klinzey

Easiest and fastest solution is to find a DVD drive and copy the entire DVD to another computer on the network or external drive then install it from there. Other then that, contact NNA customer service. I think they were offering some type of alternative install media.

It sound like you are mapping Device Type to Inst Type when importing from LW. Device Type should map to Device Type.

In the LW export options make sure that you select to export the field lables as the first row and fill blanks fileds with '-'.

Right click on the row in the worksheet (the entire row should be highlighted) and choose "Select Item". You want to click in the far left column, it should read something like 2.8 (Select item will appear as a pop-up only at the position of the cursor) This will take you to the object in the drawing where you can delete it. They are in the plot somewhere, probably in a group or in a layer or class that is turned off or have no geometry but still should be selectable. Choosing "Select Item" in the worksheet will force the object to be visible no matter where it is in the drawing.

I think the exporter finds ALL the lights, including ones inside of groups. Use the Create Report command to List all : Objects with a record Listing objects with record: Lighting Device Add or remove the columns you want to see Click OK You will see all the lighting devices in the document in the worksheet. Right slick on a row and click select item. It will select the item even if it is inside of the group. This should help you locate the mystery instruments.

One more thing to try. When you are asked to pick the upgrade folder DON'T pick the VW folder, pick something else, then pick the VW folder.

I think I have seen this once before and it was an ownership or permission issue with a file. Run repair permissions, then check the permissions and owner on the files and the folders in the current installation.

You should save your file as a template file (*.sta). When you create a new file select the template. It will have the label legend and the containers already in the new file. If you need to use them in an existing file, you can import the label legends and the containers into the file, but you will have to create the legends and containers folders and move the symbols into them manually. The active label designation is carried by the label legend symbol.

12.5 has a limit of 50 Label Legends in Find and Modify and Assign Legend to Instrument, but the label legend manager and the lighting device will now let you work with an unlimited number of label legends. In 11.5, once you create the label legend, you can move the legend oft of the "Legends" folder. The lighting device will still use the legends, but all the other commands will only see the label legends that are in the "Legends" container folder.

"CMD L" is not flip or miror, it's rotate, so this is working. If you enable Non-Rotation the labels will maintain their position. If you want to see the mirror/flip problem, create an instrument symbol with the power cord exiting out the back left side. If you rotate the instrument the cable still exits the back left side. If you mirror/flip the symbol the cable will exit the back right side. Now you have an instrument that doesn't exist in the real world.

Try not flipping, but rotating. The change was with 12.0.1. Flipping instruments was creating instruments that did not exist in real life. You may have also enabled the new non-rotating label legend function in 12.5. This will allow you to rotate only the instrument, but keep the labels in the same place.

Check the other lists, or it may have been a post on the mailing list, but try makeing a symbol out of the window.

You have to visit the layers and classes dialog before the OK button is enabled. I don't think the mapping file gets any data written into it till you hit the OK button.

Try using the convert to multi circuit command on them. It should convert them to regular instruments. Their UID numbers will change so the first round trip to LW will be a little strange, but they will be fine after that.

VW doesn't see difusion as a valid color, or mutiple colors in one instrument. With 12.5 you can set the beam and field angle of the instrument to get a soft light. It won't give you the exact same resuits as difussion, but will give you a soft light.

Replacing a "black" sumbol with a "red" symbol should be fine. It's plug-in inside of a plug-in that may cause problems.

Don't use the red symbols to replace the existing symbols, nothing good will happen. The data record is attached to the original (black) symbol, not to the red plug-in object symbol. What you now have is a plug-in inside of a plug-in, and the behavior of the object is going to be very unpredictable.

You need to be running 12.0.1 or 12.5 to see the intensity slider.

Deselect everyting and run the Refresh instruments command. If there are any bad UID's for the instruments, the instruments will generate new ones for themselves.

You will see the error message when the command is unable to find the fixture that is listed in the worksheet. This may be because the fixture was deleted, or the unique identifier was changed in some manner, such as adding an accessory after the worksheet was created. If you create the editable worksheet then make the changes to it, then run the command again an update you should not have any problems.

These problems have been bug listed. We have not been able to duplicate the problem with the AFF height. Are the wall cabinest at different Z heights? The final AFF height is determined by the AFF value and the Z value. If your Z values and AFF walues match, please send the file to my attention at bugsubmit@nemetschek.net The problem with the handles only accures when change the object in a 3D view and you have used the flyover tool, and not rotated about the center of the ground plane. Till the issues is resolved, switch to a top/plan view and regenerate the object by changing a parameter. This will cause the handles to move back to the proper location.

Backgrounds are assigned by layer in the layer dialog, so if you want different fog denities for differnt lights, you need to place the lights on different layers. You may have one lit fog background for each layer that a light is on?

Once the source symbol of the lighting position has some 3D information you can assign a z height, till then it will sit at Z=0.

Converting to an instrument doesn't add 3D or 2D. The symbol you are converting probably already has a 3D and a 2D element. You see the same behavior with all vectorworks objects, if there is 2D and 3D geometry, you will see the 2D only in Top\Plan only all other views you will see 3D only. In the ase of the lighting device and the lighting position, any text makes the object hybrid and will hide the 3D in the 2D view automatically.

You need to apply a non-shadow casting texture (default instrument texture) to the instrument symbol, otherwise the geometry blocks the light.