mjm Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 (edited) So today out of the blue, with apparent randomness VW 2013 his disappearing various drawing symbols/plugin objects. This is easier to show than to describe -screenshot attached - as I work along, various plugins or symbols begin to disappear, while still remaining in the drawing in place -as you can see from the selection handles showing in the scrn cap. I have tried the incredibly unproductive close-everything-and-restart, to no avail. Thoughts? Advice? Prayers? Edited September 11, 2013 by mjm Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted September 11, 2013 Author Share Posted September 11, 2013 I quickly tested a guess: the Spotlight Preferences|Modify lighting device color toggle seems to possibly be the cause of the issue. Fixtures all showed back up when that field was toggled OFF. Poop. Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted September 11, 2013 Author Share Posted September 11, 2013 Apparently I was wrong. Sadly. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted September 11, 2013 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 11, 2013 Try running Refresh instruments with nothing selected. Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted September 11, 2013 Author Share Posted September 11, 2013 Hello Kevin - super thanks for the quick reply. Yes, they returned to view. But - why does this happen? And you of course understand how confusing it becomes to look up and see placed fixtures disappearing. Michael Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted September 11, 2013 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 11, 2013 The Unique ID of the lights was probably bad. Refresh instruments checks and fixes the problem. I haven't seen the problem in 2013 but in some older versions some copy/paste/duplicate operations would fail to properly set the Unique ID. If you can reproduce the problem please submit a bug via the bug submit form. Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted September 12, 2013 Author Share Posted September 12, 2013 Kevin, thanks again for the clear information. If it happens again or if I can force it to happen I'll file a bug. Quote Link to comment
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