VW 2018 Improvements in Worksheet data search

[digitalcarbon]

this works well (just found it)

 

https://youtu.be/MWREVL_YsYM

 

 

however... is this broke or am i doing it wrong?

 

https://youtu.be/BYqR_713X0M

 

 

[digitalcarbon]

so the above Drawing List took me about an hour to finish due to my needed to go into every sheet layer and "shake" it a bit to get the 2-way data input from the worksheet to show up in the Title block.

[Pat Stanford]

Try Tool:Utilities:Reset All Plugins.  This should allow you to reset them all at once, but if you have many plugins in the drawing it may take a while to run. If this is too long, I can provide you with a script that will just reset the Sheet Border objects that should be faster.

[digitalcarbon]

Pat, that did the trick and only took 2 min

 

thanks a bunch

Edited December 11, 2017 by digitalcarbon

[Pat Stanford]

Two minutes is way to long.  Copy and paste everything in the following script block into a new blank Vectorscript Editor window. It should run in approx. 2 seconds or less.

 

Procedure Reset_TBB;
{December 11, 2017}
{© 2017 Patrick Stanford pat@coviana.com}
{Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License}
{Resets all VW2018 Title block objects. Useful to force changes}
{made in a worksheet drawing list to display.}
{Created in response to a thead by DigitalCarbonZero of the}
{Vectorworks Community Forum 12-11-17}


Begin
ForEachObject(ResetObject, ((INSYMBOL & INVIEWPORT & (PON='Title Block Border'))));
End;

Run(Reset_TBB);

 

[digitalcarbon]

8 minutes ago, Pat Stanford said:

Two minutes is way to long

 

thanks, but remember i am running Onshape on my other screen and i work on my fab drawings as i wait for VW...

 

i have achieved "Nerdvana"

[Markvl]

That is a very good description "shake it a bit" when the worksheet is not translating immediately.  I get that with my takeoffs.

[digitalcarbon]

So what does "reset all plug ins" do any way?  should this be done before printing as a way to make sure everything is up to date?

Edited December 12, 2017 by digitalcarbon

[Pat Stanford]

It does exactly what it says, It causes all plug ins to read all of the parameter settings and redraw based on the current parameters.

 

You should not need to do this often unless you are doing things like changing the settings of the PIOs from a script or a worksheet instead of the OIP.

 

There is already check box in the Print Dialog to Reset Plug ins that need resetting prior to printing.