Moving a PIO in a wall

[ErichR]

If I stick a PIO window into a wall, I no longer seem to be able to drag it out of the wall or to move it within the wall by dragging it.

Click on the window object, and the wall length changes, or the wall changes position dramatically. What gives?

[ 10-27-2004, 05:00 PM: Message edited by: ErichR ]

[Robert Anderson]

What version of VWA are you using?

[ErichR]

11.0.1

[ErichR]

I pasted the wall with its windows into a different drawing file, and the PIO behaved normally.

But the problem isn't unique. It has happened before.

[BisbeeBlue]

I've had similar behavior with 11.01. The object seems "stuck" in the wall. I can only move it by nudging.

Odd

[ErichR]

Pretty sure this is a bug in 11.0.1. Seems that after a while, working with a wall and a simple window, walls and PIOs attached to them become somehow infected with a stickiness. The file appears to be afflicted. Paste the wall into another drawing file and it works fine.

[BisbeeBlue]

Yeah, I pasted the wall into a new drawing and it started working again. Strange

[ErichR]

This is truly a BIG problem, unless it's the result of some simple setting that I'm not aware of. It's surprising that there has been only one other acknowledgement of this issue.

The problem is that if a wall is fooled with enough (moving PIOs around manually), eventually, it seems, the wall can't be touched with the cursor without the wall going haywire. You can select the wall by surrounding it with a marquee, but yhou can't select the PIO. Sometimes the wall shrinks to a fraction of it's size, Sometimes it sticks to the cursor, sometimes it's ends shoot off into space. I remember the latter happening with VW several versions ago.

[ErichR]

Anyone else weighing in here?

[CipesDesign]

Hi ErichR & All, I have not seen this behavior in quite a while. The fact that the objects behave normally in a new file lead me to wonder: were the files in question originally created in an earlier version? Did you create new templates and workspaces when you upgraded to 11 or did you copy (or drag) your existing ones into 11?

[ErichR]

The files in question probably originated in prior versions. I rarely start entirely new documents, since class and layer structure, not to mention preferences, dimensioning, symbols, etc., etc. become valid templates to run with for new projects.

Should one (have to) start documents afresh with each new VW version?

Discussed this issue briefly with Robt.Anderson at Build Boston. He suggested using this script on the errant object: reset object(fsactlayer)

[ 11-27-2004, 07:57 PM: Message edited by: ErichR ]

[Jonathan Pickup]

if the object works well in a new layer, you might try the trick for saving a corrupt file available from my web site:

http://www.archoncad.co.nz/resources/resources_tips.php

look for the tip from October 2002.