David Flad Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 I've been working in a 2008 drawing all morning and now i can no longer insert lighting instruments.. i now get the following error: the selected object is not a 2D symbol. i can duplicate a fixture already existing in the drawing, and then active another symbol in my resource browser.. then change the fixture in the drawing with the REPLACE WITH ACTIVE SYMBOL command... but i can't directly insert a new symbol... i've tried restarting, tried using a previous drawing, tried a new drawing, tried a blank document, tried using symbols included with 2008... all with the same error. I can export the drawing to 12.5 and everything works just fine. i've been working in 2008 all day and its been fine (slow as mud, but fine).. now this.. any ideas?? let me know. David. Macbook Pro OSX 10.4.11 Intel Duo 2.16GHz 1GB ram Vectorworks 2008 SP2 Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 It sounds like the active symbol you are trying to insert does not have the proper 2D and/or 3D definition. Is this a symbol from the VW library, or one you've created/imported? Quote Link to comment
hungerf9 Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 I had this problem a couple of weeks ago. Select your regular 2-D insertion tool (the basic tool rather than the spotlight fixture insertion) and make sure it's set to "Standard Insertion Mode" rather than "Symbol Pick up Mode" in the options at the top left of your screen. When I had the problem, the mode had spontaneously switched to "pick up" for an unknown reason, resulting in the same error message that you're getting. It took me a while to figure it out, but after I switched the 2-D insertion mode back to normal, I could place fixtures with no issue. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment
David Flad Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Andrew: you had it right on the nose.. thanks for the tip... maybe nemetschek can stop this spontaneity with its next SP.. but if it were a choice between speed and this... faster would be better... Quote Link to comment
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