Worksheets Selection Not Working

[Martin Crawford]

Hi

 

I am having a problems with a selection that has the following:

 

Type - Symbol

Layer - Screen

Class - Module

 

This works as expected.

 

I need to exclude a few symbols that end in x

 

If I leave the option off completely then I get 8 objects, if I change to 'ends with' or 'contains' I get back 2 objects. If I use the 'does not end with' or 'does not contain' I get a 0.

 

Sometimes Vectorworks is very frustrating as it feels like there is not a lot of testing going on.

 

Can someone confirm the issue and any suggestions on a workaround?

 

Thanks

 

Martin

 

 

[Pat Stanford]

I just tested on one of my files and Does Not Contain and Ends With do not appear to work with symbol names. 

 

Some works arounds could be:

 

If you only have a few symbol names that you need to exclude, just type the whole thing in and use IS as the criteria.

 

Put those symbols in a separate class and exclude that class.

 

If you already have records attached could you use a record value to exclude?

 

Create a custom Record and attach it to those symbols and exclude objects with that record.

 

Pen Color or Fill Color or Fill Pattern/Hatch?

 

 

 

[Martin Crawford]

Thanks

 

I have a lot of symbols, around 200 (and growing), so that would be cumbersome. I think they way I'm using classes also won't work. So, I think I will go the record route. It's not perfect and does require some extra documentation for others on the team, but it will work.

 

Thanks for your suggestions, I didn't think of the record solution.

 

Martin

 

P.S. How to I report this as a bug?