Dundee901

Thank you for making that very clear, Pat! Appreciated.

I'd appreciate some guidance - a second opinion really - on scaling imported objects. A client has sent me a PDF of a garden plan (probably hand drawn, it's a few years old) and asked me to use Vectorworks to work out areas of lawn. There is no annotation, no scale bar and no other measurements shown on the plan - except that it has a nominal scale of 1:200. I create a new file and import the PDF. I cannot use the Modify > Scale Objects command to correctly scale the PDF object as I don't know any distances. However, before importing the PDF, I changed the Layer Scale to 1:200 in the Document Setup. Then I imported the PDF. Can I now accurately measure straight off the plan, without any further scaling? This seems a very obvious question but I just wanted to check! Following import, I have used the tape measure tool to measure some objects on the drawing whose size I can guess (e.g. a doorway, step treads) and I get sensible/believable results but that's not very scientific! Thanks

Many thanks Pat. I'll give that a go. In the end I re-drew the object which only took a few seconds!

I would greatly appreciate some insight into a problem I have with using the Split tool on 3D objects. I attach a Vectorworks (2018) file. It contains two 3D solid section objects. After activating the Split tool, in either Line Split or Line Trim mode, both objects will highlight red when hovering the cursor over the object. However, only one of the objects will actually split into multiple objects. I can't figure out why! Does it have something to do with the type &/or number of historic editing operations used to create the current object? Thank you. Split solid section.vwx

I managed to solve a similar problem, so I hope this might help: using VW Landscape, part of my model was vanishing before my eyes when I zoomed in - as described above relating to the chair. It helped if I zoomed in by changing the Zoom factor in the View Bar rather than by swiping my track pad but still the clipping happened as soon as I moved around the model using the Flyover tool. Firstly, I found (by trial and error) making a particular layer invisible removed the problem. Further investigation into this layer showed that there were two rogue objects (i.e. mis-positioned by me) located miles and miles away. That explained why clicking the Fit to Objects button made everything vanish off my screen - my model just went microscopically small in order to include the wayward objects. Deleting these two objects has now restored order to my model and I'm not swearing so much. Happy days!