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  2. Thanks. I've tried these three The first one pulls through a date, but it's the date that I set as the issue date of the sheet the drawing register's on. I suppose that will work as long as I include the drawing register in each issue I make, but ideally I'd like it to pull the same data that the drawing issue worksheet pulls.
  3. Hi everyone! Trying an export vectorworks model directly into cinema4d (command "send to cinema4d") i've faced a problem. So i click on button "send to cinema4d", then i see menu with export options, click on "Export" button, vectorworks starts to calculate geometry, then calcuclation reaches 100%, and then... just nothing, no further actions neither from vectorworks nor from cinema4d. any thoughts? thanks in advance
  4. Take a look at this thread. It might help you do what you are trying to do. The only way I know of to make a worksheet of Resources instead of placed objects.
  5. I use all the modes on a fairly regular basis. I use the first mode when I know I am moving things and don't want to accidentally change their size. I normally us the second mode for regular drawing. I switch to the third mode when I occasionally realize that I need to resize multiple objects at once. And I have not gotten into the habit of using the new 4th mode yet. Maybe on the next project.
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  7. The WFS/WMF connectivity issues are addressed for the Vectorworks 30. Thank you for feedback and reporting!
  8. I really like TBBs! I think they are a really impressive feature. Be great to have this degree of functionality/customisation with other objects in VW!
  9. I get where you're coming from but I'm not sure how this would work. If the three Interactive modes formed Mode Group 1 then one of those modes would need to be active at any one time. If Transform Mode was in a mode group all of its' own, would activating it (by hitting the O key) automatically disable Mode Group 1...? That's why I was kind of thinking that Mode Group 1 should have two modes: Interactive (mode 1) + Transform (mode 2) with the U key toggling between them. In mode one (Interactive) you'd have access to the sub-modes relative to that mode e.g. 'Disabled Interactive Scaling Mode' or 'Single Object Interactive Scaling Mode'. And in mode two ('Transform') you'd have access to the sub-modes relative to that mode e.g. 'Translate + Rotate Mode', 'Re-position Mode', 'Align to Object' + 'Align to Working Plane'. Hmm... Thanks for the feedback/ideas!
  10. The real problem for me comes when you then want to insert a Door/Window/etc into this vertically stacked assembly + you have to line up multiple holes to make it work. But imagine the Wall Closures interface if you had three different wall build-ups within the same Wall object + wanted to punch a Door through all three of them...?
  11. I'm not familiar with Custom Cabinets but couldn't see a way to do it, other than running Command-K + converting it into a symbol then adding a Wall Hole Component to clip the recess into the Wall in 3D...
  12. - Yes, this can be done with the custom linked text options. You should have Latest Date as an option there, when you edit the TBB layout and select a text object.
  13. - You can easily create new custom title block starting from an unstyled one. Just enter its layout and start inserting graphical and text objects. You can then make your text objects linked/dynamic from the OIP and they will display data from the TBB. If you need additional fields you can add them from the Manage Project/Sheet data dialogs in the TBB Settings dialog.
  14. I can't figure out the wall closure options for a custom cabinet inserted into a wall. I would like the symbol to insert into the wall as shown, but in 2d Plan I would like the wall to appear solid. Full Break with/without caps seems to do the trick in 3d. Half break seems to do the trick in 2D. Is there any way to show the rest of the wall returning? Custom Cabinet.vwx
  15. @Jesse CogswellI'm pretty new to anything more than basic vectorscript and haven't done any real coding in a couple of decades (even then, it was very rudimentary). That said - THIS HELPED IMMENSELY. I was able to take the small bit of code I wrote for the PIO and integrate your code into it and am now getting exactly what I wanted to accomplish. Thanks a ton. I'm still working on applying attributes to the line work in the PIO and I'm looking to have it draw two different ways depending on which selection is in a particular parameter. I'll share the object when I get it to a somewhat final stage, but this was a huge help. THANK YOU! By the way - how do you like your ZenBook Duo? I bought the same model several months ago and have been loving it. I have an odd issue where my pallets don't want to move down to the smaller screen when I have VW open on the main display. I'll drag them down and as soon as they hit the bottom bound of the primary display, they just won't move any further. The cursor gets down there, but the window just won't move past the bottom of the primary. It's odd.
  16. Here are links to two old existing wishlist requests for this functionality, one dating back almost 20 years now. Way beyond long overdue…
  17. Yes. If you post them here (when you reply to this post you will see a way to attach files) someone will convert them. Just specify what you would like them converted to.
  18. Wall styles should be able to have different components (brick, CMU, concrete, wood framing, etc) stacked vertically atop one another. For example, an 8' high cast-in-place concrete wall supporting a 6' tall CMU wall directly above with a ribbon strip window above that should be able to be a single wall style that cleans up to other walls and has all of the behavior of a regular wall. After much experimentation and a posting to the forum, it seems like the only option to a single style is to manually stack completely separate walls with individual "styles" atop one another and manage all of the alignment and other mechanical issues by hand. Walls with different components stacked atop one another is a common detail and VW ought to either be able to handle them as a single style (preferred) or VW ought to prominently publish the work-around and include it in your various VW University articles and PDF training manuals. The ability to handle "stacked" components smoothly and fluently style is really a necessity of a modern CAD/design software.
  19. @Marc Powell What do you know about Event Enabled plug-ins? I was able to fab up this quick example of what you might be looking for. When you press the button, it opens a dialog box with a multi-line text box. When you press OK, it passes the contents of that box back to the PIO's parameter using a combination of GetMultilineText and ResetObject. I'm attaching the plug-in itself and have the code pasted below (don't judge, I wrote it in maybe 10 minutes so nothing is annotated). It is a Point PIO with a single parameter, called "text" and is set to Event-Enabled. PROCEDURE MultilineTest; CONST kResetEventID = 3; kObjXPropHasUIOverride = 8; kWidgetButton = 12; kObjOnInitXProperties = 5; kObjOnObjectUIButtonHit = 35; kButton1ID = 3000; kFontEnabled = 800; VAR objName:STRING; objHd,recHd,wallHd:HANDLE; text:STRING; theEvent,theButton,dialog,layoutDialog:LONGINT; result:BOOLEAN; FUNCTION DrawDialog(DName:STRING) : LONGINT; CONST kTextWidth = 50; kTextHeight = 20; VAR dia:LONGINT; BEGIN dia:=CreateLayout(DName,FALSE,'OK','Cancel'); CreateEditTextBox(dia,11,'',kTextWidth,kTextHeight); SetFirstLayoutItem(dia,11); DrawDialog:=dia; END; PROCEDURE DialogHandler(VAR item,data:LONGINT); BEGIN CASE item OF SetupDialogC: BEGIN IF(text <> '') THEN SetItemText(dialog,11,text); END; 1: BEGIN GetMultilineText(dialog,11,text); SetRField(objHd,GetName(recHd),'text',text); ResetObject(objHd); END; 2: BEGIN END; END; END; BEGIN text:=Ptext; IF GetCustomObjectInfo(objName,objHd,recHd,wallHd) THEN SetObjectVariableBoolean(objHd,kFontEnabled,TRUE); vsoGetEventInfo(theEvent,theButton); CASE theEvent OF kObjOnInitXProperties: BEGIN result:=SetObjPropVS(kObjXPropHasUIOverride,TRUE); result:=SetObjPropVS(kWidgetButton,TRUE); result:=vsoInsertAllParams; result:=vsoAppendWidget(kWidgetButton,kButton1ID,'Edit Text',0); END; kObjOnObjectUIButtonHit: BEGIN CASE theButton OF kButton1ID: BEGIN dialog:=DrawDialog('Set Text'); layoutDialog:=RunLayoutDialog(dialog,DialogHandler); END; END; END; kResetEventID: BEGIN Locus(0,0); IF(text <> '') THEN CreateText(text); END; END; END; Run(MultilineTest); The plug-in object attached to this message can be found in the Research and Development category of the Workspace Editor and will work on any version of Vectorworks 2019 or newer. Multiline Test.vso
  20. Thank you all for your responses. You've confirmed that my frustration was due to VW not being able to do this (it could have been my brain). For what it's worth, this is something that VW ought to be able to do. Given the advertisements and the marketing promises, you'd think it would handle this easily given how often the condition arises in almost every type of building. I guess this is why it's not listed as a "feature" My current building is relatively simple so I'll use multiple individual walls stacked atop each other but this is neither logical nor efficient. Thank you again:)
  21. @mjsmithvt also check out these threads/posts regarding walls with slanted, canted, or otherwise shaped profiles, via insertion of a wall cut symbol: and -B
  22. AlanW

