Far too often I try to do something in Vectorworks and it doesn't work. I wish the app could tell me why rather than just do nothing. I waste too much time trying to figure these things out. I've been using the Split Tool recently, and sometimes it does nothing. Vectorworks knows the tool is doing nothing to the object selected, so Vectorworks should be able tell me why not. After much playing around I finally figured it out. The layer of the object being split must be the active layer. OK, I'm not sure why that makes a difference, but my point is Vectorworks should tell me the reason when the operation fails so I don't spend hours trying to figure it out.
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Bruce Kieffer
Far too often I try to do something in Vectorworks and it doesn't work. I wish the app could tell me why rather than just do nothing. I waste too much time trying to figure these things out. I've been using the Split Tool recently, and sometimes it does nothing. Vectorworks knows the tool is doing nothing to the object selected, so Vectorworks should be able tell me why not. After much playing around I finally figured it out. The layer of the object being split must be the active layer. OK, I'm not sure why that makes a difference, but my point is Vectorworks should tell me the reason when the operation fails so I don't spend hours trying to figure it out.
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