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I edited the top leg 3d component (move the default position to -1200mm 🙂 )

Thanks i just got there ok 'ill try , idem for the bonus 🙂

How you do it with the align object ?

they speak about that between betatester ... as you can read here

Hello thanks @Niels Timmer 🙂 So I add a text to show the stand height in 2dtop plan But I have difficulty to put the text at the right place , I want the insertion text point is bottom center ... I only find a way with 2d point , so i can put the text "where" I want but the insertion point is still top left ... Second with math object and suffix, I can display text in meter, but the slider field doesn't display the stand height, it only display the range of the moving second tube (o to 1000mm) Third (bonus) is a way to link that value to the stand height record field ? I'm able to link something to that field, but I dont no where I can find the slider or text value from the marionnette to link to that field ... Hope I'm clear enough 🙂 stand marionette in blank file02.vwx

I think i become totally mad, I can't reproduce it ... It looks like the bug disappear, but I'm sure I was on sp4 more than 2 days ago (I did the update the day they was downloadable), may it was a problem with the french licence (i have a us version but a french licence and update are 1 month delayed in france compared with US )...

Hello Step2 I arrive to build a simple marionette object, with the top legs adjustable in Z ... and with attached records But I have question How can I give a range to the height value from 0 to 1m ? My object work in my file but when I importe it in a blank, as soon as I change the height, all are convert to a simple 2d obj ... At the end I wan't put the total height between 1.4m to 2.4m in a field . the idea is to use the stand height of the stand records field .. is it possible ? Thanks ! stand marionette in blank file.vwx 1179006955_Standmarionette.vwx

Hello I'm new to marionette and on VWX since 2years . I would make my stand adjustable in height. the stand is 1 base 2 tubes I don't know if I can "put" the marionette inside the symbol oor if the marionette as to import all element ? I want to put the height and the the second tube is moving from 1cm to 140cm Thanks in advance to give me the base, and the good direction I'm learning, I come back with my work on it later 🙂

@Lunar Waneshaftthank's, yes it looks very similar ... So I'll seek info about that bug ... But are you sure about that resolved bug in sp4 ? i can't find anything about that ... https://release.vectorworks.net/nnapub/updaters/28/NNA/eng/meta/releasenotes/SP4.html may it is in another release ? i can't find anything on the forum too (may I'm looking badly, so if you have a link about that, can you put it here ? ) thanks for your help So what else about @David Dauphin post and about mine ?

I'm in SP4 and the "bug"(if we speak about the same stuff) is still here 😞 In order to win time , instead of using the flip button and set the tilt, I duplicate speaker and save it in 3 positions Vertical Horizontal "front fill" horizontal "wedge" but when editing the 3d component , rotate it, it rotate with its center as axe, so the rotated speaker isn't at Z0 . So I put it at z=0 and exit the editing mode and at his time VW looks frozen ...

Hello, So no "official" answer on that ??? I've also some questions ? Is it possible as for lighting equipment too add stand as accessory (and not just the tripod ) I'm saving my speaker in different configuration : vertical; horizontal wedge, front fill ... and it takes a long time to vectorworks to save the plugin ... (VW looks freezed but it is not it works in background...) thanks!

As you can see in attached video, color display often have problem, it doesn't appear , I've to pass with my mouse on it ... Here it while editing a renderworks texture, but it also appear when editing color attribut ... So i must clos the color popup and open it back ... 2023-03-17 16-15-37_Couper.mp4

One last things (or two) Because I'm new on VW (2years and before 10years with wysiwyg and sketchup) , it 's lik with MAO there is a lot of plugins, but if you use too many you don't go deeper enough the main software to understand how it works... I need experience in VW to know what I need 😉 second, I always have to find the good ratio between time consume to find a quicker solution (and don't know if I will find it, if not I'm still at he begining) or use VW internal solution... Even it's quicker to put a simple note than to edit a datatag, with correct geometry, correct formula, correct records based on it ... At the end taking time to build/find our plug/ script will be a gain time but I never know when it will be a gain , after 10 project , 100 ... And I never have time client "always " want something for the day before 🙂 "The snake bits its tail" (le serpent se mort la queue (in french in the text)) : I never have time to work, i need quicker way to work, but develop quicker way take time ... So I need a tool to work effectively, I don't have time too develop tools, I don't want to loose time with malfunction tools, and don't wan't to setup a workflow who will maybe obsolete because of external tools who are stopped ... But I 'm maybe at the point where external tools are needed, I maybe know enough VW to know what is not optimal and what I need 🙂

Totally agree with you !!! I understand your explanation, and knew it 😉 (I suspected it.) But it's frustrating to have 'problem" search solutions and find it (that is cool), what is frustrating is to "loose" time, I feel like I'm wasting as much time as I'm gaining... Of course seaching help me to understood deeper in VW, but it's frustrating to finally discover that the solution exist outside of VW and not inside 😉 Hope you take your time and done very carefully. I took look to external plugs such as https://benghiatlighting.com/software/store/ https://www.landrudesign.com/DefaultFrameSet.htm?index.htm~LandruMnFrm ... But I don't want to use it not for the price but more for the service... I don't no how it will be and nor how longer. VW is an ENORMOUS application so I know(hope) that if a plug is inside, I will have explication and Development thanks for your work 🙂 you change my life since 2 years 🙂

often external plugins are solution... i dont understand why this solution are not nativ ... they could be integrated inside vectorworks... when you know the licence price ... I cant pay too add plugs... but maybe its cheaper to let exterior people develop plugin , instead of have more vectorworks employee...

Hello @klinzey I ve still a little "problem, malfunction" ... If I want to use the camera without stand, and uncheck the "use symbol for stand " case As you can see in the video it works some time , and dont ... attached the VWX file 2023-03-15 14-14-00.mp4 Vidéo_PTZ_2023_c.vwxVidéo_PTZ_2023_c.vwx 1952237162_Vido_PTZ_2023_c.vwx

For other people who want to edit locus (for lighting accessory, camera lense...) dont forget to activate locus viewing in vectorworks preferences / display

hey you can have a look here too https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/103707-ptz-pan-tilt-zoom-camera/#comment-452486

Very interesting, but too bad that datatags shape are not build like that by default 😞 All that setups are loosing time (and most of the time that appear when we don't have time 😉 )

never too late 🙂 https://app-help.vectorworks.net/2023/eng/VW2023_Guide/Objects_edit2/Dividing_objects_evenly.htm?rhhlterm=evenly&rhsearch=evenly may that function doesn't exist at the post time 😉

so is it normal?