Dan Hoffman
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Is there an ETA for this functionality (filter by layer) being restored to the Instrument (now Equipment) Summary?
That's really quite an oversight on a basic functionality that's been a part of that tool for a long time.
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6 minutes ago, Helm said:
All the complaints don't seem to be having an impact on the marketing department. I suppose they know what they are doing after all having started around the same time as ACAD they are number one in the market right --
Yeah, I guess this is mostly just venting, doubt that their marketing dept is going to change anything - but at this point basically everyone with whom I collaborate in Vectorworks has had the same experience and frustrations, and the only thing keeping us in VW-world is that it's what we're all used to using....
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Just adding to the replies of extreme disappointment, as someone who spent a substantial sum, as a young designer over ten years ago, for a perpetual license and service select through the years - for updates that have added relatively little improvement to most of my workflow but were required because otherwise I couldn't easily exchange files with people using ANY other year of the software - and now all of that investment we've made in the software is essentially - ignored, gone?!
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What's going on here, Vectorworks? It's been over a year - it was the same when I renewed last year - why is there STILL no way to save a credit card in my account for automatic renewal of my Service Select? Does this have something to do with the way in which VSS has been discontinued (along with perpetual licenses, in which I invested a *subtantial* amount as a young designer over TEN YEARS AGO), and so rather than making it easy to keep renewing them, it's been turned into this manual process that looks like a phishing scam so that folks forget to renew?
Really disappointing.
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3 minutes ago, Josh Loy said:
@Tom Klaber and @Dan Hoffman thanks for the feedback and I'm sorry to hear about the frustration. We'll look into options for the next release but you really just want a way to turn off the swatch zooming code?
Yup, i.e. reverting to the prior behavior in VW2022 and earlier, it's especially helpful when not working on a Retina / 4K display - the swatch zoom covers nearly the entirety of the 9 tiles surrounding the one being hovered over!
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Over two months later and.....nobody at Vectorworks has even acknowledged that this is an issue? It is a DAILY frustration!
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Yes, I've been searching for where the options that control this behavior are located and it seems that there's no way to turn it off? Makes it really hard to accurately and quickly change colors when you can't see the neighboring ones around the one you're trying to click on, especially when there's a few shades adjacent to each other....
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VW2022 - what's the trick to get the hoist dimension arrows to rotate automatically, relative to the hoist origin, like the Legacy Hoist tool does? Makes a dense plot a heckuva lot easier to read.
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Just came across this thread - maybe with a tag @Marissa Farrell will see this and perhaps still has this Marionette saved somewhere?
(although the Multiple Extrude approach mentioned earlier is also a nice solution)
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It's a little bit round-about but probably the simplest way to fire scripts - if you add your script as a Custom Plugin, you can then add it to a menu and give it a keyboard shortcut...which you can fire from Streamdeck.
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Does your Streamdeck work elsewhere - i.e. if you open Notepad and press your shortcut key for pan, does an 'H' appear?
That'll help narrow down whether it's a Vectorworks or Streamdeck issue...
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There are also tons of ways that you can use it beyond specific apps, i.e. I have found in a month or so of us that my most commonly used buttons are direct links to the folder in my dropbox for the shows I'm working on the most, direct links to websites that I visit the most and a whole variety of text entry shortcuts for things I type a lot....and that's without even getting into stacking up a lot of multiple commands!
It would be nice to avoid having to do the whole create-shortcut dance to use it with VW, especially as I go back and forth between different machines and use different workspaces for each (laptop vs desktop)....
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I do have Title Border objects on each sheet layer; it looks like the global Auto Drawing Coordination option is turned OFF already in Document Preferences but it was turned ON in the Title Block Style; I've turned it off and will see if that helps. Thanks for the reminder about that new so-called 'feature'!
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I've been having a recurring problem with VW2019 - in SP2 and now SP3 - where I'll make a copy of a sheet layer, change the name and continue working, and after some indeterminate amount of time, it will revert back to its previous name. Seems to occur on both Mac and Windows, doesn't seem to persist after saving, closing VW and re-opening, haven't been able to actively reproduce it but it's occurred across multiple files (mostly from the same template).
I've tried renaming both in the Navigation palette as well as in the pop-up....doesn't seem to matter.
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This fixed it for me, on MacOS 10.14.2 using VW19 SP2:
"Settings->Keyboard->Shortcuts->All controls checked for keyboard access"
(couldn't move between fields using tab, pressed control-F7, now I can!)
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Hmmm, I see what you mean - it *kinda* works, but definitely not the same way that it used to. If you hover in that few-pixels-wide border zone near the edge of the screen, after a delay, it auto-pans. But that's very different from the previous behavior, which was activated as soon as the cursor reached the edge of the screen.
At the very minimum it would really be great if there was a toggle for something like this....trying to hover in that area with a trackpad or with a bunch of things snapping near the edge is rather tricky...
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Has this already been filed as a known issue to be fixed in future versions? Where are the date formats coming from - the OS or as part of the sheet border / title block tool?
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And yet, it's still not fixed almost four months and two service packs later....
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Follow-up question - where are these custom date formats defined, and how would one go about changing them?
Better than the previous version, but still missing some things, i.e. DD MMM YYYY / 28 Dec 2018....
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Answering my own question here - it seems that the answer is to download the complete installer, which has the service pack rolled into it.
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I know that this is a 14-year-old question and answer - but I've been looking for this piece of information for at least half that much time and just found it.
Thank you, long-ago VW users!
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Maybe the page at 'https://www.vectorworks.net/support/downloads/product-updates' should be updated with this information, since right now it just shows a completely blank page for any updates for VW2019.
And like others have commented, while I appreciate that the 'new' update system may help reduce the size of the downloads, it would really be great if the 'old' all-in-one service pack was also still available for download. I don't have the greatest internet access at home, where I use VW on a PC, but when I travel somewhere with my Mac laptop that has fast and free internet, I download the service packs for both OS's. Also handy to have the service packs already downloaded for when I need to re-install it....
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Where can I download the service pack installer files for later installation for VW2019?
Nothing whatsoever shows up at this page for 2019:
https://www.vectorworks.net/support/downloads/product-updates
(in this case, I'd like to download both the Windows and Mac versions of SP1 while I have access to a high-speed connection)
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That works great, thanks for that script - maybe Vectorworks will be smart enough to include this seemingly obvious function in a future release.....
Filtering Equipment Summary Key in VW2024
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Thanks for the reply, Scott.
But maybe I'm missing how the new one's a viable workflow:
Create a blank file.
Add one Source 4 to Design Layer 1.
Add a new Design Layer 2.
Add two Source 4's to Design Layer 2.
Equipment Summary still shows 3 Source 4's even if I use the filters to select the instrument type only on Layer 1 or 2.
So how do we create a separate Equipment Summary that correctly counts the number of Source 4's on each Design Layer, that can be updated as I add and move fixtures around? The filters in the 'Equipment Summary Key' only limit the devices available in the build list, but if the same fixture is on multiple layers, it doesn't appear to separate the counts.
There's any number of reasons to do this - rep plot fixtures vs show-specific ones, house lights vs stage lights, rentals vs inventory, stagepin vs twistlock plugs (don't ask!), etc.
Veering slightly off topic.....it's great that the 'Legacy' tools are all still available, but it does seem a little bit disjoint to suggest that's the solution, when .vwx files continue to not be backwards-compatible and every single year everyone's forced to upgrade to ensure compatibility with all of the newest features (and the increase was particularly expensive this year is probably why it's front-of-mind).