Viper x Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Ok, I know this has been mentioned before but I did a search and could not find it. I have placed a plant symbol on a drawing using the place plant tool and it went in the drawing fine and it went in the class TREE-SYMBOL. Now when I choose active class and I make TREE-SYMBOL the active class it dissapears. I know Robert suggested not to use this function so I did a test and turned off all classes except TREE-SYMBOL and it is still not there. So I turned back on classes until it appeared and it re-appeared when I turned NONE class on. So it appears when I placed the symbol in the drawing using the place plant tool it for some reason goes in two classes, TREE-SYMBOL and NONE 1. Is this correct ? 2. Have I done something wrong ? 3. Why when I placed the plant in the drawing can I not select it when I have its class turned on (TREE-SYMBOLS )but I have not turned on modify others ? Clearly because the symbol is not really in TREE-SYMBOLS but NONE class ? thanks for your help Viper. Drawing in 10.5 [ 05-24-2004, 11:53 PM: Message edited by: Viper x ] Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted May 25, 2004 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted May 25, 2004 1. Yes. 2. No. 3. Don't use active class only. Don't use active class only. Don't use active class only. Don't use active class only. I don't know how to say it any clearer. Quote Link to comment
Viper x Posted May 25, 2004 Author Share Posted May 25, 2004 I must have not explained my question properly Robert, I understand that Active only is not reliable and that was not my query. I was asking why the symbols need TREE-SYMBOL and NONE class turned on to display Quote : "I know Robert suggested not to use this function so I did a test and turned off all classes except TREE-SYMBOL and it is still not there. So I turned back on classes until it appeared and it re-appeared when I turned NONE class on. So it appears when I placed the symbol in the drawing using the place plant tool it for some reason goes in two classes, TREE-SYMBOL and NONE " Could you explain this please or at least point me to an old thread that does or a section in the manual. Thanks Viper Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted May 25, 2004 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted May 25, 2004 The Plant object (container) is in the Tree-xx class, the graphics (lines, etc) inside the plant object are in the None class. Quote Link to comment
JungleBoy Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 I was badly burned (16 hours) by the same issue in V11. I placed the symbols on the plan only to find that they were invisible. I eventually tracked them down to the none layer. I must say that I don't like the idea of having the plant graphics in the none class as this class is also a trash can for any deleted classes. My last job had 307 AutoCAD layers, so there was a lot of trash. Quote Link to comment
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