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It's a bug with that specific configuration and has already been logged into our bug tracking system. Kevin

Check the font book on your Mac. Remove any duplicate fonts or fonts that are marked as bad. After that go the the Vectorworks Preferences\Display and delete the font mapping. There have been a few people reporting problems with fonts in 10.7.3.

What is showing up? Does the OIP say it is a "Light" and not a "Lighting Device" If so it is because you preformed an undo after deleting a Lighting Device. If you select the object and run "Refresh Instruments" the light will turn back into a lighting device.

What you want is referred to by Vectorworks as "Lit Fog" Turn off "Draw Beam" Right click on the Lighting Device and select "Edit Light..." Turn the light on can check the Lit Fog option. (This options can also be set using the visualization palette.) Now render in a Renderworks mode. Lit fog will automatically create a Renderworks Background that you can edit to adjust the intensity of the fog.

Have you restarted the computer? Other applications sometimes interfere with shortcut keys. Quickbooks used to be one of the major problems for Vectorworks as well as other applications.

Change you default document attributes to have a solid fill and it should work.

If undo deleting a lighting device it will sometimes turn into a light. Running refresh instruments should fix the problem.

Craig, The problem is with the evaluation of: atanh:= (Ln((1 + v) / (1 - v)))/ln(10) / 2; (1 + v) / (1 - v) evaluates to negative number. (-0.517... for the first iteration and it stays negative for several more.) Kevin

Josh, If you use the record method it's not the first record, it would be the last. It should be GetName(GetRecord(h, NumRecords(h))) If you manually attach a record to an object you will get the name of that record and not the name of the PIO if you check the first record. Kevin

For Plugin objects you would need to do something like: If GetType(h) = 86 then PIO := GetName(GetParametricRecord(h))

We will get the link on the Vectorscript page changed to point to the new versions but for now the new version is available here: http://developer.vectorworks.net/index.php?title=SDK:Dialog_Builder

What is the height of the lighting position object? The lighting device looks at the height of the lighting position object to determine what height the light should be placed. A common mistake is to set the height of the geometry and then convert to a lighting position object. This will leave the height of the lighting position object at 0. Also make sure you are snapping to the lighting position object when placing the lighting device.

Lightwright stores very limited information about static accessories. The one piece of data that is critical to Vectorworks for an accessory is the symbol name since that's the graphical representation on the document do that is what is stored by LW. There is no way to change this.

Carl, If you are still having problems, you may get more help by posting in the Renderworks forum. There are more users in the Renderworks forum that may be able to help you out with rendering issues and offer you better solutions to your problem.

The dialog builder is available in the Support area of the Vectorworks site. http://www.vectorworks.net/support/custom/vscript/vstool.php This should be the current version, it not let me know and I'll see about getting an updated version posted.

You can not control the context menu from Vectorscript. It may be possible to control the context menu by using the SDK.

You can make a custom one. Select the marker as a rectangle. Set the length to 0 and set the width as desired. If you set the thickness options to Use Line Thickness the thickness of the tick mark will match the line thickness. Kevin

There is now a new option for viewports to show or hide the crop. You should see a check box on the OIP that allows you to control the visibility of the crop for each viewport.

There was a change several versions back to correct a problem with the seating area. In older versions only the insertion point of the seating symbol had to be within the seating area. This lead to seats being placed outside of the defined seating area blocking isles that were created or seats being placed in walls. Currently the seats must fit entirely within the defined seating area. If any part of the bounding box of a seat symbol would fall outside of the seating area the set will not be placed. This means your seating area has to be slightly larger than the actual area covered by the seats. Kevin

Start by taking a look at the Knowledge Base article on Title Blocks. Custom Title Block I can't remember if the text attributes are covered in the video however I know it's in the manual. The use of the text attributes is determined by the class settings for the text. You will need to consult the manual for the details.

Have you updated to 2012 SP2? If you were using the Lightwright data exchange and changed the layer of a lighting device you would end up with a duplicate light on both layers. This was fixed in SP2. If you have updated and are still having problems please let us know.

A list browser or an even simpler list box will allow for a scrolling list. The scroll will appear automatically once the length of the list exceeds the defined height of the dialog control. You define what's in the list in the dialog handler. In a list the user can select a single or multiple items and then dialog handler code you create decides what to do with the selected items. Dialog builder will let you setup the dialog and you can load some sample values with dialog builder to see the dialog creation and setup. You will have to create the code that actually searches the document to find the objects you want. All the happens in a dialog is that you get notified the the user clicked a button or clicked in a list box, you have to decide what to do when that happens. Sometimes you handle the click right then other times you can wait till the user hits the OK button and then get the values from the dialog. In some ways a dialog is predefined in other ways it's not. The dialog is created as needed and the creation of control can be defined at run time. If you have 6 objects that match your criteria you could create 6 buttons, if you had 4 only create 4. (The Sheet Border does this sort of thing.)

Clay, I think I have seen this problem before. At this point we are not sure what causes the problem but it can be fixed. Give this a try. Download the attached file. From the Tools menu select Scripts, Run VectorScript Select the attached file and click OK. Now if you do a full export you should see all the instruments export. If it does not work let me know and I'll need to take a closer look at your file. There will be something in the next service pack to address the issue but if you see the problem happen again let me know. I would need to know what you were doing with the file between the last time the exchange worked and when you noticed the failure. We have not been able to reproduce the failure with a clean file to figure out what causes the problem.

For the dialog portion you can start with Dialog Builder 5. http://www.vectorworks.net/support/custom/vscript/vstool.php This will allow you to create the dialog layout. You still need to handle all the operations you want to do and what happens when the user click a button or a check box but this will let you create the dialog you want and get it on the screen.

It should be available via Amazon.com, if not you will have to contact your local distributor. It was just released so the distributors may not have it in stock yet.