Eyedropper Tool

[Stuart Gray]

In VW 8.5 it was possible to pick up the cavity wall lines settings from a drawn wall and then "drop" them onto another wall, (ie. one of the same width that was originally drawn without cavity lines). This saved so much time

However if I now save a VW8 drawing as a VWA 9 one and then draw a new wall using the Select Wall Type Command I cannot use the Eyedropper tool to pick up the cavity settings from the new wall to then deposit them on a wall drawn previously in VW8.

Am I doing something wrong?

[Guest]

It looks like in VW 9.5.2/3 you can't do it still.

VW 10.0.0 you can. I was able to get it to work in a new 10 document as well as a converted 8 to 10 document.

[Stuart Gray]

Many thanks for your reply Katie, maybe I should chase up our Distributor over here in England to see when the upgrades are available

[Guest]

Stuart,

It should be available to you pretty soon. I'm sure one of the guys over at Computers Unlimited will be able to help you out with a projected date.

[George Cocea]

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Originally posted by Katie:

It looks like in VW 9.5.2/3 you can't do it still.

VW 10.0.0 you can. I was able to get it to work in a new 10 document as well as a converted 8 to 10 document.

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In VWA 10, if the wall has a record attached to it the eyedropper tool will not pick up/paint the

cavities onto another wall. If the wallrecord is

removed then it works.

[Chris T]

VW9.5.2 on win 98

I was able to do this in VW9.5.2

[The SHP Man]

I saw your discussion and wondered if you could help.

I have been using the VW10.x on Mac OSX since May last year, and I have experienced a number of problems with simple tasks.

When I use the dropper tool it locks-up and/or crashes my VW. It is so annoying as firstly, i'm not trying to pick attributes from any complex objects such as text or walls etc. Secondly, this is a very important tool for my work and i am unable to use it.

I wondered if anyone know of a remedy to this problem??

[Guest]

Have you run Disk Utility to Verify and Fix disk permissions lately?

If you haven't, run that and see if the problem is fixed.

If it's not, there could be a corrupt object in the drawing causing the problem .. or some other underlying thing.

If Disk Utility doesn't fix the problem, contact tech support at tech@nemetschek.net and have them help you in detail with the problem.