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I have this same problem on a Windows PC. I wake up the PC and I have object info and attributes pallets on my primary screen but no Vectorworks otherwise. There is an icon in the task bar, but when I click it, I see either a little minimized chicklet (or whatever its called when a screen is minimized down to a little bar with a minimize-maximize-close option) fly off to the upper left of my primary screen or flies back from there down toward the icon on the task bar. I cant catch it. I'm using three screens so I think the OP is correct that it is a bug using multiple screens. This has happened before and that little minimized chicklet was sitting at the top left corner of my screen and I had to grab the handles/corners and stretch it back open to a full screen, but this morning, it just flies off the screen where its inaccessible to do anything with. While I was poking around, reading this, I remembered the trick that I found somewhere to grab a window on a screen that is off. Ever want to just open your primary screen for a bit to do something, and the program or window you want was last parked on a secondary screen, and you dont want to take the time for those other screens to warm up then just shut them right back down? I cant imagine working without multiple screens anymore but there are downsides sometimes...first world problems! Here's the trick, I dont know how it applies to a MAC. I've never used one in my life. I dont even use an iPhone. -Hold Alt and hit Tab while holding it. This brings up all open windows on your main screen. Continuing to hold Alt and tapping Tab will scroll through the various open windows (can easily be a dozen windows for me). Scroll through until that window you want is highlighted (in this case the mysterious flying Vectorworks window). -Hit Alt-Space-M then one of the arrow keys. This attaches the window to your cursor where you can now move it off of the other dark screen (or outer-space where Vectorworks apparently went in this case) then you can just left click to drop it on your primary screen once you have ahold of it. In my case, this morning, it was still in minimized "chicklet" mode like I've found it barely existing in the upper left corner of my main screen as aforementioned, and I had to grab it's "handles" to stretch it back open. For some reason while sleeping overnight it sometimes goes in to this "condition"...minimized and on someone else's screen in another building...or something. I need to remember to shut VW down every day. I am not usually drawing until after my first cup of coffee so there's plenty of time for it to gyrate itself open by the time I need to be snapping lines. As far as backups, I have mine set to 10 minutes so thats the most time I have lost in a crash or lockup. I have it set to overwrite. There are a few occasions where I wish I had "versions" saved but that's rare. Then I have an external drive the PC backs up to automatically every day. Then I have another "dumb drive" I back up to periodically (and this reminds me). When I go on a rare trip for more than a day away from the home-office I make a fresh backup on the dumb drive and carry that with me. So unless my house burns down and I get robbed of my dumb drive at the same time, I'm covered. I should consider cloud storage too but haven't gotten off my rear-end to do it.

Thank you very much for the fast replies, Tom. The Vectorworks help seems to assume one knows all this stuff, it's not very intuitive for a person like me not immersed in the program's nuts and bolts. I knew what I was seeing didn't exactly match what is shown in the help files, but had you not told me to slide that pane over I would still be twisting in the wind. I also discovered that I had to make the hatch lines as small as allowed to keep them from appearing to extend beyond the object when zoomed in to a small scale. I also had to select "same thickness" because otherwise it was a mix of line thicknesses. Don't understand that, but I dont need to, this is the fix I needed at the moment. Here's what it looks like zoomed in at 1"=12" scale. Wonder why the hatch lines still appear to extend beyond the object lines? I know its kind of nit-picky, but I dont get it. I suppose nobody else notices this...or cares!

Thanks Tom. I am not educated enough to get there apparently. I clicked the object and located it in the resource manager but I cant find anything to click on that says "edit hatch".

In a smaller scale 1"=12" its even worse. Looks terrible.

V2021. When using a hatch, in this case the Metal hatch, when you zoom in to a .pdf export the hatch is chubby and looks like it extends beyond the boundary of the object. Is there a way to change the line weight on a hatch? Looking at this snip, my leader lines are 0.18mm, my typical drawing lines are 0.05mm. Those hatch lines appear to be somewhere in between.

Thank you! Editing one changed them all to 12pt, what I wanted.

Currently in V2021 (still working toward getting 2025 set up to my liking). Am I correct that there doesn't seem to be any way to change the text size of a hyperlink? I'm not seeing what the text size is but it looks like about 14 point. I would like them to take up less real estate on the page, as it is now it wont allow me to break the description in to two lines to save left to right space. I did search this here and got nothing. Also zilch searching help. Thanks

Thanks Pat. I will revisit this. Got wrapped up in something and had to put "Vectorworks Setup" on hold to bang out a drawing in V2021.

Yes and sometimes I get very fast and "clicky" and noticed how easy it is to graze that and change views!

Thanks. I draw in 2-D only

How can I create a customize folder with just the line types I want? As it is now I'm given 4 line types from a folder called "untitled1" under "open files". Under Vectorworks Libraries/Line types there is a folder "line types" that has a bunch of different lines. I can find both folders in the resource manager but I cant figure out how to manipulate them or create a custom selection/folder otherwise. If I right click on "untitled1" it gives me an option to create a new line type, but I just want to copy some of the stock line types from the Vectorworks libraries in to "untitled1" or another created folder that I can easily access from the line type selection on the attributes palette. Thanks

Thanks Kyle.

Thanks again!

It doesn't tell me what its called but appears to be a view quick change. I draw in 2-D. I dont need to change views and this thing is just in the way for me where I can accidentally click it. Thanks

I also notice there are tools in the palettes I migrated that were not in the previous version. I am going through each palette and tool set to include/exclude.