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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
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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
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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
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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
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Do any of your symbols have record formats? I had a similar problem once in 12.5 with a corrupt record format.
Michael
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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
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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
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Indeed. Why does stack mode prevent the drawing of lines, polygons, and dimensions?
Michael
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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
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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
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Are you selecting arc and the symbol and going to EDIT>Duplicate Along Path... ?
Michael
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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
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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
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No need to enter the ALT fields; they generate by themselves.
Just include them in your worksheet for sorting purposes.
HTH
Michael
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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
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Jean
Sort by the Alt- fields (Alt-Channel, Alt-Dimmer, etc.)
The Channel field sorts alphabetically. The Alt Channel field sorts numerically.
HTH
Michael
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That's the difference between a mathematics and an engineering degree.
Michael
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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
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Has that button always been there?!?!
Something new every day.
Michael
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Pat
I knew you would come up with at least one of the other 6 ways. (I'm still trying to find an 8th way to shorten a line.) Your way works with far fewer steps.
Maybe this should be on the wish list. Or maybe I'm not understanding something about lofts.
I love doing lofts. I just wish there was a way to go back and edit the "history" of a loft. But editing or ungrouping a loft gives you a bunch of nurbs surfaces. Not the original nurbs and rails you started with.
That's why I usually use the Loft with No Rails mode. (If that's what it's really called.) It helps me visualize the outcome before I execute the loft tool if I have a lot of cross-section objects hanging in space first.
Then I usually duplicate all of them and then loft the duplicates. That way I can go back to the original nurbs to make adjustments.
Am I missing something, or are lofts (like chamfers and fillets) less editable than other 3d objects because they are not solids?
Michael
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Whoops.
Good catch. Thanks for the correction.
I've been saying that incorrectly for years!
Michael
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Matt
I made a bunch of rectangular nurbs (6" tall by whatever wide) and distributed them. If it was for real I would have put more nurb rectangles at the bottom to smooth it out. It will probably take a couple of attempts to get exactly what you're looking for.
Michael
PS. Does anyone else find it funny that the spell check on this website highlights "nurb" as being misspelled?
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Matt
I created that with a loft. I obviously didn't spend any time worrying about smoothing out the bottom of the ramp. But it would be pretty easy to finesse the curve you're looking for.
I'm sure there are at least 6 other ways to do it. That just seemed like the fastest.
Michael
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Matt
This is a really quick do-not-build-from-this-drawing stab. Is this the idea?
Michael
dongle error vectorworks 10.1 PC
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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