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Try "PutFile"

We are aware of the issue and wit will be fixed in a future service pack. Please be aware that the "Stage" tool is a legacy object that may not be supported in future versions.

Vectorworks doesn't really care. You would just set the number of channels to 2. For Vision we would have to create a new fixture profile that would use 2 channels for the intensity. I don't know many people or fixtures using 65,535 steps for intensity most people are using 0-100% with 255 steps for intensity. I'm a little bit curious to the logic or reasoning of using 16-Bits for an intensity value?

What are the exact specifications of the Mac and PC? Vision has some specific graphic card requirements, greater then Vectorworks, that need to be met.

Custom Selection will not find a symbol definition with the object name. It's mostly likely a symbol with that name or something inside of a symbol using the name.

I think with some changes to support Unicode in Vectorscript with 2019 the limitation of strings being 255 characters was eliminated. If you are using older versions you will still be limited to 255 characters for a string.

In Spotlight Preferences you can set the class of the beams and then use class settings of the viewports to turn them on and off. You just have to have them turned on in the design layer so they can be drawn in in the viewport. The classes default to the same class as the lighting device so you must create a special class for them in order to have more direct control.

Make sure you run all the windows updates and use the latest Vision installer. We had issues with a clean install of Windows 10. Once we installed all the updates and ran the installer again everything worked fine.

Vision requires a capture device that supports UVC (USB Video Class) 1.1 support. Windows and OS X both ship with UVC 1.1-capable drivers built directly into the OS. While the capture card may come with proprietary drivers, they will not work with Vision. The documentation for the Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle does not indicate it supports UVC but we have found this information is often hard to find. There is some additional information about supported capture devices in these forum threads: Tech Bulletin Video Capture Cards

The containers and labels are only aligned based on the insertion points. Moving the containers while editing the layout will not adjust the position of the container. Only the location of the text is tracked, the container is there fro reference only. For your layout you should make the center of the container the insertion point and use a center alignment for the text. Also try placing a new lighting device to check the default location of the labels or reassign the LL to the existing instrument. Refresh Instruments does not restore labels to the default location once they have been moved by the user.

It's back up for me. If it's still not working for you please let us know.

This is a know issue on Windows. MA is aware of the problem with their plug-in.

Also check permission on your application folder. By default the folder is "read only". Vectorworks should give you a warning that it can not modify the file but I have seen times where there is no warning given.

Unfortunately it's not a simple fix but we are working on it. Because color and gobo can be controlled by DMX we can't always send over the information from Vectorworks about the color and gobo. Vectorworks is a static renderer so we only need to know about the active color and gobo but Vision needs to now about all the colors and gobos that are available. We are working on a solution but it's not an easy problem to solve will keeping the dynamic rendering rendering required by Vision and DMX controlled fixtures.

The manual is available online and can be launched from within Vision. Select Help->Vision Help or http://app-help.vectorworks.net/2018/Vision/index.htm?#t=2018_Vision%2FVision%2FVision.htm Take a look at the Using Lighting Console Controls section of the manual. In order to achieve camera movements you will control the movements of the camera using 11 channels assigned to one of the cameras.