Vectorworks 2012 SP2 Release Notes
The following issues were addressed for Vectorworks 2012 Service Pack 2:
| Issue ID | Title |
| VB-65276 | KLS: Images (PNG) will lose their transparency with Export PDF. |
| VB-65344 | Some jpg images cause incorrect pdf export |
| VB-70516 | Not all corner angles work for Renderworks camera. |
| VB-76739 | Section Viewport - "Reverse Dir + Update" leaves old viewport display. |
| VB-82388 | Wrong pdf export |
| VB-83348 | Video screen object crash |
| VB-85564 | Wall Styles: whose core comp is by object and fill is by class |
| VB-86431 | Export pdf looses contents and quality |
| VB-87140 | Hardscape object fill desappears within test file |
| VB-87487 | Space: Another bad boundary of an auto-boundary space. |
| VB-87925 | Space object not created properly from set of walls within test file |
| VB-88386 | Space: Auto-bounding having trouble with some exotic curved wall layouts |
| VB-91902 | VW Locks-up When Wall with Wall Feature is Edited |
| VB-91914 | Auto-boundary for Space object detecting walls on layers that are NOT visible |
| VB-92168 | Custom stair tool, copy/paste creates 2 copies. |
| VB-93386 | [Parasolid pr1860591] Auto Saved file will not open crashes VW everytime. |
| VB-93842 | Differing wall styles and acute angles appear to disable the new Y wall component join funcionality |
| VB-94096 | "Resource Name Conflict" dialog appears when opening attached Vectorworks 2011 test file in Vectorworks 2012 |
| VB-94148 | Symbol insert tool, offset insert mode, generates undo asserts when you backspace after the second click and place the sym again |
| VB-94363 | Localization_English remains in Heliodon symbole label. |
| VB-94644 | Crash: Export as VW 12 file |
| VB-94686 | DXF/DWG Support for Image Type Fills: Some image fills are not exported |
| VB-94693 | Freehand Tool |
| VB-95190 | Snap to Tangent not working when not in Top/Plan |
| VB-95199 | Texts in symbols get mirrored when opened in 2011 |
| VB-95209 | Multiple extrude objects do not snap correctly in Front or Side views |
| VB-95352 | Hidden Line Render sundry problems |
| VB-95709 | Tangent Constraints fail on screen plane in a 3D view. |
| VB-95869 | Heliodon: Incorrect symbol displayed when the Heliodon is first placed |
| VB-95977 | Text copied from a Callout and then pasted into a Design Layer Text object becomes very large (650 Pt) |
| VB-96009 | Snap to Working Plane and Snap to tangent icons don't switch properly upon changing views if a tool is activated during view change |
| VB-96148 | Wall projection rendering fails |
| VB-96163 | Unable to Position Data Text for Upper Floor of Multi-Floor Stair |
| VB-96190 | Multi-Layer Stair Fails to Display Proxy Stair When Saved in a 3D View |
| VB-96276 | Inserting Lighting Device with a conflicting resource already existing in the document |
| VB-96350 | Hemisphere Tool's Create Object Dialog Has a "Plane" Pull-Down Menu |
| VB-96405 | Previous Selection works only partially in the test example |
| VB-96431 | Top of Column PIO's Geometry Changes When Bottom Offset is Applied |
| VB-96437 | Column PIO Fails to Show Settings When Tool is Activated in One View and the Object Placed in Another View |
| VB-96445 | Columns Converted to "Red Symbols" Lose Their Story-Layer Assignments |
| VB-96452 | Story-Bound Objects Converted to Red Symbols Get Inserted With Incorrect Offset |
| VB-96457 | Line tangent to arc fails when plan is rotated. |
| VB-96458 | Layer Plane pop up is/remains blank in create rectangle dialog |
| VB-96476 | L-Join after a T-join gives weird result within test file |
| VB-96511 | Replacing Wall Style Crashes VW |
| VB-96512 | VW2012 crashes when Undo is performed after duplicating wall within test file |
| VB-96574 | Tapered Extrude allows layer plane objects in it's profile |
| VB-96606 | Undo after using Split tool on a section viewport causes redraw problem |
| VB-96612 | Snap filtering absent if planar tool is activated while in plan, but then view is changed to a 3D view |
| VB-96617 | 2D objects "lost" to 2D side of symbol before 3D editing is manually exited |
| VB-96640 | Hardscape - Cannot apply Stipple to the Border Joint Pattern |
| VB-96659 | Design Layer -1 Can Be Deleted When Stories are Created. |
| VB-96678 | Double-Clicking NURBS Curve Causes Group to be Exited |
| VB-96686 | GIS: Stake object doesn't get geographic coordinates in georeferenced layers if the document georeferencing hasn't been touched |
| VB-96700 | Create Stepped Wall: Resulting wall is the wrong height |
| VB-96711 | Symbols: changing layer "Elevation" converts placed layer plane instances to 3D plane |
| VB-96749 | Viewport with file with high coordinates fails to display |
