buz Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 In particular, one instance of the 'Use Wall Depth' is greyed and another instance the 'jamb thickness' is greyed. What controls whether or not these options are greyed? TIA Quote Link to comment
Travis Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Buz, Is the door actually "in" the wall. When placed in a wall, the OIP will show "Door in Wall" otherwise it just shows "Door". Obviously, the "use wall depth" will be unuseable until the door is actually in the wall. Good luck, Quote Link to comment
buz Posted February 10, 2005 Author Share Posted February 10, 2005 Travis, Yes, the OIP actually says 'door in wall'. I tried dragging the door from the wall and reinserting it, deleting the door and creating a new one, as well as created doors from the 'door' tool and the resource browser. If my memory serves me (I'll have to get back on this) I believe the Resouce door worked ok but the tool door had problems. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted February 11, 2005 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 11, 2005 If "use wall depth" for window jambs is set, I think this disables (grays) the "jamb depth" option. I'm not sure what disables "use wall depth". Is the window in a wall? Quote Link to comment
buz Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 Actually it's a door and yes it's in a wall. I have dragged the door from the wall and the settings are still grayed. Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 watch out for a class named Door this will stop the door object working. Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 Jonathon this a new one on me. Are you saying that if you have ctreated a Class of 'Door' it somehow conflicts with the door PIO? OR Are you suggesting that the program spontaneously creates a class of 'Door' which then prevents the PIO from working properly? If the Class 'Door' is renamed by the user will the problem go away, oe does one actully need to delete the Class and start again with a new Class for the doors not named 'Door'? Quote Link to comment
Travis Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 Mike, I've learned to be careful not to name any two things exactly the same. Most of the files that I've eventually become frustrated with because things start behaving wierdly (now there's a useful, specific description, don't you think?!), have had at least one instance of duplicate nomenclature. Perhaps this is what Jonathon is observing. Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Avoid using 'reserved' names and phrase. Normally VW will notify if such is the case from entered from a dialog but not from the standard menus unless a duplicate exists. Strings are reserved like 'window', 'door', 'wall' ...goto organize>custom selection>select>type =is= then look at the list of options. These are the reserved strings used by PIO. Quote Link to comment
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