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Haydenovative

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  1. This is exactly what I'm talking about. Thanks everyone for your insight on this. I really like the idea of an add only export. there is also a theory booting around our office of a cloud accessible file which is treated as add only and is only editable by the author or those given specific editing (Deletion) authority.
  2. Thank you so much Michael, Your amazing as always. I see what you've done and it works correctly, but I don't understand the why. Is there a away to save the 3D rotation into the symbol so I don't have to edit each instance? I have created many custom lights that do not cooperate with edit 3D rotation. Often the light works correctly in every other function but when 3D rotation is used the model explodes, this will be an issue if I am to change other H-Stand Lights. Your input would be amazing. Thanks again.
  3. Hey Gang! Got a new one for ya. Ive beem building custom lights and Ive come across an odd anomaly that I hope someone has come across. I am putting a UV wash light on an H-Stand and because the rear bracket is not centred when I focus the light it turns the light the wrong way so it sits inside the floor. A little hard to explain so Ive included a picture and the working file to se if you can solve this, please hit me back if you need more info. Thanks gang!
  4. Hey Gang, Just a question for those event and AV producers out there. Our company has spent a lot of money having venues and equipment drawn and modelled beautifully. We currently create floorplans and renders for our clients and send them as PDFs. The question is what steps are you guys using to protect your intellectual propert, we have flattened 2D versions for those event companies savvy with Vectorworks but I have heard of people having watermarks across many layers etc which while annoying is not undoable. Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys!
  5. Hey Gang! I got a new one, is there anything that will create a symbol legend and include each new symbol that is dragged in to the drawing? I seem to remember something in spotlight that constitutes an auto-populating legend or key. If anyone can help that would be great. Thanks Team
  6. Thanks Guys! Both of those options work well, Ive achieved something I can live with, however even when my line work has our company colours as soon as I toggle the opacity it goes to see-through white, is there a work around for this?
  7. Hey Guys, Ive created banquet tables with centrepieces and table settings which hammer rendering times. I have put the settings on its own class so they are easily turned off. Is there a way I can have them off by default when importing the symbol into a new drawing?
  8. That is exactly what I want to do, I've downloaded your file to see how its done, but I'm running 2012 and I cant open it. Any chance you could save a backwards compatible version for me?
  9. Hey Gang! Just wondering if anyone has achieved making a projector project on to a wall surface rather than a screen. We are being asked more and more to represent this for clients and we have had some success with transparency of the screen surface looking similar, but showing the lumps and bumps of the wall would be great. Thanks Guys!
  10. Hey Team, I've decided our standard white title block looks great with 2D plan shots, but looks kinda fugly when superimposed over our nice renders. I'm trying to create an embossed logo or something of the like as a second title block. Ideally its just our logo in the right hand corner and Id like it to be transparent hence embossed or a glass object or something. I realize you cant render a title block nor can a symbol or 3D polygon be rendered on the sheet layer, does anyone out there have an idea of how this might be accomplished? Attached is a photo of my last failed attempt. Thanks guys!
  11. Hello Again Andrew, I have been playing around with this today, I removed the stock standard projectors from the file because we will never use them, I have now created the rest of our stock of projectors. Now when I start a new file and try to use the video screen tool, no projector appears at all and the symbol in the OIP says "Please Update this Item" When I click update all I get is "Error: _2782 _2783 - Cannot take sqrt or log of a negative number" if I change to another projector model andthen back again this seems to have corrected itself, any insight? thanks again, your a life saver.
  12. Amazing man, Thank you so much for taking the time to get back to me. Your the best : )
  13. Hello Andrew, Team, I have followed all of the instructions posted here, I have banged my head and all I get is, this symbol is not a valid projector item. Can you please look at the two Barco W8 projectors in my projector models file and tell me what I haven't done, Thanks so much!
