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Thanks to you both for the replies and I will upvote as you indicated Andy. Josh, the browser was set to hatches when I started with 2018. And as much as filters for resources are good to determine what type you need, it is not helpful when you have already determined what you are doing and that dropdown confuses the issue and prevent selection. If I am in the library for lighting instruments why are hatches even to be considered? That is the point here I am attempting to make.

In VW 2018, the process to choose lighting instruments seems to be missing an important step. At no point does anyone address the dropdown menu. When i went to work on existing plots, I was faced with not being able to select or even find units from the library for any units. I kept getting There are no items to show in this view message. Quite a bit of consternation and frustration ensued and my fix was to copy from other drawings and paste into the new plot. After days of repeated review of the process in Help and getting nowhere, I finally noticed a new window for this version that said Hatches. This then led me to see it was a dropdown menu to determine what resources are being displayed. At which point, it begs the question as to why there is a dropdown menu in the first place since one chooses what resources are needed when you enter the library? Thanks