Sebastiaan

Hi All, Since the changes made to label legends in 2019, I am having issues on being able to do want was able to do in 3d Labels before version 2019. In 2D labels in 2019 there was a big wish of mine granted. For a long time I wished to be able to move all of the fields of a label legend at once. In 2019 we where now able to group the fields and thus move the label at once. However when the fields are grouped this creates some issues that I would like to discus in this topic. (by the way issue nr 07 is that in vw2020 sp2 I can not move the grouped label legends in 2d anymore ;-(..... Below are the issues I've been experiencing. I added the VWX with each issue on a seperate layer and each issue has it's own label legend created in VW 2020sp2 01-3D Legend flips by plan rotation 02-3D Legend leader lines 03-3D Legend assign atribute properties 04-3D Legend 3D label class forced on fields 05-2D Non rotating Grouped rotate 07-2D Grouped Labels do not move anymore Below are screenshots from the testfile with explanations. VWX Label Issues.vwx @BSeigel @klinzey 01-3D Legend flips by plan rotation 02-3D Legend leader lines 03-3D Legend assign atribute properties 03-3D Legend assign atribute properties 06-2D label container shifts-2 07-2D Grouped Labels do not move anymore

Problem is still present in 2020 sp2 @klinzey?

@klinzey thank you for filing the issue again!

Hey Sam, Used the Refresh all truss tags. It seems like the trusses within the HP do not update after re-entering and exiting the HP. It was strange to me too, because the first cycle of the workflow works flawless. But after editing a HP the data does not update immediately. I’ll pm you a screenrecording if you want.

I can't wait 😉

Hey @Sam Jones I was trying out your Truss Tag workflow to get the position names in Truss within Hanging Positions. It looks great and is exactly what I was looking for for a long while! I found one issue however. On the first cycle of the workwflow everything looks great, my worksheets shows the position values. But then I want to edit the Hanging Positions Profile and add some extra Truss. If I now go through the steps again. The worksheet will not update the position in the newly added trusses. There is an extra line with the position field left empty. Then if I only enter and exit the edited HP again, then the position field updates again. Like it needs some kind of extra refresh.

Hi All, In 2019 and before it was common practise for me to use the 2d polygon tool to create profiles to extrude. Sometimes with single extruded lines, sometimes more complex 2d polygons. I noticed first that a vw2019 project opened in vw2020 all of the extrudes that are created from single lines lost their fills. I had to convert them to generic solids to give them back their fills. Also I noticed that if I wanted to create a new extrude from a sinlge polygon /line that they did not have a fill and I could not change that fill. I can create extrudes from sinlge lines with a fill if my attribute palette is set to class style at the moment of drawing it., but still it can not be edited afterwards. About a month ago I was having issue with disappearing fills in cloud rendering for which I posted the topic below. I am now thinking that this is caused by the same issue. I think at that time the cloud rendering was already updated to 2020 causing the behaviour. Has anybody else had the same experience?

Could someone from VW respond to this issue? @JuanP

Oh and by the way. One temporary workaround could be to export your design to vwx 2018 and run your LC Exports from there.

You probably have the HOG dongle? They stopped supporting HOG dongles. Also they say it is because the software became L8 and is not associated with LC anymore. I believe there are some conflicts between L8 and LC that caused the split. Not that it should matter to us users. I had the same license and was angry at first that they stopped supporting my license. In the end I did pay for the FP19 update. And I must say that it made me very happy! The new export plugin runs much faster. I have some very heavy geometry in my designs that used to take ages to export. Now this is finished in seconds. Also some geometry and textures that did not export perfectly now export without flaws. And lots of improvements in the software also. So just to say, even though LC and L8 made some really bad PR. The FP19 is worth the money if you can spare. I personally went up one tier to .net for 500. I think the new Export plugin won’t work with your license also as it’s a part of FP19.

I found that if you select the instrument and then set their line attribute to none in the attributes pallette. Then the leader lines disappear. They remain visible when the instrument is selected. But disappear after deselecting.

Maybe you can use find and modify to copy the values found in de user adress / universe to the new fields. also a Autoplot function called copy field tot field could help put everything in the right place.

Hi, I am currently expierencing this problem and am wondering if there is a fix or workaround for this? A collegue has instrument that where once placed in the active class and remain in that class in the Visualization Palette.

Either, you have to move all of the parts of the legend by hand. Or you you can group all of the items in your Label Legend layout. In this case there is only one handle to move everything at once. However there are some issues with grouped legends you might run into. you can not select multiple blue handles of an not grouped legend. Data Tags will give you more freedom of placement. They are worth trying out.

Hi In this topic I learned how to extract the original toolset pic from a workspace file. I shared the rigging and event design pics in one of my posts there.

Sliders please!

attached is a screenshot of a detail in the render. You can see the empty geometry where the texture should be.

Hi, Since version 2019 we can layout 3D label legends like we can with 2d Legends. I like this, since My 3D label now looks the same as it does in 2d and I use the same classes that I use in 2D. However each time that I enter the "edit fields" window of that legend all fields that are used in 3D are automatically classed in Lighting-Label-3D. So now my layout atributed are reverted to the 3D class. I would like the fields of the 3D label to have the same class as the 2d fields. Channel class is channel class etc. There is no need for a seperate 3D class either!

Third bump!

Thank you!

Hi, I regularly render my files by starting a render from the Nomad App. This worked really well and fast. However lately I have experienced random textures not being rendered and leaving empty geometry in my PDF's. They render fine locally, but not when I start it from nomad or cloud services. I have just filed a support request, but am wondering if other users have experienced this too and maybe know what I can do to prevent it? Can't post file here due to confidentiality. Regards, Sebastiaan

Since version 2019 we are able to grouxp label legend layouts so they can be moved all in one with one handle. However I found out that when this is done they now behave as rotating legends, exept for the fact that the layout gets messy now. See attached images and testfile. Can this be filed to be fixed? Regards, Sebastiaan

Hi, The spotlight preference "automatically assign the class of lighting devices" does not work anymore. The class that is created is not the value of the field that I set but instead it is "0". See attached image. Mac OS Mojave on VW 2020 tried on converted 2019 file at first, restarted the program. Tried on new clean 2020 file same result. Please file as bug. Example file is attached. Regards, Sebastiaan assign sptlight class bug.vwx

I am a bit curious what a PD or dimmer looks like in Lightwright. I played with the demo a bit but I couldn’t really get through it. could someone show a screenshot of what the output is in LW for a PD and a dimmer?

A friend of mine is working on a Mac application that does exactly what you described above. Except for the fact that it is an external app. So far I have used excel to make my dimmer and PSU sheets and spend ages on macro’s for automation of the process. This did result in a fast workflow. Ofcourse it would be magnificent if it where built into VWX. But if it does what you need fats and effective then that’s great too isn’t it?