Vectorworks Copy/Paste Issue: Objects turn into Bitmap with BTT active (SOLVED/WORKAROUND FOUND)

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Hello everyone,

I wanted to share a workaround I found for the issue where vector objects copied from Vectorworks are pasted as bitmaps when BetterTouchTool is active.

Workaround for Vectorworks Bitmap Paste Issue

The problem seems to be an incompatibility between Vectorworks' graphics settings and the clipboard handling, which BTT appears to expose or conflict with.

The solution is to change a setting in Vectorworks:

  1. Go to Vectorworks Preferences.
  2. Navigate to Display (or Screen).
  3. Find the setting "Accelerated graphics processing" (or Graphic processing acceleration).
  4. Turn this setting OFF.

After disabling graphics acceleration in Vectorworks, the objects now paste correctly as vector objects even with BetterTouchTool running.

I hope this helps anyone else running into this specific issue with Vectorworks (especially version 2025 on Mac).

Thank you!