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Thanks for the tips! Yes, this was user error. I've used Excel for decades, but still sometimes forget to put my "logic" hat on.

OK, so while I was deleting confidential objects to create a file I could send, I noticed more "phantom" objects. It turns out that my particular worksheet still counts objects that are not present due to their class being "turned off." When I turn those on, the phantom objects reappear. I imagine this is the root of my problem with the search as well. I turned these classes off because I wasn't sure I didn't want to use the objects later on. Pretty typical, I would say. That said, VW often asks if I want to turn on classes when importing objects in an invisible class, so why not this time? I imagine that the worksheet could also have a selection option that restricts counting objects that are not there.. If an object is not visible due to a class assignment, the default should be for my simple worksheet to not count it. I need an "only count visible objects, please" filter. Thanks for the quick reply, regardless! I'll recheck the "search" feature and see if that works now. MHBrown

In Vectorworks 2025, my worksheet that calculates and lists the quantity of symbols on my Design Layer is finding eight of a symbol that is not in the file anywhere. I have checked my criteria and the layer is selected and "is symbol" is the only other criterion. Oddly enough, when I do a Custom Selection for that symbol it finds none. Even odder, when I do a Custom Selection--a tool I've used many times before--to find something I KNOW is in my drawing it can't find it. I have depended on these worksheets to count the symbols in my drawings for some time and it is all of a sudden not working--not reliable. It seems that the entire system that performs these operations has failed. I've tried restarting, importing worksheets, duplicating worksheets, nothing works. 1., The phantoms still appear and 2. real objects cannot be found. This happens now in several files. Thanks for any help on this. MHBrown

Thank you very much for the help, but, although I eventually got it to work, your solution is not exactly true. The instructions say to first "select this option and" 2. "select the units to use from the pull down list." This does not work. You have to set the pull down list to "Custom" first--which is all the way at the bottom of a very long list in the pull down menu. "Custom" has to be selected FIRST before Units option is not grayed out. This is how it works on my installation of VW2025. The language of this needs to be corrected. MHBrown

In Vectorworks 2025, I am importing a DWG file where I'd like to change the units ratio so that it imports to the proper size. I'm trying this rather than importing and scaling the entire object. No matter what I try, the Units ratio option remains grayed out (see image). A Vectorworks YouTube video from 2018 goes through the process, but has a completely different DXF/DWG Import window that includes "Primary Settings" and other tabbed options. Can anyone explain how to get his option to function in VW2025 and not be grayed out? Thanks, MHBrown

Yes, I get what you are saying. That makes sense.

Bumping this question.

I may be doing something wrong, but I'm having a problem with lights. Sometimes I don't want shadows cast from all of the lights in a scene. It can look "busy," as they say. So for a while now I've just been clicking the shadows off either in the Visualization palette or in the OIP. I noticed, however, that the shadows stop, but the light continues through the object as if it were not there. Does that make sense? In other words, Vectorworks seems to turn the shadows off by "telling" the light that there is nothing in the scene. Oddly enough, objects in the path of such a light will be illuminated properly, but so will objects behind--as if they were not there. I realize what I want is somewhat of a non-real world thing, but sometimes the accumulation of all the lights pointing in the same direction will create super hot spots because, in the absence of shadows, the lights are layering on top of each other. Does that make sense? Thanks, MHBrown

Thank you, Tom. It's a little roundabout, but it worked great! This should be included in the OIP where the other text attributes are edited. Perhaps in VW2026. MH Brown

I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but how does one change the color of the text in a drawing label? I'm using VW 2025 in Windows 10 and I need to change the text from the default black to white because it is being placed on a black background. Ideally, I would like to change the color of the numerals and alphas independently. I'm stumped. Thanks in advance! MH Brown

Hi Tom, Yes that was it! Thank you! It had been a while since I modified my workspace, so I was a bit rusty. MHBrown

Thanks, Pat, but I'm referring to the Menu item named "Rotate," not the tool in the in the Toolbox. In the Menu: Modify / Rotate / Rotate. MHBrown

I recently "upgraded" to Vectorworks 2025 and my assigned hot keys did not migrate with the installation. Not a big deal, but now I can't seem to get it to work. Specifically, I want to set a hot key for the "Rotate" menu command under "Modify." When I go to the Workspace Editor, however, and select this menu item the hot key assign field is grayed out. Hmmm. I thought I remembered this was the procedure, but it has been a while since I had to rebuild my workspace (previous versions came through with no problem.) Can anyone explain how to set my Rotate command to Ctrl-Alt-1 (on Windows, of course)? If I can get this one to work, then I can just follow the same method for the others. Thanks for any help on this. I'm sure I'm just not remembering it correctly. MHBrown VW2025 with all the SPs installed Windows 10

Not sure what you are saying there, Matt. Bumping this because it is absurd that it has not been included in the past ten years or so. Anyone from VW care to chime in?

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