12.5.3 space tool - room finishes

[gScott]

i'm trying to use the new 12.5.3 space tool to indicate room

finishes, but find that i can only use the "VA defaults" preference set's finishes.

using any other preference set gives a blank "assign room finishes" palette,

and then if i revert to the "VA defaults" preference set

the same thing happens, even checking what the current

setting is via "VA set project prefs" results

in the blank palette...

the only way out of this is to restart VW and let it reset

back to "VA defaults"

saving a new default template with a different "project prefs"

+ restarting also results in the blank palette.

the only way i can use my room finishes is to paste them into

the "VA defaults"'s "Prefs_Def" folder.

isn't this defeating the point of being able to have different preference sets?

or am i doing something dumb?

help please?

[Robert Anderson]

Gideon, this may be an access privileges problem. You should make sure that you have complete read and write privileges to the Plug-ins folder (and everything beneath it.)

[gScott]

robert

i run as the administrator

but it makes for less hassles> and i am also

running XP "simple file sharing" so ownership

+ rights shouldn't come into it... unless NNA

installer buggers around in the background??

i have turned off "simple file sharing" to

check the rights, given everyone full rights

for everything; no luck.

copy the prefs folder out of 'plugins'

to the main VW folder; no luck

copy the prefs folder out of 'plugins'

to the 'program files' folder; success

copy the prefs folder out of 'plugins'

to anywhere else other than the VW folder

including other drives + network drives; success

so what is so special about the VW folder that

it's not interested? i have reset the owner to

me, to administrators group, given lavish rights

all round, no dice...

for now i'm sticking the prefs in "my documents"

but i'd rather have them in the right place...

any advice welcome

thanks

[gnkarch]

I am having the same problem with 12.5.3. I spent an hour on the phone w/ tech support this morning and nothing worked. Keep getting the blank Assign Room Finish diaglog box - on both new and existing space objects. I re-installed 12.5.0 and lo and behold the space object operates properly - my previous selected finishes show up in the diaglog box. I then downloaded the 12.5.3. update again and re-installed that and the blank diaglog box returns even for projects using the VA defaults preference set. I am a single user, not on a network, so there are no issues with administrative rights. There is a problem with the update and I am going back to 12.5.2.

[Ramon PG]

gnarkch,

Just wondering if "going back to 12.5.2" solved anything. I'm still stuck with the issue after almost 4 months of trying to go around it. Tech Support doesn't seem to have a clue.

Anyone in VW2008 has the same issues?

[ecoteri]

try going iApplications>VectorWorks 12.5.3>Plug-Ins>VW_Arch>Data>

In this folder there are probably a series of folders called Prefs_01, Prefs_02, etc, as well as a folder called Prefs_Def

Drag all but the Prefs_Def out to another location. relaunch VectorWorks. See if you now have the options in your space object

Regards

Teri