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@Jeroen - Company Call To hang an LED wall from hoists, convert the flying bar symbols into truss objects, draw them as a truss, add the LED wall to them and then use the hoist tool to add the supporting motors. Adding 2m steels as drops can be done in 2 ways, use the previous method but instead of adding hoists use the insert connection tool to add the drops between the supporting truss and the custom flying bars duplicate and customize the flying bars by adding the steels into the symbol. You'll need to update the height field in the symbols data record by adding the steels length into it, to ensure the correct positioning to the supporting truss.

Another work around is to insert the hoist then add a deadhang bridle on to it. This will enable you to use the bridle configuration to document both pickup and basket parts for the hoist

I had a quick look and found 2 initial issues, the truss system isn't correctly connected, you have 2 separate systems at least one of the hoists is not connecting correctly due to the supporting bridle not allowing it to align correctly with the trusses center line

@LiteDoctor Not sure how this has happened, but the bug report is in to have the DMX cable parts corrected.

Also pay attention to where the cable connects to the hoist, it will snap to the insertion point of the object which depending on whether your hoist is set body up or down may not be correct.

There are controls for truss crosses in the Spotlight Preferences, look in the loads and rigging pane You can set auto classing for the entire object and control whether truss crosses will be automatically created.

@Wesley Burrows Yes, L-Acoustics are in the process of updating their plugin and should be ready soon.

Have you tried using the batch import command? you tell it the folder to convert and it will convert everything in it to the latest version

@Luxedavid Have you enabled modify truss object color in the Spotlight preferences? For Live data vis set the criteria to Type Is Truss and then in Display Criteria choose Objects using parameter, select Truss as the object and then depending on how you want modify the trusses either Type, Length, Symbol or Position name

There has been some progress on this in 2026 If you use the bridle tool to draw your hoists then the bridle will provide a simplified representation of the basket geometry, based on the structural member or house rigging point dimensions its hung from and the bridle configuration will document both basket and pick up parts. If you prefer to insert your hoists with the hoist tool you can also take advantage of this since Bridle can be inserted onto hoist afterwords. Adding basket symbols to hoists is on our internal development list, along with adding both pick up and basket symbols to bridles in the same manor.

Is the use GDTF geometry toggled on in the lighting device properties? If that doesn't help (which ist might not due to how Capture doesn't really support GDTF properly), use the context menu to select the lights of the same type and then the replace lighting devices button in the properties to select the correct Spotlight symbol.

Its also worth checking the layer scale of the layer you're creating the schematic on, personally I find setting the schematic layer to 1 to 1 gives the best results without needing to adjust the grid settings.

@Travis_Williams From your image there are 2 different workgroup library folders, in the upper image its Workgroup Libraries(2025) and in the lower image its Workgroup Libraries(Libraries)

@Terry Smith You may also need to make a set of new cable parts for the data multi's, Here's the link for the cable tools suite learning path with the video about creating parts. https://university.vectorworks.net/my/courses.php/program/25

@Bluetones The simplest option is the migration manager which is in the tools menu. This will migrate everything from an older version of Vectorworks to the current one. If you only want to update your libraries or a single file use the batch convert command found in the file menu.