Trim and class settings

[Kristen]

I wish that trim would not act on classes that are turned off.

It seems like it would also make sense that unless you have your class options set to "Show/Snap/Modify Others", you would not be trimming objects that are not in the active class.

[P Retondo]

Wow! I never realized the "trim" command would do that. This is a very reasonable request, in fact, I would call this behavior a bug. What other operations work on invisible objects?

[Guest]

It shouldn't trim if the class is set to be grayed or invisible in the Classes dialog box.

I will add it to the wish list about the class options controlling the trim function as well.

[Kristen]

Yes this is VW10.5, but I'm pretty sure this was the case in VW8 & VW9 as well.

I'm using a Mac, but I just tried it on one of our office's PCs and it is the same.

I'm talking about the trim tool in the Tool menu (or the Apple-T keyboard shortcut), not the trim tool on the 2D Tools palette.

[P Retondo]

Katie, I get the same bug on a PC (VWA 10.5, Win2K). This is the old trim tool - select a line, trim, it cuts all lines and walls the selected line crosses.

[Kristen]

I definitely agree that it shouldn't... but it does!

Give it a try -- it always trims both invisible and grayed classes.

[Guest]

I tried it and it doesn't trim on classes that are grayed or invisible in the class dialog box.

Are you on a mac or pc?

Is this in VW 10.5 ?

[patman]

If you have a cantainer object who's class is visible but where the contents are not visible you can Select, Delete and Trim to these objects. This makes absolutly no since to me...

[jan15]

It's the Trim COMMAND, not the Trim tool. An unfortunate name, and not just because of the confusion with the Trim tool -- the Trim command doesn't trim. It just cuts, or breaks, or slices through everything it intersects. And it had that same odd quirk in version 8 also, slicing even objects whose Class is greyed, invisible, or non-modifiable, albeit not objects whose Layer is greyed, invisible, or non-modifiable.