shorter Posted July 9, 2024 Share Posted July 9, 2024 They are incorrect and out of date. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
shorter Posted July 10, 2024 Author Share Posted July 10, 2024 I am wondering why these classification tables are not to be found in the Libraries/Defaults/Classification folder where the other classification tables are....? Quote Link to comment
shorter Posted July 11, 2024 Author Share Posted July 11, 2024 Would be good to find out soon... Quote Link to comment
shorter Posted August 9, 2024 Author Share Posted August 9, 2024 Is there really no way of updating these classification tables in Vectorworks?!!! FYI, the NBS update their table quarterly. We need to be able to update ALL classification tables in Vectorworks quarterly. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted August 9, 2024 Share Posted August 9, 2024 Libraries:Defaults:Classifications? Take a look at the _Uniclass.txt file. You can download the Uniclass Pr Products table from The NBS website. Their file needs to be exported as "CSV UTF8" (a CSV file with a UTF8 BOM). The csv needs to be placed in this content folder with a "csv" extension and a "Uniclass" prefix (or whatever prefix is listed in Vectorworks.vwr/Strings/ClassificationLookupDialog.vwstrings) More than one Uniclass file can be here at the same time. The alphabetically first one will be the default. Vectorworks 2023 (and earlier) supports Pr v1.28 and earlier. Pr v1.29 added a 'Sub object' column. Vectorworks 2024 is the first version to support this. The column can be removed in excel before CSV export to make newer Pr work with older Vectorworks. Note: Files starting with underscore character ('_') will not be shown and opened! You "should" be able to store that in a workgroup (or I know it will make you shudder) user folder. 😉 Quote Link to comment
shorter Posted August 9, 2024 Author Share Posted August 9, 2024 (edited) Thanks, Pat This only relates to the lookup tables accessible to Materials. I need the tables that Vectorworks refers to when defining roles in the IFC export settings. Where are these held? They need to be 'Ro' now, not 'PM'. Nowhere can I find a file containing 'PM' tables. So I assume it's hard-coded. Edited August 9, 2024 by shorter Quote Link to comment
shorter Posted August 9, 2024 Author Share Posted August 9, 2024 correction: We need both Ro and PM tables, but need to update both on a regular basis. Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted August 9, 2024 Share Posted August 9, 2024 You mean these? The table continues for about another 150 lines. "0" = "PM_10#Personnel"; "1" = "PM_10_10#Organization roles"; "2" = "PM_10_10_10#President"; "3" = "PM_10_10_15#Vice president"; "4" = "PM_10_10_20#Chairman"; "5" = "PM_10_10_25#Vice chairman"; "6" = "PM_10_10_30#Chief executive officer"; "7" = "PM_10_10_35#Chief financial officer"; "8" = "PM_10_10_40#Chief operating officer"; "9" = "PM_10_10_45#Executive director"; "10" = "PM_10_10_50#Non-executive director"; "11" = "PM_10_10_55#Managing director"; "12" = "PM_10_10_60#Director"; "13" = "PM_10_10_70#Partner"; "14" = "PM_10_10_75#Associate"; "15" = "PM_10_10_80#Manager"; "0" = "PM_10#Personnel"; "1" = "PM_10_10#Organization roles"; "2" = "PM_10_10_10#President"; "3" = "PM_10_10_15#Vice president"; "4" = "PM_10_10_20#Chairman"; "5" = "PM_10_10_25#Vice chairman"; "6" = "PM_10_10_30#Chief executive officer"; "7" = "PM_10_10_35#Chief financial officer"; "8" = "PM_10_10_40#Chief operating officer"; "9" = "PM_10_10_45#Executive director"; "10" = "PM_10_10_50#Non-executive director"; "11" = "PM_10_10_55#Managing director"; "12" = "PM_10_10_60#Director"; "13" = "PM_10_10_70#Partner"; "14" = "PM_10_10_75#Associate"; "15" = "PM_10_10_80#Manager"; You are right, they are hard coded. Kind of. This is from a file named UniclassTablePM.vwstrings. This file lives inside the IFCLibrary.vwlibrary file. At least on Mac, vwllibrary files are "packages" which are effectively a folder marked to show as a file. If you right click on it one of the options is Show Package Contents which then lets you treat it as a folder and manipulate the contained files from the Finder. So you should (theoretically) be able to just edit the IFCLibrary file one and then transfer that to each users Application folder (or maybe even just to the workgroup folder) and have your updated information. But if you need this undateable on a regular basis, I recommend filing a VE to have this file removed from the package and the information stored as a txt or csv file that can be stored in the Workgroup folder so the user can update as necessary. But this is all speculation on my part as I have never used IFC at all. HTH Quote Link to comment
shorter Posted August 9, 2024 Author Share Posted August 9, 2024 Thanks! This is what we need to update, or be able to update in the same way the Pr table can be updated. I was hoping it would be somewhere more obvious and user editable. A VE is on the way. Quote Link to comment
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