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Tryna understand how it is I cannot stop a SL Unshaded Polygon render mode. thirty-plus minutes in and no keystroke does anything in the VWX window. My uneducated guess is the imported Autocad block of the mobile truss stage is causing the slowdown. Fine. I'll never make that mistake again. How, beyond force-quitting (again today, third, no fourth time) the app does one stop a rogue render? ESC = fail CMD+Period = fail Also, got some really fun restores upon restart. Apparently my workspace gets blown away very force-eject. And the stored one becomes corrupted. Was gonna report the cpu%, but I can't even make Activity Monitor come to the front. forty, uh - almost fifty minutes of render time. Will try never to make that mistake again

@Anthony DeFallo @michaelk Yep, that's precisely what I have done: make a couple seat symbols from really basic geometry: really sped up the whole process. The basic idea is to substitute a much lower poly chair for the default choice. build or obtain said low poly chair symbol (I locate & duplicate and edit the original chair symbol, keeping all records attached) then see screenshots, 1st of which shows new chair in same location as original chair 2nd of which shows opening seating section tool by double-clicking, then choose new chair & Bob's your uncle (whatever that expression means,lol) Also please find an example low poly chair with record attached LowPolyChair.vwx

@JustinVH Super cool. Really appreciated, thanks for getting to this underway.

Great thread all. Very informative.

well if VW would simply clone Rob, that point would be moot

Following with intense interest.

Just gunna say that is a very sad song you're singing there @Pat Stanford.

For those of us in say the entertainment field who rarely -but not never- need to draw a site or venue to that extent, it's just so helpful to read someone's methodology for solving, dealing-with approaching something like the 'stories' issue. Thanks

really, in so many ways, it can be these little things which help us get smoothly through the day.

Be sure you're in the annotations space on SL before you hit paste, lol. Also you might need to move the dims, as they may not land exactly where they came from, however a simple move by points while all still selected is easy enough.

I wondered what'd happened. I'd recently made the choice to up-scale my browser typeface sizes by - as @PatStanford mentions - hitting ⌘+, et voila! I can see, and now I know where those pieces of website went… thanks

lol

Super bit of info. I've had similar issues with syms-from-blocks before — did you simply group the symbol, or convert to group?

Looks pretty dang good at 125%

Same

Ty @scottmoore Did you need to edit the base image?

@scottmooreThanks for those tips.

@Wes Gardneryes, exactly, and a thing I do to make the task less onerous is to cut / paste the dims from design layer to annotation space. And, even if off on the paste, easy enough tome to relevant positions.

Following with interest

Most gripping cinema I've watched for some time, and I just got through both the entire Star Wars Canon & the entire Marvel-verse, both in timeline order, with my kids.

@bcevery word, 100%

Finally. Been waiting a long time for you to see the inherent flaw here, and have watched several folks try to lay this argument out for you in the past. Nothing is safe. Harm R E D U C T I O N …………Determining one's own ROI on that is the best one can do. No insurance can really replace lost\missing\stolen\deleted keep on keeping on. Love the topics you raise. edit: I mean, for ex; you could be saving / storing your data in a secure location, etc but if you cannot access the software to open\edit\delete, you're still screwed.

@klinzey - pardon, but that doesn't make sense to me, esp the DMX / Ethernet / XLR protocols almost every show, touring or not deals with on a day-to-day basis. Perhaps there's a VWX roadmap laying out the thinking here?

Is Unified View clicked on I wonder?