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@Christiaan @Mark Aceto I never ever use the recent files menu for every reason y'all listed above.

Done, thx for the kick in the patootie to get things rolling

wow. Even tho I make blurry gobos all the time , it never occurred to me to have it emulate the beam edge dynamics. I've been attempting that through Beam Field differentiation.

Sounds like maybe the menu item View: Show ACTIVE Layer Only… might have got clicked on. Also check your layer and Classes panes to see if everything got turned off by accident.

@trashcanright there with ya

As one who can barely type, much less program, it's literally a thrill here on the sidelines watching you folks build these incredibly useful mini-machines of code Thanks to you all

Hi @Tom W.-thanks for that info & but does that mean that every iteration of the symbol needs adjusting, or just the original symbol?

@Jonathan P Sorry, as I don't need stories in my practice, I got nothin' for ya. 🙁

Hello @Pat Stanford thank you for the consideration. I'll give your current script a whirl and then reply back with a more thought-thru request. Much obliged

@Jonathan P: @Pat Stanford is exactly correct. I my practice I find that many times I will have built something, made several copies then find I need changes throughout. AS you mention, YERS, incredu=ibly tedious to re-make each and every one. So: Make the item a symbol and then I would try the menu choice "Modify: Convert: Replace with Symbol…". See screenshot attached. Sometimes things don't end up quite where I want them to in the 'replace' action, but I believe that's due to me not taking the time to place the item to become a symbol @ the appropriate spot (usually center of projection) Screen Recording 2022-05-05 at 10.37.35 AM.mp4

@Pat StanfordSuper thanks, you've created a tool I have wished for for some time. Gonna give it a whirl shortly as I have need at this moment of it — how massively timely! (Also a shoutout to @scott moore for getting the ball rolling here). Not to pile on, but any chance it could be made to act on "Selected Only"? How many times have I upcycled a VWX doc from previous to current event, albeit with all-new dances, acts etc. (the actual answer: too many to count) However, many's the time a global change would affect more items than needed, so a by-selection à la the Text menus's "Find and Replace…" would be super useful.

srsly. I'm lost here. As I now do to start a VW session: restart the machine. Opened a blank file, left all defaults in place. imported PDF file onto it's own layer began to create series of simple rects with one data field element added first oddity: file opened one symbol from the RM and the two elements - one text object (before conversion to link), one rect were greyed out tho appropriate transparency was shown in OIP second oddity: See attached screenshot. I'd been working less than an hour when both those oddities crapped up. in the scrnshot there are two text objects, the second selected one was added after the first in the rect threw the same error 2x, as does the added text. Really really puts a dent in my work day and I have to say - and I am happy to be the dummy here and be shown my simple errors, please god - but cmon; a rect and a piece a text? Happy to receive input on what to ascribe the delay to my clients… /grumpysnark

Ah. Yes, thanks. I hadn't used em in some time, now I remember why.

Was just dealing with this myself yesterday. Agreed on all the above. I was mocking-up ring light, & could not get the line light to produce attractive usable output (actually lighting a subject, like irl, not just glowing) even tho I upped the output to something like 500%, so switched to adding another source to fake the output, something I hate to do.

@thinkingpencilGreat you reiterated the Nurbs direction issue. has bitten me more than once.

Super great idea.

Always a bit of a crap shoot when one does.

@PJHouch—tho the solution above does correct it.

ouch

@michaelk My files regularly get to the 500+ mB stage & but I agree -more than ten backups are essential to my workflow. As projects move along I prune the older backups till only one or two backups remain. What's made the pruning so easy is as per a suggestion from this forum, I now store all backups by VWX version in one place. So much easier to manage.

@Gunther thanks for the info. Is bug that slated to be corrected in the next update?

@rDesign@jeff princeThanks for the thoughts. Am about to restart the machine for another round of VWX pleasure, so I'll be sure to at least start with only that open. Gonna be hard to stick to that, as all reference materiel in other files. And life. Have not had the time to do any sleuthing at all except as above, due to deadlines. The frame-left stickie has translucency on, the frame-right one does not. Have I mentioned this seems to occur somewhat randomly?

Nothing hunh? Just happened again, this after a fresh reboot of the 2019 MBP. Getting very old.

@Luis M RuizDang! Very informative indeed. Did not know that was possible to such an extent. Did you have to push the glow amount way past 11?