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Would love to see mapping of material replacements on transfer, so that c4d knows to replace material X from vw with material Y from c4d.

Sounds lovely. Trying to stem the tide of users heading for the unreal engine?

I'm trying to solve bringing in the entire file at once. It makes for a very unwieldy datasmith file, and a gigantic list of actors in the outliner.

Curious to know if anyone has good methods for getting a vectorworks file out to unreal in manageable chunks. The webinar on Vectorworks U recommends doing the exports by layer, which makes a lot of sense. When I run the datasmith exporter however, it takes everything. So I'm left with creating shuttle files for each layer, and possibly shuttle files for each object, which is tedious and prone to errors. Wondering if anyone has a better workflow...

Anyone out there have TD garden in plan and section? I have a half baked plan but would really love the sections so I can model it up.

@Pat Stanford different instances of the same symbol. I have 20 instances in the same layer. Some of them revert back to what's set up in the data manager, some are editable. I had to manually go through them and set them to all be by the data manager. What you are seeing are shots of two instances of the same symbol. One shows the field routed back to the data manager, one shows the field editable with the data present. Seems like a bug to me.

@Pat Stanford ok here's a new one. I've discovered that I can use the data manager to predefine record fields, very cool. So I mapped the weight of this pc of hardware to be 1.0 lbs. SOME of the 3d symbols took on the parameter, SOME of them are still variable. What gives?

Always very helpful thank you @Pat Stanford

Huh. And it works for every row. How on earth would I have figured that out. Thanks!

I have a worksheet set up to count objects in a layer, and then report back the weight (as defined by a record). How do I get the total weight of each row to appear on the right of the worksheet? So...30 x 9 equals 270 showing up in column D.

Have you tried combining the thousands into 1 solid thing? That makes a shorter list for the renderer to work through. Without looking at your settings, I'm struggling to see how your render is "final quality," it kind of looks like OpenGl. If that is the level of quality you're looking for, I think you could dial down a lot of settings to achieve a faster result.

What I ended up doing was duplicating the layer and exploding the seating sections that needed the rule applied. I agree that .3" doesn't seem like it's worth tracking in the real world. But I'm dealing with these sort of trapezoidal shaped seating sections, and so some rows have 22 chairs and some have 14 (or less). It kind of makes sense that when you lay it all out, I ended up losing an entire row due to the spacing rule. So no, grounds crew wouldn't whip out their tape measures, but in the layout there would be one less row than what they would have expected.

@Kevin Allen I know.

@Kevin Allen TYPO! .3" inches.

I'm working in a county where the regs say that row spacing increases by .03" per every chair beyond the traditional 14 seats per row. I've lately embraced the event seating tool to get away from manual layouts. Is there any way to achieve this parametric layout? I'm thinking of either blowing up my layouts and reworking them, or cutting each large section into smaller ones so I can apply row spacing to each row, both of which sound like a lot of work....