eas Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Having worked out some bugs in our system I am becoming a big fan of the standard VW labels. That said, in the Room Name Simple I always get areas to the nearest two decimal places: 506.00 sf. For my current purposes rounding to the nearest square foot is accurate enough. And I don't want to use up precious drawing space on decimals and extra numbers. Is there a way to edit this function? Quote Link to comment
RonMan Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 I am not aware of a way to do this with Room Name Simple. You might try using a Space and turn off the polygon. You can control the number of decimal places with it. Ron Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 This is currently a wish list item. Quote Link to comment
eas Posted February 20, 2007 Author Share Posted February 20, 2007 Thanks Katie good to know other people are wishing with me. Quote Link to comment
gScott Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 we're also wishing like mad to have the unit label customizable or corrected... NOBODY uses S.M. to represent square meters, the correct form is m?. in addition the space tool uses the primary dimension unit for the area calculation rather than the "area" unit. we have the situation where most old site diagrams use "cape feet" which are not the same as imperial feet, but all our other dimensions are metric. if we use a custom unit "cape feet" to set out the site we get the area in "S.cape feet" when our area unit is set to metres... is this fixable? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted April 4, 2007 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 4, 2007 The problem with m? is there is currently no way to create superscripts in VectorWorks. Is m2 or M2 acceptable as m?? Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 "m2" is perfectly acceptable. Recognized by ISO. Quote Link to comment
gScott Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 robert, it doesn't have to be formatted as superscript, ASCII 0178 gives you the symbol. M2 is not OK, m2 is ok, m? is best Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Gideon - have you tried it? I can get a superscript 2 whilst editing or creating text via the Apple Character Palette (Basic Latin - Unicode character 00B2) As soon as i deselect the text though it becomes a full size 2. Quote Link to comment
gScott Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 mike, yes, it works fine on VW + windows XP other symbols we use all the time in VW are: ? - approx - ASCII 0177 ? - degrees - ASCII 0176 ? - squared - ASCII 0178 ? - cubed - ASCII 0179 ? - diameter - ASCII 0216 Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 From what you have written it would appear that the 'superscript' 2 and 3 Unicode characters work on a Windows computer but not on a Mac computer. frustrating to say the least. Quote Link to comment
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