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Hi, I done this once a while ago but somethings gone wrong.

How do I "explode" the orange box around the drawing. I'm importing a DWG from a client and need to make changes but the drawing has an orange box I have to click on/through to get to elements of the drawing.

I'd like to explode this ?

Thanks for your time.

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Your DWG is probably a symbol. Make sure you are at the top level (ie. no orange border visible). If you can see that it is a symbol on the OIP then use Convert to Group on the Modify menu to "explode" it.

Note if your symbol contains 2D and 3D information then you need to do this twice in order to get all of the information:

- In Top/Plan View copy the symbol. Then convert it to a group to get the 2D parts.

- Switch to Top View and paste in Place the symbol again. Then convert it to a group to get the 3D parts.

- Select both groups and ungroup them.

The reason for this is:

- When you convert a symbol to a group in a 2D view (ie. Top/Plan View) you lose the 3D components; and

- When you convert a symbol to a group in a 3D view you lose the 2D components.

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Does the following mean anything to anyone? I can copy the rest but it's rather long.

Process: VectorWorks [3757]

Path: /Applications/VectorWorks 2008/VectorWorks 2008.app/Contents/MacOS/VectorWorks

Identifier: net.nemetschek.vectorworks

Version: 13.0.0 (76681) (???)

Code Type: X86 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [114]

Date/Time: 2010-12-16 12:03:46.138 +0000

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H574)

Report Version: 6

Interval Since Last Report: 72480 sec

Crashes Since Last Report: 4

Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 9501 sec

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 4

Anonymous UUID: 89E6B966-22D7-4B40-98D0-3E8156544229

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000ffffffff

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x004b501b start + 4923875

1 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x004c0079 start + 4969025

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7 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x001a3ff5 start + 1708477

8 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x000510a0 start + 320104

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10 net.nemetschek.vectorworks 0x000c95cc start + 812948

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As the OS evolves, various legacy Libs/functions are dropped into the ditch.

Calls to those Libs/functions by older noncompliant untested apps often result in process crashes;

this is not always the case ... sometimes tools just refuse to work properly.

In fact, it is amazing just how long some VW versions can endure code collapse.

It sure would be great there was such a thing as a self-healing app.

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