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That's exactly what I needed, thank you very much

Good morning! My company just replaced my windows XP SP2 computer with a windows 7 computer. They reloaded my version of VW 11.5 with Spotlight onto the new machine. All of my files & folders that are on my desktop appear to be there, but no longer seem to have a file association. I try to open VW, either from the icon on my desktop, the start menu, or clicking on a specific document and get this message: "VectorWorks requires Windows 98 or Windows 2000 or later to run. Please upgrade your operating system." I'm looking for suggestions to pass on to our IT dept, since I would imagine any workarounds have to be done with administrator access that I don't have. Thank you for reading

I'm running VW11.5.1, remaking all of our house plots from scratch. I finished the plot and am trying to redo the label legend so that only dimmer info is displayed. In the legend manager, I placed the dimmer tag inside the fixture, and have resized it repeatedly trying to get it to show up on the plot. The correct dimmer number does show on the plot, but it is so tiny it doesn't register on a print and you have to zoom in to about 10,000% to read it. Resizing the tag and font, and refreshing/reassigning the active and applied label are not solving the problem, nor is moving the dimmer tag outside of the fixture boundary. Thank you for any help.

I'm doing some research for my production department regarding which drafting program to purchase, and am looking for user feedback about Spotlight. We are a 4 venue performing arts center with a 2500 seat proscenium theater, outdoor amphitheater, 2 black boxes of different dimensions, a gaggle of meeting/rehearsal rooms and a 900 seat partitionable ballroom. We do everything from broadway A tours to rotary luncheons. We get our advance info in several different file formats, from autoCAD to .bmp's. Our lighting staff is split between vectorworks users and autoCAD users, and we've tried file converters and translators and none of them produced particularly good results. We're also looking at redrawing all of our venues to both update our techspecs and provide templates for us to create shows over. I would appreciate any feedback, suggestions or comments about Spotlight's functionality for importing light plots (we get everything from lightwright to wysiwyg to obscure russian cad files) and exporting report information to lightwright. Thank you very much! Miguel Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach FL