borgo1971 Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 In VW 12.5 is there a why to export a Sheet Layer to a file that looks like my original sheet layer, but without sheet layers and all the things I can't see in my sheet? I mean something like have a Design Layer for every viewport and cut all it's outside from used viewports from visible sheetlayer. To understand better wath I mean, I need to give some sheets to pepole that use VectorWorks 10, and they must can modify the files. If there's not this possibilitty, I think it's a lack of VectorWorks because it can be useful for a lot of other case. What do you mean? Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 (edited) I'm no authority on VW beyond 9, but... Viewports are just a way of looking at the model. They were introduced in VW 11, I think. Your VW 10 users are able to modify the file (model, data - whatever you call it.) You are then able to open te file with VW 11 or VW 12. With clever use of Workgroup Referencing, your viewports will be intact. You cannot export features to a version that does not support them. Edited November 14, 2006 by Petri Quote Link to comment
borgo1971 Posted November 14, 2006 Author Share Posted November 14, 2006 What I want, is to have a VectorWorks file that looks like a Sheet Layer, but cutting away all I can't see in the sheet. On my mind, this can be a usefull way to extract portions from great models (like country or regional maps), and the best way to export ready sheets to people that can't use linked Sheet and Model. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Andrew Bell@NV Posted November 14, 2006 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 14, 2006 Viewports can be converted to group, usually, and that data could be copied to a design layer for export. You may need to scale the group (to counter the viewport scaling) once you put it on the design layer. Quote Link to comment
borgo1971 Posted November 14, 2006 Author Share Posted November 14, 2006 Viewports can be converted to group... It doesn't work in my case. If I try to convert to group I've a massage that says "Only rendered, updated viewport can be converted to groups.". And in any case it seems not to be simple job, to create 8 or 10 (from the same number of sheets) files with until 15 viewport for each! I think that the option to create a "model-space only" file from any sheet (somthing like you create PDF's) can be very usefull (I was hoping it exist). Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Borgo, That message simply means that the viewport you are trying to convert to a group is not updated. Update the viewport using the UPDATE button in the OIP and then convert to a group. Quote Link to comment
borgo1971 Posted November 14, 2006 Author Share Posted November 14, 2006 Borgo, That message simply means that the viewport you are trying to convert to a group is not updated. Update the viewport using the UPDATE button in the OIP and then convert to a group. I did, (before the last message) but nothing is changed. The Viewport will not be converted. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Do you have a single viewport selected when you go to Edit>Convert to Group? Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Have a look at ViewPack from Panzercad: http://panzercad.com/ In particular Create Views from Viewports. Quote Link to comment
borgo1971 Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 (edited) Do you have a single viewport selected when you go to Edit>Convert to Group? Yes, I'm making some try with a Single sheet / single viewport file. Edited November 15, 2006 by borgo1971 Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Are you using the Group or Convert to Group menu command? Quote Link to comment
borgo1971 Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 Are you using the Group or Convert to Group menu command? Look at my sing, please. I'm not a newbie to VectorWorks! The answare is: Yes, I used Convert to Group! Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Borgo - I'm sorry if that came off the wrong way. Please understand where I am coming from in that a) that shouldn't be happening and b) a common mistake that people make is using group rather than convert to group. I was doing my job to completely understand the issue. If you want, send the file to tech@nemetschek.net along with the message and someone can take a look at the file. Quote Link to comment
Skip Belton Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Hi Katie, Not sure if this is the same question as the one intended by Borgo: Is there a way of exporting the Sheet layer from VW 12.5 with the other Design layers for use in VW 10.5? Normal export will do all layers except the Sheet. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 No, viewports do not export back to anything prior to 11, since that's when the technology was first introduced. Quote Link to comment
borgo1971 Posted November 17, 2006 Author Share Posted November 17, 2006 Hi Katie, Not sure if this is the same question as the one intended by Borgo: No, it's not wath I asked, but can be a alternative Is there a way of exporting the Sheet layer from VW 12.5 with the other Design layers for use in VW 10.5? Normal export will do all layers except the Sheet. I hoped there's a simple way to get single files that look exactly like a sheet layer. So if I work with sheet's I've a simple way to pass may layouts to people that work with older VW or other CAD's that don't support viewports. If VW can export single sheet layers to VW12 files looking exactly like the original sheet (cutting away all thing is not visible), we can re-open it and export the file to any other format supported by VectorWorks 12, and be pretty sure to give away files that look like they should. Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Did you read mike m oz's post above? Quote Link to comment
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