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Can you please add checkbox option to lock a bitmap aspect ratio so it matches X&Y when resizing the bitmap.

Just looking into exporting for sound vision.. Sketchup.. what a joke

+1 on this issue, very annoying.

Thanks Jim, Uninstalling that auxiliary software has fixed the problem Thank you

Hey All, I have just done a fresh install of windows 10 and VW crashes about one minute after opening. The drawing windows first becomes unresponsive then VW crashes. I have also found Sketchup also crashes but Light Converse has no problem. Has anyone else had problems with Win10 and AMD drivers? Have tried older driver versions with no success. Here are the system specs. GIGABYTE B85M-HD3 i7 4770 @ 3.4GHz ATI R390 ASUS STRIX-R9390-DC3OC-8GD5-GAMING GPU DRIVER 16.7.1 (LATEST) 16GB DDR3 DUAL CHANNEL 250GB SAMSUNG SSD I had no issues on the same computer with Win7

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Thanks Guys, appreciate the clarification.

Is there a hard limit to the amount of lighting objects you can display as on in open gl. when I have more then nine nights each object from the ninth onwards does not come on.

Will Vectorworks utalise either of these two add in processing cards in the future?

Okay, cool. Would be great if this tool could work for everything again just like it has in the last three or so versions of spotlight. Why? A. I don't want to use Align/Distribute, the menu is several more clicks. B. Align/Distribute is not as efficient. I just want to click between points and distribute what I have selected. C. This is the workflow I have developed when using VW. Changing the software to hinder that workflow is frustrating. Please have this fixed in the next service pack.

Align distribute used to work with any object now it only works with lights. This sucks hard, how can this be made to work again?

Is there a way of getting the total weight of a lighting position for rigging purposes?

great thanks

A feature that is really annoying me in v2015 is the view changing projection settings to perspective & openGL without me changing so every time I want to change from from to top view I have to set the rendering back to wire frame & orthogonal view. It's like some kind of default setting that I don't want. Does anyone know how to change this? Best regards

Whay does VE crash all the time. I've had about five crashes just today on two different computers on two different projects! just now all I was doing was basic 2D and bam! crashed again. wasting 20min work. It's at a point that I curse if I forget to save before rendering because I don't know if VW will make it to the end with out crashing. Today same view crashed the first time then second try it was A-OK WHY? WHY? WHY?

Hey All, Can anyone please give me a tip on joining intersecting arcs and lines into one poly line? cheers

Does any one have a Global Truss F54 3m Symbol? it's not available on the site.

Hey Simon, Any chance of getting all symbols in a zip file pack so we don't hive to find and download individually? cheers

Try the ESP vision symbols. download & install the plug in ans the symbols will be downloaded. best regards

Hey All, I encounter this issue all the time when drawing a 3D lighting design for presentation or ESP. My method has been to duplicate the lighting layer once the lights have all data. Patch paperwork& reports need to be generated first, before layer duplication otherwise the fixtures get doubled up. With the duplicate layer now a 2D FOR PRINT layer I move things around so all the LL can be read and no longer stacked in plan view this basically adds work to the design process and this point is when I should start programming the show or getting on with the next job. Traditional boom positions are easy enough to illustrate for a theatre but when we get into pixel mapped light walls of multiple fixtures it all gets a bit hectic. What would be cool is a LL in 3D that always faced the camera view showing the fixture position and patch data in one hit. regards Dan

Hello, Just thought I would add my 2c. I am very much enjoying watching all eight cores max out when I hit render if I knew 2011 would have such a vastly upgraded render engine then I would have built a 2 CPU work station but I am still happy that VW is now using 100% of available CPU cycles. even the artistic options (that I mostly use) are multi threaded.. yeay! I still have a project on the go using VW2010 and rendering anything seems archaic. cheers Dan

Hello, I drew the 2D symbol that is freely available with ESP vision. You can install the ESP vision plug in to vector works without owning a license and they have a much more extensive symbol library then the standard spotlight set that comes with VW. download the plug in installer and.. install it, update vision and then add the 2010 symbols to your resource browser. On PC you can find them in C:\Program Files\Vision 2.2\Stock on Mac will be much the same path. The Major advantage of using the ESPvision set is they are up to date and if you ever want to pre viz your show you can export it to vision. enjoy!

finally got a .dxf to import but now another issue, but I'll post a new topic about that...

Hey All, A client is trying to send me an updated .dfx of a venue Each time I try to import it VW2009 crashes to desktop. strange thing is I have imported a .dfx file from the same client a week ago without problem. what might be wrong with the file to make VW crash? They have also sent me a .dwg of the same drawing when I try to import this one VW says DWG version is not supported. any ideas on what might be going wrong.

have just tried to save the sketchup files as v3-6 and still the nothing happens when trying to import any of them.