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LX1

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  1. Hi Forum

     

    Is it me! Or does anyone else find creating and moving schematic views clunky? Beachball of death often being the case with 20M trusses.

     

    Running VW2020

    MacBook Pro 15" 2017

    3.1Ghz Intel i7

    16GB

    Radeon Pro 560 4GB

    Intel HD Graphics 630 1536MB

     

    Thanks

  2. I have a slightly related topic that hopefully someone can help me with. Sometimes I want to move all components of my label legend for one fixture but not another with the same legend. Is there a way to do this without creating another label legend. Basically I want to select all and drag to a new place.

  3. Hello Team

     

    I am having rotation issue with certain symbols. Basically when I rotate a symbol in 3D using the rotation tool or OI the body of the fixture separates from the head. If I rotate the symbol in the RM it is ok, until I insert it into the plan. If I then try and rotate it again the separation issue happens.

    The attached VWX has two symbols one that has the problem and one that doesn't. I can not for the life of me see what is different between the two apart from class assignments given to the symbols.

     

    Any help appreciated.

     

    Thanks in advance

     

    Testy Spiider Rotation.vwx

    Screenshot 2019-07-15 at 17.00.40.png

  4. On 6/13/2019 at 8:58 PM, scottmoore said:

    LX1, you should place all of your focus points on your “master drawing layer” or whatever layer you use for standard drawing. Do not place focus points on your DLVP layer. You should now be able to focus your instruments in the DLVP. The fixtures will mostly likely be below 0 but will still attempt to focus where they should. Once you are back in your standard drawing layer your viewport fixtures should point correctly at the focus position without an issue

     Thanks Scottmoore

     

    I had worked out the focus points and after a little patients during rendering I have the DLVP rendering scenes.

     

    👍🏻

  5. Hi Folks

     

    Ok thanks this thread has been really helpful and I have my head around DLVP and raked trusses etc. But it has raised a few questions with spotlight rendering. FYI I also have my head around rendering but not a master so hopefully I have just missed something along my work flow.

     

    I thought it would be as simple as drawing my plot as normal, adding focus points and gobo info etc etc. Then creating the raked trusses with DLVP and then rendering lighting scenes and hey presto I would get what I was looking for from the DLVP raked trusses. But no it only renders the lighting scene from the straight trusses that the DLVP are created from.

     

    In basic terms can I use a DLVP for viewing spotlight rendering?

     

    Thank you

     

  6. Hey Rob

     

    Ok thanks for the update.

     

    Seems odd that some manufactures are not willing to jump onboard. From my own experience if the symbol appears in the the resource manager, it has much more chance of being used on site! 

    What I find equally puzzling is why the truss symbol library is so small compared to availability of DWG symbols.

     

    Looping back to the C stands - I am sure the Manfrotto Avenger C Stand would suffice and seeing that there has been a massive update to Manfrotto lighting stands recently. Would this be possible?

     

    Cheers

     

     

  7. Hello forum 

     

    Ok slight newbie question here but I am getting slightly confused with trim height or maybe I should say when to use trim height instead of Z height for truss.

     

    In days gone past Z height satisfied my needs, I know trim height is to work with Braceworks but why and when should I use it.

     

    This is my current work flow.

    • Insert truss with tool set
    • Convert to hanging postion 
    • Give hanging position Z height
    • Add fixtures to hanging position

     

    Another on topic question - has anyone experienced trusses being given an 'odd' height when converting to a hanging position. I am experiencing the truss moving Z by -.036" when creating a single hanging position from multiple pieces of truss. 

     

    VW2018 SP2

     

    Thanks

     

  8. On 05/12/2017 at 2:11 PM, Rob Books said:

    Rex,

    not sure what version of Vectorworks you are using.  when we were prepping the Christie Lites truss for 2018 to use with braceworks, we had to do some cleanup.  also, if you are using Braceworks in 2018, the truss symbols on their website are not set for Braceworks use, you will get a dialog when you place it with the truss tools.  We will be releasing the Christie Lites truss hopefully in January to Service Select customers.

    Thanks Rob I had this exact issue yesterday when downloading truss from the CL website.

     

    Another VSS customer waiting till January..

  9. Hey all

    Yes random crashing has just started on my MB Pro, it seems to be linked to when I upgraded to El Capitan last week. I am running the same on my desktop iMac will report when back in the office.

    Extremely frustrating as I have multiple plans to knock out this week..

    Edit: Forgot to say a BIG hello to the forum - the crashing is what made me join this forum to find a solution. I'm an EX AutoCAD user and have been using VW for 14 months now :grin:

  10. Hi - I have had this issue when attaching barn doors to multiple lantern types Fresnel, Par etc. I was intending to ask the same question because when I am in 3D view the barn doors are non attached to the lantern and at different angles to each other. Slightly frustrating as it seems to be random with no current work around.

    Any help greatly appreciated.

    VWX 2016

    MB Pro El Capitan

    Cheers

    LX1

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