Daniel Dickman

@Pat Stanford When doing math in the OIP, I've struggled with selecting objects that have different values. For example I select a range of objects that have different Z rotations. With those objects selected, the Z rotation box is empty. Is there still a way to do math in the OIP with objects that have different values? For example -180 degrees on z for all selected objects. If I type in -180, its sets all the object to negative 180. How can I do math relative to the selected objects various values? Is there a way to math

@Conrad Preen I'm also having an issue where the name text gets covered up by the 3D equipment item symbol. I attempted fixing this by moving the 3d objects in the symbols +.5" on the y axis. At first this worked, but as soon as I change the symbol for the equipment item, it places the newly selected symbol back in front of the text. This issue seems specific to equipment items in rack frames. 2024-09-30 15-43-23.mp4

@Conrad Preen Yes the rack frame is configured as a tray. For trays, aligning to the bottom center makes sense to me. For normal/non-tray frames centering to the slot sounds appropriate but I admit I don't deal with those type of devices much in the systems I work with. @Nikolay Zhelyazkov My preference is to not resize the image to fill the entire slot, as I'm attempting to get semi-realistic renderings of the racks/devices. My workaround currently is to add a "bounding box" to my 3D symbol that is the size of the slot. This ends up making the device look as if its sitting on the tray. The challenge with adding the bounding box as a workaround is that the name text ends up getting centered to the bounding box and not the device.

I've been working on adding images to my equipment items as well. Thanks @Nikolay Zhelyazkov your video above was very helpful. Everything is going well for full width rack devices but I do have some challenges with devices that live inside rack frames. For example I have a 1U rack frame with 1 Vertical Slot and 2 Horizontal slots. The 3d symbol I'm using inside the equipment item uses real world dimensions, so it doesn't fill the entire slot within the rack frame. When I place the equipment item in the rack frame slot, its gets anchored to the top/left of the frame slot, which makes it look like its floating in mid air. What's the best way to make the device sit flat on the shelf and center it horizontally within its slot?

Just watched the VW official video on the device tool, https://university.vectorworks.net/mod/overview/view.php?id=6732 At around 1:30 they talk about the pickup/apply attribute modes. I love the functionality of these modes but have sometimes noticed unexpected behavior when applying attributes. This video shows exactly some of the unexpected behavior. When the attributes are applied in the video, one of LAN sockets is moved from the left side to the right side and the newly applied sockets are now placed in wonky positions that don't match the source device. Why does this happen?

This is exactly the result I'm looking for. Can you help me understand the difference between 'Lighting Device'.'X Location' and 'Lighting Device'.'Channel'? To me these both seem to be in the Record.field format but in worksheets only the channel data can be modified. Thanks Tom.

@Jeff Prince Yeah I'm trying to update the location of the objects. The copy paste workflow seems to work for some record fields but not all. For example, I can copy and paste in DMX Address or Universe information from excel into a report without issue. The ability to paste in XYZ info should be a no brainer.

I'm working with other departments who are coordinating our 3D models and the larger project as a whole, they are working in other software. I want my VW file to align with their files. They have given me a csv file with all the XYZ locations and rotations of my fixtures (based off a laser scan/point cloud). I already roughly drafted my plot and placed fixtures. Now I want to update the XYZ position and rotations with the data my team has provided me. In my mind this should be a simple copy paste... All I want to do is copy this... and paste it here... It won't do it and I'm going crazy. This seems so simple. WHY

When I select an adapter, the make/model fields in the OIP are greyed out. Is there anyway to define make and model?

It also seems I cant modify pan or tilt values from a work sheet. I don't understand what the difference is modifying these values in the OIP vs a worksheet. Seems it should work in either place.

Hey there, I have a worksheet with a number of lighting devices and positions. Each position is exactly the same fixture layout just at different rotations. I have modified all of the Z fixture heights on one position and I was hoping to just copy paste the updated Z locations in a worksheet and paste it on to the other fixtures but it seems I can't edit any of the X,Y,Z locations via a worksheet. Anyone know why? In the worksheet I can edit channel and position name just not x,y,z locations.

I'm working on some rack elevations, On my schematic I have some devices with the device names like "WX-MXL316498X" but the display tag is "CAD PC 1". On the rack elevation side, I frequently find myself wishing I could abbreviate an Equipment item's name similar to the Device Name/Display Tag functionality of schematic devices. If I change the name of the equipment item to "CAD PC 1" it breaks the link to the schematic device. Is there any way to display the Display Tag on an equipment item rather than the full device name?

All of the low, medium, high detail levels are ticked. Interestingly, if I remove the 3D component entirely and turn it into a 2D symbol, I can get it to render correctly, but the draw in front view box must be selected. 2D Symbol - Draw in Front View Selected 2D Symbol - Without draw in front view selected

When using a hybrid symbol with my equipment item, I'm having an issue where the 2D component in Top/Plan view does not render correctly? What am I missing here? Equipment Item In Top/Plan View What the 2D component should look like

Hey all, In my drawings I like to color code my devices by discipline (lighting, audio, video, etc). Currently I'm using various device symbols that I've made for each discipline. This works good enough but Its a bit of a manual process to select the right symbol for each device. Here is what one of my typical devices looks like using the custom device symbols. In addition to this, I have a record attached to each device where I define the discipline of the device for use in worksheets. Since I'm already defining the discipline in my "Device Additional Info" record, I would like to use Data Visualizations to help color code my devices based those values. My goal is that the data visualization only changes the color of the rectangle that is behind the device tag text. I do not want the data visualization to change the fill of the entire device object. Here is what I've attempted so far... I have created a new Device symbol named "Standard Device Label". In this symbol the rectangle behind the Device Tag text is set to a fill of black and a class of "Device Discipline Color" In my new Data Visualization, I set the criteria to "Class is "Device Discipline Color" With the criteria set, it says it finds objects that meet the criteria but I can't seem to get the colors to actually change when I define the discipline field in my record. I understand that my record is attached to the device and not the rectangle inside the device symbol, so I assume that's why this doesn't work. Does anyone have ideas for a better approach?