marioilsanker

Hi, you can find a 3D model of it here: http://www.chroma-q.com/support/index.asp just click on the blue dot in the DWG column of the Color Block 2... Maybe that helps?

Hi, select the accessory, have a look at the Object Info Palette, check what is says under Device Type... if it is a "static accessory", it won't have a Label Legend, if it is "acessory" it will. This is because you might e.g. use a specific LL for color changers to put your Universe and address next to it, so you could select the CC, assign this specific LL to it and set the device type to "accessory". If you just want to insert e.g. a top hat, you won't need a legend at all, so you'd set it to static accessory. Accessories which might be used with a label, such as color changers are set to accessory (means with label) by default in the VW library. So when you created the symbols, VW automatically assigned the active label to the ones which were set to "accessory" by default. Things like top hats are "static accessories" by default, so it didn't happen when you inserted them.

Additionally, ETC provides CAD drawings of all their product on their website. Here's the link for the Source4 Zooms: http://www.etcconnect.com/product.downloads.aspx?ID=20081

Is it possible that the content of your container symbol is not centered? Try to edit the 2D Component in the Container Folder (Resource Browser) of the used Container (e.g. Circle) and check, if this one is out of center. Since you got the file from someone else you can't know what they've accidentally changed (Happened to me already twice)

Hi Kevin, thanks for making that clear! But I am just wondering, wouldn't it be logic to automatically move the label legend when accessories are used (not static ones)? What's the point of not moving them? In my case for example, I have a big opera house setup with dozens of HMI Fresnel of different sizes. Each of them either just alone, some with shutter, some with shutter + colour changer, and some even with shutter, CC and Barndoors... That makes the lamp actually double its "length" (I attached a picture). So I would now have to change every label by hand or create such a lot of label legends that I would then have to change every LL of each lamp again. When would not changing the Label be needed? I find that the so powerful functionality of the LLM which actually makes Vectorworks to my first choice for drawing lighting plots gets lost because I have to modify every information of every lamp again. I would even consider to draw the accessory as part of the symbol and have one lighting device per function, because then the label would work again even though this means that I would lose a lot of other features such as the count, etc... I'm afraid I do not really understand the methodology of this function, am I understanding something wrong? I think it would be great to have this option, especially for large scale productions. I would be very interested what you think about this, thank you very much! My best regards from Austria, Mario

I don't really understand your question... Have you used Modify>Rotate>ROTATE or Modify>Rotate>ROTATE 3D? With Rotate 3D you can rotate on any axis

Hi there, I'm having a problem with my Label Legend Manager: Everything works fine, just as I want it to be as long as I don't insert any accessories to my lighting device, such as a colour changer. Because the colour changer takes some space in front of the lamp it hides my channel label which is there. Is there any possibility to get the LL-Manager to use the "whole thing" when a accessory is involved? Like the actual lamp plus the shutter plus the colour changer and place the dimmer label then in front of all of them with the offset of the legend layout? Thanks a lot! Mario