Clip Surface not working

[DeanB_NZ]

Hi, I am a new VW 2025 user working my way through the tutorials for architecture.

Following the VECTORWORKS ARCHITECT ESSENTIALS SEMINAR at minute 32:20 the presenter demonstrates how to create an opening in the slab by drawing a rectangle over the slab and using the clip surface command. I follow the process but the rectangle does not clip.

Both the slab and the rectangle are on the same layer, they are coplanar and I have sent the slab back and the rectangle forward.

I have restarted VW, tried the operation on a different slab layer and with different types of slab but no luck. There are no error messages or anything to indicate the problem, it feels as though there is a setting somewhere that is preventing editing of the slab.

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

Dean

[DeanB_NZ]

Both the slab and rectangle were selected. I also found that I couldn't add a railing to the slab. 

I then searched for and found the instructions for unlocking the slab and this worked.  So somehow the slabs that I was creating ate locked, but I cannot see where there is a song for this. 

[Pat Stanford]

Do you have both the Slab and the Rectangle selected?

[Tom W.]

I can't think of any circumstances where this wouldn't work. If you only have one object selected VW won't let you run the command. Is the command working for you in other cases e.g. two 2D shapes?