Selection Tool Solid

[mlancepro]

So - Not a fan of the selection tool creating a solid orange shape over the object you have selected. Can't see objects above or under it at that point. And it makes it cumbersome to grab a handle and move it if you can't see where its going to. Is there any way to turn the fill off on this and just have a border? Or maybe making it translucent?

Thanks - M

[Marissa Farrell]

@mlancepro, can you attach a screenshot of what you're seeing?

 

When I use the selection tool, all I see is border highlighting. I've never seen a solid shape over my selection.

[PVA - Admin]

Tools > Options > Vectorworks Preferences > Interactive (This dialog will let you completely disable it if you want, but if you continue on to) > Interactive Appearance Settings, you can select the various Object Highlighting items and change their color or reduce their opacity. The main ones are "Object Highlighting - Active Layer" and "Object Highlighting - Preselection - Active Layer" but the names are pretty self explanatory once you see the list.

[mlancepro]

This is what it looks like. There is a lot of detail lost under that selection...

Edited September 29, 2016 by mlancepro

[mlancepro]

I guess it is for 2D symbols... 

Is there a way to have it not be solid?

Edited September 29, 2016 by mlancepro

[PVA - Admin]

Reducing the opacity as described above did not help?

[mlancepro]

[Kevin McAllister]

Does this happen with every object? Can you post a screen shot of what these symbols look like unselected?

Kevin

[PVA - Admin]

That looks more like a graphics issue, post the following from your machine please @mlancepro :

 

http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/627/DirectX+Diagnostics+and+System+Profiler

[mlancepro]

DxDiag.txt

[PVA - Admin]

That graphics card is well below the minimum requirements, which may cause issues like this. The driver is also about 4 years out of date, however on Intel's driver site there are a few updates available. This one looks to be the one for your graphics card and might help:

 

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/26228/Intel-Graphics-Driver-for-Windows-10-and-Windows-7-8-1-15-40-?product=86210

 

However, since Intel's drivers are hard to find sometimes, you may want to use their automatic driver update utility.

[gman19]

Hello. I found the orange highlighted selection annoying. To turn it off Tools/options/Vectorworks preferences/ select interactive tab. In the highlighting section on the right un-check selection highlighting. That will get rid of huge solid orange section that does not allow you to see where you are moving you object.