Amanda McDermott

We had a similar issue last week - data vis could do with an option to override based on the symbol class... if it's the same issue as ours, it's because objects/components of objects nested within the symbol may be on different classes to the symbol itself. Which can sometimes be useful, but in this case was a pain! The choice (I think) is to either edit all the internal objects of the symbol to be on the class you're using for the visual, or to find out what each of the classes involved is, and change them all in your data vis.

We're definitely not pressing Alt when drawing things... @shorter how did you resolve it please?

Most up to date 2026!

Thanks, I'll ask the team to check settings and report back!

Hi all, We're sometimes getting duplicate objects creating themselves, when we draw 2D polygons/polylines/freehand objects. We can't identify a pattern to it, and just have to either run purge, or check as we're going along and delete a created object to check there isn't a second underneath. Has anybody else had this - is it a bug, or are we accidentally using a setting/shortcut we oughtn't etc?! @Katarina Ollikainen @Marketa Hermova

What are tags supposed to be for?

Ooh, hurrah, that's worked! Thank you.

@Payne Chang I've got the same issue, with the same dialog box. Have just updated to 3.1, and it persists.

Have you found stake objects? In the GIS toolset; you can get it to read out co-ordinates (would need to have the right settings in OIP/data tag set up to do the read out you want)

Thanks for the enlightening article! Frightening that a poor quality 5 second video takes as much energy as powering a microwave for an hour. Needs talking about much more...

Thanks @Jeff Prince - I wonder if it's not a coincidence, on this particular project we've all been working on it an awfully long time, maybe at some point the drawings have been aligned to each other... Ta for the explanation - we do always import into a clean file, and then paste in place into the actual project file. I support your call for clear instructions on file sharing between softwares!

My feelings exactly. I'll have a proper look / save this note for another time, thanks @Katarina Ollikainen!

Thanks - I think so, but haven't paid enough attention to be certain. Definitely the two I've received this week from different sources behave this way - and I have noticed it before. @Marketa Hermova @Katarina Ollikainen, any clues?

Hi all, (Vwx2026, update 3) I'm puzzled to report that dwgs seem to drop in correctly geolocated if I UNtick 'this drawing contains georeferenced geometry' on import. Can anyone help me to understand, please?

We use a workaround where we have a blank viewport at x scale with a scale bar attached, in order that we can move it around separately to the viewport, and sort of more easily get to the graphics. It would be nice not to have to use a workaround!