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Hi all, Still picking up vectorworks spotlight and is trying to customise lighting fixture. My practise here is to import the Clay Paky DWG and make it into a symbol. When use Spotlight>Object Conversion>Covert to instrument, the 3D model main body of the moving light goes out of position. Does anyone know where I am doing this wrongly? ClayPakyMythos.vwx

Hi Pat All scales are 1:1. I clicked on unified views and it worked after that. Not sure what was it I did before that which resulted in this problem but thanks!

Hi all, I seem to be unable to select objects from other layers other than the one from my active layer. It seem to me the only way to go about doing it is to right click the object and choosing force select. I have checked online and the impression I get is that i shouldn't have to do this as my setting for my class is "show/snap/modify others". However, in my 3rd screenshot as i dragged my cursor over the area shown, only my 2 lights fixture turn orange(this orange did not appear in my screenshot) and not the 2 rectangles which are TVs. This is the same when i try to click on any other thing. Does anyone know if i need to check on any other settings?

Hi Benson, You are correct. I did use the create wall projection. I was trying out the way that the Vectorworks Spotlight guide did it. Now that i redo it using the Column tool under the toolset and did not use the wall projection, the move by point works as expected! Thank you so much for the pointers!

Hi Benson, Thanks for pointing the part about the Feature in Wall, I came across that the other day when I was searching about this problem. Having said that, in my first set of photos I was moving parallel to the wall. I presume that is what you are trying to tell me about?

Pat, I think that is unlikely as I got to drag my mouse to another location before clicking it again and the items then got duplicated.

Hi Mark, I will try that and see what happens

Hi Alan, Thank you for the link. I went through the video and can't seem to find out where i was wrong. I am trying to copy 2 more of the columns along a new line, hoping this line make it more obvious. I have taken another 3 screen shot that hopefully shows you my 3 steps: 1.The first click with the move by point modes showing 2. The 2nd click 3. the object info shows 3 objects but still i see only one in my main window. physically deselecting and selecting 1 click at a time after that proves the 3 object are at the same location.

Hi all, I am having some difficulty with the move by points tool. The duplicates that is have are all inserted at the same exact location as my original selected object even though I have set my mouse to a certain direction. I have attached 2 screen shots. One is while i have displaced my mouse in a direction. One shows the 3 objects as 1 object as they are stacked on top of each other. Can anyone let me know if I am doing anything wrong? Thanks.