P Bartoli Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 about the previous post, maybe I was a little bit cryptic. the problem is that my partner works with Autocad. He uses CTB files (plotter config files) to change colors and line weight upon plotting. This mean the color I see in VW are not the one my partner is going to plot on paper, and we need to have the same color palette configuration. I'm wondering if with Vectorscript I can change the classes' colors and line weight "on the fly" unpon DWG import... difficult task? Please help me out!! thanks Quote Link to comment
PeterT Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 The Improvments description for VectorWorks 12.5 says: "VectorWorks can now read from .ctb files during import and write to .ctb files during export, to handle line weight to color mapping information" Is that what you are looking for? Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 (edited) I'd guess that if you import DWG into a document with classes that have attributes set to correspond with AutoCAD settings, you need no VectorScript. I'd also guess that you can't really combine import & VectorScript. I know that it is relatively easy to store & import classes and their graphic attributes. The storage can be another VW file (no programming needed), a text file (freeware available for this) or a VectorScript (a fair bit of programming is needed). EDIT: Well, I was wrong about import. The DWG-file changes class attributes in a rather strange manner. Embarrassing to me, but no brownie points to NNA, either! In effect, importing AutoCAD data can ruin your document. Edited October 19, 2006 by Petri Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 I would really like someone from NNA to explain how you actually get VW to recognise a .ctb file. I tried to create a VW template for a user from their standard Autocad drawing sheet and its .ctb file. I could not get it to do it. I need to know how and where I am getting it wrong. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 If you have a folder with AC file(s) and a CTB file exists in the file, then the Import Dxf/DWG command will import/convert the file of folders, including reading the ctb file. If you use Single Import DXF/DWG, the ctb file will not be read. This is included in the help menu under Import DWG files. Quote Link to comment
gScott Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 katie thanks for this heads up. is there a good reason the 'single import dwg' doesn't read the CTB file? Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 A single import option lets you select a single file. There's no linking capabilities for the import to read anything else in the folder. The batch will read everything within a folder, when the folder is selected. Quote Link to comment
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