Ok, so I requested a symbol from a manufacturer for one of their products and their designers sent me the multi part symbol DWG file(Hybrid I guess) and the symbol was laying on its side in the drawing. I double clicked it and selected everything, grouped it and rotated it 90° to a standing position and adjusted its height to the Zero point (drives me crazy that we have to re-zero things when they are rotated, when you rotate the bottom zero point should automatically change to the new bottom point. Rant over)
Anyway, I am now trying to alter the symbol to add physical height to it, I select the top section and try to 3D move it up 10' to accommodate a new section below (yes it has to be done this way.) when I open Move 3D and use the Z axis to raise the top instead of moving up it moves to the side as though the symbol was still on its side.
I'm sure the solution is something simple, how do I change the symbol so Vectorworks sees it as standing instead of laying on its side?
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Ok, so I requested a symbol from a manufacturer for one of their products and their designers sent me the multi part symbol DWG file(Hybrid I guess) and the symbol was laying on its side in the drawing. I double clicked it and selected everything, grouped it and rotated it 90° to a standing position and adjusted its height to the Zero point (drives me crazy that we have to re-zero things when they are rotated, when you rotate the bottom zero point should automatically change to the new bottom point. Rant over)
Anyway, I am now trying to alter the symbol to add physical height to it, I select the top section and try to 3D move it up 10' to accommodate a new section below (yes it has to be done this way.) when I open Move 3D and use the Z axis to raise the top instead of moving up it moves to the side as though the symbol was still on its side.
I'm sure the solution is something simple, how do I change the symbol so Vectorworks sees it as standing instead of laying on its side?
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