Conrad Preen

@garrettohler I've filed a bug for this and we will get it fixed as soon as possible. Conrad

@garrettohler Thanks for reporting this - we'll look into it. Conrad

@garrettohler Could you send us a Vectorworks document that shows the behavior and the steps we should take to reproduce the problem? Conrad

@SSvectorproblems By all means PM me the Vectorworks document and I'll take a look at it. Conrad

Dear Remco, Why don't you set up a website of your own and distribute this content and whatever else the community wants to share? It would be nice to see some independent initiatives. We used to have a whole bunch of community websites around Vectorscript. It would be great to get that spirit back. ConnectCAD is part of Vectorworks now because I proved to them that it worked as an independent company. Why not do the same with content? If you believe in it go for it. Conrad

@SCOTT.T.JOHNSON Hi Scott, there is no way to do that in the Device Builder. Horizontal arrays of sockets in the general case aren't really great because their names make the spacing too great. But the beauty of ConnectCAD is that there's nothing stopping you from just creating an empty device and the adding sockets wherever you want. Conrad

@tk_ we are working on that too

@tk_ collaboration in Vectorworks where you have multiple designers working together is done through Project Sharing. There is a master file, and you can check out the layers you are working on and then save your changes back. Your lighting colleagues can do the same on their layers. That way the data doesn't have to jump between files. Check out the online help for more about Project Sharing. Conrad

@Enzo Vernusse Just posting a Google translate. Hope it does justice to your words. We will look into this. I'm pretty sure this was possible but maybe not in the way you are trying. Truth is, not a lot of people customize socket graphics. Conrad

Create Equipment can create equipment set to use the symbols we ship with Vectorworks if you check the box in the dialog. As Simon says CAD models from manufacturers tend to bloat your file with unnecessary detail. Thanks @Pat Stanford for explaining the symbol colors for our new users - much appreciated. C

@wscooper Not exactly clear about your question. By "new and better connector layouts" are you talking about connector panel design? And how does that fit in with drop points that essentially are locations of equipment that has not yet been specified? Conrad

Yeah. The Category and Type fields in the database are not parameters of the Device. They are just there to help navigate around the database to find what you need. Noted for the future though. Conrad

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@Pat Stanford There is one report that we create programmatically bypassing as you put it the normal database from criteria mechanism. This is the worksheet created by the tool Make Rack Equipment Worksheet. This list each available position in the rack as a worksheet row and what equipment if any is mounted there. Since it doesn't list drawing objects it can't use normal reporting. Thanks for your kind words - we do what we can! Conrad

Yes, along with any equipment placed in the console bay.