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  1. Just a quick update, I reinstalled Vectorworks with SP4 and I tried to publish the same sheets from the same document and the same thing happened again. The vectorworks 2017.exe deletes it's self. I have just done another reinstall with SP3 and preformed the same commands and it has worked fine. I will also say that I had our IT consultant run a check on the computer to see if there was an operational problem with my PC but nothing was found. Hope this helps
  2. Hi All, I have just had a strange thing happen to my Vectorworks This morning I installed SP4 and this afternoon VW crashed while publishing images (with no notification or request to submit a report) Now it appears it has deleted it's run file and I can not open vectorworks. I am currently going through a re-install. (Huff) Has anybody else had any issues? Many Thanks
  3. Hello, A few weeks back I Posted this in the Architect forum, Pat had a look at it and found that it was a Vectorworks problem, Any idea if a solution has been found? We have a custom title block for our company and it has worked great until now. For some reason the Issue data no longer lines up when there is more than one line in the :iNote. Previously we had :iNo, :iAppr and :iDate aligned vertically se to top and :iNote set to bottom. this worked great the note worked up to the top of the rest. Now it doesn't seem to read the issue data as a group of data, just as individual text boxes. Which means if there is more than one line of text in the :iNote we get an offset between the lines. I have attached the before and after screen grabs for reference. If anybody know a reason why this might be happening it would be great to hear from you. Many Thanks James By the way I have tried making a brand new symbol that hasn't been converted from VW2016 and it still seems to be happening. pad-VW 2017 Titlte Block Issue.vwx
  4. Good Morning All, We have the same issue I our office, it is completely random and hard to replicate. It has happened on a few computers (4/5 out of 12), if we tab between VW windows we can see the new documents but all the commands are happening in the we have changed from. It can happen if we have two docs open or four or five, I can not seem to replicate why it happens. I have even closed and reopened the documents I had open in the same order and it work the second time. The only solution we can find at the moment is to shut VW down and restart Unlike Tom we haven't updated any of our systems apart from installing VW2017 We are using Window 7 Professional. Any ideas? Thanks
  5. Hi JMW, Thanks for this. We also found that changing the "navigation graphics" in the display tab of Vectorworks preferences to "good performance and compatibility" seems to work too. Just another work around.
  6. Hi Kim, We were having something similar happen to some of our viewports. We were told to change our settings in Tools>Options>Vectorworks Preferences, then under Display, set the Navigation Graphics to Good This seemed to help. Hope it helps for you too.
  7. Thank You Pat, Title Block attached Regards James pad-VW 2017 Titlte Block Issue.vwx
  8. Hello, I have another issue today. We have a custom title block for our company and it has worked great until now. For some reason the Issue data no longer lines up when there is more than one line in the :iNote. Previously we had :iNo, :iAppr and :iDate aligned vertically se to top and :iNote set to bottom. this worked great the note worked up to the top of the rest. Now it doesn't seem to read the issue data as a group of data, just as individual text boxes. Which means if there is more than one line of text in the :iNote we get an offset between the lines. I have attached the before and after screen grabs for reference. If anybody know a reason why this might be happening it would be great to hear from you. Many Thanks James By the way I have tried making a brand new symbol that hasn't been converted from VW2016 and it still seems to be happening.
  9. Hello, I was wondering whether anybody else has been having issues with design layer/reference viewports after converting 2016 to 2017. We have a set of drawings where the crop is not working. As we zoom in we can see the other objects outside of the crop. (see screen grab) This happens whether we are using the existing crop or a new crop. I have tried using different classes etc.. but this doesn't seem to help. If you have any ideas it would be gratefully appreciated. Many Thanks James
  10. Hello, I have another issue today. We have a custom title block for our company and it has worked great until now. For some reason the Issue data no longer lines up when there is more than one line in the :iNote. Previously we had :iNo, :iAppr and :iDate aligned vertically se to top and :iNote set to bottom. this worked great the note worked up to the top of the rest. Now it doesn't seem to read the issue data as a group of data, just as individual text boxes. Which means if there is more than one line of text in the :iNote we get an offset between the lines. I have attached the before and after screen grabs for reference. If anybody know a reason why this might be happening it would be great to hear from you. Many Thanks James By the way I have tried making a brand new symbol that hasn't been converted from VW2016 and it still seems to be happening.
  11. Hello, I was wondering whether anybody else has been having issues with design layer/reference viewports after converting 2016 to 2017. We have a set of drawings where the crop is not working. As we zoom in we can see the other objects outside of the crop. (see screen grab) This happens whether we are using the existing crop or a new crop. I have tried using different classes etc.. but this doesn't seem to help. If you have any ideas it would be gratefully appreciated. Many Thanks James
  12. Thank you for your help. It sounds like we go through the same process as the suggestions. Import then using the wand selecting the by line weight and setting those lines to class thickness. Thank you for the tip of importing to the page scale to avoid the marker conflict.
  13. We seem to have an on going problem with importing DWG that we have been shrugging off as one of those things. When we import a DWG it appears that some of the lines and markers come in at a large scale. Line weight being 6.48 and markers that take over the drawings. I was wondering if this is a common problem or if there is an option that we simply have checked. we are using VW2016SP2 on Windows pro8 but this has been an issue on previous VW versions.
  14. It appears that the tile was referenced into the master and as a result referring to the co-ordinates of the source file, and because the master document is a presentation file the viewports were moved around. To get over this I have broken the resource link and over written the class properties in the referenced viewport. Not sure if there would be a better way? but it seems to work at the moment.
  15. We currently have a project that is split in to 5 files all referenced in to one master "presentation" file where our sheets are set up. I am trying to issue the file to one of our consultants, and would like to send the master file as one DWG (or a batch of sheets as one DWG) but at the moment when I export the sheets each sheet creates it's own DWG. Which means I have 41 files(for 41 sheets) all containing text types, hatch types etc. and also the design layers (we only have 5 design layers with various viewports from the references). So it means there is a lot of repeated information. I am sure this is easy done but I just can not find the right option.
  16. Can anybody help, when I reference a drawing the insulation tile fill doesn't align with the cavity in the wall as it does in the main file. Is there a quick fix to this?
  17. Would it be possible to add the default dimension class to different dimension style. We currently use a few dimension styles e.g External/Internal Dimensions. in creating these styles could there be a drop down (like text style) which allows you to pick a class.
  18. is there a formula that will allow you to call the fill colour of the object. I have tried but it doesn't seem to work. I need to present something like the attached screen shot. Many Thanks
  19. I was wondering whether there was a way of stopping the site model from updating automatically. I am currently trying to edit the contour labels but every time I move/(-) one it updates the model, making it a very slow process. I have the box checked in document preferences for Cache site model. Also can you centre the text over the insertion point, as they are set below in steep locations they do not sit on the correct contour line. ( I have tried changing the alignment in the text menu, this does not work) VW2015 Windows. Thanks James
  20. Can anybody explain how to get a referenced Viewport to update it's classes. We have a referenced viewport that doesn't have all the classes that are in the source document. (Two Vectorworks Files) This is resulting in greyed out items in the referenced viewport. (showing they are there but have no assigned class)if I use the visibility tool they show as being on the None class. If I turn that off they remain. The only solution I have found so far is deleting the reference and setting up the viewport again. However we have a few viewports coming from the source file so this is a bit of a pain. Many Thanks
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