michaelk Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Anyone else seeing this? I'm having a weird issue that just started today. All 2D symbols insert at the drawing origin - no matter where I try to insert them. Tried restarting VW and restarting the computer. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment
0 MullinRJ Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Michael, What is your Snap Grid distance set to? Menu "Tools -> SmartCursor Settings...", or CMD-8. If you have constraint "Snap to Grid" enabled, and the Snap Grid is LARGE compared to your screen area, you'll be placing symbols at the origin all day long, assuming the origin is visible in your drawing window. Of course Symbols won't be the only thing jumping to the Origin, every click will land there. Please write back with the answer when you find it. I doubt I guessed it. Raymond Quote Link to comment
0 michaelk Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 Raymond Good question. My snap to grid is off. (And set to 6") :-) But ONLY 2D symbols are landing on the origin. (Both stock VW symbols and my own.). Hybrid symbols are behaving themselves. I'm hoping that a long walk, some nice spicy Thai food, and a good night's sleep will cure it. I'll let you know. Quote Link to comment
0 michaelk Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 Nope. Still happening. Grid snap is off. Hybrid symbols work correctly. 2D symbols look like they will work (cursor is an outline of the symbol). But on the second click the symbol is sitting at the origin. Any other ideas? Quote Link to comment
0 michaelk Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 Turns out it's a known bug! Quote Link to comment
0 MullinRJ Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Sorry Michael, no new ideas here. Questions, but no ideas. Does this happen in all files? Files created from a VW 2018 template? Blank VW file? Files converted from earlier VW version(s)? PageBased, or WorldBased symbols? Can you post a problem file here? Raymond Quote Link to comment
0 MullinRJ Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 6 minutes ago, michaelk said: Turns out it's a known bug! Obviously not known by everyone. Are there any "known" workarounds? Thanks, Raymond Quote Link to comment
0 Kevin McAllister Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 27 minutes ago, michaelk said: Turns out it's a known bug! 18 minutes ago, MullinRJ said: Obviously not known by everyone. Are there any "known" workarounds? I wonder what caused it to start. When I saw this post I did some testing to see if I could get it to happen but no luck. Kevin Quote Link to comment
0 michaelk Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 It's only in some files. Tried it on another computer in a different file - no problem. Tech support said they expect a fix in an upcoming service pack. The workaround was to put a 3D locus in the symbol. No longer 2D, so it works. Quote Link to comment
0 bpsabatier Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Had this problem on one computer, fixed it, and forgot what I did. Just had to trace my steps due to the same problem on another machine. the issue occurs because you may be trying to insert a 2D symbol while working with the Layer Plane on. Switch to Screen Plane, and the problem disappears. Quote Link to comment
0 Andy Broomell Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Had this start happening to me today. Hopefully the fix is in SP3, and hopefully SP3 comes out soon Quote Link to comment
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michaelk
Anyone else seeing this?
I'm having a weird issue that just started today. All 2D symbols insert at the drawing origin - no matter where I try to insert them.
Tried restarting VW and restarting the computer.
Any ideas?
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