Arrow Heads

[BG]

Have set the default arrow head to be an open type (Tools > Options > Arrow Heads) and this is reflected in the attribute palette - but when a line is drawn the arrow head in the attribute palette changes to a solid filled arrow. Classes are not set to "use at creation" so it is not classes that are doing this. How do you get an open arrow to be the default?

Thanks

BG

VWA12.5

WinXP

[Guest]

With nothing selected, go to the Attributes palette and select the arrow style and which end arrow (left or right) you'd like to use.

This will set the default attributes to draw everything with this arrow until you change the attributes again (with nothing selected)

[MKingsley]

To make it "stick" though you have to save the file with nothing selected and the attributes set as you like.

[PeterT]

BG,

There are 7 types of arrow heads in Vectorworks. "Solid" is type #1, and "Open" is Type #3. To set the default style before drawing a line, just deselect all, and choose type #3 from the pull down in the attributes palette before drawing your line.

The Set Arrow Attributes dialog in Tool/Options/Arrow Heads, is for changing the attributes of one of the 7 types, not for setting the default type that VectorWorks uses.

If you don't like the way the open (#3) arrowhead looks, you adjust this by choosing #3 in the pulldown list of the Set Arrow Attributes dialog, and adjusting the angle or length of the arrowhead.

Katie,

I do see what BG is saying though. If you go to the Set Arrow Attributes dialog, and change style #1 to an "open" arrowhead, but also leave style #3 as an "open" arrowhead, VectorWorks does not act appropriatly. It does not seem to like having two types set to the same style.

I personally would not want this anyway, but it begs the question: why is there a "Style" pulldown in the Set Arrow Attributes dialog if Vectorworks will not let you use two arrowheads set to the same style?

I think this might be a problem for someone who wanted to use, for example, two different types of open arrowheads in the same document.