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thanks , this sounds like something worth looking into .

yes I will send tonight if thats ok? I need to remove the file of any project info first regards

Hi all, I am encountering an issue with title blocks. I am finding in some files that when i re-paste (in place) a title block onto a sheet, my title block seems to split into two locations and it loses all information. (see attached shot) has anyone encountered this? it is quite problematic when you want to edit a suite of drawings in one go In the past, when I have a series of drawings all at rev a, and I want to change them all to rev b or change the product info or whatever, I have been able to edit the title page on the first sheet, and then paste in place on the other sheets. It would automatically update the revision and project information with the correct sheet title etc . This was very useful. Now it appears i have to start all my title blocks from scratch and reimport the titleblock, which takes a lot of time. any thoughts? thanks

fantastic thanks. Glad i enquired. Vectorworks 2020 fundamentals, architect , renderworks

hello, I have a vectorworks licence for my mac. Am i able to use it on windows PC as well? If only using one machine at once? thanks

we posted at the same time - Will give that a go.

i should add i'm obviously not saving these files .

Hello s(orry couldnt think of a better title) when you open a new file vectorworks ugives you the file name 'untitled' with a number depending on how many you had open. e.g 'untitled 1' untitled 2' etc my settings have somehow changed so that when I open a new file it gives a consecutive untitled file following on from the last one you opened. For example i am now at 'untitled 37' and if i open another it will be at 'untitled 38' I have no other windows / files open and am unsure whats causing it. Any ideas what to do to turn it back to normal? i can see it becoming an issue in relatively short amount of time as i open several files a day vectorworks 2020 architect thanks

hmm yeah - Id have thought annotating plans with labels that have different references would be a fairly staple requirement

Ok thanks Bgoff sounds interesting.. Not used workflows before . look forward to it

Thinking about it, Even a symbol with several text references that updated with a different number each time it was pasted would be a significant step in speeding up this process . If thats any easier? cheers

hello all. I am am trying to get beyond the basics of vectorworks to use it a bit more intelligently. Essentially we typically are building sites of 20-50 houses with several house types. We are regularly required to provide co-ordinates of service connection points to ground workers so they can set out the site before work begins. We use different symbols for each house type, with the service pop ups (internet, electricity, water, rainwater pipes etc) as circles within the symbol. To provide co-ordinates we have been doing the rather painful process of naming each connection manually with a text reference, clicking on each circle and copying and pasting its easting and northings onto a separate note pad file, and then pasting again onto the sheet later with a reference to the connection on a plan. As you can imagine this takes a lot of time and there is a lot of room for error. I have been experimenting with the stake tool, but it is quite laborious on its own, and i still have to enter the reference name by hand as I cant seem to get it to autonumber each time I insert another point. What i'd like to do is essentially somehow reference each connection point in a symbol as Plot 1 - electricity Plot 1 - water Plot 1 - internet etc And then re-paste the house symbol and it automatically renames the connection points in that second house as Plot 2 - electricity Plot 2 - water Plot 2 - internet etc Then create a report which would give me the reference of each connection with a co-ordinates. It doesn't seem particularly outlandish requirement but it has me absolutely stumped and after a morning of trying it is taking longer than my old fashioned copy paste method. I would image this in a function that people require a lot so surely its doable? Is there an easy way to do it? look forward to your responses as always regards Im sure it has the capability to do what I require.

Ok so an update, weirdly I have noticed that this issue seems to happen when I have a document open, as well as an unsaved new document. For example. If i open vectorworks and it has a default blank file, and then I open my file and leave the blank file in a closed window it wont snap. If i then close that window ,the file works. Must be some kind of bug?

Scratch that, it isnt working afterall

really appreciate the help fyi

tried this with no luck. increasingly confusingly the file that i removed the info from is now working for me too! original one still not working. wonder it is reference related? I removed these before sharing

yeah its just with occasional files. Ive removed everything out so will just upload here if you can take a look? thanks smart cursor settings 190228.vwx

thanks Interestingly, that file is working ok on another machine. Other then resetting the resetting the smart cursor settings, is there anything else that could be directly related to my machine? Thanks

Hi Jim This didnt fix it unfortunately Thanks

Hi Russ, Not a file I can share unfortunately. If the issue persists, I may have a go tonight at stripping any private data from it and then sharing

Hi Russ, Thanks for your reply. Yes my settings as as per your suggestion. Unless I am mistaken, this allows it to snap how it is in the start of the video before changing files?

Hello all We are encountering an issue in the office whereby some files do not snap to 90/180 degrees etc regardless of the snap settings. I have uploaded a video to explain the problem. -If I open a blank file, it shows that the cursor will snap to the 90 degree intervals as you would expect -If I open a second file (the problematic one) and don't change any settings, it now wont snap -If i then return to the original file, It wont snap until I close vectorworks and start again Its very difficult to work with . Has anyone else experienced it? Its happened on several files, not just the one in the video any help is appreciated Using vectorworks 2018 regards vectorworks snap.mov

hey, thanks for your reply. This sorted my issue. Thats frustrating as cropping was one of they main thing I switched to DLVP for hopefully it can be rectified sooner rather than later

did you ever fix this issue? i have it now and cant solve it

thanks for your reply. Ok sounds like I am on the right path with it