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@AStein I think there is a lot to go on in your post. Compared to the workflow of a LX crew chief or master electrician the riggers workflow is a lot more segmented. Some riggers only care about getting the chain over the chalk and don't concern themselves with power or hardware below the hook. A Lightwright style program for riggers would be fantastic but I think the number of opinions would make it hard to implement.
As for floor stickers I use word to do a mail merge from a database, it is clunky to have to use VW, excel and word but I'd rather VW do some other fixes before starting to do stickers and labels.
I've been playing around with the distance between points using the help of chatGPT.
Using the example data of:
beams = {'beam1': 1, 'beam2': 8, 'beam3': 12}
points = {'point1': 2, 'point2': 4, 'point3': 7, 'point4': 10, 'point5': 11, 'point6': 5}
I get an output of:point1 between beam1(1), beam2(6)
point2 between beam1(3), beam2(4)
point3 between beam2(1), beam3(5)
point4 between beam2(2), beam3(2)
point5 between beam3(1), beam2(3)
point6 between beam2(3), beam1(4)
I thought having a record attached to each hoist to take the data was the way to go but thinking about how you are aiming to have a master VW file to handle all the venues for a tour you wouldn't want that data to live on the hoist because it would have multiple versions of it. So maybe a record per venue?
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HI Neil,
I started a new file to try and see if I could help. I am also in 2021 SP 4.1.
I have found the decimal precision linked to the Units setting for the document. I am not aware of a way to have a different precision setting for certain classes or layers.
As for the secound issue of moving the Measurement Label I was not able to reproduce your issue. Enter +6 or -6 got the results I was expecting. Odd that the position for X and Y changed if you only modified one of the fields. If you are willing to share the file I'll take a look at it on my machine and see if maybe something got corrupted during in import....
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2 hours ago, Pat Stanford said:
Take a look at the Create Multiple Viewports command also. It might get you the different views you need of each part in a single step.
That was very helpful!
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@Boh That seems to work if I put each piece in its own class so I can turn off all but one example of the part. Many ways to skin this cat, I might play with making each part a symbol as all 8 cross pieces are the same and all 4 uprights are the same.
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Long time 2D drafter using some of my free time to dip my toes in the 3D world. I've modeled a simple wooden desk lamp in Vectorworks and I'm pretty happy with how that went. Now it is time to make the construction drawings and I want to see what the best practice is before I get some bad habits. My lamp is made up of two parts 4X Uprights and 8X Cross Pieces. I'd like to have a sheet for the Upright and a sheet for the Cross Piece. Each piece would need a top, front and right side view.
My current solution is to put a copy of each piece on it's own layer and move the viewport crop around as I change the view. Am I missing an easier approach? I'd love to be able to click on the part in the design layer and have a command give me an orthographic projection of it on a sheet layer I can than annotate with dimensions.
Any thoughts?
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@markdd Thanks, but I think I figured it out. I haven't dealt with Fore Color and Back Color before but that is a very clever way to handle this issue. Thanks for your help!
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5 hours ago, markdd said:
I have managed to dream up a way of changing an element of a symbol using data visualisation. Does it need to be more than one?
You are a star. That is what I am after. Now if you'll excuse me while I reverse engineer this to apply it to my own symbols 😉
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@Pat Stanford Do you have any clue where I could find the posts you linked to before the forum moved? Looks like these Broken Links would be helpful.
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@markdd Thanks for the example file. I think I might be missing something, I can only get all the symbols to do the same thing. And to change which
My goal is to be able to use a symbol for the basic shape and be able to change the properties of each instance by the attached record to the symbol. Like how link text to record works but for things like fill color of a specific shape.
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@Pat Stanford left edge center. I can handle it being anywhere if that makes another step easier.
I'm playing with the Data Visualization ( a big thanks to Bill Vincent at MegaBitsNZ for this video) and I can get it to color every rectangle in the symbol as I would expect. However I seem to have run into a road block where I can't control the attributes of a specific rectangle in the symbol, even when I use class as one of the Object Criteria. My hunch is that because the pink stripe has no record assigned to it the pink stripe doesn't have a record to check for display criteria.
If I assign a record to the stripe the colors change as expected but I can only edit the record in the symbol. Hard to explain but its like there is a nesting issue....
I'll look for some PIO examples to learn from.
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6 hours ago, Pat Stanford said:
Can you show us a sample of what the three symbol types look like?
Ignore the color field for now, that was used to test the link between the record and the managed field.
I'd love to start getting into PIOs but it is uncharted territory for me. This does seem like a good starter project, and I have a bit of time on my hands....
I am running 2020 so I'll look into Data Visualization.
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I'm trying to clean up a bit of my workflow and would like to explore 'Modifying objects by record value' I am working on my truck pack symbols for the entertainment industry. I have a 2D symbol for each 'standard' size case that has 2 lines of text and a case number linked to a record. I'm very happy with how that all works. I then have another version of each size for when they get doubled stacked that has "Double Stacked" in text around the edges. Then I have a third version of each size with a pink stripe on it to denote it as spare.
It works, maybe a bit clunky but it works. I would like to reduce the number of symbols I have to use and add 2 boolean fields to the record. One for if it is stacked and another for if it is spare. Ideally this would just toggle the viability of the text or the pink stripe.
I've read the help file for modifying objects by record value and can almost get it close to what I want for a rectangle but not a rectangle in a symbol.
When I attach my record to a rectangle and then modifying object by record value, set few color ranges and then clink ok the rectangle changes colors as I would expect BUT when I update the color field in the record it does not refresh the rectangles color, that only happens when I click tools>records>MBR> and then click ok when the MBR dialog pops up.
Am I trying to use the tool in a way it wasn't intended? Or am I missing a step...
Distance between two symbols within the data manager?
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VW Distance from point to beam.pdf
Here is where I got to over the holiday weekend. The script grabs the point name and location from the symbol and same with the beam name and location. Then it runs some math on it to figure out the two closest beams and outputs it to a work sheet.
Right now it will only work with Y data but it wouldn't be two hard to modify to work with X data. I can think of a few rooms that 'go both ways' depending on where you are in the room. Also this script wont work for domes or other radial rigging grids.