LaVoie Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 Well first I bought windoor from OzCad, and it was great... and I see that they now have "select custom color"... and I'm wondering why the people in Australia are so fortunate... to have these handy tools. Wishing and hoping... Bill Quote Link to comment
0 Delmer Posted April 15, 2005 Share Posted April 15, 2005 From the beginning there has always been, Down at the bottom of the Page pull-down menu, A wonderful thing . . . Called "Set Attribute Defaults" So the whole world Could share the fortune. Quote Link to comment
0 propstuff Posted April 15, 2005 Share Posted April 15, 2005 Delmer: What bill is referring to is not in the Attribute Defaults, it's this (from OzCad site): New Custom Colour Command (Architect Australia) This command provides access to libraries of professional Colour Systems commonly used by Specifiers in Australia and NZ. It creates gradients and/or textures for any colour selected from the databases and can search for the closest available Trade colour matches from your own colour scheme designs. It also provides the Colour Name, RGB and LRV (Light Reflectance Values) for all colours. Standard libraries include Dulux?, Taubmans, Porters, Murabond, Colorbond?, Laminex? and Cabots? check out the movies etc on his site for more info. BTW, you will note that these are all, I think, colour charts specific to the Aust/NZ market. Bill; we are so fortunate that Julian Carr is a VectorScript Guru and provides us with these (and so many other goodies) because .........he just happens to be australian, and the australian distrubutor. Just luck, ...just sheer dumb luck. Can you imagine the work involved in setting up those colour charts?! SHEESH! Thanks again Julian if you're watching! As far as licensing 3rd party tools and incorporating them into the product goes; I understand that Macromedia (and Adobe? ) actively did this to the benifit of their software, however....... that's a murky area fraught with difficulties. There are many good add-ons at VectorDepot/Bits etc and they are still 3rd party. I wouldn't be holding your breath. cheers, N. Quote Link to comment
0 Delmer Posted April 15, 2005 Share Posted April 15, 2005 There is a Pantone color picker on the 3rd party plug-ins site (http://www.nemetschek.net/partners/plugins.html) though it is only for Mac. Similar to how window and other manufacturers provide dwg details, a certain amount of the onus should fall on the paint supplier or other to make their product easier to spec. To this end, rather than getting specific with each manufacturer, it would be nice if a universal color import/export function was available. (Or is there such a thing?) Quote Link to comment
0 Travis Posted April 15, 2005 Share Posted April 15, 2005 And that Pantone picker doesn't work with current iteration of OS/VW. Sadly. Quote Link to comment
0 Petri Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 There is a free gradient colour creation utility called 'A Pint of Paint' by yours truly available at VectorDepot. No colour charts included - you have to find out the RGB values from manufacturers. Quote Link to comment
0 LaVoie Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 Thanks again Julian if you're watching! and have you thought of marketing to us Yanks? I use some of those color sources. Bill Quote Link to comment
0 Jonathan Pickup Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 I like all the OZCad resources and support Julian whenever I can. Julian has made some wonderful tools. One of them that I like is animation works which allows VectorWorks to make moves that you wouldn?t believe. Look at this one for an idea of what can be achieved: http://www.archoncad.co.nz/images/ultimate.mov this is a reduced movie, the original was shown on a TV show here a couple of years ago. The company that name it is shown on the copyright notice. Quote Link to comment
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LaVoie
Well first I bought windoor from OzCad,
and it was great...
and I see that they now have "select custom color"...
and I'm wondering why the people in Australia are so fortunate...
to have these handy tools.
Wishing and hoping...
Bill
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