Duplicating class in 2013 only duplicates the class name not its objects.

[Sam Lee]

We've just moved from 2008 to 2013, and although there a several new features we seem to have made the switch pretty smoothly, the only thing we cant get our head around is when we used to duplicate a class in 2008 all the classes objects would also be duplicated.

Now when we duplicate a class we just get a new class ie. "my class -2" but its just a blank class, with no objects inside of it.

Any ideas how we can make it behave as it did previously ie. also duplicate the objects ?

[Christiaan]

I can't quite put my finger on what you're experiencing or expecting because objects have never resided on Classes. They reside on Layers. Duplicating a Class has never duplicated objects. Classes are a category, Layers are a container. I can only imagine you're describing some default *visibility* behaviour you're experiencing.

Possibly related: when you duplicate an existing Class and that Class was already active in a Viewport then it will be on by default in that Viewport. If it was active in the existing Viewport then it will be off by default in that Viewport.

[Sam Lee]

Sorry i think that my wording might have been incorrect, when i say object i mean any shape - a square, a circle a group of squares and circles ect (is that correct ? i was calling them that because the panel that gives you more info on them is called object info.. )

What i meant to say in the question was when i duplicate a class (in the classes panel) i used to get all the shapes of the class also duplicated, but now when i duplicate the class only the class name is duplicated the new class its self is blank.

Hope that makes sense

cheers

Edited May 20, 2013 by LLI Design

[Christiaan]

Hmm, okay, I think I know what you mean. Try this: Right-click (or ctrl-click) anywhere in the Navigation palette while the Classes tab is active. Then uncheck the Hierarchical Display option. Is this what you mean?

[Sam Lee]

Sorry ive just gone back to 2008 to try and find the issue, and it seems be my mistake, it works differently from how i remember it.

But it brings up another question is it possible to duplicate a class's shapes when you duplicate a class, Instead of having to copy them and "paste in place" them into the new class ?

Edited May 20, 2013 by LLI Design

[Benson Shaw]

The Select Similar Tool and/or the Visibility Tool and/or setting the class visibility to Active Only may help you do what you require. But you would still need to copy/paste and assign them to a different class.

-B

Edited May 20, 2013 by Benson Shaw

[Christiaan]

But it brings up another question is it possible to duplicate a class's shapes when you duplicate a class, Instead of having to copy them and "paste in place" them into the new class ?

Go to Vectorworks > Preferences, under the Edit tab uncheck the "Offset duplications".

Then when you duplicate objects (Edit > Duplicate or command-D) they'll stay in place and be selected, at which point you can change them to your new Class in the object info palette.