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I am getting really pissed off. There are parts of my drawings (elevations and sections) that have 10-15 copies of the lines and symbols stacked on top of each other. This is extremely frustrating and I don't think it is anything I am doing. I use the move by points command a lot, and am starting to suspect it is the problem - though I don't know how to fix it. Is anyone else having this problem?

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Thanks for the reply. I am new to Vectorworks (December), and I did know that highlighting objects then holding Option down allows those objects to be copied. I did not know that holding Option down and clicking an object would place a copy directly on top - so thank you.

However, I am getting 10 - 20 duplicates sometimes and I know it is not because of the Option click you describe (i.e. I wouldn't do that 20 times).

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I can verify what you are saying about self duplications. It doesn't happen a lot, but it does happen --When at least 15 objects are piled upon one another without any clear cause. I, unfortunately don't know why. So I can't help. But I am not buying the apple + d reason. Recently, one of my employees realized that the number of objects in her file had multiplied 1070 x (judging from the number of objects in the file before this happened). The strange thing is, it doesn't happen to all the objects.... hmmm.

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Holding the Ctrl key and clicking on an object will duplicate it. I think this is the cause for the people having problems. I just don't believe VW is randomly duplicating objects. It's never happened to me in 14 years of the program and judging from the amount of people complaining it's not a widespread problem.

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