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Does the bolt have a texture?
MK
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Craig
Have you tried turning off the ambient light in both layers? It will make the instrument beam easier to see.
Michael
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Craig
I disagree. You can render the light beam with onto an object in another layer.
You can't do it in Open GL. You need Final Quality RenderWorks or one of the Radiosity rendering modes. I usually like to use Custom Radiosity and select "Don't Use Ambient Light".
Also, you don't need to move the light off the position to get it to render. Just give the position a texture that doesn't cast a shadow. The default instrument texture works nicely.
HTH
Michael
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Bradley
Nice work.
Have you tried 12.5? I have the same issue of resetting origins in 12.5, but I can't duplicate the behavior with your process.
Michael
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I have the same field-getting-locked-in-place-after-relocating issue with the label legend. The Channel or Color field will just lock in place and refuse to move.
The only solution I've found is to delete the instrument and reinsert.
Michael
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islandmon,
Do you mean just edit the profile of the extrude and remove the vertex(es) you suspect are causing the problem until it goes away?
Or do you mean clip the ends of the extrude?
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Ray
Hey you're right! I've been doing the same keystrokes since version 9 or 10. Never noticed that Fit to Object works without an object selected.
Now I've got to retrain my fingers...
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Charlie
Thanks for your thoughts. I've also had that experience, with 3D objects of complicated history.
So I actually went back and remade this one (before my first post). It's a pretty simple polygon extruded along an arc. And I split it off from the rest of the object so the front of the balcony is a separate object from the rest of the drawing.
This is interesting: (to me at least) the same issue shows up in a hidden line rendering. So whatever is going on, it isn't confined to Open GL.
Michael
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Try File>Select All
Then Fit to Objects
Fit to Objects needs to have one or more objects selected for it to work. (unless it's different in 2008)
MK
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Jeff
Is this what you're asking?:
Preferences>3D Tab
3D conversion res: Very High
Michael
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Thanks, Scott.
That was it.
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I've got a simple extrude along path that renders fine in Final Quality RenderWorks, but in open GL it acts very strangely.
I'll attach the images.
Anyone know what's going on?
Thanks
Michael
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This hasn't happened since V9.....
I opened a drawing from a few months ago, and some of the callouts (both in design layers and sheet layers) decide to turn their text upside down. They still point to the correct spot on the drawing and the text is still in the correct place - just upside down.
In Version 9 this used to happen to me all the time and I remember knowing how to quickly fix it. Now all that I remember is that I used to know...
Anybody else seen this and remember how to fix it?
Michael
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Kevin, I'm interested to know what's going on, too.
I tried inserting a bunch of dummy lighting instruments and symbols that had NO data, including no Device Type. Nothing bad happened.
What does VW do after a lighting instrument insertion that is different from a regular symbol insertion?
Michael
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no, no...
It was one of mine!
One that I've been using for years.
In the data the device type changed from accessory to blank. (And it only happened in this one drawing. I went back and checked the source in my symbol library. It was fine.)
I don't know why that would matter, but it seems to matter a lot. As soon as I deleted all instances of it, the speed went back to normal.
Then I edited the symbol and reinserted. Everybody was happy.
Took most of the day to figure that one out.
It must try to do something with the data in the record with each instrument every time you insert a new lighting symbol. (Inserting as a symbol didn't bother it.) Whatever it does with that data, having a lighting symbol with a corrupt device type already in the drawing made it want to change it to Light every time I inserted a new symbol.
And apparently that takes 10 minutes.
Thanks for checking, but you're off the hook.
Michael
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I wondered the same thing.
I just tried converting 6 Pars and a line to a MultiCircuit, and 6 Pars and a Lighting Position to a MultiCircuit.
In both cases, VW ignored the non instrument objects and just converted the instruments.
I can only get the same error message if I insert 2 instrument symbols using the 2D insertion tool, and then try to convert to MultiCircuit.
I think one of your pars isn't an instrument.
MK
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I wondered the same thing.
I just tried converting 6 Pars and a line to a MultiCircuit, and 6 Pars and a Lighting Position to a MultiCircuit.
In both cases, VW ignored the non instrument objects and just converted the instruments.
I can only get the same error message if I insert 2 instrument symbols using the 2D insertion tool, and then try to convert to MultiCircuit.
I think one of your pars isn't an instrument.
MK
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I just tried it with 12.5.2 and it worked.
I inserted a PAR with the Instrument Insertion Tool.
Used Duplicate Array to get 5 more.
Selected all of them
Modify/Convert/Convert to MultiCircuit
No error messages.
It behaves like a MultiCircuit....
Strange
Michael
VW 12.5.2 Designer
OS 10.4.11 PowerBook G4
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Would you believe a corrupt accessory symbol?
It was changing itself from an accessory to a light.
Deleting the symbol and repairing the data inside it fixed everything.
I'd love to know how that happened.
Michael
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Adam
VW adds that text for the position name a preset distance from the bottom right side of the geometry of the symbol. (someone correct me if I'm wrong about this!)
So you've got something hanging out in your symbol way to the right.
3 ideas:
1. From the Resource Browser Edit the 2D Component of the Light Position.
Make sure the line is centered around X=0'0".
Try Select All to make sure that you don't have any stray objects hanging around.
Exit Symbol
1A. Do the same thing with the 3D component.
2. In the Resource Browser, Delete the Lighting Position and create a new one, being careful to create it from a Group that has both 2D and 3D components (That are exactly on top of each other.) (NB: Don't give the 3D component a Z value - Leave it at 0". Use the Lighting Position OIP to enter the Z value.)
Give it the same name as the deleted position.
3. You can always select the position in the drawing, click on the handle for the name, move to where you would like the name to be and click again to place the name.
HTH
Michael
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It gets weirder.
The size of the file doesn't seem to be the problem. I went back and opened a couple of recent drawings that were 30-40MB and one that was 160MB and inserted new instruments into them in a very pleasing and instantaneous manner.
The problems seems to be with just this document.
hmmmmm.......
Michael
VW 12.5.2
OS 10.4.11
Powerbook G4
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Getting worse...
It now takes 1 to 10 minutes to insert an instrument or accessory.
Michael
VW 12.5.2
OS 10.4.11
Powerbook G4
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I take that back.
It would only display the symbol, the name of the object, the number of them in inventory, the number used, and the number remaining.
Sorry. I'll go back to my own list.
Michael
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Steve
Do you have Spotlight? There is a tool that does exactly this. Called 'Key to Instrumentation'.
Michael
Render/Layer problem?
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Craig
Just to make sure I'm not crazy, I looked at some old drawings and confirmed that it works.
Is it possible that your instrument doesn't have photometric data? Or that the texture of the instrument has been changed? (Maybe try using a "fresh" stock ETC S4 Ellipsoidal symbol?)
Or maybe you have a FOH object that is getting in the way. Try moving the FOH ceiling or clouds or whatever objects you have to a temporary layer and see if that solves it.
HTH
Michael