gentlegiant67 Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I'm playing around with the space-tool, which seems to be very useful. Most of all the function of showing the area of a space. The "field" that I use for this is "net area", which works perfectly - no problem here... But: VW automatically adds the suffix "sq m" How can I change that ??? I would prefer m2 or something else. Is that possible?? Quote Link to comment
Mitchell Brooks Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 GG67 Just set your units in VectorWorks Unit preferences to that. The label symbol in the space picks up on that. 1 Quote Link to comment
Itchy Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 didn't know you could do this, thanks. Settings: Unit mark: m? Smaller from Larger There are 1 units per Square Meter Quote Link to comment
gentlegiant67 Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 hey, cool, life can be so easy... thanks a lot! Quote Link to comment
Horst M. Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 I fought, and fight, with this "sq m" also. I just didn't manage to get m? typed or pasted in Worksheets or the Custom Input Fields of the Units Interface. It would be nice, if you can show how you did that My workarround to get rid of the freaky "sq m" (at least in the Space Objects) is, to set the Units for Areas to Custom, leave the Input Field empty, and add m? in the correct Place of the related Space-Label Symbol Quote Link to comment
Itchy Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 (edited) Here is my settings for the m? you know how to type the ? right? (on PC) num lock needs to be on, hold down alt and type on the num pad 0178 Alt + 0178 = ? (squared) Alt + 0176 = ? (degrees) HTH Edited March 7, 2012 by Xsasinator Quote Link to comment
Horst M. Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Thanks Ian for the effort, but on OS X I just can't get it. It looks like a mismatch between OSX and the Interface(s) in VW. normally, i can get every letter from the Sign palette of the OS. but in the Units interface that is not working, no clue why. The (Units) Interface of VW just allows letters, that can be typed throught the keybord, and there is no ? on the Keyboard, I tried every Shift - ctrl - alt combination. I tried also Copy and Paste, but that also doesn't work. the ? is either transformed to something else or VW Crashes. may be so other OSX User knows a way. (.... to the next Whisky bar) Regards Horst M. Quote Link to comment
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