Reports generated not counting correctly

[cglow]

I'm drawing something that has 1000 of the same symbol, and inside that symbol are a number of scaffolding symbols and other symbols that I need to count. When I run a simple reports looking for Symbol Name and (Summarize by name) Count... It says 668. The nested symbols also show up as "X*668" instead of the proper number. When I use the Select Similar tool, it says 1000 as it should... anybody know what's going on? Is there a limit to how many instances of something Vectorworks will count? I'm concerned that if the count is off with the one thing I know how many there are... is the count for everything else in the drawing off too? Kind of defeats the purpose of the Report function if I have to go through and manually count out each and every piece of gear that the designer drew up.

Edited June 24 by cglow

[Pat Stanford]

Do you have a layer for these items specified in your criteria?  

 

I think what is happening is that it is counting the number on the design layer and then also adding in the number in a viewport.

 

If you add layer(s) to your criteria you can know you will only get the one instance.