Change the default behaviour of "Scale Objects - Entire Drawing" -- please.

[Markus Barrera-Kolb]

It's happened a couple of times now that I've scaled the entire drawing by mistake and not noticed until some time later -- of course late enough so that I don't have enough undos left to reverse my mistake. If you invoke the Scale Objects command and don't have anything selected (when you thought you did), the command will, by default, scale the whole drawing!

A dialog box that says "Are you sure you want to scale the entire drawing?" would be extremely simple to implement and have already saved me several headaches!

[AndiACD]

Hi Markus,

The Undo History limit really needs to be increased, to my mind. Not that this helps you right now in any way, with scaling issues, but it would a nice to have a bigger safety net when in instances like yours, you hit a key/combination and realise when it's too late to just "Undo".

Been there just TOOOOO many times and let slip a few too many explicatives.

[Pat Stanford]

Vectorworks Preferences:Session Tab:Maximum number of undos

From the factory it is set to 20. You can bump it up as far as you want. Take it too far and it will slow down your drawing speed.

Pat

[AndiACD]

Hi Pat,

Nice to see you again . . . . . . .

Mines set to the max, which is 100, always has been for me. Unless of coarse there's a spanner stuck in the works at my end that stops me increasing it.

[maarten.]

It's limited to 100 for many years, i even think it was already so in the Minicad days.

[Ray Libby]

It used to be one (MiniCad 8?)...

I just can't imagine needing more that 100 undo's.

[Markus Barrera-Kolb]

One of the first things I did when setting up VW initially was crank up the undos to 100 (ours goes to 11 !) -- but for one, this time around I couldn't get back to the pre-scale state; for the other, a simple verification dialog prior to scaling the whole friggin' drawing would be really simple. How often does one want to scale everything anyway? And when you do, how much is one extra click on an button going to slow you down?

Luckily, this time I had a backup that was made not too long before my mishap, but I think the point is to make tools or commands robust, clear, or perhaps foolproof enough (without making them excessively cumbersome) to minimize the frequency with which you have to use those undos...

[AndiACD]

Get's my vote.

[gmm18]

A couple times I have used the Scale Objects tool, and first thing I did was unckeck

the "Entire Drawing" box, then I set the scale using the symmetric method, then when

it brought me back to the Scale Objects window, just before hitting OK, I find that the

"Entire Drawing" box has re-checked itself! I am glad I noticed.

I agree with Markus' suggestion of adding a verification dialogue.