Steve_M

Thanks everyone for your thoughts. I've almost got it... Great advice on sticking with the instrument data structure David, thank you. I've converted a symbol to an instrument in Spotlight, but I still can't figure out how to change the default instrument data so that the changes get recalled every time an instrument is placed on the page. ie: Source Four 19 dg is always placed by default with 575W lamp... Say I'd like it to appear default as 750 Watt in every instance, is there a way to make that stick? (I'd prefer not to have to manually change 200 instrunments on a plot).

I'm working with VW Spotlight (12.5.2). I guess what I'm really trying to do is create something like a lighting instrument with default data attached - essentially I want to create an inventory of symbols with cost and weight values attached - every instance I ever place in a drawing will have the same default weight value, and the same purchase cost. Ideally, I hope to later reference these values via VectorScript to compile data for various purposes. Is this possible?

I'd like to create a symbol and save it with a data record such that the data remains attached and is recalled each time the symbol is used. Can I do this? So far I've managed to attach a data record to a symbol, but each time I place a symbol instance the data record is included but empty (I want it to retain the symbol data).