ashot Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 See attached two files created in VW Designer 2020 SP3.1 In my document "Problem 1.vwx" - When I try to rotate the North Arrow in a Viewport, it refuses to listen and points back to vertical position (North). Changing angle in OIP flips back to 0. It works fine on Design Layer and on Sheet Layer. This happens only for Annotation in Viewport on a Sheet Layer. I suspected that the Georeferencing is a problem. Tried to Reset it, uncheck it - doesn't solve the problem. I started another a new blank document "No Problem Yet.vwx" - everything works fine. However, as soon as I opened the Document Preferences > Georeferncing > OK is activated, the problem with North Arrow in a Sheet Layer Viewport starts again. My real project document can not be recreated from the scratch, it has a month of my work. Is there a way to reset Georeferencing to get back control of the North Arrow in a Viewport? Problem 1.vwx No Problem Yet.vwx Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 @Ash, you can cheat by Ungrouping the object but I'm not sure that's the answer you're looking for, unless you just want a quick fix and then of course, that works.. OR you can adjust the Angle to True North and then turn the North point Wes Quote Link to comment
ashot Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 Thank you, Wes. The quick fix is not what I want. I really need to know how to revert Georeferencing in all my future documents but also be sure that all other tools work as before (like North Arrow orientation) Quote Link to comment
Kevin C Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 I found this too. The solution was to delete the North Point in annotation viewport and use the North Point from the Title Block Manager - puts it on the sheet space, but it is not affected by the geo-referencing. I cannot understand why anyone would geo-reference a north symbol and lock it out so that you couldn't change it. All surveys are carried out to grid north etc. for setting out. Also for planning and building warrant submissions, you have to show North as North. 1 Quote Link to comment
NickyC Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 (edited) Same issue - unable to rotate north arrow in viewport annotation. Changed True North in geolocation (File - doc settings) as recommended by @Wes Gardner, then did the extra step (almost missed!) to manually try and change rotation again in OIP and it did the trick. Thanks 🙂 Edited May 13, 2020 by NickyC typo Quote Link to comment
NickyC Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 2 minutes ago, NickyC said: Same issue - unable to rotate north arrow in viewport annotation. Changed True North in geolocation (File - doc settings) as recommended by @Wes Gardner, then did the extra step (almost missed!) to manually try and change rotation again in OIP and it did the trick. Thanks 🙂 P.s. I had to go through all my sheets and do the manual second step in annotation edit to correct all the north arrows. Quote Link to comment
jberlin Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 SAME PROBLEM WITH ONE FILE. YOU ALL'S ANSWER MAKES NO SENCE. I OPENED OLDER FILES TO SEE IF I HAD THE PROBLEM THERE AS WELL AS, STARTED A NEW FILE FROM MY TEMPLETS THAT I USED FOR THIS FILE, AND IN THE VIEWPORT ANNOTATIONS, I CAN ROTATE THE NORTH TO ANY ANGLE AS ALWAYS. THE SETTINGS IN GEOLOCATION VIA FILE - DOCUMENT SETTINGS HAVE NOT CHANGE, AND ARE IDENTICAL IN ALL 3 FILES. THERE HAS TO BE A SETTING SOMEPLACE THAT IS CAUSING THIS TO HAPPEN. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IN THE FILE WITH THE PROBLEM, IS THAT I CREATED A BRAND NEW TILE PAGE. YET IN ALL THOSE SETTINGS, THERE IS NOTHING THERE THAT MAKE THIS ALWAYS POINTING TO THE TOP OF THE PAGE OR STRAIGHT UP, AS A CHOICE TO TURN ON OR OFF. COME ON VW WHAT IS THE ANSWER? Quote Link to comment
jberlin Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Just to add to the experiment. Not only is the new title block viewport annotations effected by the non rotatable North arrow, all old title blocks within this corrupted file are effected. The experiment goes on. I then opened my template file and created a new Sheet layer, then while both files where open, I copied and pasted the new tile block from the infected file, to the new sheet layer in my template file. North rotates without an issue. So it is not the new title block. If there is not an on /off for this problem in some setting, I am going to have to go layer by layer and cut and paste everything from the corrupted file to the clean file. yuk!!!!! Quote Link to comment
yasin2ray Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 @Kevin C, the north arrow does not always have to be facing up. It is acceptable to rotate the drawing in construction drawings - as long as the north arrow is pointing in the direction of north for the drawing presented, of course. 1 Quote Link to comment
