David K H Elliott

"This field also imports to Lightwright's Type field (or at least, that's the typical data exchange mapping). You can change the data to any value in Lightwright, and it will sync back to VW without changing the symbol defaults." Hi Josh, Yes and it seems where the change is made is significant. I've been playing around with changing types and symbol names to see what happens, motivated by the fact that I’d had a bunch of lighting symbols turn into hollow rectangles and I had no idea why. What I'd done is make a change in the Instrument Type column on the worksheet in Lightwright. Syncing back to VW broke the link to the Symbol Definition so Spotlight substituted a hollow rectangle. Scrolling down the Lighting Device OIP revealed that the link was broken because the Symbol Name field was empty. It was empty because the Instrument Type back in Lightwright had no default symbol assigned. Changing the Instrument Name in a column on the Lightwright worksheet created a new Instrument Type. That gets added to the list of types shown on the Physical pane of the Maintenance List. The VW pane shows that the new Type has no Default Symbol. Syncing back to the drawing is what cleared the Symbol Name field. To change the Instrument Type in Lightwright, change it here in the Maintenance List. A change made here keeps the Default Symbol. Best, David