Darin K

I will give that a shot, thank you

I am finishing up a drawing of my black box theatre. We have a standard dead-hung grid with circuits every 4 feet across the entire ceiling (nearly 200 total). I would like to create a class in my grid layer that can show the location of these circuits for my student Master Electricians to do their pre-hang prep (we are not a dimmer-per-circuit space, so there is some hard patch math to figure out for each show). I just need numbers in a circle/box. No need for the data to be used in any reports or anything. Is there a simple way to a) copy/paste rows of these objects and/or b) have them auto-number so that I don't need to hand type 200 numbers one by one?

3D view is fine, actually. I also found an Image file that would do the trick, but the scale is off (it's too tiny). Any way to change the scale of an image once it's applied to a shape?

If I make the rectangle a 0" extrude, will I then be able to edit the size, cut out parts I don't want, etc.? Or do I need to make the shape exactly right first BEFORE applying the texture?

It looks to be a Renderworks Texture

It's literally just a rectangle at this point

I want to put a parquet floor onto a floor of a model, but I can't seem to make it work. I found a parquet in the Resource Manager, but no matter what I do, it doesn't show up. I feel like there is something very basic that I'm doing wrong

I deleted that segment, re-drew it, and now it's fine. Very odd. As a side note, if I used the Move By Points tool with it, that 2nd segment wouldn't show up when setting the placement, but would reappear after clicking. Very strange

I'm drawing out a lighting grid that involves a lot of pipe breaks (girders, HVAC, etc. interrupt the pipes). When drawing my horizontal pipes, I've had zero issues. Draw all the segments, select all of them, convert to hanging position. Now I'm working on the vertical pipes, and my first pipe has four segments. All four are lighting pipe objects, all at the same Z height, all in the same layer/class. When I select them and convert them to a hanging position, the 2nd segment disappears from the drawing. I've rebooted the program and it's still happening. No idea what's happening or how to fix this.

I tried that, but the line and rectangle tools didn't do anything. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I'll take a look at those threads. EDIT: Got it to work. I wasn't zoomed out enough. Definitely takes some trial and error Now my issue continues to be the reversal of data entry (i.e. I need to enter the position name in the tag data to change the hanging position, not the other way around)

The video was very helpful. Only thing I am having trouble finding info on now is how to add a shape (hex, diamond, whatever) around the data in the data tag

I have no expectations that anyone responds to me within any timeframe! I'm grateful for all the responses. I will check out the video, many thanks

I'd love help, but would like to know how to do it myself. The video I watched was from VW2019, so half of what they showed isn't where the video shows (or doesn't work the same)

I'd like to make the data tag work, but may just resort to creating my own labels and calling it a day

Probably easiest if I just re-draw the durn thing