VW2018: "Set Working Plane" tool can't find faces on symbols.

[line-weight]

I'm finding that I can't get the "set working plane" tool to find faces that are within symbols.

 

I don't think this was a problem in 2017.

 

Attached is a screen recording. I've simply got two extrudes but one is within a symbol. You can see that while the SWP tool finds faces on the "normal" extrude without any problem, behaviour on the one within the symbol is erratic. It seems to be able to find faces when I hover near the bottom, but further up it sometimes does and sometimes doesn't. And it can't find the top face at all.

 

(NB this is whilst outside of the symbol. If I double click to go into and edit the 3d symbol, then it works fine)

 

 

symbolwp.mov

Edited September 23, 2017 by line-weight

[markdd]

Happy to say that this time I am not experiencing this and all is behaving normally. I have, however just done a clean install of VWX 2018 having completely deleted the earlier downloaded version, which was behaving a little erratically. I didn't migrate my old workspace so what I have is "straight out of the box". Another user @digitalcarbonhad this issue earlier in the week and came to the conclusion that might have something to do with large file sizes.

[Andy Broomell]

Might be related to this or not, but even in 2017 sometimes I find that the Set Working Plane tool randomly can't "see" certain objects arbitrarily. Very frustrating.

 

Sometimes fixes include cutting and pasting in place, sending objects to front, and/or restarting Vectorworks.

 

But there certainly might be a separate issue related to objects within symbols as you're experiencing.

[line-weight]

The problems with the SWP tool seem similar to problems with the push pull tool; both tools having problems highlighting faces consistently.

[line-weight]

1 hour ago, markdd said:

@digitalcarboncame to the conclusion that might have something to do with large file sizes.

That can't explain my example with a file that contains two rectangular extrudes and nothing else!

Unless it is affected by other larger files I have open at the same time.

 

I wonder if I too should try a clean install.

[markdd]

I did a clean install in order to try and sort out a problem with Hanging Positions in Spotlight. @RickR couldn't replicate my problem, so I figured it might be something wrong with my install.

Needless to say it hasn't solved the problem! In my case it might be a PC/Mac thing!

Edited September 23, 2017 by markdd

[zoomer]

I would say this kind of temporary blindness in many situations came with

VW 2017's OpenGL update -  but just an assumption.