jomer

Here is one for those who do not export data. When using the editable worksheet I group data by position and sort by unit number. I use auto unit number toggle on the lighting position to assign unit numbers. When I go to worksheet the order is not 1, 2 ,3 ,4 etc but 1, 10, 11 up to 19 the 2, 20 etc. I spend more time trying to get the worksheet to play nice than I do completing the important and relevant information. I do not want to export import into and out of Lightwright or excel any other ideas out there? Thanks

Hang about. I did not read your email properly Pat. Yes I have found it under All Menus I kept looking in the View submenu. Cheers for that I have now got my workspace working. Thanks Pat.

The strange thing is when I am in the standard Spotlight workspace Align Layers is an Option under the view tab but it is not listed anywhere including in the View tab when you are in Edit Workspaces. When I am in my new workspace created to run Autoplot then it is not listed under view and still does not appear in edit workspaces. So maybe it is not user editable? I am thinking I may need to learn how to use Stack layers.

I am running 12.5.2 Fundamentals, Spotlight Renderworks on an iMac. In Spotlight workspace under view I have the Align Layers Views option, which I use. I have created a new workspace for Auto Plot, in View menu I no longer have the option to Align layers, there is layer link and layer stack. In the workspace editor I cannot find the Align Layer option there are layer link and stack layer options but not align. I use the align when I change my standard view to check things. I am not familiar with link and stack layer options. Although I find the link frustrating as it limits what can be switched on and off at whim. Why is the Align layer views available in one workspace but not the other and why can I not add it into any workspace that I edit? Thank you in advance for any advice, clarification and support.

Thanks Kevin. Was in active class only and had turned "none " off for renders. As always quick and efficient answers. Cheers.

Using a mac running 12.5.1 then updated to 12.5.2. I have updated to stop problem but it has not helped. When I draw a lighting position (metric 15m) using lighting position insert. Had some problems with it disappearing but eventually it stayed on the drawing. When I try and drop a light on to the bar using lantern insert tool when I click off both the light and lighting position vanish. This also happens when I put the light anywhere. Just tried using light position and a selecon lamp sort of worked but once clicked away it is no longer selectable. Any ideas?

I am having some issues controling the font (size and format) of my focus point info and lighting position names. On my plan they are too big, too bold and too much. Where do I have control of the font type, size and format? Cheers,

Thanks for the info. Complicated but I will give it a whirl. Drawing an arrow and dropping it into each light is ok but on printing it looks like a blob. I will try your way. Cheers

I am wanting to include a notation in my label legend that will show the rotation of the par lamp. Following USITT publication on luminaire notation a short line with arrows at each end would be ideal. (http://www.usitt.org/standards/UsittRP-2v4.html). Any ideas How to put that into the legend or should I draw it in to each lamp on the plan. Thanks

So to save time I drew part of the plan Stage Left side of Lx1 then I copied it and placed in position for Lx2, then added some par64s and once again copied and pasted it for Lx3. Then did the whole process over again for Stage Right (a duplicate and mirror function would be appreciated in SP10). Now I am filling in the blanks Channel Colour etc. However all of the Strand 240v 1.2Kw Fresnels change to a rectangle when I add channel or colour but only on the Stage left side, that includes the original from which all were copied. Now the SR side was done exactly the same and does not suffer from this problem nor do any of the Altman MFL par64 or Strand Lekolites 30'. As you can imagine this makes my time saving method pointless as I am yet to work out how to stop them from turning into little rectangles. Look forward to you solution

Ok from now on I will think harder before I type. Set print to one page rescaled to 1:80 and there it is. Not a single button but just as easy.

I have drawn a plan at 1:50 to be printed on A2 but I would like to print out copy at home on A3. Is there a feature that will allow me to have the plan print out on an A3 piece of paper thus dropping the scale or print to fit paper? Thanks

Kevin, Thank you for that. It is always so easy when you explain it ..

When I say find I have searcehed in Containers, Label Legend, and Theatres and search the file for the Key so as I can edit it.. If I click on the key on the plan I can move the block around but not edit what is inside. The OI allows me to resize the block but there is nothing there about text wrapping. So obviously I am looking at the wrong thing. What, Where is enter the key group ??

