Is it possible for VS to get the structural units of a .vwx file?

[Sam Jones]

Is it possible for VS to get the structural units of a .vwx file?

[JBenghiat]

You can use https://developer.vectorworks.net/index.php/VS:OLDMassRealToStr and the other similar commands. Anywhere the mass gets stored, the units are in grams.

[klinzey]

You can access them using the Get/SetPref calls using the indexes listed here:

https://developer.vectorworks.net/index.php/VS:Function_Reference_Appendix_F#Structural_Units

[Sam Jones]

The URL is what I needed.  Even after emptying the cache, I can't get Safari to go to that version of the online Function Reference without clicking on the URL shown above.

[klinzey]

I was having the same issue and I asked the developer in charge of the WIKI to investigate the problem.

[Pat Stanford]

Structural Units are also included in the off-line (local) version of the Vectorscript Appendix installed with Vectorworks.

 

Applications/Vectorworks2021/VWHelp/Script Reference/Appendix/appendix.html

[Sam Jones]

Not in my local 2021 version, but I'll go back and download and see if I get something newer.

Edited April 17, 2021 by Sam Jones

[tbexon]

Resurrecting this topic, as I this has just answered my own question, though I think i've spotted a potential error Developer Preference Wiki page. Structural Mass units the Preference selector is listed as 9821, however from what I can tell it should actually be 6821. 9821 returns 0 every time, whereas 6821 returns the expected results.

 

Not sure who to poke about this?

[Maarten DE]

Thanks @tbexon, good catch!

I've adjusted it. It seems those other 9... where wrong too, I changed them to 6... too.