| VB-96770 | Align/Distribute command fails on previously-drawn items after plan is rotated |
| VB-96779 | VS Wall Data Strings: chop last char |
| VB-96787 | Modify by Record Extrude Operation Causes Grouped Objects and Symbols to Become Ungrouped |
| VB-96788 | Wall components don't show right away inside section viewport within test file |
| VB-96790 | Symbols Disappear Following Undo of Modify by Record Extrude Operation |
| VB-96795 | Property Line tool Creates incorrect boundary |
| VB-96796 | VS Function Reference has 3 sections for "V" in the "View By Name" list |
| VB-96822 | VW Freezes after editing DL Viewport within test file |
| VB-96837 | Story Bounded objects don't update when a layer is duplicated. |
| VB-96839 | In test file, Heliodon > Solar Animation dialogue AM/PM button is bugged |
| VB-96847 | No preview while drawing a dimension in viewport annotations. |
| VB-96848 | Y- join with rounded wall doesn't work properly |
| VB-96853 | Space Link tool does not work in 3D view (interferes with the Automatic Working Plane maybe?) |
| VB-96855 | Symbols Lose Plane Assignment and Move to Incorrect Elevation When Layer Elev is Changed |
| VB-96877 | Changing print settings of multiple sheet layers causes issue |
| VB-96894 | VW2012 can not open a VW file in the folder that has 5C character code. |
| VB-96921 | Edting Workspace complains of Leader Line doesn't exists in Plug-ins folder |
| VB-96936 | Two stairs are created in the lower layer if insert a custom stair in the upper layer |
| VB-96944 | IFC export - Plant object on Site Model exports lower than place in Vectorworks |
| VB-96990 | Wall Feature with feature component set to 'None' looks incorrect |
| VB-97006 | Alining groups in rotated view fails |
| VB-97008 | Alining fails in rotated view II |
| VB-97024 | Circle Tool -- Fourth mode -- Tool points are not cleared if swith from other circle modes to the fourth mode(Circle by Three Lines) |
| VB-97025 | Vertical formatted text in work sheet does not display vertical on screen. |
| VB-97027 | Circles and Arcs in arbitrary planes fail to import properly when current VW plane is set to Screen or when "All 2D" import option is used. |
| VB-97040 | X-Ray Mode unable to select objects under Roofs |
| VB-97041 | Story-Bound Slab Objects Converted to Red Symbols Get Inserted With Incorrect Z Offset |
| VB-97042 | "Make Active" Command in RB Fails on Red Symbol Created from Slab |
| VB-97044 | Opening a drawing in VW2012 raises spurious "Resource Conflict" alerts |
| VB-97047 | Red Symbols Use Origin as Insertion Point When Slab Object is Contained |
| VB-97051 | Pasting causes crash |
| VB-97057 | VW crashes when moving Wall Feature ( recess) object along Wall |
| VB-97058 | Quarter Arc: The interactive bounding box drawn during creation is away from the Quarter Arc in rotated plan. |
| VB-97059 | Clip Surface Causes Odd Circular Geometry to Be Created |
| VB-97065 | Freehand tool doesn't get Automatic plane when attempting to draw a polyline on an extrude |
| VB-97068 | Offset Tool used on Wall results in Minor Alert Message "Choose another Offset Value" |
| VB-97069 | Change Vertex Mode - Arc Vertex Path PIO Issue |
| VB-97084 | DWG EXPORT CRASH |
| VB-97091 | When Importing Design Layers, Layer Objects Get Imported Even if "Import Layer Objects" Option is Disabled |
| VB-97135 | Site model creates bad contours... |
| VB-97178 | Design layer section viewport Bounding box not in the correct view within test file |
| VB-97199 | Section viewport preview becomes corrupted when editing Wall style component within test file |
| VB-97245 | SDK - No kObjectCreated Event (#13) sent upon symbol insertion if plug-in object is contained in a "blue" symbol |
| VB-97288 | View bar icons disappear after Sheet Layer Viewports have been updated |
| VB-97296 | Wall join fails within test file, the wall components don't join properly |
| VB-97310 | Typo in VectorScript GIS function - IsGeoreferenced() |
| VB-97346 | Unable to Import Mesh in AutoCAD to Vectorworks |
| VB-97358 | Circular stair: railing error on top thread |
| VB-97379 | Paste Causes Crash |
| VB-97383 | IFC: Can't export 3D symbols as IFC "Projection Elements" |
| VB-97390 | Space object - Paintbucket mode, Show/Snap/Modify Others Layer mode ON, sees walls on other layers, event though layers are OFF |
| VB-97392 | Worksheet Border Formatting sparatic |
| VB-97404 | Place VBvisualPlant again |
| VB-97406 | Character is not vertical |
| VB-97415 | Heliodon- Sun to layer Plane Center View doesn't work properly within test file |
| VB-97428 | Split tool causes redraw issues within test file |
| VB-97429 | Offset Tool does not close polylines correctly |
| VB-97438 | KLS: Heliodon: Adding a new region and/or city with german umlauts |
