space.Floor Key etc into database row.. Make room finishes legend command works, but it creates only dumb worksheet. I would like to have codes and their descriptions linked into one live spreadsheet ... Does somewhere exist complete list of spreadsheet database variables like Space.Floor Key, 'Space'.'Number' ...etc ?

De rien, Francois Actually it is not that much off topic. There are some SU features which would be more than welcome in VW 3D workflow.. - flexible 3D protractor tool - dtto 3D tape tool - possibility extract temporary guidelines from existing geometry .... btw - VW 2011 tape tool can measure distance of points on working plane or distance of their orthogonal projections onto a working plane, this means that distance of 2 points placed on a line perpendicular to the working plane will be displayed as zero .. yes,I know about Vectorbits tape tool and use it, but 3D (not only) modelling package deserves true 3D analysis tools ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFtIok4ecbE

SU 7 and older file formats are supported in 2010/2011 SU 6 and older in VW 2009

It's beta .. still in testing phase. Win version has some issues too. I look forward to the Linux version

Draftsight for Macs: http://www.deelip.com/?p=3293 Download: http://dl-ak.solidworks.com/nonsecure/draftsight/beta2/DraftSight.dmg

3d dims facing camera .. better watch in HD full screen

Thanks I will try . Could you attach your example please? ..................................................................... Nope ... I checked the "project screen objects" checkbox and viewports render better but not perfectly But the pdf export is the same - no text .. I tried it on my WinXP laptop and Vista 64bit desktop - same result. Video drivers are up-to-date .. Any idea?

You are right Kevin. I dimensioned example object in design layer. The sheetlayer viewports are not still live objects .. Dimension text is affected by type of render mode and as you can see text was also lost in wireframe mode when viewport was exported into pdf ... Viewport resolution and pdf export settings were set to 300dpi - should be good enough ... From my point of view 2/3D dims are badly usable now.

I believe you, but how can that be true? We are told to use viewport annotations for adding dimensions, but they don't give us 3D dimensions there! Interesting .... 3D dimensions in viewports on sheetlayer ... and pdf export

This is nice feature Mike!

SU push/pull modelling capabilities are still much more flexible and intuitive than 2011. SU modelling environment is fully OpenGL rendered. I tried to model same way in 2011 and it's still a pain .. See MCAD 3D graphic performance comparison by Deelip Menezes http://www.deelip.com/?p=2730 On the other hand 2011 modeller is solid/NURBS based which is better than SU simple polygon modelling .. But when it comes to 2D geometry extraction from smooth solid/Nurbs based models I still can't extract smooth polyline contours. 2D representation of sphere should be always circle, 2D representation of filleted corners should be ellipse segments and projections of other more complex shapes should be represented by Bezier curves .. (Yes, I can already extract polylines from surfaces using extract tool - great!) 2011 still extracts viewport geometry via linear approximation, this means that from superior 3D nurbs based geometry I will get same 2D output as from polygon based - faceted model ... I like the feeling of 2011, it's significant step forward .. and there is still space for improvements and bug fixes (wall reshape tool - 1mm step for example)

Thea render! Would be great to have WV2Thea plugin