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Sebastiaan

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  1. Hi I changed the subject of this topic to make it a general wishlist for improvements to Label Legends. Please all add your two cents and don't forget to upvote! I could add good suggestions to the opening post so the Vectorworks people could read all of our wishes here. I call on all of you Spotlight users!! ;-) Request: -The position of a non rotating label should be placed only at the absolute and radial distance, and refering to the instruments insertion Point, just as it is placed in the Label Legends Layout. At this moment the exact position differs, depending on which instrument is used in the Legend. The distance of the label should be exactly the same as in de label legend layout, no matter which instrument is used. Also see both printscreens below. What you see are 12 different non rotating label legends (each shot used the exact same 12 legends) , on the second printscreen some of the labels get messed up because the instrument is not the same as in the label legend layout. -The ability to move all, or multiple, handles of a label legend at once. Just like you can move multiple points of an interpolated surface. Perhaps this can be done in the form of a special Label Legend tool? Also see the screenshot of the editing of an interpolated surface. This ability would save users thousands of click and drags!! -The ability to use the exact same layout for a 3d Label as you can for a 2d label. Meaning that you can place two labels next to each other as well as above each other. If above wish is not possible, then perhaps the following could be a workaround? -The ability to concatenate two record fields of a lighting instrument into, for instance, a user field. I like to have my Universe and Adres next to each other delimited by a "-". The same counts for Circuit Number an Name. I know how to work around this in Top/Plan view (except for the issues discussed in the first point in this wishlist). If this is possible this would make it possible for my 3D label to look exactly the same as my 2d Label, at this moment it is only possible to display selected fields below each other, not next to each other in a 3d Label. By the way this ability would also make for nicer allignment of 2D Label legends that have labels next to each other! -More flexibilty in placement of the 3d labels. At this moment it is not possible to place a 3d label exactly center above or below an instrument. The Label will "flip" left or Right as soon as the 3d legends X position goes below or above 0' . See screen shots below: Perhaps it is also possible to make the eye droppper tool usable on a 3d legends position? (I'm aware of the "Assign 3D Legends positions to selected" function, which is already great ofcourse) This is what I can do now: And this is what I would want to be able to do:
  2. Hi Jim, I did some testing. I Reinstalled VW 2018 without migrating my old favorite files. Replace symbol take 1 second to open the replace symbol dialog, and another to open the nested resource browser. Just a bit slower than in vw 2017 where it feels instant. I tried this both in SP0 And in SP1. Then I migrate my old favorite files and replace symbol becomes slow again. There are about 24 files in my favorites folder and they range from 133 bytes to 835 MB. So some of them are quite large. However VW 2017 was able to open the replace symbol dialog instantly and 2018 it takes 15 seconds for the first window and 15 seconds for the next to open. @JimWcan I send you my favorite files in a dropbox link or so so you can so some testing? This problem is making VW 2018 useless for me at te moment so I hope that this can be looked into.
  3. That’s odd. Maybe I should try a reinstall as well.
  4. Hi Jim, did you find time to look in to this? I had to switch back to 2017 because of this problem.
  5. Hi Jim, I just send you an example of a new file from my .sta with just 1 symbol in it. Replace symbol takes 30 seconds in it. Thank you for looking in to this!
  6. Are there more People with this issue?
  7. Reading that thread it is suggested that turning of all libraries exceptthe current document solves the issue. In my case it does not. I had already tried this. Also I went back to 2017 to check and the replace symbol window pops up instantly there. JimW can you list this as a bug?
  8. Hi, I just started my first project in 2018. Besides the fact that there are still redraw issues (grrr, slightly better than in 2017 so i can live with it now), there is one issue that is costing me a lot of time. If i click replace symbol from the OIP it takes 15 seconds to open the "Choose a Symbol" window, and another 15 seconds to open the nested resource browser. I am working on a late 2015 15" Macbook Pro and have SP1 2018 installed. Can this be listed as a bug?
  9. Hi Scott, Sorry for the late reply. But thank you! it certainly helps. I had not added a light to the viewport yet which is why it wasn't working for me. Perhaps us lighting people are amongst the few that like to angle hybrid symbols? And this feature was specially made for us? I added Lighting instruments to my layher and i noticed all the tilts where pointing in random ways. in the design layher they are all straight. Do you know why this is happening? I added a screen shot of it. Regards, Sebastiaan
  10. Hi, I am really interested in how to use DLVP's in this way. However the link in the OP as well as the movie in the Landudesign site down work. The link is broken and th .mov wont open on my mac whatever I try. Could anyone point me to a good tutorial? Thank you an regards, Sebastiaan
  11. I've had similair issues likes these. And I found out it were 2D lines causing it. Like Ruiz said.
  12. Just Updated to SP4 an immediately saw some of the redraw issues again. Zooming in on geometry and part of it disappears and reappears when zooming out again. Rendering to OpenGL makes geometry appear again also. This should be top priority on the fix list.....
  13. this was my conclusion also. I find excell is so commonplace that you will always find a solution to a question you want to solve. Or you will easily find someone with knowledge to help you solve it in excell. I am sure that VW worksheets are able to do a lot more than I do with them. And I wish I had the time to really go in depth to learn about it. But for now I personally only use VW worksheets to export data to excel.
  14. I've made my own Excel files to do so. For me this is the best and most flexible program to calculate.
  15. When you right click edit the sheet layher you can change the dpi of the individual sheet layher itself. It is probably at 72 dpi there.
  16. I have the exact same problem. My workaround is to group the selection twice and then undo once to end up with one group again. This solves the disappearing geometry always. Cmd+G cmd+G cmd+Z
  17. I too have a lot of the redraw issues. The most common is when grouping several objects or symbols. It was also the first occurrence of it for me already in sp1. Parts of the selection disappear when I group. I found out that when I group the same selection again, that the geometry will appear again. I then ungroup once to end up with one group again. I also experience a lot a lot of the other redraw problem and I'm hoping for a quick fix.
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