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Justin H, I'd rather not share the template with the public. Is there a way to PM or contact you directly? Premium tech support? I only spoke with tech support verbally and that person didn't not take the step further to ask me to send the example. I would love to also solve the problem of VW getting laggy when importing Autocad files. I sent an example of this once and never got a follow up from VW. On the phone the person was just saying there were a bunch of objects and said he would circle it around the techs and get back to me. I have this problem frequently. It seems VW cant handle the amount of data that can be overlaid by architects (sometimes I wonder what the heck they were thinking ...so much junk). I have to try to work around it, trying to isolate what I need dealing with the delay and program not responding for minutes on end, then copy what I isolated to a fresh document to work efficiently. I'm just drawing in 2-D. I would think a program that can draw 3-D would be able to handle massive data. My computer is fully capable. ThreeDot, I feel you. I have worked around a LOT, but then again I'm not well trained. Most of what I know is handed down or self taught. Every now and then I get a good tech person who can lead me in the right direction. My problem is I dont have hours and days on end to just learn, I have to learn as I draw and sometimes barely have time for that.

I recently just started trying to use VW2021, and the reason is my templates that I have been using for years have a strange behavior in 2021 vs. 2020. I know I am working too hard and my template and drawing system is antiquated but I just dont have time for "school". I have to be drawing stuff, all the time. I use an old school method I borrowed from someone else's document many years ago. It's what I know. It's setup with design layers of scales. 3/8"-12" to full size. The template has loci in the title block for placing text, moving the page around, etc. Suddenly in 2021 if I'm in any other scale design layer than full size or my title block page layer where the loci are placed, also full size; when I scroll zoom in and out, the loci jump to a very large size while scrolling then return to normal when I stop zooming. This doesn't appear to be anything more than a visual distraction. VW support person told me its probably something in the template. But this same template setup has been used since version 8.5 all the way to 2020 and not had this issue. So what support is really telling me is there may be a glitch in the software...because 2021 is the first version that has done this. I thought it must be some sort of view or layer or tools option to toggle...something simple, like I am always running in to, not being a thoroughly trained detailer. I did go to one classroom training but it wasn't focused enough on my specific need. We are so busy, training time is not available and I've been able to produce with what I have. I'd like to use my template with 2021 but I also scroll zoom a lot, so this is aggravating. Attached is a video showing a locus placed in my title page design layer and what happens when I switch layers then zoom in and out. Any ideas are welcome. 20211007_141921.mp4

Well this feature is useless unless I restart the program after sleeping the computer. I like to pick right back up the next day with everything still up and organized on my 3 screens for a big project. After sleeping the PC this feature is totally corrupted and not the way I left it. I've moved on to assigning custom keyboard assignments for my most used tools so I can use one hand for them. I cant wait a full second for smart options to appear and it wont let me use a half second. By the time the smart options appear, my instinct has already grabbed the tool from the pallet or used keystrokes. It's been interesting playing with it though.

Thanks for the Link Tom. One of the reasons I couldn't find the help section on it was I didn't know what it is called! As is the case in so many situations, I was discovering this as I asked the question. Knowing what the feature is called makes a big difference. I have since customized it and trying to get used to using it instead of reaching for the pallet. Letting the program with some files open sleep overnight corrupted the feature though. 3 of 4 of the pallets I customized only showed one tool in each available, I had to close and re-open the program to get them back Thanks again, Tom and Andy

Thanks Andy, I just came back to report I had figured it out, it was the scroll wheel button. Click the scroll wheel and they come up. Is there another way to get them to appear in addition to that? I did see and find the gear icon and customized it. The other thing I didn't know was its called the Smart Options Display. That's why I couldn't search anything for it. Thanks for the other tip too, I'll look in to it.

Please forgive my inexperience. First time posting here. There is a floating tool palette selection that emerges near my cursor at times. I know its for convenient access to tool palettes but I cant figure out how to make it appear when I want it? I realize its probably VW101. Also, is there a way to customize it so the palettes I want are in the 4 corners? Thanks for any help