But I reallies that I need to disable the protection mode (which by default enabled) in order to view the cgm file in IE with ISOview. Does is possible to view the CGM file with isoview 7 without change the default setting?
I'm making an Arch-based recovery USB stick, and I'm having some problems with making a shell script to automatically detect and mount the Windows partition (where the Windows\ folder is). Is there some way to do this?
Mount the partition and check if there is a Windows folder.
To narrow it down before that you can look for file system type ntfs, parttype, partlabel, etc. in lsblk.
This is the result i get for windows partitions.
Dave: Thanks for that. I had expected to find some list where you made your selection - as in many windows programs. Since many extensions come with their own toolbar I suspect that this is a Ruby feature - which I shall leave to the programming experts.
Thanks again for a very prompt response. Mike
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Hello, I have to create a presentation drawing where I stack five floors of a building in isometric view. The idea is to show the plans in 2D, but every time I go to isometric views in Vectorworks 2011 it projects everything up in 3D, which I don't want. I want the plans totally flat.
Some things in that image are shown in 3D, but it was the best example I could find. The column grid and the dimensions are still flat, just shown in iso. This is what I want for everything, even stuff like walls and windows that have been drawn in 3D. Is there a quick way to achieve this in Vectorworks?
:cry: I certainly don't want to modify the drawing that much - even a copy of the drawing. Seems like way too much work, at least for someone with my level of skill. There are hundreds of windows and doors and thousands of walls. Tons of stuff is grouped. This is a 120k sq/ft building. It would be a nightmare.
Another option I thought of is exporting a DWG of each floor from VW into SketchUP. Stack them up and just orbit around to take a snap shot. That seems like more work than Photoshop, but also a lot more accurate and flexible for choosing different angles
If you want transparent plans ie. wireframe you could try the same solution using dwgs, first exported then imported and referenced. One of the first videos showing 2011 2D/3D workflow shows this technique. (sorry couldn't find the link, i'm on an iPhone)
Just to follow up, I tried the PDF method and it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay resource intensive. Working with the PDF alone was too difficult to manipulate. There was a 2 Mississippi pause after every movement or object manipulation. Once I exploded it to get transparency, it was ridiculous. This was just one floor. I've got a nice quad core Mac Pro.
Another thing about the PDF method, and maybe it's my lack of VW skills, but after I exploded it, that was that. Didn't matter what view I went to after that it would show in the angle that it was exploded at. So if I wanted to draw any color or additional information on top of it I had to draw in the iso view it was exploded in. Couldn't go back to Top/Plan and draw normally.
I recently installed BricsCAD on a new Windows 10 computer and immediately noticed that the drawing preview was no longer provided in Windows File Explorer.... lived with it for a while but finally issued a support request.... Thanks to the BricsCAD support team for their rapid reply:
I remember some software I used to use back in the DOS days that was part of an add on to Autocad that allowed you to have a FULL SCREEN PREVIEW of each file and it displayed it as quickly as you pressed a key!
Often it occurs that one is browsing with Windows Explorer through a folder hunting down for something where the title of the drawing isn't descriptive of the actual contents. Especially when coming from 3rd parties. When we used acad that was really a neat little feature. As soon however that I made Bricscad our standard program to open any .dwg we lost the preview ability in the windows preview pane.
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