Stephen Sorenson

So I've found a crash in spotlight when importing symbols (when you import their containing folder and they reference another symbol). I didn't find this issue already listed in the forums. Found this issue in the Lighting ETC folder. When you right click in the resource browser to import (for instance) the S4 Par folder, it imports the symbols and the body, but when you edit the individual symbols (Source 4 Par NSP, etc.) the body doesn't show up (it also doesn't show up when you insert the instrument into the drawing). When you drag a selection box around the missing symbol vectorworks hard crashes to desktop. The workaround seems to be selecting the instruments inside the folder and importing that way instead of importing the folder itself. This only appears to affect instruments that reference another symbol inside of them. If you save the file and reopen it after import it appears to delete the reference to the body symbol completely (so no crash, but you're missing the body symbol).

Alan - thank you for your input! I was trying to achieve something specific (which is mostly controlled by our workflow at my office for my day job - hence all the complicated inputs - they were features requested by the rest of our drafting team). It also has to work in object mode for some of our less experienced drafters - I'm dropping it into our corporate symbol library. The boom label is so our on site techs know what size boom we're using, and I was trying to replace our folder of about 10 different size towers (and every time we wanted to update something we had to go through and update all 10 symbols). By the way I think the reason the rotation didn't work properly is because it was passed through to a group. I tried sending the circle and rectangle directly into the rotation and it worked in object mode. Haven't gotten the loci to work yet through the object mode in your version, but if I do I think that the rotation after creation that you've done will probably update faster than the way I did it by offsetting from the top - I notice a delay in mine that doesn't exist in yours. I think I will incorporate the div/size/series sequence to create the number of loci. That will get rid of one of my input nodes. I also remembered how stupid imperial measurement is once again. Would make things a lot easier for display. I have to say that I've been so excited by this project that I'm working on it on the couch on my day off. Thank you for the kind words regarding my lighting designs! I don't do much lighting rendering in spotlight on my home computer - it's a bit too resource intensive for my 4 year old macbook pro, but I do all of my plots in it. I work part time during the day for an event company and then do my own theatrical designs on the side and in between.

Hello, I've been very excited to get started playing around with marionette. My goal was to start with a fairly simple project to start learning, and something that would work for our company (we have to create 2d plots quickly (utilizing mostly booms). This is hopefully the start of a number of objects I'll be able to create in Marionette. I have a *little* bit of python experience which has helped a ton. There are a few bugs that I know of - the text field doesn't work well with booms that are fractions of full feet, but for our purposes we only do booms that are full feet anyway so it's lower priority. I want to organize some sections of the script into wrappers since it's a bit messy at the moment. I'd love some feedback if anyone has any thoughts on a better/more efficient implementation. Thanks!

I've noticed that in VW2011 I have to draw a fairly large selection box around the units to select them. I'm curious if this is a known issue, or if I'm alone, and if someone has a possible solution to this. I couldn't find anything else on the board about it here, but I'm not sure how many here are using 2011 yet. I'm using SP1 because of the accessory issue I ran into in SP2 (accessories not aligning themselves properly in 2d with the lights - my scrollers were about 18" to the left of the front of the unit and at about a 35? angle as an example- reverting to SP1 solved this issue for me). I tried it in the brief time I had SP2 installed and I had the same issue. Also tried with blank document. I'm using the new set of symbols that came with VW2011 (also my alterations of them - but for my test I just used the default VW ones). Any help would be appreciated.

I was able to get around this by temporarily downgrading to V2011 SP1.