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@Jim Wilson I figured out the seating problem long ago and have deployed my own versions of chairs since that revelation. Other default items in the entertainment resource folders are over-drawn/overdetailed for their actual need in these types of drawings.

Yes, this appears to be it indeed. Thanks Jim.

Just to say that pressing 'esc' often does NOT deliver the stop render command in anything resembling timeliness.

OMG, what a find!!

Uh, yes? Maybe? All other phases had completed and this was the longest, slowest portion; could it have been "interactive render"?

Great solution. As I'm trackpad / keypad only, I'd have to make a keystroke or similar…

Precisely what I did, as well as the CMD + Period. I actually had to leave the office for a brief period for sanity's sake

Hello; excitedly installed VW 2019, opened a current model small model (4 trusses, twenty four spotlight fixtures turned on, sixteen with fog) and hit render. After an hour and change; I decided to stop the render process and the two choices I am aware of have failed to stop the render. Hitting escape = no joy Hitting Cmd + . (period) = no joy either. Also, VW 2019 shows "Stopping Render" in the message area, yet does not stop… Thoughts? TiA

Exactly how I would solve the problem

Now THERE's a hot key I think disposable.

And so Sean, how did you end up deriving the answer to your question — did spend the 5k on a wing and a prayer?

Drives me INSANE! Your pain = my pain. I'm super hoping a fix is in the works in 2019

Well that explains a problem I'd been having, thanks.

Awesome, thanks Kevin.

Hello @markdd; by "…I have often found…" do you mean replicably often? And what's the diff to a lighting instrument whether it's on or off in a DL or a VP?

Same here. Intrigued by the possibilities, but crashing

Sweet. Simple.

Thanks Kevin. The current approach to solving this issue is so fraught and takes so much time, yet, once everything is placed appropriately to the internal origin, life is so much sweeter and easier.

It's surprisingly often that I receive drawings from collaborators where their drawing seems to have little or no relationship to the internal or vectorworks origin. When my work is for the stage, my preference is always that the plaster line, proscenium line, firecurtain line or similar be zero, zero. When the job is in a tent, a site location or hotel room, I will want to place everything in relation to a room element, landmark or site-specific item. I find it a trial to turn everything in the incoming drawing on, unlock the locked items and then move it all to where it belongs. It's possible that I can't see the forest for the trees here but… I wish I could tell VW to move the drawing from a click onscreen (or other specified point) to the Vectorworks Origin.

Looks good Kevin

Ditto. Although I am still heavily invested in the legacy figures.

So many ways. First to my mind is to draw the section of the slope over the rectangle and then simply extrude the polyline to desired depth. See attached movie Slope a rectangle.mp4

beautifully examined, thank you Benson.

phewf, right in time, was about to pull the remaining hair out of my pate

Looking good there Mark