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You could also select all and lock all the objects. (Modify>Lock)
People could still add to the document, but they would have to unlock something before moving it.
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I've run into exactly this situation before. Once the educational version infects the finger you have to cut off the hand.
No amount of deleting or copying and pasting to other documents will make it go away.
You have to be very disciplined about the workflow direction of content. NEVER export a symbol, texture, or worksheet that has been in an educational document to any other file (especially a file in your "favorites"!).
And never reference to an educational document.
I'm now extremely careful to only accept pdfs from educational users.
Michael
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Jim
I can guess at the reason.
Back in the day (like VW9 or 10) curtain objects used to always be black and all the people with red grand drapes came up with crazy work arounds to make them change to other colors.
Somewhere around 12 or 2008 they took the color away from the curtain object and made it selectable with the color palette.
I've never used a velour texture, because I've never zoomed in close enough to a drape in a rendering for it to matter, but I'm sure there are velour textures out there.
I've found that using 80 or 90% black is close enough. At 100% black they suck up more light than any real drape I've ever seen.
HTH
Michael
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It's not exactly a well documented procedure.
Make sure you have a lighting symbol in your document. (reason to follow)
Right click on your new symbol in the resource browser. Choose edit.
Choose 2d.
Make sure your 2d selection tool is active. Click on an empty space. (ie deselect everything)
Click on the Data Tab in the OIP.
Select Light Info Record (It's a record format. It is there because you have another instrument symbol in the document)
In the next box down, click on the field you want to change.
In the bottom box enter the data (beam angle, field angle, weight, color frame size, lamp, etc)
After entering the data for a particular field, use enter to advance to the next field.
Once you are done, exit edit mode.
Insert your symbol again with the lighting symbol tool, and all the information should be there.
It's not exactly clear (to me at least) what each field should be, but by looking at an existing symbol and trying a couple times you should be able to figure it out.
HTH
Michael
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I agree with C W.
Mesh objects seem to be a Group containing 3D polys. Maybe someone knows what they would be useful for. I've often found them in objects after importing something created in sketch up or autocad.
The rendering time is brutal.
Michael
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I've had this happen in the past with 2008. By accident I discovered that toggling "Showdata" on and off will make the gobo appear. It also will sometimes fix the problem of the draw beam function being 90 or 180 degrees off.
HTH
Michael
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You can, but the result is an imaginary number.
Do worksheet values always truncate at 3 decimal places?
Michael
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Pat
I just checked to see what other functions were and were not available for Worksheets.
Is this a bug?: I put the value -2 in a field (A3). I entered =SQRT(A3) into A4. It returned 1.414
Michael
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Yes.
I tried closing and restarting VW and then restarting the machine. No other files were affected.
Michael.
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Easy... In VW 2008.
Make a database and insert it on the drawing. Double clicking on the database lets you edit the data which updates live to the drawing.
You could create a database for each position and place it in the design layer or in the viewport or just on the sheet layer.
The data base would live in the resource browser and you could just pop it into drawings at will. Especially if you are in the same space all the time.
I don't remember how it works in 12.5. But I think you can still create a database that will work in one direction: changes in the plot will show up in the database. But the editable worksheet is the only method for going the other way.
HTH
Michael
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Matt
There is a numeric channel field. It's called Alt Chan.
The Alt Chan field content is filled in automatically when you enter a channel number in the Channel field.
If you add the Alt Chan field to your report/database and then sort by Alt Chan, your channel fields will be sorted numerically.
Warning: Don't change the Alt Chan fields! Let VW do what it wants with them. I've tried doing that. It causes sadness.
The biggest drag is that you need to carry an extra field (alt chan) in your report/database that you will not want to be displayed.
btw the same is true with alt dim and alt circuit.
HTH
Michael
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Thanks for your help.
I limped through and got the drawings out this morning before I had to resort to starting a new document.
I do every drawing in 3D and I've never seen this before. And it didn't matter if I was trying to select 2d or 3d objects - everything was wacky.
It did seem to start after I created some wacky Design Layer Viewports. That may have been where all the madness started.
Michael
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It only seems to be happening to the file I need to send today. It always knows...
The OIP is freaking out. If I select 4 symbols it says "4 2D symbols" at the top. As soon as I nudge them or zoom in or out it says "4 No Selection"
Michael
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Also deselects object when I zoom.
Michael
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I have a problem that started yesterday.
I select one or more objects. Shift Command Arrow to nudge by snap distance.
After one nudge the objects are no longer selected.
Any ideas?
Michael
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Craig
I think you have to have all the classes visible of the sub components of the symbols/plug in objects.
Instruments are made up of many classes: each label has it's own class, the clamps etc.
I don't know why the truss would disappear.
Have you tried just cropping a viewport to make cardboards? It saves all the class acrobatics.
HTH
Michael
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Matt
It sounds like your symbols are 3d only symbols. They may have lost their 2d portion and are no longer hybrid.
If your symbols in 12.5 were both 2d and 3d, just reimport them and replace the current symbols. Or edit the current symbols to have a 2d element.
You might want to try putting your electrical symbols on their own layer and stacking that layer on top of the other layers. It's easier, faster, and much more flexible than using VP annotations.
HTH
Michael
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I saw somebody have a similar problem once. It turned out he was option-clicking accidently. He set his preferences to offset duplicates so that it was immediately obvious when it happened.
I do all my plots in 3d and I've never had a problem with refresh instruments. Do you have instruments on more than one layer or class?
Michael
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Matt
Somebody correct me if I wrong...
1 candlepower is equal to 12.57 lumens. (Lumens are a metric measurement of intensity at the source...) (unless you're talking about digital projectors - that's all voodoo.)
1 footcandle is almost 11 lux. 10.7 something.
HTH
Michael
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I've had that happen several times. Especially in 12.5. In 12.5 mirroring units caused this behavior.
There's probably a better way to do it, but I always delete the fixture and insert a new one.
Michael
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Is it possible you have a horizontal position that is numbering top to bottom?
Michael
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I don't think so.
The only work around I can think of is to edit all your lighting symbols by rotating them 90?.
Michael
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Are you hoping to end up with a 3d disc, a 3d "washer" or a 3d profile?
Michael
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Bob
It is tricky to get any object to render as white.
The best solution I know is to create a new texture:
Color>Plain Color>(set to white)
Reflectivity>Constant
Then apply that texture to the object.
HTH
Michael
Vectorworks 2008 speed issues
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Posted
Lee
Does it matter if the files were originally created in VW 12 or 2008?