Anthony Neary

I'll try to explain what I am looking to do. I am trying to create a worksheet that will count my pipe and drape cross pipe, uprights, and drape counts, which after a bit of googling I can do on a basic level. However, I have two sizes of pipe and drape, 12' and 16' high uprights. I also have multiple types of drape, different colours of supervel and velour. I am using the material, material colour, and note records in the Softgoods PIO Object Info to track the info. The note record has either a 12' or 16' value. Where I am running in to an issue is when I try to limit the database row in the worksheet to only target subdivisions. Ex, I only want a drape panel count of 12' Black Velour. But if I try to set multiple criteria I do not get the result I want. If I try the following criteria on the database row: Record>Soft Goods>is present Field Value>Note>=12' Field Value>Material Type>=Velour Field Value>Material Color>=Black instead of looking at only the objects that are all three, it returns all of the 12', all of the velour, and all of the Black pipe and drape. Am I missing something in how Criteria works? I'd like to be able to have multiple criteria that allows me to really narrow down on a selection. Thanks

I'm on a laptop with a display that defaults to 125, so my secondary monitor is set to the same to avoid issues moving windows between screens. Resetting to 100% on both screens and restarting VW did not fix the issue.

This is a minor thing, but have been wondering if someone has come across a fix. A number of my icons in the UI look like they are wrapping around inside their space and no longer look correct, image attached. Thoughts?

I am running on an Alienware 15 R2 and am loving it, 2d and 3d work pretty flawlessly, and I do renders at high res and it handles it just fine. The graphics cards you would get on the R3's now are a good step ahead as well, I bought my R2 last year. My only complaint is that I should have gotten a larger SSD, I've had to move the VW library file to the magnetic hard drive and link a shortcut through to make sure my SSD does not fill up. Aside though, I think your issue with the MSI was a windows issue and not a laptop issue. I'm assuming you were running Windows 10? I'm not sure if you've seen the option, but Windows 10 allows you to scale apps differently on different screens. I only mention this because I run in to the same issue sometimes. The native setting for my laptop screen is 125% scaling, but off-board monitors it defaults to 100%. If I have the main VW window dragged to the off-board monitor the scaling difference causes issues for the palettes on the laptop display, they sometimes try to adjust to the 100% scaling that the off-board monitor is set to and do weird things like change size, and the ghosting you mentioned. It got to the point where I just gave up and set the off-board monitor scaling to 125% to match the built in display.

That is what I figured, thank you Pat.

Weird question, one that I do not have a way to check for myself. What happens if you open a file with spotlight tool PIOs in a license running only fundamentals? If you import a red symbol of let's say a screen tool PIO in to fundamentals what happens? If the file is then opened in spotlight again do the PIOs still function? thank you

Sounds like this needs to be reposted to the wishlist

Awesome, thx Kevin, glad I'm not the only one who thinks it behaves weird.

I'm attaching a 2017 file with an example symbol. The main reason I am going through this trouble is that I find the event seating tool clunky and annoying. It is much faster for me to manually drop symbols in that have spacing locus and duplicate as necessary. The main reasoning behind dropping table arrangements in as groups is that I can count individual symbol instances in the file, for quick and easy chair and table counts, as each chair and table is a unique instance of it's symbol inside the group. There are probably better ways to do this with scripting but at the moment this works for me. My big issue with the event seating tool is that it gets annoying to use when table placement is not perfectly aligned. Often I am dealing with tight banquet rooms and making sure things will fit means nudging things around, which can not be done with seating blocks, the spacing is even throughout the block. Then dealing with multiple seating blocks means it's faster to just drop symbols and nudge as I need to. The tool is great for things like large chair layouts, where spacing is much easier to assume will be even and won't need to be nudged individually. Aside from this particular purpose though it still baffles me why I can not have 2d information stored in a blue symbol that can get inserted in to the plan view on the layer plane. I use blue symbols a lot for PIO and other geometry stored together, like a screen PIO sitting on a truss frame that is built with truss symbols and other non-symboled geometry. Geometry that is otherwise not a symbol itself will not insert to the "opposite" view, 3d won't insert when working in plan, and plan won't insert when working in 3d. Really my basic question is why any and all 2d and 3d geometry inside a blue symbol just does not get inserted to the appropriate places at all times. As I stated originally my only assumption is that it's working on the same principle as the 'convert to group' command. @Kevin, maybe I am missing something but I am not seeing how you can have geometry inside a blue symbol assigned to the layer plane, my only options are screen and symbol definition, and symbol definition geometry, being stored in the 3d portion of the symbol, will not insert to the group when working in plan view. test.vwx

I would like to see Blue Symbols insert properly when you have non-symbol geometry saved in there. Right now any 3d-only geometry inside of a Blue Symbol is lost when inserted in plan view, and any 2d geometry is lost if inserted when working in wireframe or other 3d views. As well, I would like to make sure that 2d geometry inside the symbol can be inserted on to the layer plane instead of the screen plane. Hybrid symbols inside the Blue Symbols work fine, it's just the 2d- and 3d-only geometry I try to store inside (like locus points). It has gotten to the point where I've resorted to creating hybrid symbols that have a 2d and 3d locus on top of each other just so I can have a centered working handle when I insert the group. It seems silly. This is something that is really starting to bug me. I am trying to build a library of banquet seating layouts, but my 2d spacing geometry will only insert to the screen plane. And any "extra" 3d geometry I try to have in the symbol does not work unless it itself is a hybrid symbol. I am assuming inserting a Blue Symbol involves a process akin to the "convert to group" command, which strips the geometry you are not looking at (2d or 3d). Unfortunately I would like to be able to have different 2d and 3d information in these libraries that I can not easily have right now. Thank you.

Right? It seems silly. Glad it's not just me. I think what's happening in the background is a sort of "convert to group" command on the objects, but one that somehow leaves embedded symbols intact. If you have a hybrid symbol and use the "convert to group" command it groups the 2d objects and discards the 3d. If in 3d groups the 3d and discards the 2d. It's all I can think that's going on. But yes it makes no sense. My only way around would be hybrid symbols of my monitor sizes, and I'm not quite at the point of cluttering up my Resource Manager just to have the screen size show up yet.

Here's an odd thing that's happening, and I'm curious why this isn't working. I'm working on some resources, and what I'm doing is building group symbols (blue symbols) that involve standard symbols and plug in objects inside. That part all works as it should, but if I try to have some 2d geometry in the symbol it does not insert correctly, or at all, if I try to make the 2d items insert with the symbol definition as opposed to screen plane. This also seems to happen if I have 3d geometry in the group symbol as well, it will insert if I'm working in wireframe perfectly fine, but if I'm working in plan it won't insert the 3d geometry. I think basically it will not insert 2d geometry in a blue symbol on to the layer plane, or 3d geometry when working in plan view, when trying to insert blue symbols. VW2017 SP2 running on Windows 10 Geforce GTX 970M graphics card 16Gb RAM Thoughts?

@Alan, let me just see if I understand what you are meaning with the whole don't modify the default files... If I have a custom set of projector symbols that I currently have added to the default Projector file, I need to strip those out and have them in a different file saved in the same folder structure in my user folder? If I only put my custom content in this file does VW still look at the default file as well, or does my user file need to include the default content? Am I interpreting that correctly?