[1983 Par Can Question]

If you use the create report command you can summarize the dimmers and it will only list each dimmer in the report once.

[Format Data Pop Up]

Someone has attached a record named "Data" to all the symbols in your library.

Look in the Resource Manager of your current drawing for a folder named "Data". Contrary to recommendation in the dialog, rename the "Data" folder in your current document.

Once you do this you should be able to import the symbols without the warning.

 

Your other option is to change or remove the "Data" record from the symbols in your resource file before you import them.

 

[Opening a student saved file with a professional license 2021]

@Oona Given the error message posted above, the file was created in an educational version obtained from outside of the US and not from a pirated version. The error message from a pirated file will be completely different and take you to a web page with more details.

If you want to send me the file in a private message I can take a look and confirm but I would just ask the person that sent you the file which distributor they obtained their copy of Vectorworks from.

https://www.vectorworks.net/international

 

[Opening a student saved file with a professional license 2021]

@Oona In the US professional versions can open a student file but all files and all content in the student's file will be watermarked and the watermark will be printed on all documents generated from the file.

Outside of the US many educational versions use a different file format and can not be opened with the professional version.

 

Students and educators must annually provide proof that they are currently affiliated with an educational institution in order to obtain a license that is only good for 1 year.

 

Educational versions are to be used only for educational purposes. Having a student use an educational version to do professional work, even as an intern, using the educational version is not permitted. If the student is getting compensated in any manner  they must using a professional license.

[Speaker Object bulk change of brand/model]

It should work, but I'm seeing the same issue with the Speaker object.

I have entered a bug about it so the issue can be investigated. (VB-178650)

 

[Stage decks with different lenght legs]

The Stage Deck object does not allow control over the individual leg lengths.

If you need a stage deck with varying leg lengths I would recommend either using the Stage Deck object with no legs and manually adding the varying height legs  or duplicating and editing a stage deck symbol form the Objects - Ent Stage folder.

[Loudspeaker dispersion bounding by walls]

Speakers only show the possible dispersion pattern produced by the speaker, the dispersion patterns do not interact with other objects in the drawing.

[In Vision 2021, What's the best console software for mac? (both same comp and multi comp)]

The only other thing we have seen is that on some Macs with multiple network interfaces don't work will with multi-cast/unicast so the data is not broadcast on all interfaces so Vision does not see the data. There is no way in the ETC software that I know where you can set unicast/milt-cast parameters.

[Vision on Mac with M1 Chip]

Vision 2020 and 2021 works on the M1 under Rosetta, but still not recommending the because of the integrated graphics card in the M1.

[In Vision 2021, What's the best console software for mac? (both same comp and multi comp)]

The EOS/Nomad on the Mac should work in the Visualizer mode. You will see intensities randomly go to 0.

It's been a while since I have tested it but I used it all them time.

The only issue I know about on the EOS/Nomad is that the computer must be on a networks so it can obtain valid IP addresses.

[Vision 2021 connect the Grand Ma3 onPC Issues]

@Safak Sari Give ETC EOS/Nomad a try. https://www.etcconnect.com/Products/Consoles/Eos-Family/

It's probably one of the easier more powerful ones to learn and they have some great tutorials.

In the Visualization mode you can connect to Vision with sACN or ArtNET but it will randomly take the intensity of all lights to 0 to prevent you from using it on a real show.

 

If you want something very simple you can use QLC+ https://www.qlcplus.org/

It's simple but can be a little buggy at times and doesn't have a lot of moving light profiles built-in.

 

[Vision 2021 connect the Grand Ma3 onPC Issues]

@Safak Sari In order to connect to the grandMA3 to Vision, or any pre-visualization software,  you will need the physical viz-key device that is available form an MA Lighting dealer. Without a viz-key or a MA network node you will not be able to connect grandMA3 onPC to Vision or any other pre-visualization software.

[Multiple Extrude as "plugin-object"]

@virk You will probably get better information by posting in one of the Customization forums.

Depending on your knowledge of coding you can decide if the Python Scripting, SDK(c++), or the Vectorscript(Pascal) is the best place to post your question.

If you are not familiar with any of these programming languages you might want to start by trying Marionette.

[VW student version restrictions]

You should check with your local distributor for the exact restrictions as they may vary slightly.

In general, licenses expire after 1 year, the file and the resources in the file are watermarked, PDF exported from Vectorworks are watermarked and protected so they can not be edited, printing will contain the watermark, and you are limited to only a few prior versions of Vectorworks.

