Jackmill1

The snap loupe / Z key I think is a usable workaround, but to me it breaks my focus. When zooming in and out I can keep my eyes and focus set on the object that I'm trying to work on. When I hit Z and pull up the snap loupe I have to readjust what I'm looking at and reorient myself to the snap loupe, and then again when it closes. It's not that the snap loupe isn't a solution here, it's that it breaks my concentration enough to not like to rely on it.

Hi There: Is there a way to reorganize how Vectorworks prioritizes snap points? It's a little agitating constantly having to zoom in and out because I want to snap to center points on smallish objects and Vectorworks is obsessed with the corners. I guess I could use the snap loupe to help with this, but if I could just nicely ask Vectorworks to prefer centers to corners it would make things so much easier.

It's been like a month but thanks for this; it's exactly what I'm looking for.

Hi There: Has behavior regarding Clip and Intersect Surface changed in 2019? I'm trying to do something that's giving me weird results. I'm trying to draw something that's cosmetically shown in the first image (Clip0.jpg). I have arcs across the space that I want circumscribed by three larger polygons, and not existing in between or outside of those polygons. Ordinarily I would draw the arcs and the three border polygons (Clip1.jpg). Then, I'd draw some dummy rectangles to represent the space I want to "delete" excess arcs from (Clip2.jpg), select those rectangles and the arcs, then Clip Surface, then delete the rectangles (Clip3.jpg). While the result is cosmetically what I'm going for, the action is actually taking those arcs and creating a lot of goofy polygons that are stacked on top of each other. I've selected a few to illustrate in (Clip4.jpg), but they're all like this, going from 17 objects total to 93. What I want is 39 arcs. Intersect surface gives me even weirder results (Clip5.jpg). In any other case I'd be inclined to just shrug and do it the tedious way, drawing each arc individually, but I'm tracing an older drawing, and for some strange reason, Vectorworks refuses to snap to an intersection of anything with an arc. So the best I can do is eyeball it, which considering this is a CAD drawing makes me feel icky. What's going on here? The process works fine with straight lines, so something about the arcs is making VW cranky. And...I hate to say it...but it worked just fine in VW2018.

Neat! Thanks a bunch! You've saved me a lot of headache.

The first time I applied a class to a group I received a dialogue box asking me if I wanted to apply the class and its attributes to all of the objects in that group. When this happened I thought, "yes, of course; why else would I do that?" and clicked "Yes always." Now I'm in a situation where I don't want that to happen — I want to make a group a certain class and keep all of its constituents the way they are, because they are beautiful and perfect. The problem is that I'm having trouble finding the option that allows me to do that. Can anyone help me apply a class to a group without homogenizing and changing the objects within said group?