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IN fact, I needed to do this very task with a Martin Mac III for a roof mount. Took me under two minutes to create the dup, rotate it to satisfy my need and…done.

Hmm, my approach to this is to be sure no objects are selected and then I use the Zoom to extents tool (Ctrl / Cmd + 6) and that zooms out to all objects. Perhaps that will get you where you're going…

@Andy Broomell—thanks for that Andy, I have many files where my softgoods are drawn as extruded lines, (so simple so fast), and I 2020 they lost their fill and currently I have been rebuilding those symbols, what a pain

Another oddity is that a design layer with a reference pdf imported to it will slow tasks and navigation down intolerably. Hiding said layer allows normal operations. had to export to vw2019 in order to get that task done.

Just gotta say, the Worksheet Icon is not useful, because it looks like a sheet of notepaper, not columns and rows, which is the heart/soul of a worksheet

In order to make the occasional scene more relatable, I will extract an image from prior show, rehearsal, etc and craft image props from them. I also use the legacy human figure tool as well. I'll take a costume render and extract relevant sections, turn em into RT textures and use them on the various clothing items, then make a symbol of that figure in a position typical of some of the relevant dance, et voila—the corps de ballet! Avery2.vwx

Here's how others are feeling about 2020.

More icon madness: Which square is selected as locus for acting on this object? My poor eyes. (edit to add that the screenshot displays much larger than reality, see second screenshot for a relative comparison)

A help pref? Always open or always closed?

Great to hear there's some kind of workaround in the immediate term

Attempted a render a DL of 2019 File, which opened easily. The beachball began almost immediately. I waited till it threw the error message. Now to restart machine…

The other thing to look at is what the ambient illumination is set to, when all other sources are off.

More icon visuals

Or, have preference in the pref pane to have both tabs exposed, say side by side or movable?

Oh dear me.

@Sean O"SkeaThanks for the reminder man, there's an area of VW I have not bothered with ventured into. Have you set your page color to other than default? If so, what do you use?

@Sean O"Skea — yep, feeling the same. It is terrifically surprising the 'page' space option is still either or B/W

@Andy Broomell—yes, exactly. Thanks Andy

@scottmoore; thanks. I remember the thread where you extolled this very tool I believe, for it's efficacy in helping you layout (for prefix, was it?) spikes for an event.Really psyched to try it. Also looking forward to deploying your fab backline sym-set for several projects this year.

@klinzey———is this new behavior? In past practice through 2019, if the fixture color field was empty, the color defaulted to the fixture's version of no color.

Cool stuff Andrew. I'm very interested in the Spike tool, but can't seem to find it on your website. Is it part of Staging ToolSet 2? thanks, MichaelM

@michaelk I do have to reiterate the dark mode standard dimensioning icons are hard to see.

Is it just me or have we seen this before? Specifically, I do not remember being able to view print sheet sizes in mm or inch on this sheet before.

@Andrew Davies In theory, yes, but just beginning to dig in. The white sheet presented in the dark interface was too much contrast for me, hurt to look at, so I am trying to use the 'black background' choice. Not as smooth going as I'd hoped, perhaps just for the overall unfamiliarity of it.

Look carefully at the dimensioning icons. NVM, @Andrew Davies got there first!