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Yes! Success. I had to move the symbol to the Top level to edit, but it worked very well. My last step is to figure out the beam and field angles for these fixtures and I am set. I haven't tackled the 3D component yet, but will try that a little later. Thank-you for your help.

Thanks for you patience with me as I work through this. When I right click on my symbol in the resource browser I don't get an option to edit the 2d part, I get: View as show object types Find resource Make active etc... No options to edit

Yes in the same file where it was create. I tried your suggestion and it does work! But if I simply double click in the browser and paste, it is only a symbol. Thanks for the work around solution. My next question is how do I change the data assigned to my new fixture? I.e both the nexera profile and the wash have photometric info from a 6" strand fresnel.

Thanks for the quick response. I have tried to do that. I'll try to explain the process and maybe figure out what I missed. 1. I created drawing of the instrument 2. I converted it to a symbol 3. I selected the symbol and opened the spotlight menu , from there I went Object Conversion to convert to instrument. This worked as expected, my new symbol was now a fixture but... 4. When I double click on my symbol in the resource browser and then click into my drawing, the symbol is placed as expected, but... this instance is not an instrument. Somehow I am missing a step(s) to make the conversion effect the global template that is the nexera symbol. Does this help at all?

I can not find a symbol for the wybron nexera fixture in the wybron folder, nor can I find it on the Internet anywhere either. Sooo I tried to create one from scratch. I have the created the new symbol, and I can convert the symbol to an instrument, but I can't seem to get the new fixture into the resource browser... i.e I select my nexera symbol, paste it and it still sees it as a regular symbol (no lighting info). I'm using 2011

Thanks for the quick reply! If I make them myself, How do I get the photometrics...how can I get the beam of light to act like a nexera?

I'm switching to vectorworks after a decade of using autocad. I did not see any nexera fixtures in the wybron folder. Do they exist? If a symbol exists, how do I know whether or not the symbol is more than just an outline of the fixure (in other words would like to use the 3d aspect of spotlight with my instrument choices) Thanks,