Structural Shapes

[L+K]

Have you ever heard of Structural Shapes magically converting into "Polylines" instead of their original shape? All of the data about the I-beam has been lost, but it still looks like an I-beam shape.

If so, why did it happen & how can you fix it?

[Guest]

Did you ungroup it?

If you ungroup it, it becomes a polyline and loses it's plug-in data.

You are prompted each time you ungroup a plugin object.

[L+K]

No, I couldn't ungroup it - I tried, to see if that's what happened, but it's not! The file was brought into the latest version of VW from a MAC to a PC, could something have happened there?

On the MAC, they still have there structural info & I put them in a "Structural Grid" Class- however, if I say ACTIVE ONLY for that class, they disappear & I can't seem to fine their true identity.

[Guest]

make the structural class and the none class as the only visible ones.

Then select the object. See if it says "polyline" in the OIP or if it says I beam or whatever the plugin in.

The breakup wouldn't happen in a conversion process or cross platform.

If it's reading as a Polyline in the OIP then the object was ungrouped. If you still can't ungroup the object, then it's probably a polyline, implying the plugin had to be ungrouped at one point in time.