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  1. I do not use this button at all, and i cannot find out the difference between the toggle on or off.
  2. So, i gave this a try, and could not replicate the fault. In my original attempt I made 4 custom truss symbols, and got the crash 3 out of 4 times. So was pretty sure i cold replicate it. I'm waiting to draw two or three more circle truss, when i get the data, i send a file over if VW decides to crash then.
  3. Sure, I'll make a new file and make sure it crashes. 🙂 Give me some time and I'll reply with a file. 🙂
  4. O, i absolutely agree, but there is with DallE a constant 100% creativity unless you are more specific in your description. So, based on the input, I would say that DallE gives way better results. VW AI is unusable in this case.
  5. So i have tested a bit, and everything i do ends up with some or most of the image in neon colors. And i did a simple test. I gave VW AI the same image as i gave ChatGPT DallE with the instruction: "fill this image with a rock and roll show". See images bellow for results. I understand that good instructions is the key here and those might bee somewhat secret or personal, but i do not understand why Vectorworks cannot share the instructions for each and every successful AI image they get and post as PR. Clearly I'm doing something wrong. 🙂 Original image: VW AI(25% creativity): DallE:
  6. As far as i know, no there is not a simple and easy way for doing this. But, there is no problem deleting the truss without deleting the fixtures, but they do get disconnected from the truss. So you would need to re-attach them. you can do so simply by selecting the fixtures and moving them slightly. Like a nudge(SHIFT+ARROW KEY), then they will re-attach.
  7. No, not the record, the Truss properties that gets enabled after you attach the truss record.
  8. I'm constantly making new trusses to our library and is making them as trusses in VW. This for the most goes like a charm, but VW has some hick-ups here and there, that makes VW crash. I cannot at this point pinpoint what is causing the crash and this is not the core of the question. If the truss is only placed in the Resource manager, and it has a error with some of the properties in the Truss properties, how do you access this dialog box? Since drawing the truss in a drawing makes VW crash, and this menu is not accessible from the resource manager.
  9. This is an excellent idea, but! I am amazed that Vectorworks constantly refuses look at other functions simsimilar to the new ones you are making. The prevoius method to work with soundvision is to export to DWG, and use a plugin for skectup to export to a .txt file that is imported into soundvision. Now with the new plugin you can export directly from VW to SV. But with an standard DWG export, all things in the drawing is exported, also the referenced files. The soundvision plugin do only export stuff that in the current drawing and not the stuff from the referenced files. Why is the a new export function different than the other export functions in regard of what is beeing exported? Please, make the soundvision export as the DWG export in regard of WHAT is being exported. The dialog window should be similar, where the options aplicable to soundvision is the same as when exporting to a DWG, like "Layers to include" etc. But with the same possibilities to "simplify" geometry. And I must say, cant the export to soundvision button be under File>Export, like all other export alternatives?
  10. Stefan B.

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    Thank you Marissa!
  11. Stefan B.

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    Hello Marissa, Thank you for your reply. Sorry for not attaching a file. I thought I would explain myself well enough. While I see your script working, I cannot make the same script work on my symbol. Does it have anything to do with my red text symbol and yours being white/black? I'm able to attach the record so it is visible in the OIP when I select the placed symbol, but it is not visible in the RM window when the symbol is selected. I also register that you used marionette to attach the record, but it actually is possible to attach the record the normal way but this is not possible for my symbol. marionette-record.vwx
  12. Stefan B.

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    Hey, I'm very new to marionette and have made my first Marionette Object / Symbol/Plug-In object. The marionette inserts two symbols and has a handle for adjusting one of the symbol positions in the Z axis. This symbol was and is to replace a scaffolding part, and in the future, I want marionettes for several objects and replace the "original" symbol with the marionette object. Scaffolding parts have a record name "Scaffold Record" attached, while I'm able to attach this record to the symbols I insert, I cannot see the record at any point. Is it possible to have a record or more attached to a Marionette object and have it show in the resource manager, and when I select the object in a drawing?
  13. well, just use them as trusses. As you experience below, working with trusses, like as a rigger or responsible for planning trusses, hanging positions make life really hard. You have to do one truss at a time if you need to make changes to them all or several of them. Changes to trusses are very common, at least in our company. All the benefits that are mentioned are not really benefits in my opinion. You can move a truss system as one too, you just have to click select system objects. Then every object connected to the truss will follow a move. But yes, I would use a group or maybe even a hanging position if there are a lot of trusses, clamps, and pipes that make up one structure but VW cannot really handle it as one connected system. Weight calculations, well, it is great to see the weight in the truss, but how do they really help you? You do not know where the loads are or the sum in each hanging point. So how are you planning on using the data? In our company, we just draw trusses as truss, and keep them as trusses. This seems to work great for everybody.
  14. Have you considered trying project sharing?
  15. Could you please elaborate on these benefits? I don't think they are used where I work, and I do not know why. Sharing position changes; Is this when you have similar hanging position symbols and you make changes to one you make changes to them all? Automatic numbering; What number and what is this number used for? Total hung weight; This is from my point the only real benefit of a hanging position or the weakest point of a truss system. But I don't think it is a strong enough argument since it does not help you in the real world. There is no validation as to if the truss can handle the load, and there is no info on how the weight is distributed. And you cannot use the information to validate via load table from the manufacturer. You can use it to estimate, yes! automatic position acquisition; Please elaborate, on what is this function. Coordinates; To the center of the hanging position. I don't see how this is beneficial over a single truss that shows the same data. Moving the truss, yes, you can click and drag instead of using the select system then click and drag. But you cannot, since the hoist does not follow in either case so in both the hanging position and the truss system you must use the select system before moving if you want the hoists to follow. I see the benefit when making an advanced sub hang with pipes, clamps, etc. But I have not missed it, but I see the benefit here. How are the workflows different, other than it is possible to move a truss, and the data tags are different? But I have made two different data tags that look the same but one snaps to a truss and the other to a hanging position. I think I read somewhere that the intended use for hanging positions is when you have fixtures that need to hang from a non-rigging object. Then the hanging position can make this possible. But what is stupid from Vectorwork's side is to not make a truss system and a hanging position behave the same throughout the system. The "insert Connection" function does not work at all on a hanging position. My suggestion to Vectorworks is to remove both systems and make them one system. Every truss is a "hanging position" but does not behave like a symbol. So you can use all the truss functions right off the bat without opening or converting. It should be a check box for "Fixtures fixed to truss" and "Hoists fixed to truss" so it is possible to move a truss with and without the hoists and fixtures. It should be possible to show the weight of a truss with attached objects without it being converted to something new. There could even be a check box for "Behave as system" If this is checked everything connected is "grouped" and if you deselect every object's behavior as a single object and not a group. Then the true hanging position is only when you have a non-rigging object that needs to be connectable with hoists, fixtures, and other objects. But it should be named something like "Convert to rigging object"
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