seth wilson

Cool, Thanks!

When i try to enter a value less than 1 degree in the rotation info, it always rounds it to at least 1 degree. How can I enter .5 degrees? If you could point me to tutorials for the following I would appreciate it... How can I zero out the rotation of an object so that its at its original rotation from when it was created? How can I rotate an object on its Z axis while looking at it from the front?

Specifically, if I save a document while in OpenGL view VW crashes, sometimes VW crashes and the file is saved corrupted and becomes unusable. If I change to any renderworks modes it crashes as soon as I change the view in the viewport window. I do only have a laptop video card and 4gb of shared RAM...

My computer has a newer version of Quicktime that I think is making Vectorworks crash. I have googled and searched this forum but I cant find any instructions on how to go back to version 7.7.3. I have 7.7.5 and its not compatible with Vectorworks 2014.

Perfect, Thank you very much

I made a symbol. This is the first symbol I have made in Vectorworks. When I bring in the symbol from the resource browser it is not on the floor. It's lower. How can I change this symbol so that when inserted into a project it will appear on the floor?

The only way I have been able to do this is to ungroup everything and then select all the objects. Then you can enter a global Z value for everything selected and enter 0. New question If there's a bunch of duplicated groups, how can I edit one group and make the rest of them get the same edit?

Thanks!

I can't find that. I have VW2014 I have this... File>Document settings>Document preferences>Display but there's not an option for center on objects

When I push a number on the numpad to go from top to front or to side view I lose the specific object that I am working with. I then have to pan around until I find it. Is there a way to have a selected object still centered in the viewport even if I change the view form top to front?

My colleague made a bunch of groups of tables and chairs that are not on the ground. When I select an individual object that is floating I can enter 0 into the Z value in the Object Info panel. But when its a group, I don't see a place to manually enter the Z value. I have been able to move the groups with the mouse but that takes too long and I don't know if the bottoms are exactly at 0.

Thanks Jim

I figured out the problem. I was making copies of the object. When rotating the original object I can see it, but when rotating the copy I can only see the bounding box. Does that mean that each copy is only an instance of the original? If that is the case can I make the copies independent?

So sometimes when I rotate things I can see them and some times I get the blue square and I don't understand why? Is there a key command to make an object reset to its original rotation?

When rotating, I can only see the bounding box around the object I am trying to rotate. Can I just see the actual object as I rotate it? That would be alot easier.

cool Thank You

I cant figure out how to freehand scale an object. there should be a key command for this, right??

Thanks!

I converted it to a nurbs. Now it is 6 planes. If I drag a vertice on the corner it only effects one plane and not the entire cube.

So there aren't any cubes? only individual planes?

If I double click on the cube, I can only move the vertices on the original plane. I want to move the vertices of the part that got extruded. (it says exit extrusion on the top right)

Excellent,thank you. Another question. When I extrude a plane into a cube, how can I apply that extrusion? It seams extruded planes are different than a cube when trying to edit??

Im a beginner at VW... How do I move an object along the x,y,or z axis with the mouse? I have used other software that has a key command (M, then the axis) after pressing that when you move the object with the mouse it will only go along whatever axis you selected.

When doing the Theater tutorial that came with Spotlight there is a vertical truss on the stage right side, however in 3d view that truss is horizontal. I was just wondering if there was a way to make it appear vertical for a rendering. I am a complete beginner so there must be a reason its not vertical that I don't understand yet. I have attached a screen capture. The light pole I am trying to rotate is orange. I believe its object info that you are talking about is open on the right. I don't see J rotation in that window. Thanks

I don't see "j" rotation. I only see XYZ rotation. there is another box below that just says rotation??