Joshua Randall

I read the previous posts on editable worksheet, which partially answered my question. I have also applied the patch 1/30/2002. It seems that if the data in the first column (B) is blank, the UID from column A shows up in column B instead. I observe the problem when having "focus" as the first column. Instruments that have focus points assigned show up properly, but instruments without them have such things as "1216.1.1.0.0" in the Focus column. Not a major problem (although I am afraid at what might happen if I try to set the focus point by modifying that column). -josh

I made a boom stand and vertical pipe lighting position symbol, and placed instruments on it in side view. On the top/plan view all of the instruments show up on top of each other, which is fairly useless for the sake of hanging the show. I'd like to be able to have the instruments in the correct position in the 3D view so that I can render their beams, but I can't figure out how to make them appear elsewhere on the plan. I thought there might be something I could do with hybrid 2d/3d symbols, but when I tried that I couldn't get the instruments to be in both places at once. Am I missing something? If I was drafting this by hand, I would just draw the boom as a pipe on the plot with an extension line to the actual boom location. I'd really like to figure out how to do something like that in VW while still having the 3D representation correct. How are others doing booms or vertical pipes?