McF Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 I'm having an issue in VW 2010 (Mac) where I copy content from one drawing (content originally created in an earlier version of VW, now converted to VW2010) into a new file and suddenly the Menu Bar items are grayed out (and I can no longer use keyboard shortcuts). I can toggle between open files (a system shortcut), but if I try cmd + Q, then I can't quit out of vectorworks. Clicking on the red dot will prompt the Do you want to save the changes you made in the document ?fill-in-your-name.vwx?? The program effectively becomes unusable until I Force Quit it. Are there any solutions to this problem? I've tried repairing permissions on the mac, but that does not seem to help. I've also tried using default workspace settings with no success. Thanks! [img:left]http://www.lunningwende.com/menu_bar-Vectorworks.jpeg[/img] [img:left]http://www.lunningwende.com/menu_bar-file.jpeg[/img] Quote Link to comment
McF Posted January 18, 2011 Author Share Posted January 18, 2011 On further investigation the problem may be isolated to Door objects. Still looking into this. Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 (edited) Check that your destination file doesn't have a Layer, Class or Resource named Door. If it does change it. Edited January 18, 2011 by mike m oz Quote Link to comment
McF Posted January 19, 2011 Author Share Posted January 19, 2011 Nope. The destination file is a clean, barebones new document (typical/default Vectorworks blank new document). What I did discover was a door object had a value of zero (0) for the door width. It looks like a door object had been used for its sidelight only instead of just using a window PIO to do the job; deleting the door before copying to the new/blank document solved the problem. I suspect there are a lot of PIOs (doors, windows, columns, etc.) that do not like having a zero value in critical height/width fields. Quote Link to comment
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