Walls & Columns Grouped in Symbols

[Kevin McAllister]

I've been working working on a project that uses some Wall and Column objects. Initially everything was behaving well. Some of the Wall and Column objects were grouped to make the drawing easier to edit. When I converted some of those groups to symbols, things started misbehaving. I am wondering if other people have had trouble with Wall, Columns or other plugin objects when they are within groups within hybrid symbols.

The various problems that have shown up include -

- sometimes you are unable to snap to the Columns in Sheet Layer viewports.

- sometimes the Walls get confused and parts disappear or are displaced in 3D views.

- sometimes things ungroup themselves.

The issue is clearly related to the screen plane / layer plane adventure and VW trying to separate the elements to create a hybrid symbol.

The obvious solution is just not to use groups in hybrid symbols involving these elements. However I often use groups for easier editing because it is an easy way to isolate specific areas. Is this a known workflow limitation?

Are other people running into these quirks?

Thanks,

Kevin

[bcd]

This was worse in VW2011 but I've long eliminated all groups from Symbols for these kinds of reasons.

You may find nesting the symbols a viable alternative.

[Dieter @ DWorks]

Having groups in symbols is really problematic, you just need to avoid this! I also strugled with this a long time and just gave up on it.