Scott C. Parker

Are you talking about the lights that look like they should stay snapped to the pipes below the truss? Can you share a copy of this for use to play with?

Hello Marco, I encourage you to add the legacy version of the data cable tool to your workspace and use it for now. Data is being worked on, but it's not going to make it into SP6, nor into 2026. With all the other items that need data, we're working on improving the underlying coding so it works properly across the board vs. just fixing what's missing for lighting. If you want even more powerful data cable functions, check out our third-party partner's cable tools at autoplotvw.com. Sam's tools were the basis of our old set of tools, and he continues to improve them. They're fantastic, though they don't do 3D, power calculations, or Braceworks.

Ah, yes. There's a funny thing about hanging positions. In this case, you're actually hovering over the HP rather than the truss.

Please post a sample file so that the collective can take a look.

Have you tried the hanging position data tag from the VW resource manager? You could use it as a starting point to build your own custom data tags.

Not yet. The power/cable tools were built for lighting first, as the lighting system is the most developed in VW. As we push improvements to other tools, the power/cable functionality is being worked on. Separating out power/cables for audio is on the list, as is power/cable for hoists, video, LED, etc. For now, you can filter some of your needs by layer. Even though it'll still list as lighting power, you can limit your audio if it's in an audio layer.

@JustinVanHassel When I opened your file and then tilted the truss, the big circles came back. This is shown while the truss are selected and in wireframe ISO view.

Good idea. Please do me a favor. I'm going to be out for the next week. Ping me in a couple of weeks to remind me.

THanks. Wow, the symbol is buggered. I'll file a bug.

Do you mean the red box added to show the rear of many movers? It's really just added geometry to show a direction and doesn't have functionality to grab onto. The power connectivity for lighting units is coded rather than being an added consumer component. I agree. It would require more processing power and affect performance. At the moment, we're just counting how many connector components are inside the symbol and matching connections. Adding location clicking would require each cable to find its corresponding start/end points, one at a time, to be drawn properly. What would be easier and keep performance up would be to add a default slack distance for a device. If we added a default slack distance field, you could add 1.5m, and all cables connecting to your distro would automatically add slack to all cables run to it. Thoughts on this?

I agree. I started playing with this for large trailer generators with outputs at both ends of the trailer. This kind of suggestion for improvement is very helpful.

I'm not seeing the same issue. What settings are in your braceworks preferences?

Please post a sample file so that the collective can take a look.

Please post a sample file so that the collective can take a look.

Please post a sample file so that the collective can take a look.