CharlesD

Much thanks for the help here. Doesn't it always happen that after you post a thread for help, you figure it out on your own? My current conundrum: Is there any way such that if (and only if) there is data present in the Gobo field a "T" will be placed on the instrument? I tried doing this with the label legend by making a container for the Gobo field that was just a "T" and then hiding the gobo field text behind the "container"... I thought I was being sneaky, until I forgot containers always display on legend regardless of wether or not there is any data in that field! Any ideas here with this problem?

So I've always been a basic VW user. I learned just enough to scrape together a functional light plot. Now I'm trying to spruce things up and learn more about VW. The first part of that process is creating custom lighting symbols. But it's giving me a few bits of trouble. I can't figure out how to create "default" information for each of my lights. Wattages, Instrument Type, Beam/Field Angles, Weight, Color Frame Size, etc. I tried editing this on the Light Info Record, but now I take that to be a general record that applies to EVERY light I add to my plot. I can't seem to find out the way in which the "stock" lights store this information, but they all come in with this info! Any help would be appreciated. I'll be updating this thread with additional questions as they arise.

What is the line weight of the educational stamp? I'm pretty sure it's above .05, though I haven't tried yet, I've specifically done all the work arounds. I propose the educational stamp be changed to single line lettering at .01 line weight. The line under the lettering should also be of .01 line weight. Why's that? Well our laser cutter rasters everything at/above .05 line weight. Honestly that just takes time. Not to mention that stamp wastes material. Now if this were .01 line weight it would still recognize the stamp on my material, but vector cutting is tons faster. I noticed you guys have a password on the exported PDF these days so we cannot just take the image out. I understand your reasoning, and I support it. It just gets annoying to have to waste time / material, or import the file into AutoCAD / other programs to deal with the issue. If the line weight were changed then at least it would go a lot faster. I posted this in general so the topic is open to discussion. What's your opinion? Or, what are your work arounds?