Duplicate of lighting units created when moved to a different layer.

[TCryan]

Just encountered something new which has me puzzled,

whenever I move a lighting unit to a different layer a duplicate of that unit is also created. It seems to occur in all the drawings I open, and this is a new problem which I've just discovered today.

Any thoughts as to why this is, or suggestions as to how I can stop it would certainly be appreciated.

(Running spotlight on 2012).

Thanks.

[SAR]

Is it possible that the "Allow ctrl-click in-place duplication" is on in your preferences and that is causing this?

Steve

[TCryan]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the suggestion,

I just looked but "Allow ctrl-click in-place duplication" is off.

best,

Tim

[klinzey]

Have you updated to 2012 SP2?

If you were using the Lightwright data exchange and changed the layer of a lighting device you would end up with a duplicate light on both layers. This was fixed in SP2. If you have updated and are still having problems please let us know.

[Pat Stanford]

Could you Option/Alt key be stuck? That will cause any drag to be considered a duplicate instead of a move?

Are you using any keyboard/mouse enhancement software? Could you have gotten your mouse/trackball button programmed to be an Option click instead of just a click?

Just wild guesses.

[TCryan]

Hi

I am on SP1.

The program tells me that I am up to date when I use the search for update function. interesting.

I'll look for Sp2 in the downloads area.

thanks

[TCryan]

Spoke with the folks at Nemetschek tech support.

they looked at my file but could not recreate the problem,

Ultimately they suggested that I go into my settings folder and delete the VectorWorks Preferences.XML file

C:> Program Files (x86)> Vectorworks2012 > Settings > VectorWorks Preferences.XML

Rebooted the program and now all is fine (or at least it seems that way).

will look into Kevin suggestion above about updating to SP2.

[TCryan]

well, it turns out that deleting the preferences file did not help after all (the problem returned).

I installed SP2, and that seems to have worked (so far).