rehandjr

Thanks, that part makes sense to me. The part that doesn't make sense to me is that I used the accessory insert tool and the accessories were pulled from the spotlight accessory file. They had the record format, and operated as expected. Then somewhere along the way while drafting away from the symbols, when I would come back to them they had lost record format and looked like the symbols in my sample file. So my question is, what am I doing that is causing perfectly good accessories to become non-functioning accessories.

I have attached a VW2016 with 2 of the accessories that are causing me issues. - Robert

I am on Windows with VW2016 latest SP, and I am having a hell of time with lighting accessories. I feel very much like a novice user with 2016, lots of bugs, and lots of changes. I can insert an accessory on a light, and sometimes it's fine. Other times it jumps to where the unit number is on it's own. Sometimes they stay where I put them and then I come back after making edits somewhere else in the drawing and they have moved back over the unit number. Once they have moved, they become very difficult to select, and once you do select them they can't be moved. I still have some scrollers that I can not in any way select, even to delete them. I feel like I am missing something obvious. Any thoughts. - Robert

I am using Vectorworks 2008, I have tried this specific file in XP, Vista and Mac OS and on all three in VW2008 it has either locked up or given a vector script error. The light plot is all but 3 lights from being done, when I click on label legend manager VW locks up and crashes. Up until this point I have been using label legend manager with no problems. Any thoughts or ideas, other than redrafting my entire plot, which is my next step if I can't figure it out? Here is the vectorscript error: Warning: _1722 _219 - Value will not fit in an integer. Warning: _1722 _219 - Value will not fit in an integer. Error: _1722 _220 - Array ALLOCATE end < start: _218 ?? - Robert