gentlegiant67 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 In VW 2011 there was a tool, we were regularly using in our office: In the Dimension Standard "SIA" you could check the box "show Elevation" and manually enter the hight of a window f.e. - even if there was no true cad 3d-information. In VW 2012 this doesn't work anymore: the checkbox is greyed. Very painful, because we have migrated a big building design in VW 2012, an all the dimensions with this elevation-information is greyed and can't be edited anymore. Quote Link to comment
VincentCuclair Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Sounds like a bug....why would it even be present otherwise..... Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Interesting. As far as I can tell, the Show Elevation and Custom Elevation check boxes and the Elevation field are not in the US version of Vectorworks. I'm jealous. mk gg67, which localized version are you using? (Your OIP is in English) Quote Link to comment
gentlegiant67 Posted March 9, 2012 Author Share Posted March 9, 2012 We use the international version, as far as I know it's the us-version, 2012, SP 2 Did you try out with the SIA-Dimension-Standard? The checkbox is only showing in this dimension standard ! Quote Link to comment
gentlegiant67 Posted March 12, 2012 Author Share Posted March 12, 2012 I asked the tech-support (tech@vectorworks.net). They told me to contact our local distributor for technical support - thats what I did. They tell me: there is no such function as "show elevation" and "custom elevation" in VW 2012 international. But it was in VW 2011 international, that is for sure !!! So why was it suppressed in VW 2012 ??? have a look at the png.file: It's the same file, that I created in VW 2011 and then opened in VW 2012. Quote Link to comment
VincentCuclair Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 I have it too...greyed out. Quote Link to comment
gentlegiant67 Posted March 13, 2012 Author Share Posted March 13, 2012 As we are in germany and the local distributor of VW "computerworks" prefers to sell a translated and enhanced german version of VW, he is not so much interested in solving a problem of the international version... This seems to be the problem at the moment. Quote Link to comment
paulvector2 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 the same here. its greyed out. "set elevation" is a core feature for me. without that, version 2012 is useless. i expect a quick solution for this bug. Quote Link to comment
gentlegiant67 Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 people from the german vector works distributor computerworks told us, this function would not be supported in VW 2012 International anymore: Only users in the german speaking countries would use it, and therefore not enough, to keep the function working. I couldn't believe it, but thats my state of knowledge. We would have to buy a german version of VW - there the function is still alive... PV2, you could also send a bug report, so that Nemetchek takes our concerns serious ? SP 3 didn't solve the problem Quote Link to comment
paulvector2 Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 (edited) I made a small workaround for this problem. I placed the script in the object context menue, so its always present. The function is limited to single dimensions, maybe some solutions for chain dimensions here in the forum. so here comes my script for setting the elevation in SIA dim. { //// Set Dim Elevation (c) B. Schambeck. Distribute Freely. //// } PROCEDURE DimElevation; VAR H1 : HANDLE; dialogOK,ShElev, CusElev : BOOLEAN; dialog1,sx,x : INTEGER; elev,y : REAL; lead,trail : STRING; { //// Dialog Handler //// } PROCEDURE Dialog_Handler(VAR item:LONGINT; data:LONGINT); BEGIN CASE item OF SetupDialogC:BEGIN SetBooleanItem(dialog1,4,TRUE); SetBooleanItem(dialog1,5,TRUE); H1:= FSActLayer; x:= GetPrefInt(170); IF (x = 8) THEN BEGIN sx := 10; END; IF (x = 9) THEN BEGIN sx := 1000; END; y:=GetObjectVariableReal(H1,47); SetEditReal(dialog1, 7, 3, y/sx); END; 1:BEGIN { get settings } GetBooleanItem(dialog1, 4, ShElev); GetBooleanItem(dialog1, 5, CusElev); dialogOK := GetEditReal(dialog1, 7, 3, elev); GetItemText(dialog1, 9, lead); GetItemText(dialog1, 11, trail); END; END; END; { //// Dialog Creation //// } BEGIN dialog1 := CreateLayout('Dim Elevation',FALSE,'OK','Cancel'); CreateCheckBox(dialog1,4,'Show Elevation'); CreateCheckBox(dialog1,5,'Custom Elevation'); CreateStaticText(dialog1,6,'Elevation:',-1); CreateEditReal(dialog1,7,3,0,26); CreateStaticText(dialog1,8,'Leader:',-1); CreateEditText(dialog1,9,'',26); CreateStaticText(dialog1,10,'Trailer:',-1); CreateEditText(dialog1,11,'',26); SetFirstLayoutItem(dialog1, 4); SetBelowItem (dialog1,4,5,0,0); SetBelowItem (dialog1,5,6,0,0); SetRightItem (dialog1,6,7,0,0); SetBelowItem (dialog1,6,8,0,0); SetRightItem (dialog1,8,9,0,0); SetBelowItem (dialog1,8,10,0,0); SetRightItem (dialog1,10,11,0,0); AlignItemEdge (dialog1,6,1,1010,1); AlignItemEdge (dialog1,8,1,1010,1); AlignItemEdge (dialog1,10,1,1010,1); AlignItemEdge (dialog1,7,3,1010,1); AlignItemEdge (dialog1,9,3,1010,1); AlignItemEdge (dialog1,11,3,1010,1); IF VerifyLayout(dialog1) THEN BEGIN IF RunLayoutDialog(dialog1, Dialog_Handler) = 1 THEN BEGIN x:= GetPrefInt(170); IF (x = 8) THEN BEGIN sx := 10; END; IF (x = 9) THEN BEGIN sx := 1000; END; H1:= FSActLayer; SetObjectVariableBoolean(H1,46,ShElev); SetObjectVariableBoolean(H1,1249,CusElev); SetObjectVariableReal(H1,47,elev*sx); SetObjectVariableString(H1,48,lead); SetObjectVariableString(H1,49,trail); ResetObject(H1); END; END; END; Run(DimElevation); Edited June 10, 2012 by paulvector2 Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Does this script assume you have the International Version? It doesn't seem to do anything on the US version. mk Quote Link to comment
paulvector2 Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 Yes. It's for the International Version. Quote Link to comment
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