malex

Thanks, So you create your scenic objects, make them symbols, then copy them to other layers from which you create viewports? I guess this works since once you make the symbol, changes are reflected in each layer?

I've used Vectorworks since VW11, but only recently decided to clean up my drawings and use viewports. I've really only been producing drawings for my own use, so never worried about the lack of organization and sprawling sketches and detail drawings spread all over the document. Its great to use viewports to create 3 ortho + iso view dimensioned drawings of objects, but I'd like to be able to do so without using the crop box. The crop box forces unnecessary items into the viewport and if I snap the crop directly on to the object, the crop box obscures the object! I tried grouping the objects, but it seems that you can't create a viewport within a group. Selecting the objects and creating a viewport doesn't do anything. I know I can put the objects in their own class, then view only that class, but I'll end up with so many more classes than I need, making selection and visibility a giant pain. I have to be missing something here...any tips?

Hi All, I am having a lot of difficulty occasionally when I try to snap to an intersection of a line or 2d shape and the edge of a 3D object. While the two do not technically live in the same plane of existence, while in Plan View I would like to pretend that they do. Most of the time, I am trying to place reference lines or details that do not apply to the 3d element of my drawing. I can snap to the corners and the length of any 3d edge and I can snap to all the normal point on a 2d object, but how do I make VW realize that I want to snap where the two intersect in 2D Plan View? If there's a way to do it in other iso views, that would be great, too. Is there another way that people are able to use reference lines in conjunction with 3D objects? I'm using VW 12.5.2 on two different macs, one an Intel and one a G4.

Thanks, that's exactly what I did. To fix it, I edited the text sizes in the Label Layout to be larger. All my fixtures on the plot have the right size, but in the actual layout editor, the text is now huge relative to the symbol. On the surface, my problem is fixed, but will this come back to bite me later?

I've been working on a plot for the past week and experienced no problems with my labels, but I opened the document on Monday morning and my label text sizes all shrunk! They all looked fine when I opened the plot, but when I edit any fixture or create a new one, the text size gets real small. I checked my label legend manager and the text sizes are set correctly, but don't apply correctly. I'm running 12.5.1 on WinXP SP2 Thanks