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Right (control-click) on the lighting device in the drawing and select "Edit Light..." not "Edit" or "Properties"
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A few things to check for starters.
Has the user origin been moved to some distance point?
Have the document units been changed?
What font was used? I've found a few fonts that VW does not like and when they get mapped to a new font you get all kinds of odd text.
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This looks like a problem with just SP1. I can not reproduce the problem in the first version of 2009 or in 2009 SP2.
Contact your local distributor about obtaining the SP2 update.
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I've heard of the problem before but it does not happen with SP2.
Let me know what Service Pack and Build number are you using and I will try to reproduce the problem.
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The updater should work if you have a retail version. The updater is not yet available for the Student Version.
Can you clearify what you mean by "truss,spots,etc are bigger than the workspace"? Are the Icons too big or the objects being placed in the drawing too big?
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Updating to SP2 if you have not done so already.
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I can not reproduce the problem.
I've tried escaping and selecting another tool between each of the steps and the worst thing that has happened is that a symbol was left on the drawing.
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Patrick,
We are aware of the problem and working to fix it.
We will post an official announcement when the site and download are ready.
Kevin
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Try copy the DVD to your hard drive first then run the installer.
Did it quit, or did it just stop at 79%? From what I can remember there is a point where progress stall becaose it is moving a lot of samll files or a few very large files.
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If you do not need the object creation history, select the extrudes you have sliced and run convert to generic solids.
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You can select mutiple lights in the visulization pallette and change the attributes.
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All the lights used in the lighting devices are shown in the visualization pallette. You can set the properties there.
You can also select a lighting device and right clitk on it, select "edit light..." to access the properties of the light.
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Just add the symbol to the "containers" folder in the file.
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Try creating a Label Legend from scratch. When you edit the layout make sure everything looks right. Make sure the labels are inside of the lareg rectangle, that the bounding box of the symbol does not appeat too large etc.
You can also try creating the LL in a new blank document and importing it into your document.
Also, make sure you are using "Assign legend to instrument", it resets some of thestored info.
Only other thing to check is that your origin is somewhere reasonable.
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There is a simple trick to adding user fields to the light info record.
If you edit the "Light Info Record" and add a field that matches a field in the lighting device, the lighting device will automatically pull the information from the record as the default.
So if you add "User Field 1" to the light info record the information will automatically appear in the "User Field 1" of the lighting device.
One caution with this you need to update all your light info records with the new fields or you will get the warning "This record exists, do you want to ...." evry time you import a symbol with different record fields.
Also you can customize the user fields of the lighting device, so if you open the plug-in editor and change the alternative name of "User Field 1" to "Voltage" and the "Light info Record" contains a field "Voltage" the information will be transfered.
In earlier versions of Spotlight it looked at mutiple records, but this created major problems when both records contained the same field names, so operating with mutiple records had to be eliminated.
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What command is causing the error?
Have you sent the file to technical support?
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Color palettes are not currently accessable in VS. You can only work with the colors in the active document.
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At this point it would be best to send the file in and contact techsupport. tech@vectorwoeks.net
The issues is usually simple once they see the file.
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Make sure your lighting device has a solid fill and pen.
(This problem has been fixed in 2009.)
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Since it renders the light but no color there are a few more things to check.
Make sure nothing is blocking the light. When you render in fast Renderworks or with certain options in Custom Renderworks certain objects will not cast a shadow.
Often the piper or the floor will block the light.
Is the instrument from the Spotlight Library or it is one you created?
Make sure your lighting device has a solid fill and pen.
(This problem has been fixed in 2009.)
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Try final quality renderworks.
I know the settings in one of the manuals has an error.
The settings should be raytraced NOT bitmaped.
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You just recalculate that one worksheet.
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I've seen OpenGL craches caused by problems with just a piece of geometry. Other then contacting and sending the file to technical support, your best solution is to try eliminating things from the drawing and see what prevents it from crashing when you render.
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O.K. I dusted off my copy of 12 and the Visualization is NOT part of V12.
In 12 you have to use the Light On Check Box in the OIP.
Insertion tool ,Textures problems
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The textures do not change, the lighting changes.
When you insert a lighting device into the document you are placing a light source and the automatic lighting created by Vectorworks is automatically turned off, so you will hae to turn a light on or place your own area light. (There is no way to prevent this.)
The problem with textures not exporting to ESP Vision is due to ESP Vision requiring a newer version of Quicktime than Vectorworks. See ESP Vision Forums
If the textures assigned the the objects change, that's a problem that I have not seen.