Kevin, Thanks fo rthe reply but I am unsure what it means exactly. When I click on the key in the plan it is one block. I can not click on and then alter the text as it does not highlight seperately from the key block. I have tried to "find" the kry to edit it off of the plan but can not. Thanks

OK this thing is really starting to get to me. The problem seems to reside in the Generate Paperwork, Header Configuration. I have placed my name to the left, show name centre and date to the right. I did not like it and tried to reset it to none. If I do that it will crash the program with a runtime error. Good night or good morning to all.

just did it to me again. If I do more than one action in the Generate Paperwork area I get a runtime crash. Also having some problems with the key. I have adjusted the size to suit but the text is wrapping when it does not need to as there is enough room for the lamp type to be written in one line not three. Any ideas?

Windows 2000 VWSP 9 512MBRam 32MB Video HAve drawn the plan and go to Generate Paperwork. Change inventory, change schedule setup and header configuration when I exit I get runtime error program closes. Did this three times same thing each time. Did it again one at a time changed inventory then left generate paperwork then went back and changed then left and went back. This time no crashing. Rule 1 Back up constantly and before doing something different

This time delay between US and Oz may work in your favour. I have found a soloution. After I have done all my dxf importing and triming and recolouring I save each part of the plan in its own folder. Open my A3 template and go back to the other two and convert both to symbols which I place into the template and all seems fine and dandy. Excellent help very Zen. I will continue to baffle myself and let you know..

OK so I did everything I already mentioned but this time once I had the lighting grid all fixed up I converted it to a symbol and then put it on the drawing. As soon as I went ot the label legend it vanished. I did it again and set the labels up before I put the grid on the drawing and the same reult it vanishes still. I do not want to draw the set into the theatre plan as it has already been done. Thanx

This plan was a DXF (theatre layout seating etc) imported into a 1:50 template I use, then renamed. Then I imported another dxf (lighting grid) into a 1:50 template and renamed it. Then copied the lighting grid (from its drawing) dragged cursor and selected copy and then opened the full drawing and pasted it into place. Saved it as .mcd with a new name. When I edit the label legend as soon as I format the layout of channel, unit number and colour the lighting grid disappears. Also if I zoom into the drawing and then hit control-Z to zoom out the lighting grid is deleted as it zooms back out. If I press the full page view button this does not happen. The main problem is the label legend and the inability to create or edit an existing one with out the lighting grid vanishing. I just tried it all over again importing into the blank document that VWSP9 opens with. Imported both drawings and saved them as seperate files. Then cut all of the unneeded elements of the drawing out and changed colours to black then resaved. Then draged a square around the lighting grid and copied, opened the other drawing and pasted and moved it into position. Went to legend manager and created a new label but the lighting grid vanished. Thank you for your always helpful response and being out there some where to help at times like these.

When drawing Strand Iris untis even though they draw as two three or four compartment channel floods you canonly enter informataion for one compartment. I guess I could use a user defined field to allocat the extra channel and colour but it is worth noting as a problem that needs to addressed. The same seems to happen with the imperial symbols. Thanks

I am unable to get the Selecon Acclaim 650w Fresnel to be at 7000mm on the truss. Everything else goes to that hieght but not those lamps. They are drawn with a grey body or is that a red herring. Windows 2000 VWSL9

VWSL9 When I set up my drawing in metric 1:50 and print area A3 VWSL9 wants to print the plan on 4 sheets of A3 due to the plan being marginally bigger than A3. A3 is 420mm wide by 297mm high I have set my printer Epson 1160 to maximum but I have to tell VWSL9 the print area is 409.9mm by 292.1mm to get it to print on one page. Is this caused by header and footer issues? Am I missing something? Thank you

As I have only just started using VWSL9 I have not used any classes or layers. The colour cut list is the one generated by VWSL9 in its documentation and I checked the button "on dwg" to place the information on the plan. I deleted all rows and columns not containing information to make the table as small as possible. The hire shop is busy so they are not about to spend time trouble shooting the plan. Could I forward the email to you to see if you get the same result. JM