Allison

I will give that a try, thanks very much for such good advice

This might seem like a silly question, but at college we page-set-up to A3 at scale 1:50. I am attempting to draw the same drawing on my home PC, but my printer only prints A4. So I set up my home drawing also with a scale of 1:50 and A4 landscape. I am trying to draw a wall to a length 14900 but its so long it's going off the drawing page. I feel its a scaling issue but can't figure it out. I put in my memory stick with the same drawing from college, to check that the page set up on that drawing was for A3, but as soon as I put it on my PC, its automatically set up for my printer, at A4, so I can't tell. What am I missing here - I am sure it must be something simple? All help appreciated

Hi can anyone help me. I am learning Vectorworks on the version previous to 2008, but I have 2008 at home. I want to draw a building plan using the wall tool. There is a floating data bar following my cursor, so when it gets to the lengths I want the walls to be, I click. But when I went back and checked my dimensions, they're all out by several mm. So I tried to get this right by drawing a simple line and entering the distance in the data bar for its length. I notice that just by hitting TAB it allows me to enter the length in the floating data bar which follows my cursor. However, no matter what I do, whether I hit ENTER, RETURN or click on the screen, it is not finishing my line at the length I typed in. In fact, I can use my cursor and continue lengthening the line as much as I want. I know its incorrect because when I check on the line length, its nothingl ike I typed in. Help! I have spent hours trying to figure this out!