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    Importing Custom Speaker

    in Entertainment

    Posted · Edited by Steve Clarkson

    Hi Again,

     

    So I had this problem a while back, dropped it, and have been working around it by just opening the speaker's .vrx file and copying over to the working project.  I've decided to tackle this again, and ...

    1. have got the speaker designed,

    2. what I believe is a valid speaker record attached,

    3. placed the .vrx in the Program Files/Vectorworks 2018/Librairies/Defaults/Audio Tools/Speakers folder.

    4. in a new project, created a generic speaker

    5. in the OIP, selected Import

    6. selected my speaker project file from the dropdown

    7. in Type, typed in the speaker name I'd given it.

    8. received error message that record data was invalid.

    9. retrying results in all the same choices becoming available and the same results...

    10. unable to delete the erroneous import, to redo.

     

    Is there a breakdown between what I assigned as Type in the record data, and the Type that gets entered when importing?

     

    Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks!

     

    Edit - in advance of being asked for the file, I've attached it.

    Danley SBH-20 v2018.vwx

    Disappearing model

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I seem to have just started having this issue.  It appears to have started randomly, but maybe I did something.  I've moved everything close as possible to origin, and tried both cropped settings.  No change.  It's extremely annoying as I would like to get very close to an object.  The entire drawing is quite large, a factory about 400' by 100'.

    Light Object obscuring drawing

    in Entertainment

    Posted

    I'm not even sure how to describe this, here's a screenshot to illustrate what my issue is.

    I want to get rid of as much of the globe as possible.  It shows up in my Renderworks as well.

    Is this a scale issue? Currently I'm at 1:5000 (it's a pretty large space that was part of a larger building).

     

    Steve

    Capture.JPG

    Muntin Limit?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I'm Back,

    I'm trying to create an extremely long (+200') factory window.  It seemed like the easy way to create one long window-in-wall and add what I have learned are Muntins.  However I need 5 horizontal, and 240 verticals.  Vectorworks will only draw up to 26 verticals in wireframe, and none in OpenGL or Custom Renderworks.  And once the verticals is changed to 27, I lose the 5 horizontals as well.  I have the class set to Clear Glass - Glazing, and window to Fixed Glass.  Only with Fixed Glass was I able to get any Muntins to draw.

    Window construction is definitely not my forte (working in Spotlight).  

    Anyone have any hints for me on this?

    Cheers!

    Steve

    Hate to complain... but.

    in Entertainment

    Posted

    One thing I did notice.  With the results above, I was attempting to edit the shutters of 2 selected instruments simultaneously, as they are mirrored SL/SR.  Perhaps that's the root?  I can;t speak to this being common to my other instances of the problem however.

    Hate to complain... but.

    in Entertainment

    Posted

    I've been reluctant to make this comment until now, but I'm facing tight deadlines and it's affecting my productivity, here goes...

     

    When I adjust shutters or make other changes to light instruments, I often (randomly!) cannot see the results unless I save the project, close the project, close the app, restart the app, re-open the project, re-render.

    For a piece of software that costs this much, it's pretty frustrating. <-- UNDERSTATEMENT.

     

    Here's today's example, the shutter settings and the render, plus yesterday's render with actual shuttering (same instruments/settings - all that's changed since this is lowering the truss, and trying to re-adjust shutters).  

     

    Cheers.

     

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    Capture shutters.JPG

    working shutters.jpg

    Texture Mapping Walls

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    This is really weirding me out.

     

    I'm trying to map a default brick texture to a number of walls.  Most of them will only map on the ends, but one is mapped correctly on a face.  I've replicated the settings, played with reversing sides etc, everything that makes sense, and some things that don't.  I really don't want to have to rebuild all the walls one at a time until I randomly get proper mapping.

     

    Anyone have similar experiences, or advice?

     

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