  14. Hey Guys, Thanks for that, I have already attached those values to the objects as you can see in the file. The clamp is recorded as base = yes. My question is, here in this file I have one standard fixture and one custom fixture, when you rotate 3D orientation on the standard fixture the clamp swivels in unison with the yoke, in mine, despite being built in the same manor, my clamp does not swivel along with its yoke, what is the deciding factor in that object. Thanks for lookin in to it lads!
  15. Hey Guys, I have a new one for ya. I have attached custom clamps onto some of our lighting devices. When I set 3D orientation on a library light with a standard clamp, the clamp swivels along with the yoke. When I attach my clamp to the light and set 3D orientation the clamp stays parallel to the working plane. Please tell me what the deciding factor is in wether or not the clamp swivels. I have attached the file of the two lights next to each other. Thanks guys!
  16. Hey Guys, We have a group of producers that work from a common symbol library. I would like all lights to import on iLighting class and audio on the iAudio class etc. I've edited the symbol options on each symbol and told it to import on custom class and specified the correct class. Now when I open a new document and bring in one of the symbols the custom class is created in the new drawing but the symbol is not on it, it comes to whatever class is selected. I have attached a file with a light on it, it has created the iLighting class on import, yet the symbol sits on the none class which I had selected before hand. I hope this makes sense, please help. Thank you all so much.
  17. Hey Gang, I'm hoping y'all can help me out. I've been creating custom lights for the company I work for and I have solved many of the problems one faces when getting them to focus correctly. I can now make the lights point where I want them when focused without exploding through placing the 3D loci at 0,0 etc. I've now hit a new snag, when I set 3D orientation it explodes. Occasionally we need to hang a light off an upright bar so being able to rotate in 3D is necessary. What I'd really like your input on is a method, how do I ensure that all my pieces are centred so when I rotate it, it doesn't explode, I have 20+ symbols that I need to correct and I cant zoom in close enough to make sure they are EXACTLY centred. Any input on this would be golden. I have attached the file with my par 30, please test it out and give me your thoughts, it focuses fine, just 3d orientation. Thanks Guys!
  18. Thanks Jonathan, I now edit my symbol options and set it and its amazing. Is there anyway to assign each symbol to create a new symbol folder within the new drawing just by clicking and placing the symbol in the new drawing?
  19. Hey Team, I have created many new symbols for the entertainment production company I work for. I've saved all of my symbols into one file and the whole team references that file to drag in lights, audio and staging symbols for clients drawings. I have set up the file so that all lighting symbols are in the lighting class and audio in the audio class etc. with the aim of having these classes be dragged in with the symbol into a new drawing. This way a brand new drawing with no classes will start to build classes for these items as soon as they are dropped in. Can anyone tell me if I'm attacking this the right way because currently when any symbol is brought in from the resource browser it goes onto the none class or whatever class your on in the new drawing. Thanks guys!!
  20. Hey Team! I've built a custom light and it works just fine, now a very strange issue I hope you can help me over come. Both the 2d and 3d elements of this symbol have it hanging horizontally with the body facing down. I've checked that the 3D loci is a 0,0 and all that good stuff. when I drop it into a drawing and swap between top/plan and top view is has changed its orientation to vertical up and down which doesn't line up with its 2D representation, the body now also faces up even though I haven't focused the instrument. Please help. P.S Why would a drawing with only one light in it be 6.5mb?
  21. That's exactly what the problem was, thanks so much!
  22. Hey guys, Ive created some custom lights. I've reproduced what I found in existing lights. But theyre just not working and I'm sure I've just missed something basic. Please help. Ive attached a file with one light from the VW library and 2 lights that I have created. Please tell me why they aren't showing up on the wall. Cheers guys!
  23. Hey guys, just popping out a sketch for a client and would like to know how to make the draping appear solid or shaded black in the sketch. Please see attached photo. Thanks for the help guys.
  24. Hey Guys, I am trying to create a par light on an H-stand for an event I'm planning. I have created the H-stand, named it a lighting object. Now I cannot attach the light to the stand. I also cannot rotate the light to face upwards. If you can tell me how to choose the colour and intensity etc. File attached.. Thanks Guys,
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