My development environment at work is not sufficient to process ALL of the data in my cube. It continually brings down my dev box. I have open tickets within my own IT so I am not asking about that.
I have add filters in my DSV to limit how much data is processed, but now I only want to update the metadata within my cube so the next time I process the cube it uses the new DSV defintion.
Is this possible?
Found the answer, in the DSV right click in the white space and choose refresh. See a blog here where I found the solution.
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I am using the PLE of Anylogic. I would like to know if it is possible to export a model of Anylogic as PNG or JPEG. I don't want to use Anylogic cloud but I simply need an image of the template.
One available option is the "Create documentation" which you can find under the "Tools" button in the top toolbar. This will create a PDF with images of your model as well as tables summarizing all your code and parameters' values.
But if you only need an image, why not just take a screenshot? You can also select all your model's element, copy and paste in Paint for example.
Is that what you need? Or did I misunderstand the question?
In case your model is too big, you can do several things (from easiest to hardest):
make several screenshots, and then get them together
use the zoom to get a wider view and get the whole picture in one
use viewAreas of different size to view whatever you need to do
change your UX so as to see different information in different views (and then screenshot whatever you find more useful from those views)
Many graphics programs support dynamic clones of objects, i. e., whenever you change anything on the original object, it'll change all clones right away in the same manner. The reason I need this is that I have many copies of one and the same graphic across several slides. Ideally changing one should also alter the others.
Google didn't get me any further. Is someone aware of such a functionality?
When you insert the graphic (via Insert | Picture), choose the picture then click the triangle next to Open and choose either Link to File or Insert and Link.
From then on, if you change the original picture file, PPT will update the graphic within the presentation when you open the PPTX.
Insert and Link is probably the best option; if the linked picture file isn't available, PPT will use the inserted copy of the graphic.
Does anyone know of macro or custom command I can make to quickly annotate the area of a polyline in autocad?
I'm doing a project where I need to measure the lot and house size of several city blocks. I've got a drawing going but I don't want to measure and write out the area of each site, that will take to long. I've seen custom commands in the past that quickly do this kind of thing but I don't know how to make my own.
And I'm desperately avoiding doing it by hand one at a time as most likely I will need to make adjustments to my design later on.
The best method I can think of is to utilize the MTEXT command and use a FIELD to link the Area of the Polyline to the MTEXT box.
Type FIELD at the command line, choose Object, select your Polyline and you will see the Area property.
Here is a link on the CADTutor site that covers it a bit more in depth along with a link to a forum post that has this automated via a Lisp routine.
http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-46628.html
Our engineering department wastes a great amount of time reviewing drawings for errors. The majority of these problems involve human errors in labeling (ie. two rooms have the name 01-01-00-RM). Our IT department has come up with a partial solution by automation the room names. However, the engineers still have to type this into AutoCAD.
Is there any way to create labels in AutoCAD based on another file (ie. an Excel/CSV document)? Ideally, one would create a group in a layer and enforce that all elements be unique, then have them retrieve their values from a document.
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Some screenshots of the labels. Note, for company reasons, I can't put full PDF screenshots up.
First image showing compact label next to a camera. This was on a floor plan overlay.
Second image showing the full lable next to a camera. This was in the block diagram
Yes it's possible, there some different paths:
Lisp: very common on AutoCAD environment and allow some basic (and not so basic) automations.
VBA/COM: can be used from inside AutoCAD or by external process, just need to CreateObject("Application.AutoCAD") and program the steps
.NET or C++: in-process automation that allow powerful customization, up to a major remodeling of AutoCAD.
So, depending on your expertise, you may choose different approaches. It may also combine with batch processing via AutoCAD Console.
Find more at http://www.autodesk.com/developautocad and at the blog http://adndevblog.typepad.com/autocad
If the labels were blocks with attributes then you could use the ATTOUT and ATTIN commands in Express tools to export / import them in to/out of Excel. Watch for cell formatting in Excel - eg. numbers like 1/2 turn into dates if you leave the formatting as "General".
Programmatically this is reasonably trivial if the data is structured. An AutoCAD drawing is actually a hierarchical object database so everything in it is addressable, finding it is often the hardest part. If you have an AutoCAD installation handy, have a look into a drawing with MGDDBG to get an idea of the database structure.
creating simple charts with BIRT is easy, but now I would like to bring some more life to them...
imagine a simple line chart. Let's define as a requirement, that the maximum value should be highlighted. A further requirement would be that if the user clicks on this data point, something happens.
How can I solve this?
I can imagine that I could created a second value series which consists only of the highlighted data points.
But it would be nicer if there was a JavaScript API (or even a server side java api) with which I could loop through the data points and add a highlight on the fly. Is this possible?
I think I've found a good starting point:
http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/276-birt-chart-scripting-dynamic-markers-and-datapoint-colors/
Now I have to find a way to add on click events to certain data points...