Kevin C Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 1 hour ago, yasin2ray said: the north arrow does not always have to be facing up. It is acceptable to rotate the drawing in construction drawings - as long as the north arrow is pointing in the direction of north for the drawing presented, of course. This is the whole crux of the problem. Yes, the best practice is that the drawing (especially when it is a site drawing) should be orientated North, with the arrow. The problem is that the North point is Vectorworks doesn't point North when the drawing is facing North - it is off and you cannot change it. There is a bug. My thinking is that some bright spark has decided that we should be orientating to 'True North' or 'Magnetic North' where in fact we orientate to 'Grid North' - something that every country has their own grid north for and it will vary slightly depending which country you live in, but North in drawings is relative to a defined set of coordinates and it always has been. 1 Quote Link to comment
Carlos Sainz Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 I have the same issue. I've tried locating a North Arrow in the sheet layer or inside the viewport as annotation. None of them work. The arrow is stuck pointing up. Even if I select that the arrow uses the Heliodon it stills points up and not to the true north in the file. Quote Link to comment
yasin2ray Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 @Carlos Sainz - Yes! I've been in contact with tech support about this and I think they now understand. I hope this can be fixed soon. For now, I know that I rotated my georeferenced north "design space" 90 degrees to the right, so I placed north arrows on the sheets and rotated those 90 degrees to the right. It got me through. Quote Link to comment
The Anorak Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 On a separate but related note, I want to control the orientation of my north point on my titleblock using the heliodon. However, the plan viewport is rotated 90deg relative to the design layer (in order to fit onto the sheet nicely) is there any way to make the titleblock "read" the rotation of the heliodon within the viewport rather than showing it relative to the design layer? 1 Quote Link to comment
Art V Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 On 6/23/2020 at 8:49 PM, Kevin C said: There is a bug. My thinking is that some bright spark has decided that we should be orientating to 'True North' or 'Magnetic North' where in fact we orientate to 'Grid North' - something that every country has their own grid north for and it will vary slightly depending which country you live in, but North in drawings is relative to a defined set of coordinates and it always has been. Actually there is an option to show true north and plan north, configurations 1 and 2 allow you to indicate the magnetic north offset but this is useful in only some situations and the symbol is not really clear what it is showing unless you know what it is supposed to show. There should be a proper northing arrow that shows CRS north (aka True North) and plan north and the angle between the two. Plan north would be grid north and the symbol should align with the viewport rotation but that would probably require the option to establish a link between the placed northing arrow and the viewport on that sheet and this link would then be specific for that sheet only and not all sheets in case there are multiple sheets with different orientations of the plan. Quote Link to comment
yasin2ray Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 @The Anorak I have this issue as well. There is currently no way to get the north arrow to follow directions from the Heliodon or the file Georeferencing for that matter. My workaround is to rotate the north arrow by 90 degrees from what north is in Design Space. If your work in Design Space has a 0.0 degree rotation, place a North Arrow directly on the sheet - not in Annotation space - and rotate it 90 degrees in the direction you need. Quote Link to comment
jberlin Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Quick Update. For me with 2021, it is no longer a problem. I am unfollowing this thread. Quote Link to comment
Michal Zarzecki Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 I noticed that today as well. First thing - VW keeps crashing every time I am trying to create a new north arrow. Then, when I copy one from another file, it assumes -4 dg rotation. True north set to 0 in georeferencing (automatically), but anyway I don't use georeferencing for the time being. I can't find the cause of that problem. Quote Link to comment
ericjhberg Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 (edited) I am also running into this problem. For some reason VW doesn't realize that it is standard practice to rotate viewports... They don't allow the north arrow to rotate with the viewport or be smart enough to understand that the viewport is rotated. I don't mind a smart north arrow that realizes georeferencing, but it should also be smart enough to understand the concepts of rotated viewports. This is DUMB! @Tony Kostreski....I'm tagging you on this one...figure it out. Edited November 22, 2020 by ericjhberg 2 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tony Kostreski Posted November 23, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 23, 2020 21 hours ago, ericjhberg said: I am also running into this problem. For some reason VW doesn't realize that it is standard practice to rotate viewports... They don't allow the north arrow to rotate with the viewport or be smart enough to understand that the viewport is rotated. I don't mind a smart north arrow that realizes georeferencing, but it should also be smart enough to understand the concepts of rotated viewports. This is DUMB! @Tony Kostreski....I'm tagging you on this one...figure it out. Hey @ericjhberg! I have to agree that it would be nice to have the north point of a titleblock link to a viewports rotation. I'll submit a VE but in the meantime, I would suggest placing the north arrow directly in the annotations part of a viewport making sure to check "Use Heliodon". Like that you know the north arrow will point in the right direction automatically. What would you want to happen in cases where you have multiple viewports on a sheet? Have you ever had more than one north arrow (pointing different directions) on a single sheet? Quote Link to comment
