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  1. I guess after jumping into 2024 and realizing things remain the same, I'll bump this issue.

    When I have a viewport and a layer within it is specified as "greyed", I want exactly that.  I want it to look like it does in top plan with all of it's 2D annotations, only greyed.

    I don't want it to revert to greyed wireframe.  Why it can't is all part of the great mystery.

    So pretty please and thank you.

     

    bc

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  2. Hello,

    II like using the reference markers for the ease of editing.  I have set up many markers to indicate where, in plan, photos were taken and in what direction they look.  I realize the linkage indicators disappear if the marker is linked to a VPort but then it assumes the Viewport number instead of the number I assign.

    I don't think this is achievable, but is their any way one can get rid of the linkage indicators?  They just clutter my field of vision and I don't need them.  I realize they do not print.

     

    thanks

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  3. I am suddenly getting these drop shadows in my section viewports.  I want them gone. Anyone?

    I have made sure the Drop Shadows is unchecked in the VP Advanced Properties as well as in the Document Preferences display dialog.

    I fear I somehow have a corrupted file. Despite my signature, this file is a VW 2021.

     

    Anyone?

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    THANKS PAT,  couldn't get them to work. Tried three different ones including your rotate. This is being tried in 2021.

    Maybe I'm not copying them correctly? Although one of them DID rotate but only to 90 degrees, rather than a specified degree.

    Maybe you could please repost only the one that your are referring to that works and at least eliminate that variable?

    Super thanks.

     

    bc

     

  5. I have my Autosave function set to every 20 operations. Again today I had VW freeze while updating a site model.

    I went to my backups folder and nothing was there. I went to my VW Preferences and my Autosave is shut off. I went to Time machine but it only backed up the files that weren't backing up.

    I don't know how this happens but the last time it did I set it to on, and it worked ok after doing so.

    This is very frustrating after losing hours of tricky site modeling and building modeling.

     

    So is there some keyboard command that toggles this setting off which I am inadvertently activating??   Or is this some bug/glitch?

    thanks,

    bc

  6. Yes Pat it has nearly every port imaginable except usb3 or thunderbolt.  It's old. And yes it has on screen settings controls with buttons on the front to operate it.  I kept selecting the HDMI port but it doesn't really offer anything in the way of telling it to look at only one input in any of the settings.  I went to Dell, got the manual, checked out their support community and there isn't much luck for mac users.  There they explicitly state mac is only 7.6% of their market so that's about as much support as they are going to offer and imply that we are lucky they do that.

     

    I will look into the KVM but I am thinking I may not be able to get there from here.

    Thanks again for the insight.

  7. Wow, thanks for that Pat.  I had no luck what-so-ever searching Mac.  This approximates my problem, indeed.  Even considering the post is 7 years old as I remember it happening with my 2012 iMac which only had the one Dell for an external.  The problem is I don't have the faintest idea if my Dell can be set to look at my Mac port only nor how to do that if it could. It's an old 2408WFP display.  Ha, I actually won it in a Vectorworks promotional drawing many many years ago....back when 24 inches was serious screen real estate!

    Any Idea how I can look further into this?

  8. Hello all,  this is not a Vectorworks issue but an issue I have with Mac OS 12.6.1 where others here might have a similar set up and hence a similar problem.

    I bring this issue to this Forum as it seems I have exhausted my quest for remedies in that 2 weeks with third tier Apple tech support and Apple website "Communities" has brought no joy. Apple refuses to go any deeper with Monterey and suggests I upgrade to Ventura to see if that solves the problem but doing so is not currently recommended by VW.

     

    My set up:

    Brand new 2021 MacBook Pro with the highest possible specs monitored by its' own screen, a brand new 27" Mac Studio Display and an old 24" Dell. So three monitors with the Studio Display as the Main monitor. The OS is Monterey 12.6.1 (last iteration). Both external monitors connected directly to the MB Pro.....no hubs.

    I need to have several windows open on each monitor for references in my work flow. When waking from sleep all of the windows jump around to other monitors and get scrambled up or sometimes all get ganged up on the main monitor. Then I have to arrange them all over again so I can work.

    This takes maybe 30 to 40 seconds but the time and anguish add up AND it shouldn't be happening.

     

    My questions to all who might have similar setups:

    Has anyone else had this problem?

    Did you arrive at a solution?

    Does the problem exist in Ventura?

     

    Thanks for listening,

    Bradley

  9. I thought at one time there was a post that referred to a setting that when set a certain way greatly lessened the actual quantity generated, albeit still way too many, to become somewhat manageable but alas I couldn't find it so I must have been living an illusion.   I guess we're stuck. They even touted big improvements with the site modeling in 2023.

  10. Indeed, as Jeff said they do regenerate.  Some of them do and some don't. Regardless, given that I get 20 seconds of spinning beach ball with each deletion, the time to delete these 200 odd duplicates is prohibitive.  So I have moved on to creati9ng my own labels. Thanks Jeff. I was warned.

     

    So I guess there are coders somewhere that look at the stacks and clusters of labels and they think, "Well at least I got them to appear".  They must not have to work with any models of any complexity.  I mean, why have this feature when the label generator creates such spaghetti? What is used as a basis for the label creation? Sheesh.

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  11. From the Email:

     

    "As a current Service Select member, this email is to notify you of the upcoming changes and reassure you that they do not affect the terms or status of your existing Service Select agreement. As long as you maintain your license(s) under Service Select, you will be able to continue to renew your agreement annually and enjoy the same benefits you do today, including access to new software releases."

     

    It seems like, for current Service Select users, the status quo will be maintained. What am I missing or naive about?

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