[Is it possible for VS to get the structural units of a .vwx file?]

I was having the same issue and I asked the developer in charge of the WIKI to investigate the problem.

[Is it possible for VS to get the structural units of a .vwx file?]

You can access them using the Get/SetPref calls using the indexes listed here:

https://developer.vectorworks.net/index.php/VS:Function_Reference_Appendix_F#Structural_Units

[Vision Update Issue]

@AlexSawaya Your existing Vision dongle can be updated.
You will need to contact customer service to switch back to the dongle and update the dongle information.
Once that's done then run the dongle updater on your machine with he dongle inserted and connected to the internet.

[Vision 2021 Conventional Color Inaccuracy]

Also, remember Vectorworks does have white balance setting. View>Set Lighting Options...

By default Vectorworks is white balanced at Indoor (3400K), I think Vision is set for something closer to 5500K.

 

By default, the 3200K light will look "whiter" leaning toward blue in Vectorworks than it does in Vision but if you adjust the white balance in Vectorowks to 5500K it will look more amber. If you want to experiment in Vectorworks, Viewports have their own individual White Color Temperature setting and it's rather sticking to see the difference changing the white balance makes.

[DMX Camera Troubles]

We did not make the fixture profiles for EOS. Not sure who did.

I pulled up the profile, it looks like an old profile because there is not "Dead" space at the bottom or middle of the range.

The ETC profile lists only 3 ranges from 0-31794 (0 to -270), 31795-64886 (0 to 270)  and 64886-65535 (Off)

(Zoom looks right but all the other ones look incorrect.)

 

There should be 5 ranges:

0-0288h

0289h-7C32h (0 to -270)

7C33h-83CCh

83CDh-FD78h (0 to 270)

FD77h-FFFFh;

If you edit the profile you should be able to use the relative camera.

(You should be able to copy the range values from the zoom parameter.)

 

EOS is limited to a 16bit parameter. It's more work but to get the control you need you can just use 3-8bit parameters or 1-8bit and 1-16bit. This will give you full control. Depending on the size of your scene and the level of control you need may determine if the 16bit parameters need the be the MSB or the LSB.

[GetCurrentMode() Does not work at all]

Try this:

 

Procedure ASDF;

Var
vwMode : LongInt;
ModeCheck : Boolean;


FUNCTION BitCheck(largeNum, smallNum :LONGINT) :BOOLEAN;
{Returns true if smallNum is a power of 2 present in largeNum.}

VAR
bit :INTEGER;
BEGIN
BitCheck := FALSE;
bit := 15;
while bit > -1 do BEGIN
if largeNum >= (2 ^ bit) then BEGIN
largeNum := largeNum - (2 ^ bit);
IF (2 ^ bit) = smallNum THEN BEGIN
BitCheck := TRUE;
bit := 0;
END;
END;
bit := bit - 1;
END;
END;

Begin
vwMode := GetCurrentMode;
{vwMode := 456;}
ModeCheck := (BitCheck(vwMode, 4)) | (BitCheck(vwMode, 8));
{ModeCheck := (BitCheck(vwMode,1));}
AlrtDialog(Concat(vwMode,':',ModeCheck));
End;

Run(ASDF);

 

[Identifying Spotlight Label Legends]

Look for the "Legends Rec" record attached to a symbol.

[Filtering the resource list]

The symbols must be in the active document in order for VS to get any info about them other than than the name, so you will have to import them into the document in order to get any record information form the symbol. You should also look at using BeginContext() and EndContext() rather than just deleting the objects, it works better with the undo system and project sharing.

[Lighting Devices no longer have a name. ???]

We no longer require lighting devices to be named and the field is now editable by the user. We used to use the name for tracking and detecting duplicated lighting devices but that is no longer necessary.

The name shown in the Visualization palette is the name of the internal light object inside of the lighting device. It must be unique and is automatically assigned by the lighting device as Channel Purpose Instrument Type #.NNA-#. The user can edit the name if desired but each light must be assigned a unique name.

[Setting Record Format to Read Only - Or Not]

It doesn't look like there VS or SDK access to allow the record to writable.

 

[Symbol rotation]

Check your Spotlight Preferences.

IN the Lighting Device: Parameters pane check the value of Default Insertion Angle. The default for new documents is 0 and your setting may be different.