ericjhberg Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Tony Kostreski said: but in the meantime, I would suggest placing the north arrow directly in the annotations part of a viewport making sure to check "Use Heliodon". This doesn't work. No matter which settings are enabled, it is impossible to rotate the north arrow within the viewport annotations layer. The only way to make it work is to actually "Explode" (covert to group) the north arrow, or create a dumb 2d symbol, which is a REALLY, REALLY bad workflow considering the intent of the north arrow tool. We actually ONLY put north arrows within viewports in case we do have multiple viewports on the same sheet with different north arrow orientations (not often and try to avoid, but occasionally). We never put north arrows in the titleblock. Edited November 23, 2020 by ericjhberg Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tony Kostreski Posted November 23, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 23, 2020 2 hours ago, ericjhberg said: This doesn't work. No matter which settings are enabled, it is impossible to rotate the north arrow within the viewport annotations layer. The only way to make it work is to actually "Explode" (covert to group) the north arrow, or create a dumb 2d symbol, which is a REALLY, REALLY bad workflow considering the intent of the north arrow tool. We actually ONLY put north arrows within viewports in case we do have multiple viewports on the same sheet with different north arrow orientations (not often and try to avoid, but occasionally). We never put north arrows in the titleblock. Hmm...perhaps I am not seeing the problem or maybe it was a bug that has been addressed. This video is what I am seeing and it seems to be working fine for me. Selecting the checkbox for the heliodon simply orients the north arrow in the correct direction. Is this not the case for you? If so, what build are you using and I'll investigate further. Thanks! North Arrow Viewport.mp4 Quote Link to comment
ericjhberg Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 @Tony Kostreski...I am seeing this in 2020 SP5. Haven't tried it in my testing of 2021 yet. Could be particular to a specific file? I don't even have a Heliodon in the file I am working in and when I go to rotate the North Arrow...nothing. Does it have to do with Georeferencing? Screen Recording 2020-11-23 - VW North Arrow.mov 1 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tony Kostreski Posted November 24, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 24, 2020 16 hours ago, ericjhberg said: @Tony Kostreski...I am seeing this in 2020 SP5. Haven't tried it in my testing of 2021 yet. Could be particular to a specific file? I don't even have a Heliodon in the file I am working in and when I go to rotate the North Arrow...nothing. Does it have to do with Georeferencing? Screen Recording 2020-11-23 - VW North Arrow.mov 18.93 MB · 2 downloads Okay...so after further testing I CAN replicate your issue—quite annoying. It definitely has to do with georeferencing. For internal I've added a bug (VB-175609) 2 Quote Link to comment
yasin2ray Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 On 11/23/2020 at 11:07 AM, Tony Kostreski said: Tony, When you wrote this: "placing the north arrow directly in the annotations part of a viewport making sure to check "Use Heliodon". Like that you know the north arrow will point in the right direction automatically." - are you saying the North Arrow in the Annotation space of a viewport will recognize the rotated design space? Anna Hey @ericjhberg! I have to agree that it would be nice to have the north point of a titleblock link to a viewports rotation. I'll submit a VE but in the meantime, I would suggest placing the north arrow directly in the annotations part of a viewport making sure to check "Use Heliodon". Like that you know the north arrow will point in the right direction automatically. What would you want to happen in cases where you have multiple viewports on a sheet? Have you ever had more than one north arrow (pointing different directions) on a single sheet? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tony Kostreski Posted December 4, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted December 4, 2020 Hi @yasin2ray (Anna)--yes. If you have a heliodon on a design layer, the north point in annotations will automatically point in the same direction as the heliodon regardless if the viewport is rotated or not BUT there is presently a bug that's being worked on that prevents this from working when Document>Georeferencing is activated. I will post back here when that's resolved. 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment
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