Changing an object's layer changes the plane

[AndyLowe]

Hi Forum

 

Hoping someone can help with this ...

 

I'm using 2023. When I try to change the layer of any object, Vectorwork does something very odd to the plane the object is in. It feels like it moves the object to the screen plane, but actually it's more glitchy than that. Feels like an vectorworks error, rather operator error (though I've been wrong before!)Stage_5_stage_master.vwxStage_5_stage_master.vwx. At first I thought it was to do with the pdf i imported, but it actually happens to all objects.

 

Any help would be really appreciated.

 

Andy

Stage_5_stage_master.vwx

[Tom W.]

The file has 175MB-worth of stuff in the Resource Manager but the design layer is empty...

[AndyLowe]

Hi TomThanks for the reply. Where did you find that information? Any ideas how it might cause the issue I'm seeing?

 

I'm talking to Vectorworks support tomorrow .. will post any solution here.

[Jeff Prince]

5 minutes ago, AndyLowe said:

Hi TomThanks for the reply. Where did you find that information? Any ideas how it might cause the issue I'm seeing?

 

I'm talking to Vectorworks support tomorrow .. will post any solution here.

 

Open the file you uploaded.  Something is wrong with it as it triggers Vectorworks to recover it, some kind of corruption.

Then, there is nothing in the file except what @tom w. noted... a bunch of stuff in the resource manager.

[Tom W.]

I just meant that the file was empty apart from the resources. I assumed you'd posted the wrong file by mistake. It contained one design layer + one class + no objects.

[AndyLowe]

That's odd. It actually opens ok for me. And hasn't actually crashed (though Vectorworks is a little slow).

 

I've attached a couple of screengrabs so you can see what I see.

[AndyLowe]

Ah ok. Thanks Tom. Maybe the file uploaded weirdly. I was using coffee shop wifi at the time.

[AndyLowe]

If it helps, this hopefully explains what is happening ...

 

If I select walls that are on the first floor layer of the the model and switch them to the second floor, those walls appear in top plan I guess on the screen plane. I can force selct them, but nothing else.

 

It feel like a bug. Will report back what Support say tomorrow.

[AndyLowe]

So Vectorworks Support helped solve this straightaway ...

 

Somehow I'd turned on 'Unified View' accidentally. It's turned off by default, but I think I'd clicked it on by accident. All back to normal now.

 

Thanks for your help Tom and Jeff 👍👍