Keyboard shortcut options/"tear-off" dialogs

[Travis]

I would certainly like to have the ability to assign a key-combo to the Previous View/Next View commands. Also to the Align Layer Views command. (If someone knows the trick, I'd be grateful to learn.)

I'd also like to be able to have the Layer and Class Visibility dialogs stand open as pallets, when I want. Like the Script Pallets. Also, can we please have changes selected on the Layer and Class Visibility "pallets" be updated dynamically on Mod Layers. I click, I see the change.

One can always wish. . .

[Jonathan Pickup]

you can set a keybd shortcut to the align layer views command. At the back of the Architect Tutorial manual there is a section on customising your workspace and writing simple scripts...

[Jonathan Pickup]

the standard workspace on my VectorWorks has the folloing keybd shortcuts:

Previous View (Shift+cmd+,)

Next View (shift+cmd+.)

[mike m oz]

You can also use the small left and right arrows in the bottom LH corner of the drawing pane to go between recent views.

All of the keyboard shortcuts are listed in Appendix A of the VectorWorks manual. They is also a section in the Online Help titled ' Keyboard Shortcuts"

[Travis]

Thanks, mates. Now lets get those additional pallets working, shall we? (Presuming they'd be of use to others besides myself.)

[Travis]

While I'm wishing for improvements to Classes & Layers dialogs, I'd sure like to be able to turn everything off or on or gray by clicking at the top of the respective column. If I'm trying to show most everything, I can click everything On and then turn off the few I don't need. Or vice versa. (Hope that's clear.) And this should work everywhere I can set Class and/or Layer visibility.

[mike m oz]

Having class and layer pallettes like you mention would be handy, but many users would start running out of screen territory to have them in.

Some of what you are chasing is available from third party developers. Checkout the following:

Manuel Garcia de Paredes free "Toggle Layers" and "Toggle Classes" mac only plug-ins at VectorBITS http://www.vectorbits.com/

Alexandre Villares' (US$36) "VP Tools" at Vector Plug-ins http://www.vectorplugins.com/

Katerina Panagiotakis' (US$50) "Class Utilities" in the Market section at VectorDepot http://vectordepot.com/market.shtml

Petri Sakkinen's (US$10) "Class Struggle (Class Color Utilites)" in the same location may also be worth looking at.

Hope this helps.

[Travis]

Thanks, Mike, for the pointers. I'll explore them soon.