First off - thanks for the responses and I’ll try and keep this as concise as possible.
Agree with Daniel – if we could get a text field as per VW 2019 then great.
1. Daniel you mentioned you selected 600 devices and renumbered them – were they on the same design layer? Is there a way to select all devices in a file, across all design layers? We typically have multiple rooms in a design across multiple layers. So if we can select all devices across all design layers we can use the renumber devices in the ConnectCad menu.
Problem solved.
2. Adding in the Spotlight numbering function. On the face of it, this looks like a great option, albeit not really part of ConnectCad. In practise, it doesn’t work as expected. The ‘Renumber Devices’ function in ConnectCad appends the number to the device Name. Ceiling Speaker210 for instance.
The Spotlight numbering doesn’t. On the design layer there is no change to the name - but do an ‘All layers device report’ and it has changed the name on that.
3. Now this is a problem when linking devices across design layers, because the link takes the design layer name, device name and port and uses that as the link name. But it doesn’t take the name of the device on the design layer, it takes the device number that Spotlight gave it - so from layer to layer you cant know what is connected to what. See screen shot.
Left screen shot is on Design layer 1 – Right hand screen shot is on design layer 2.
So not something we can use, as it is, unfortunately.
Conrad – I have replicated that bug where the Renumber Device deletes the name – do you want me to post the file here?
New bug / issue I found. Using the Multi Connect tool. This is awesome and is going to be a huge time saver for us. However it only works right to left. If I have a wall plate on design layer one that I want to connect back to my patch panel in design layer 2 – I cant use the left hand outlets of the data wall plate. However, go to single connect mode and you can. Let me know if you need more detail on this.
Cheers
Jonny