'Existing Tree Tool' issue in rotated top plan view

[hollister design Studio]

Last night I was trying to enter some field data and having a lot of issues with vector works existing tree tool.

Trying to change any settings resulted in the selected tree either - disappearing, becoming a transparent square, becoming a transparent square with a red dotted diagonal line.

 

Either changing from rotated top view to top view and then back to top plan view fixed to the visibility issue.

Often if I touched the pan tool vector works would change from rotated top plan view to standard top plan view and shift the center of focus to a spot far off of my working area.

I did have a saved view that would get me back, but this happened every time I added an existing tree, edited an existing tree, or duplicated an existing tree.

This happens only in rotated plan view.

 

Here's a breakdown of the attached video.

   00: 00 in rotated plan view

               Select existing tree

   04: 80 change DBH

   07: 70 existing tree becomes blank square

   11: 04 use pan tool

   11: 62 Victor works moves to very off center focal point and changes to top plan view

            I zoom out and pan back to center the project.

   22: 30 I use saved view to get back to my rotated plan view and center.

   27: 66 existing tree is now visible with the updated DBH.

 

This obviously make working with the existing trees problematic.

All of this is happening only in rotated plan view.

All of this is happening in multiple existing files, but not in a blank new file that I created to test...

 

If helpful I can upload the file

[Pat Stanford]

Could these files have objects located a long way from the user origin?

[hollister design Studio]

Here are some screen grabs from another file - same problem with a different effect.

Instead of a blank square the area around the existing tree becomes a top/plan zone...

 

selecting existing tree - everything looks normal:

 

 

 

After changing tree stings - in this case DBH - area around tree gets 'rotated back to 'top/plan'' in a odd box area:

 

I don't know that this is a new problem, I honestly don't remember if I've ever used the existing tree tool in a rotated plan view.

[hollister design Studio]

3 minutes ago, Pat Stanford said:

Could these files have objects located a long way from the user origin?

 

Pat - I've started moving all my working space to be 'centered' on the internal origin - as opposed to my previous workflow of having everything in positive cartesian space - so that nothing is very far away from user origin.

 

 

edit to say I will see if i have any 'orphaned' objects far away.

Edited May 11, 2022 by hollister design Studio

[hollister design Studio]

So I've been working on this.

 

It seems to be connected to the "create 3D Geometry' setting

 

 

 

I created a blank document with 4 existing tree symbols:

 

'Rotate Plan' to 45 deg

 

 

1. Clean existing tree.

• Change any of the attributes
• Everything works fine.

 

3. Clean existing tree with 2D properties enabled.

• go into 2D properties
• check "use 2D component symbols"
• Change any of the attributes
• Everything works fine.

 

4. Clean existing tree with 3D properties enabled - Here's where it gets weird.

• go into 3D properties
• check "create 3D geometry"
• Change any of the attributes
• NOW the view changes to top/plan like documented above. 

 

Somehow my 3D properties setting is breaking Vectorworks...

 

 

 

Test file attached below "existing tree test file.vwx" to see if someone can tell me what setting I've got wrong....

 

 

 

existing tree test file.vwx

[hollister design Studio]

edited because Wrong post - but I did get to watch the existing tree webinar  - (thanks @Nawal.B)

 

 

 

 

Edited May 19, 2022 by hollister design Studio