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That’s why I called it :”not so pretty” 😉

That would be a not so pretty workaround. Who at the dev team would be able to tell us if this it worked on? We all really want it!

@Rob Books real pan and tilt control has been on the top of the wishlist of every spotlight user worldwide for years on end. Do you as an Insider at Nemetcheck know what the policy is on this subject? Are we ever going to get it?

Can’t wait too!

Sorry this really does not happen to me. Once the fields are set right it does what I want.

This is because you can check mark multiple fields. So then is logical that you have to highlight which one of the field you have to edit. But it agreed some improvements could be suggested to make it easier to recognize which field is highlighted at the moment you open the windows. Also so now that I am used to the way it works I now intuitively highlight my desired field before I start filling it.

They Made the new tool 100000% more usefull than the last one. However maybe an improvement would be if you could hide the record fields that you do not want to use in your specific setting. Then it will easier to see what you are doing. But you will still have to click on a field before you can fill it.

Should vwx magically know which field you are planning to edit?

Are you using my profile? Did you install the streamdeck application? If So are you on a Windows or on a mac? If you’re on windows then you may need to re assign the keyboard shortcuts to work with control in stead of cmd key. And don’t forget to upvote at the top of this page 😉.

I know! I was struggeling for about two hours with this. Same problem with gobo’s. I ended up working around it by closing and reopening the file and then the changes would show. Was able to get my tender out the door. I will try to recreate the problem on Monday and then post it. Seems to me like son kind of rendercache or refresh issue.

Hi, Would anyone have the answer to this? Using a ETC Source four from the vwx library. See attached images. I have the fill of the etc set to none. I can see my shutters in opengl, but not in any of the renderworks modes. What could this be?

Hi Nina, it is great to hear that. Thank you!

Great, but we will still need DWG export for many years to come. And it is quite silly that we can not easily share our designs with other stakeholders that are not in the vwx mvr gtdf bubble. This issue has been there for years an needs to be addressed.

Thank you, it works in your file indeed! This is a great start. I'm not an expert either, but maybe someone on this forum could help us out and alter the script so the output will be 3d symbols in stead of just groups? And then if we get ready, maybe someone could make it work for other POI too? Like trusses for instance?

Thank you so much! I tried your script, but I get the following error: File "<String>", Line 2 ^ Syntax Error: Invalid character in identifier Do you have an idea what this might be? I would love to try this script!

I think that’s a bit of a bold statement. It don’t think there are many programs that offer such versatility as VWX and I love doing al my work with it. I do have a lot of wishes for improvement however.

This will be helpfull in a few cases. But not sufficiënt for all possible rotations that we hang fixtures in. We shouldn’t have to make a separate symbol for each rotation. Especially since now we can make the 3D portion of the instrument rotate any way we like using the standard rotation tools.

I’d Love to hear from him!

@Rob Books is there any chance that this issue Will be addressed in the near future.It is very commonplace to have to provide DWG exports to other party’s that are not Vectorworks users. It is a real problem that we cannot export our designs to others accurately! Would it be an idea if the export DWG function would create a 3D duplicate symbol of each POI and then export that with the appropriate rotation values? We really need this!

Hey @Jim Wilson Thanks for that. For some reason, most of the spotlight tools, and also some others can not be found. Not in the application package, nor in the plugins folder. VWspotlight.vwr for instance does not contain images. Can't find them anywhere else too, which makes me think they are hidden in each tools own .vso. Would you guys be willing to share those pics in a package? And any chance on a fancy plugin for stream deck?

I'll pm you 😉

Glad you like it! Would you feel like making the remaining tool pics in return ;-)? The escape macro sounds like a goed idea, but I presume that if you're in a 4th group you would have to press again?

So I got motivated to make a nice Stream Deck profile. I used the standard VWX tools and menu's structure at first. I can imaging ordering it to most used functions later on. 95% of the shortcuts are the native vwx shortcuts. I'm on a mac so al shortcuts are with CMD instead of CTRL. Not all tools that have a hotkey have a shortcut set yet. But all tools have a hotkey. (i didn't add the tools from the toolsets: Furniture/fixtures, Dims/notes, detailling, fasteners, machine components. It's a time consumer to alter all those tool pics and had enough of it. Anyone feels like doing those?) Still would be amazing if VWX could write a fancy and perhaps dynamic plugin, maybe it could work similar to a Macbook pro's Touch Bar? Also maybe not all tools would need a keyboard shortcut to work with the stream deck. By the way, only just finished this and didn't thoroughly test al the keys. Hope you like it. VWX.streamDeckProfile.zip

Following! I have a streamdeck but have not yet made my profile fancy. I would really want the native tool pics to be part of the profile. I can retrieve toolset pic files from a workspace file. But the tool pics themselves I have not yet found a way. Streamdeck now has has a SDK for developers so maybe the VWX team could create a nice streamdeck plugin? Just like they support 3dConnexion? @Jim Wilson any chance?

I had some wishlist topics where I found that more than once I received a like to my opening post when I was certain that this person did not also upvote. So i agree from experience that the upvote button is a little bit confusing for some people.