HOUCAD Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 I am having an issue with snaps not working between design layers. I have my layer options set to show/snap others but I can only snap to an actual object or a viewport representation. I have a border layer referenced into a design layer named border. I have another layer set to see and snap to the border. All the classes from the border file are present in this drawing. I am still unable to snap. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't depending on the drawing. All my snap settings are turned on. I can snap to other objects that are on other layers in this drawing just not the border. Some files it works and some files it doesn't. I have compared settings between files and everything is the same as far as I can tell. These little annoyances are driving me crazy! Things work one minute then they stop working out of blue. Quote Link to comment
HOUCAD Posted July 23, 2009 Author Share Posted July 23, 2009 Another problem that may be related is now I am unable to select viewports or objects. I had just selected a viewport on a sheet layer without any trouble. I changed its layer. I went to select another viewport and was unable to select anything on the sheet. After doing a force select everything returned to normal. What is going on? I shut down my computer and took a break before restarting it. Maybe the server needs to be rebooted too? Quote Link to comment
HOUCAD Posted July 23, 2009 Author Share Posted July 23, 2009 (edited) WTH!?!? Now I have to force select to select anything and snaps work on some layers but not others!? This is nuts. Could all this be a side effect of setting my VA project prefs to a project folder on the server? Everything seemed to go strange after I did that. There is nothing in this drawing that uses any of the project pref txt files though. Edited July 23, 2009 by HOUCAD Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 Four things are required to snap between layers: 1. Layer Options set to Show/Snap Others or Better 2. Class Options set to Show/Snap Others or Better (unless objects are in same class) 3. Layers are set to the same scale 4. Layers are set to the same view (Top/Plan, Front, etc.) Are all of the above true? Quote Link to comment
HOUCAD Posted July 23, 2009 Author Share Posted July 23, 2009 (edited) I have set layer and class options and I checked that they are all in top plan. I realize that different layer scales effected snaps but the layers I have been working with are both 1:1. Sometimes the snaps work and sometimes they don't. It seems to be something wrong with this set of files or the server. I still can not select some things without using force select. If I try to force select a detail it will only select things on the class I selected. Everything else remains non selectable. After a few tries selecting items they will all become selectable. I don't know what the heck is going on. I keep running into these strange issues with files and I end up having to start from scratch to fix them. This makes using a master plan set useless. I might as well set up every set of drawings from scratch. Edited July 23, 2009 by HOUCAD Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 Make sure the layers are in Top/Plan view, NOT Top view. Quote Link to comment
HOUCAD Posted July 23, 2009 Author Share Posted July 23, 2009 Yes they are in top/plan view. While I was writing my last post I was trying a few different things with this drawing and now everything seems to be working fine. I don't know what the hell is going on. The one sheet where this first popped up had some elements that were copied from an older VW12.5 drawing. I am pretty sure I didn't convert the entire file from 12.5 to 2009 but I can't say for sure. Now I am able to select everything normally when 20 minutes ago I couldn't. Quote Link to comment
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