dtheory Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Hi All, Recently, I've been having one of those vexing but all too common experiences. i.e.: In a particular file, many elements (walls, windows etc) are not highlighting on hover and some others are. Makes the file hard to work with. I'm still in the process of solving this problem, but one of my first steps was to run the repair utility.. The result was "Found and repaired 347 files." OK, so I ran it again... same result.. "Found and repaired 347 files." Since I have a very fast internet connection, I installed a fresh copy, the ran the repair utility on the brand new copy... same result. I know that we're not supposed to put too much stock into the results of the repair utility.. but this seems strange.. Any comments, thoughts, similar experiences? Is it possible that the install utility doesn't have permission to do the file modification that the repair requires? blah, blah, blah... Thanks. Quote Link to comment
0 Pat Stanford Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 My fight with selecting objects was fixed this morning when I remembered to set Class Options to Show/Snap/Modify Others. 🤦♂️ 1 Quote Link to comment
0 dtheory Posted January 28 Author Share Posted January 28 @Pat Stanford thanks for the quick response, being a relatively seasoned user, that was the very first thing I checked, and it was indeed set to Show/Snap/Modify Others. 1 Quote Link to comment
0 Pat Stanford Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Accidentally grouped? With group handles off screen so you can't see them? Layers at different scales? Layer options? Computer or Vectorworks are just tired and need a nap?? 😉 1 Quote Link to comment
0 michaelk Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 If you're not seeing walls in a v2026 drawing that started life in an earlier version and your wall height doesn't cross the new design layer cut plain that might be at least part of the issue. Quote Link to comment
0 dtheory Posted January 29 Author Share Posted January 29 14 hours ago, michaelk said: If you're not seeing walls in a v2026 drawing that started life in an earlier version and your wall height doesn't cross the new design layer cut plain that might be at least part of the issue. Hi Michael, Yes, I found that to be true. The file was originally started for a project in 2015 that I'm revisiting.. it's been opened and updated several times, which I think has caused some anomalies in addition to the differences in wall display in 2026.. def. a bit of a pain to go through the entire file for such things as screen plane items, wall cut planes, old door objects and it goes on and on. etc etc etc Quote Link to comment
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dtheory
Hi All,
Recently, I've been having one of those vexing but all too common experiences.
i.e.: In a particular file, many elements (walls, windows etc) are not highlighting on hover and some others are.
Makes the file hard to work with.
I'm still in the process of solving this problem, but one of my first steps was to run the repair utility..
The result was "Found and repaired 347 files." OK, so I ran it again... same result.. "Found and repaired 347 files."
Since I have a very fast internet connection, I installed a fresh copy, the ran the repair utility on the brand new copy... same result.
I know that we're not supposed to put too much stock into the results of the repair utility.. but this seems strange..
Any comments, thoughts, similar experiences?
Is it possible that the install utility doesn't have permission to do the file modification that the repair requires?
blah, blah, blah...
Thanks.
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