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    @Grethe Connerth Hi you drag a symbol for the legend symbol folder to a design ,annotation, or sheet layer and then click on worksheet on sheet layer and update. delete on off and it disappears from the worksheet. Drag on on sheet and update it appears is sheet. HTH Alan
  23. Hi @AlanW thank you for sending this through. I checked your file. Apologies, but I don't know how to set this up. I will follow your content and hope someone can be more helpful and find a work-able solution. Cheers, Grethe
  24. AlanW

    Worksheets

    @Grethe Connerth Hi Thanks for the response. See attached a finishes schedule. I have a symbol folder with each one attached is to a records and i can place one of these symbols on a design layer, annotations layer or sheet layer and the spreadsheet will read them. So if you have a huge legend list you can have only the ones used in the drawing showing in the legend. I want to do the same with the electrical symbols. Hope this makes it clearer. Regards Alan Finishes Schedule.vwx
  25. @Stephan Moenninghoff Brilliant! This two step process eluded me. Not sure I would have ever discovered that separate deforms on different planes is the answer. Many thanks for revealing. I tried on a couple generic solids made from extrusions of my 2d sample. One worked. Deform failed on the other. Some persistence may be required. -B
  26. Hi @AlanW when I saw your post I initially thought - GRAPHIC LEGENDS. Personally I don't work with Records or Worksheets as I don't understand much of it. However Graphic Legend I believe to be similar in setting up, and may provide you with more freedom of choice. Overall I am not 100% sure I understand your question. In any case - I would think that symbols could only be chosen if they are placed on a drawing --> meaning placed onto a Design Layer. I may be wrong - but if the symbols are only within your library, then that may be the reason them not showing up in either - in a record or in a graphic legend. See attached - I took your file and chose a Graphic Legend template from the VW library and then set up to chose symbols. It's start that may suit you as an alternative. Please check the Sheet Layer. Cheers, Grethe Legend test - V-01.vwx
  27. Thanks, Andrew I don't need to actually display the text, just enter it into the OIP so it exists to be referenced (like a text line in a record format, but with the ability to enter data with carriage returns) by a data tag or the data manager. The issue is getting the input. I've been working on this for a couple days now and I've created the plug-in object and have created a dialogue box that will accept the amount of text I need to accept (with the dialog builder), but I'm now having trouble marrying the two and assigning it to a "name". What I'm trying to do is draw a plug in object that represents a cable drop or a cable break (done and it works) and add fields in the OIP that would show up on different sheets or a truss tape (which I've got all of them except a text box that will allow for carriage return). I can't get a parameter to show up in the OIP that will allow for multiple lines of text, so I am trying to get a dialog box that will allow me to enter text that I can then create data tag styles to refer to the text. Make sense? Any advice would be more than welcome. Thanks
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