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  2. @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
  3. 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
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  5. 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
  6. Has anyone managed to get anywhere with this? Using the "publish" command results in PDFs with colours that look noticeably different on screen, compared to when they are viewed in Vectorworks. This is a screenshot - on the right is the bit of drawing viewed in VW, on the left is the same drawing exported to PDF. I've overlaid the two application windows, Preview on the left, VW on the right. The colour difference might not look dramatic here but it can with a rendered image.
  7. This might help: CreateText (TxtStr1); (Creates block of text) TxtHndTmp := LNewObj; (Assigns the block of text to a handle) SetTextWrap (TxtHndTmp,true); (Tells the text block to wrap) SetTextWidth (TxtHndTmp, PBlkWdth); (Tells the block of text how wide it is to be)
  8. Hello, Just looking for a quick fix to visualise a CAD import in grey scale: When importing complex 2d drawings it is sometimes daunting to go through all classes to organise them. I quickly made a viewport out of the CAD import but the lines are in many different colours. I am aware of the Black & White option within the advanced settings of the viewport but perhaps there is a more refined way to do it through data vis? Thank you
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  10. I have a slightly side question: I am making a special title block border for the sheet that I will put my drawing register on. Can I make that title block automatically report the date of the latest drawing issue? Can one of these options for linked text do that? It's the date in the red circle I'm after (this is a sreenshot of the drawing register):
  11. King Edward's Witley - Exhibition Hall & Library - 06.06.2022 v2023 v2024 v2021.vwx
  12. An edge detector looks at the pixels from the VW image and those become edges (white edges on black background), which are then forwarded to the image generation (SDXL). Other than to denote edges, colors of the pixels are not used, nor 3D in the model. However a future release may use the depth from Shaded renderings.
  13. thanks for those Dave and Claes
  14. blimey

    HYPAR

    Hi yes really interesting, but revit can export to hypar. Is that possible with vectorworks?
  15. We are looking for a drafter based in the US with a proven track record of Event Permitting and 2D event overlay experience. Please do not waste my time and yours if you do not meet these criteria. Work examples (PDF is fine) are essential. Interested? Send your portfolio and an outline of recent work/projects completed to: iain@ragingempire.com.au
  16. Would be nice if the Pillar object could be bound to levels, top and bottom.
  17. I regularly toggle between the 1st and 2nd mode and never use the 3rd mode. It's funny how everyone gets used to different stuff. In 2023 and previous I would use my hotkey to go from 1 to 2 then hit the hotkey twice to skip past 3 and back to 1. Now in 2024 I am struggling a bit with mode 4. If I want to get back to mode 1 by hitting the hotkey past 4 the widget stays on when I get back to 1. I'm not sure if this is ok yet as I am still getting used to the widget. I do rather like mode 4. I think I would like mode 4 to be it's own toggle separate from the first mode group. Mode group 1: interactive scaling Mode group 2: Marquee Mode group 3: Transform mode (by itself - on or off) Mode group 4: Translate/reposition Mode group 5: Object/working plane
  18. 🙂 Probably ? I am doing hard enough mimicking English .... And now even needed to adapt to that sensitive creature ....
  19. Thanks. So it has no "intelligence" about things like orientation of surfaces or distance from camera etc direct from the model ... just what it mysteriously works out from the pixels. (One of the things that surprises me most about these AI image generators is how they manage to get that stuff mostly right - if the light is shining from the side they seem to know what surfaces to light up. I find it a bit spooky really.)
  20. Is it that your negative prompt needs to be "red color" rather than "no red color"?
  21. That did not work for me. Creativity 0% keeps the geometry (mostly, beside some dents in the facade and such) but VW 's AI has a tendency to change or add a color. (For reasons I do not really want to know) In my case, offered was a shaded perspective of an industrial building with silver anodized facade panels. And that was wished for in prompts. AI decided that one of the building volumes needs to be red instead. Negative prompt "no red color" didn't prevent that in my case. I think with 0% creativity, AI gets angry and somewhere changes a color arbitrarily. I see no color experiments if I give him 100% creativity - and it gives much better images overall, just that then it has nothing to do with the design/geometry of my initial image proposal .....
  22. @HuguesGotcha. That makes sense to me. I've just made two separate reports and made them look like the same on on my viewport page. In the future I want to also try it with a spreadsheet as was mentioned above as I think would do essentially the same thing. Same with making it a BIM object such as a space instead of going through the trouble of adding shapes and naming them or adding custom reports to them.
  23. Thanks so much. I’ll give all these a try over the next few days. Babysitting our granddaughter over the Easter weekend so - family first 🤗
  24. Are you right-clicking the database header (the one with the black diamond)? If it's not visible, go to the View menu on the worksheet and enable 'Database Headers' temporarily.
  25. So, I have a renderworks artistic style applied to one of my viewports and I want to put another viewport below it. The problem is that the viewport with the renderworks style applied to it doesn't print as shown and I don't know why. I've tried to adjust a lot of viewport and publish settings but no luck. I've attached the screenshot of what I'm trying to print, the settings for that viewport and the screenshot of what comes out. Thanks for the help. Untitled 1.pdf
  26. AlanW

    Worksheets

    Hi I want to add all the symbol used in a drawings that are within a certain symbol folder. Have been doing it with records and text but the symbol which is a bit of a drawing i can add the image but it will pick up all the images in the drawing if i don't sort. Any ides would be greatly appreciated. See Attached 2024 Thanks Alan Legend test.vwx
  27. Hey folks I've created a plug in object that has several definitions. I need to create multi line text within the PIO somehow to be referenced by a Data Tag (like how a callout uses a multiline text box). I've hit a wall in my knowldge of PIO creation and vectorscript. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks
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