| VB-97440 | Heliodon: Light object is created in None class irrespective of Heliodon class. |
| VB-97451 | IFC: Need to export Framing Member profile names on Custom Profile configurations |
| VB-97467 | Y-joined walls can't bound slabs |
| VB-97511 | Update from 2011 to 2012 wreaks havoc on all space labels moving them hither and yon |
| VB-97520 | EAP saying we have a invalid object with our profile so we cannot edit anymore. |
| VB-97531 | DWG/DXF Export: Simplified export with Export DLVPs in separate files sets OFF more layers than necessary in the referenced DWG. |
| VB-97536 | CursorToolHandlecomplete_pkRect() creates Polyline for marquee even if it is a simple click for deselecting objects. |
| VB-97549 | Return to Viewport button is missing while editing a viewport camera |
| VB-97557 | Arc and polyline smoothing problem |
| VB-97566 | View port gets dirtied if lasso and polygon marquee was drawn. |
| VB-97568 | Bound offsets of round walls don't updated when round wall is moved |
| VB-97570 | Create polygon from outer boundary mode fails within test file |
| VB-97576 | Unable to Multiple-Reshape NURBS Curves Made from Composed Segments or Converted Objects |
| VB-97607 | Deleting Segments During Polyline Creation Causes Object to Fail |
| VB-97621 | Moving Lighting Position Object to new Layer causes Object to become Hyphenated |
| VB-97631 | IFC Door Name does not match Vectorworks file |
| VB-97643 | Focus Point Enumeration will Skip a Number/Letter (Name). |
| VB-97682 | Column Object in latest SP2 gives short dialog sometimes, and crashes when hitting Cancel |
| VB-97697 | VBVisual plant doesn't use workgroup folders |
| VB-97698 | VBvisual plant are not transparent when exported in PDF |
| VB-97699 | SBE: Incorrect perimeter in OIP of rounded rectangles |
| VB-97701 | DIN profiles missing for T-series shape for Column, Framing Member and Detialing tools |
| VB-97708 | Landscape Area Plant number information is not preserved after returning into the Landscape Area Settings dialog |
| VB-97712 | Push/Pull- VW crashes when attempting to use Push/Pull tool on Polyline within test file |
| VB-97722 | Regression: "Decompose" does not decompose certain polylines |
| VB-97724 | SPOTLIGHT - Data Exchange not writing a readable XML file when "Custom Location" selected |
| VB-97726 | Move geographic menu command missing help text |
| VB-97733 | Move Geographic requires entering into the Edit document Georeferencing dialog in order to start working properly |
| VB-97754 | DWG export of hidden classes in Viewports |
| VB-97758 | SBE: ISDK::SetEndpoints doesn't work correctly in rotated plan |
| VB-97790 | Crash in combo box code after doing hidden line rendering |
| VB-97816 | Slab Tool's Wall Selection Feature Fails Following Copy/Paste Operation |
| VB-97822 | Worksheet on drawing exports to DXF/DWG with more information than what was originally visible |
| VB-97845 | Cannot create slab from Wall network within test file |
| VB-97857 | Problem with Image fills in VW2012 |
| VB-97859 | The Archi Height field does not appear.(Pilaster) |
| VB-97860 | The Struct Height field does not appear.(Pilaster) |
| VB-97870 | Dialog UpdateSymbolDisplayControl freezes Vectorworks |
| VB-97904 | Regression in initial application of image fills. |
| VB-97910 | Hidden Line for Foreground Render with a Background Render of Custom RW VP is not always updated. |
| VB-97934 | Wall components in section viewport |
| VB-97941 | Fillet Tool doesn't accept a Zero as Fillet Radius |
| VB-97953 | Slab bounding problem |
| VB-97964 | RB Accpt Test- Gradient applied to rectangle fails to show properly ( regression) |
| VB-97970 | Coincident selection: Object selected using "J" key down is adding to the selection though shift key was not down. |
| VB-97980 | Soft Goods will not let up use the full Target Length when in Pipe and Drape Configuration. |
| VB-97990 | When Quartz/GDI+ are off PDF page objects do not draw. |
| VB-97991 | Auto-recalculation of worksheets is broken in VW 2012 |
| VB-98017 | VW crashes during dwg export |
| VB-98024 | The drape tool. It now adds arrow heads that seem to point to the middle point of the sliders. |
| VB-98026 | Worksheet - vertical text alignment broken |
| VB-98034 | Changing the layer a lighting device is on causes a duplicate of the light to be added to Lightwright |
| VB-98059 | Can't edit multiple points on Mesh |
| VB-98075 | SPOTLIGHT - Moving an instrument's layer breaks Lightwright data exchange |
| VB-98115 | This 2011 file crashes on zooming in and out |
| VB-98136 | Daylight savings check box does not work in Heliodon Object |
| VB-98174 | Cannot change the Field of View value of Rederworks Camera via the OIP |