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Sure. Michael

Jim There are a couple of ways. But I wouldn't add it to the standard Martin Library. I would open a new blank document, import the symbols you want, and save it as JimsCoolResources in this location: Applications>Vectorworks2008>Libraries Then add JimsCoolResources as a favorite in your Resource Browser. As you get more symbols, record formats, and textures you want to keep you can add them. It's really easy: Right Click on the symbol in the Resource Browser. Select Export. Select Jim'sCoolResources. (same thing if you really want to put it in the standard library - just export it to Martin Imp. It may show up inside of Objects-Spotlight-Imperial, or something like that. I don't have VW open at the moment.) Keeping your own library document will make it MUCH easier to migrate to the next upgrade. You won't have to go searching through the standard libraries to find your custom resources. HTH Michael

Whoops. Both of the 700 units appear in the OIP as Profile units. Try these: HTH Michael

rpnh I've made my own MAC 700 symbols. You are welcome to them. I don't remember what, if anything, I did with the photometrics. I've never come across a TW1 in real life.... Michael

...or could it be that I'm an idiot and had "Adjust Flipped Text" turned on? Michael

Anybody else having this problem? Sometimes I put dimensions on the design layers rather than in a ViewPort annotation space on a sheet layer. I'm having problems with the document I'm currently working on: The dimension offset is not the same on the viewport as it is on the design layer. Sometimes nested dimension objects are stacking on top of each other and sometimes they are extending off the page. It seems to happen most often with dimensions objects where I have "Flipped" the text. Is this a bug? Thanks Michael

I think you are going to have to call NNA. I have no idea if they will still still service such an old version. But way back in the days of 10 I had a dongle broken off in my laptop and NNA was pretty cool about replacing it. Good luck. Michael

Tobi I've tried a couple different ways of doing it. The last time I converted the fixtures to a multicircuit instrument, so that it numbered each bar together. ie. 1A, 1B, 1C... or 1.1, 1.2, 1.3... Each instrument in the bar will still keep all of the labels. HTH Michael

Check the VectorScript and Spotlight Mail lists. There was a discussion about this recently. And someone had written a script to do it for lighting instruments. Michael

Whoops - In that last paragraph I should have said: Same idea if you start with a 3D only symbol. Edit 3D. Double click the object. Copy the 2D shape. Exit Extrude. Paste in Place. Exit Symbol. It will put the 2D object where it likes it to be. Michael

You can actually combine a couple steps: 1. Draw the 2D shape with the desired fill color. 2. Duplicate 3. Extrude the duplicate. 4. Select both the 2D and 3D objects 5. Modify>Create Symbol... OR for when you create the symbol with just the 2D part and wish you had remembered to create the 3D part: 1. Edit the 2D part 2. Duplicate the 2D object. 3. Extrude (still in the 2D edit space) 4. Exit Symbol. No need to go to the 3D part of the symbol edit space. It will put the 3D objects where it likes them to be. Same idea if you start with a 3D only symbol. Edit 3D. Double click the object. Copy the 2D shape. Exit Extrude. Exit Symbol. It will put the 2D object where it likes it to be. Michael

Do any of your symbols have record formats? I had a similar problem once in 12.5 with a corrupt record format. Michael

Detect Displays doesn't always do the trick for me. I've found with OS10.5 it sometimes works if I change the resolution on the main monitor with no other monitors attached. This seems to cause it to "gather" up all the windows floating on nonexistent external monitors. Then just change the resolution back. HTH Michael

JCS I can't recreate your issue. In the past when I've had problems with labels "getting stuck" in place, I've just deleted the label legend and made a new one. In case it's not that: -Check your classes. When VW creates a label legend it makes a bunch of classes for each item in the label legend. ie. Label-Channel, Label-Color, Label-Dimmer, etc. If one of those is set to invisible it might make it tricky to see what is going on. -Also make sure that you are really selecting the light fixture you think you are. It's possible to duplicate a fixture and have two fixtures occupying the same space, which could result in the issue you have. HTH Michael

Indeed. Why does stack mode prevent the drawing of lines, polygons, and dimensions? Michael

I'm not sure I understand exactly what you are asking... 1. You can select the fixture you want to appear when you first create the label legend. That fixture has to be a symbol fixture already in the Resource Browser. Go to the Label Legend Manager>Add. Select Choose under Lighting Instrument Layout Symbol and it will display all the lighting fixtures in that document's Resource Browser. Once the legend is created, I don't think you can change the fixture for that legend - you have to start over with a new legend. 2. You're right, it doesn't like to convert a circlular truss rig into a lighting position. There have been a couple threads about the issues with using Trusses as Lighting Positions. Some people have a lot of success with it, but I usually create separate position objects and leave the trusses as trusses. HTH Michael

Is the dwg you imported a 2d or 3d drawing? Did you import it as a symbol? When importing from a dwg you have to watch out for Class visibility issues. Please create a signature so we know what version of VW you are using and what platform. Michael

Are you selecting arc and the symbol and going to EDIT>Duplicate Along Path... ? Michael

I've found that it is necessary to draft in 1/4" or 1/2" when I'm using symbols with embedded text linked to a record format. In this situation, when drafting 1:1 the text in the symbols has to be REALLY big to be readable while drafting. Otherwise I don't care what scale I'm drafting in. Nobody ever sees the design layers. I put everything on Sheet Layer Viewports and set the scale at that time, so the scale that the model is built in doesn't matter. Michael

Thanks, Hugues Was Pat correct in his thinking that: " ...it also does the calculation for both the Then and Else portions before checking to see if the condition applies. This means that you can't use the IF statement (by itself) to isolate a calculation that might include a divide by zero error." Michael

No need to enter the ALT fields; they generate by themselves. Just include them in your worksheet for sorting purposes. HTH Michael

Very cool. A much more elegant solution than using the old square root of a square trick. So the syntax of the IF command is =IF((condition)[first comma = 'then']result1[second comma = 'else']result2) ? Do you ever need ( ) around the result1 or result2 if they are not simple statements? ie. =IF((B1=0),((3.14*A1)/2),(SQRT((A1/B1)*(A1/B1))*-1)) I'm trying to understand the difference between =IF((B1=0), 0, A1/B1) and =IF(B1=0, 0, A1/B1) Michael

Jean Sort by the Alt- fields (Alt-Channel, Alt-Dimmer, etc.) The Channel field sorts alphabetically. The Alt Channel field sorts numerically. HTH Michael

That's the difference between a mathematics and an engineering degree. Michael

Actually, if I remember my college calculus (and there is a good chance that I don't)... 5+ lim x>0 (20/x) + 7.5 = 5 + infinity + 7.5 = something very big (or infinity + 12.5). If you really want to make the zero denominator behave like a zero numerator, try something like this: Column C=(SQRT(INT(A3/(B3-0.01)))*SQRT(INT(A3/(B3-0.01)))+INT(A3/(B3-0.01)))*0.5 HTH Michael