michaelk

In the Navigation Palette, Layer tab, set Layer Options to "Show Others" or "Show/Snap Others". Set all the layers you want to view to visible. Make sure Unified View is on. hth michaelk

Tools>Label Legend Manager>(Select Legend)>Edit Fields> Select "Non-Rotating" hth michaelk

Select the lamps you want to change. Modify>Assign Legend to Ints hth michaelk

Try the Altman PAR symbols. They will have clamps and look correct in 3D views. The US version has VNSP, NSP, MFL, and WFL. Don't know if the UK version is 60, 61, 62. The US version has the Cantata Fresnel & Cantata PC. But no profile. You might have to make your own. hth michaelk

You probably have the fill attribute set to "none". A white fill on dimension object w/ ASME Dim Std will do what you are looking for. hth michaelk

Islandmon In what way do sections conflict? michaelk

I've also noticed w/ this file that the one or two of the design layers sometimes go to different views - even though Unified View is on. The problem seems to be w/ section viewports when changing settings in the OIP.

Export>Image File...> Export Area - select Marquee Click Draw Marquee. Draw a marquee around the camera view Set the resolution, dimensions and file type. hth michaelk

I'm have a strange rendering problem that I've never seen before. I'm hoping someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. Situation: 1. Floorplan VP on Sheet Layer. 2. Create a Section VP from floorplan VP much later.... 3. Set background rendering of section VP to Open GL or Fast Renderworks. 4. Set foreground rendering to hidden line. On the section VP I sometimes get a strange result of a hidden line rendering over an Open GL (or Fast Renderworks) rendering from below. see picture. Changing the ambient light level in the VP seems to cause it. Once it happens it sticks like that. Updating doesn't fix it. The fix seems to be changing the render options to background: hidden line, foreground: none, update, and then change the render settings back again. I can predict when the problem is going to occur, because the render times get very long... On this file I've been getting a lot of crashes described as "out of memory" problems. I haven't had that problem before. Machine is maxed out @ 4G of ram. Other drawings are not affected. Any ideas? michaelk

I'm able to insert instruments in your file using the inst. insertion tool. Works as expected. If I move the Frankenstein instrument you had inserted or force a refresh it pops back into a 36?. How did you get the Franken-leko to appear? You might try deleting the label legend folder and creating a new label legend... Maybe there is some weird corruption there. michaelk

Wow. You might have your label legend inside a symbol definition... or.... something strange. Can you create a file w/ just one misbehaving fixture inserted and post it? michaelk

Can you post a picture or file that shows the problem?

Greg I'm seeing the same thing... I could be really wrong about this, but I think AC creates 2D geometry in something like VW's Layer Plane. In your drawing it also doesn't recognize the arcs as arcs. It thinks they are polygons. Converting to lines and composing gets a 2D polygon. Converting to polygons gets two polygons. I'd be interested to see what would happen if the arcs had the radius lines and a color fill in AutoCad. michaelk

It would help if you included your OS and VW version in your signature. But if you are using a recent version of VW... Select the wall. Click the Render Tab in the OIP. In the "Part" pulldown pick the left or right side. In the "Texture" pulldown pick the texture you want for that side. hth michaelk

Make sure the 2D selection tool is in "Interactive Scaling Mode" On the Mode Bar it's the one with a single set of diagonal arrows. hth michaelk

In the OIP for the line set the Plane pull down to "Screen Plane" hth michaelk

Thanks, Kevin. I was trying to get fancy and have the report distinguish among different lamp wattages using as few criteria as possible and w/o using different symbols. All went well until I flipped one unit upside down. michaelk

Ray's correct. You have to duplicate it first. If you need it again after performing a solid subtraction, you can always double click into the solid, copy, exit the solid subtraction, and paste. hth michaelk

I suspect this may be a bug, but before submitting it and looking foolish, I thought I'd take the opportunity to look foolish here as well. In VW2010 Spotlight selecting "Set 3D Orientation" in the OIP (doesn't matter if any values are entered) of a fixture makes it invisible to =COUNT((INOBJECT & INSYMBOL & ('Light Info Record'.'Inst Type'='insert inst. type here'))) [also =COUNT((INOBJECT & ('Light Info Record'.'Inst Type'='Source 4 19deg'))) - INSYMBOL doesn't seem to matter] Deselecting "Set 3D Orientation" makes the instrument reappear in the count after recalculating the worksheet. Is there something really obvious I'm missing here? Example attached. michaelk

And did the instrument symbols, label legends, and record formats come from an earlier version... michaelk

I agree w/ the comments on the tastiness of the glossy screen. But if your signature is still correct you will be very sad trying to run VW 12.5 on your new computer.

I make that mistake a couple times a day. Many users assemble their own workspace that includes all the cool tools they like from all the workspaces they have (and "legacy" tools that exist in the software, but are not assigned to any workspace). Just make sure you don't edit one of the original workspaces. Start w/ a copy of one of them. michaelk

update video drivers???

Make sure you are in the Architect workspace.

I've never seen this before. The only obvious connection between christalcat and sancho is VW2009 and Vista 32 bit. Makes me suspect you may have a video driver issue or a newer version of Quicktime than Vista/VW2009 is happy with. michaelk