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Now that someone brought it up I had to go back and figure out what was in Appendices A, B, C. Appendices A, B, C existed in the printed MiniPascal manuals but I haven't seen it in anything recent. Depending on which manual I read, it covered how to contact support, how to encrypt, Reserved Words, Numeric Formats, Editor, Pallets and Commands, Search Criteria.

@Daniel Cortes VWXWhen you use a truss symbol or light symbol you place a truss object or a lighting device object and not just a simple symbol. Using the truss object and the lighting device object, and not just a simple symbol, is what allow you to rotate the geometry.

You have a bumper selected in the Bumper tab. You need to set it to "None" if you do not want a starting bumper.

The rotation between the Vectorworks symbol and the GDTF file is off by 180deg. We are working on correcting the issue. If you display the GDTF geometry in Vectorworks and view it in 3D the orientation of the GDTF file will match the export.

The "Black" color when rendered comes from the texture applied to the geometry not the geometry color. The default instrument texture uses a fixed black color. You can either create a new texture or modify the existing texture to use the object attribute color.

You can also check out COFFEE BREAK - CREATE CUSTOM TRUSS OBJECTS

To make a PIO paged based you have to to the math to scale the geometry that is drawn based on the layer scale of the PIO. There is no magic option to make a PIO automatically use page based units.

Scale should not matter, unless you are using a legacy setting that allows for viewing design layers at differing layer scales at the same time. If you have a sample of the document that was "fixed" by changing layer sales can you please post it or send me a DM with the file.

If refreshing the library and restarting did not work try the procedure outlined here:

Can you post a sample file?

Can you post the GTF file? Does the GDTF file open in the fixture builder without any errors? Unless there is something very wrong with he GDTF the MVR export should not fail.

@Valo Can you post a file here or contact support so we can get a copy of your file. It's likely something file specific.

I tested on Windows and it works. Are people only seeing this issue on Mac?

Is there a specific shape or configuration of the lighting pipe that is causing you issues? Can you provide a sample file? I tested with several in 2025 and had no issues exporting on importing a MVR.

Are you working with a true "Project File", a .vwxp/.vwxw file or a regular Vectorworks, .vwx file? If you are a true Project File try saving a copy as a .vwx file and exporting. I made a quick test with a simple file and the MVR exported and imported correctly from/to Vectorworks working with both a .vwx file and a .vwxw project file.