Boh Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Title says it all. I noticed world based symbols preview well in the RM but page based ones are so small they are useless. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment
Boh Posted February 14, 2019 Author Share Posted February 14, 2019 Bumping this. It seems such a simple thing. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted February 15, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 15, 2019 Can you load a vectorworks file with the symbol in it? My first guess is that the bounding box of the symbol is much larger than its visible objects. Quote Link to comment
Boh Posted February 15, 2019 Author Share Posted February 15, 2019 It seems to happen with all the page based symbols in my library file. Will post a file on Monday. Ta. Quote Link to comment
Boh Posted February 17, 2019 Author Share Posted February 17, 2019 (edited) Hi Matt. Here is a sample file with a couple of page based symbols. I've checked and the bounding box is no larger than the visible objects. It seems to happens on most of my page based symbols on both vw2018 & vw 2019. The odd ones whose thumbnails do look ok, if I 'edit' them the thumbnail will then change size, even though I haven't actually changed them -. just gone straight in and out of edit mode. In the screen shot example below the thumbnail got bigger after 'editing'. Doesn't work for most of them unfortunately. It will be interesting to see if any of this behavior happens on your machine or on a new file into which you have imported the symbols. Thanks again for your help. Page Based Symbols Sample.vwx Edited February 17, 2019 by Boh Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted February 18, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 18, 2019 Thanks for the file. I do see the small thumbnails and previews in VW 2018 and 2019. However, editing and exiting the symbols (to refresh their bounding boxes) does correct the problem for all three symbols in 2019. Unfortunately, VW 2018 still has issues. BTW: A quick way to reset the bounding box for multiple symbols is to select any number of them in the Resource Manager, right-click on one, and choose "Edit Symbol Options". When the dialog appears, click OK without changing anything and they'll all reset. Quote Link to comment
Boh Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 Ok. Thanks Matt, I appreciate your time looking at this. I'm glad this little issue is sorted on 2019. We are holding off using 2019 for now as it looks like it has too many other bugs and will effect our productivity. Perhaps when the next service pack is issued we may start using it. Quote Link to comment
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