RickR

+1 Size is especially important working with high res screens. Nothing should ever be a fixed pixel count! Those days are long gone.

As a consultant on a recent large ballroom project I can tell you we tried very hard to make it work. And then stuff happens... Event equipment and gear is a very low priority until the hotel staff is on site.

I've seen this to, but just in v2016.

I do all my section views in Hidden Line. Sometimes it's a pain because I have to work in wireframe or OGL in those views.

I did a quick check, no issues.

I recommend looking at www.controlbooth.com for their overall function. I believe they have everything on the wishlist and lots more. They are a very similar crowd and many are VW users. The coolest function solves the above issue nicely. There is an automatic linking to a glossary/wiki that explains the word. Theater is full of jargon/slang/TLA (three letter acronyms) and product names. Their wiki of articles has built up over decades and proves that it is a viable long term storage that is accessible to newbies. That deep storage can go far beyond a vendors tech support.

+1 Include fixing the 3D rotation to account for the relatively new Base, Yoke, Light segments of a fixture. Which might solve several other requests as well.

You might post this down in the VectorScript and Python forums. The only way I know to bulk change colors is if they are already assigned by class inside the symbol. Then editing the classes works, and that can be done in bulk. If they are not by class, there is a script to do that in the shared VS forum, but I'm not sure it works inside a symbol.

My workaround is to create multiple worksheets. Duplicate your worksheet and modify the criteria for the primary sort column. A > and/or < function will usually do the trick in limiting the number of rows. Then you create more worksheets with different criteria ranges until you have the entire data set covered. Place them side by side on a sheet layer, or whatever. This way the breaks are at logical places in the data, but not even page sizes. So leave some space for each to grow! It's a pain to do this, but until we get a paging function it's the best bet.

The ColorSource spot is physically very close to standard Source4 fixture. You can set the beam and field angles as needed. I've never been religious about matching symbols, probably because I was trained with paper and template with 12 outlines. The only remaining issue is it's overall light output. The simple answer is to not depend on VW calcs for brightness. (I never do!) Or you can copy that symbol and edit the brightness. There is a good support video on making your own fixture symbols.

Marissa, I try to think about the rounding errors as little as possible. It hasn't been in the SG, but I can't recall where else. Perhaps it's entering values in the floating tool bar, (imperial converted to SI & back?) I'll try to notice more and get back to you. I figure half the value of what I'm trying is so others can use it. Therefore document units are unknown. But it seems now that double quoting is doing the job. I had a bunch of other formatting issues as well. Here is my work to date. (2 design layers for different issues) I noticed that there is an IFC node that is a pull-down entry node. If the list could be a text input it might be handy for many things.

A "Pull Down" Input node could be very useful in making nodes for others. Such a node should have an editable list of strings or values selected by a "popup" or similar dialog in the OIP. If the list could be edited in from the OIP that would be best. This should be the start, but it's beyond my coding skills. http://developer.vectorworks.net/index.php/VS:Parametric_Custom_Shape_Pane_Popup

OK then, I'm not as clueless as I thought. FYI; I still see conversion errors between units. In fact I think I'm seeing them more in v2016! Thank you for trying!

The easiest way to make your own is to copy something very similar and change it. Editing the Event tables is much like editing any other symbol. I suggest making a file that is your own set of symbols, and make it a favorite just so they are always handy. (Or just download one of the thousands of DWG/Sketchup/OBJ/3DS files of tables.) Read up on the Resource Browser and how to modify the library if you want to add things to the existing files. My tip for dealing with the Seating tool is to use the boundaries to change the layout. Don't try to have them match the actual boundary of whatever you are doing.

Ah, that and a few others. I'm sorry if I'm asking basic questions. The foot and inch marks are in alternate quote marks. I was thinking would do the trick, but probably not. Been decades since I did anything like this. Can you give me the escape sequence? I went looking and found several answers, some contradictory, but all for VS not Python. Are you talking about % \ or double characters '' or ""? Thank you,

SoftGoods objects are complex. I'm sorry if I'm jumping into something beyond my coding skills. Perhaps this is the wrong approach, but it seems to allow pull downs in the OIP of a node. I was planning on grafting this onto my node to create a SG object. I'd like to create a general purpose node that others can use and that can be a template for making more PIO nodes. So I've concocted a rather long list of input fields to set via a node. Most of this is just repetition of existing code with the exact field names thrown in. However, I'm getting VS errors that are beyond me. Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 4, in File "", line 18, in Params NameError: name 'Start' is not defined The code is attached. Line 4 is just an input. There are nearly identical lines above line 18. I can't see any typos or other issues. Perhaps this is from inside a Marionette module? I'm up for suggestions!

ETC has both PC & Mac versions of "Nomad". The pulse is the software security and goes away if you pay for it. Many other console manufacturers have similar tools. There are even some that are free for the 1st universe. Martin and Chamsys seem to be the most popular. From my perspective sACN is a better protocol to use. With any of them I strongly recommend using 2 monitors and 2 computers if you can. Some systems require a loop-back plug is running solo.

I've used several other programs with that feature. I sure would like one.

I've run into several situations where the thickness of a wall impedes joining. Most common is similar to a chamfer: 2 thick walls meet at an acute angle like Tom shows. But they are cut, not at half the joining angle. Usually the cut is 90deg to one of the walls. My solution is to create a 3rd, very thin (1/2") and short wall where I want the cut to happen. The thick walls then join with the 3rd wall. It doesn't always work, and I rarely use wall components. https://www.dropbox.com/s/cys1ajowutntbzw/wall%20join%20mess.JPG?dl=0 ( I never did learn how to post a picture.) Some detailed control over wall joins would really help.

Don't get me started!

Thanks, I'm fully aware of the straight line issue. I tried a manual reset with the Update button but didn't think of a VS version. Maybe we need a Marionette version. Sarah B. got a variation to work. I tried to do some VS in a node: vs.CreateCustomPathObject but I was using a line as a path and it needs to be a polyline or polygon. FYI I'm working with showing stacking space and dual tracks for travelers. I've been doing all that manually and thought a programmed version might be a good Marionette trial.

Sarah, Of course a path is a Poly not a Line, just one of those details. I hope this is as deep into VS as I need to go, and that that's the hard part for my little project. Thank you!

Calling the SoftGoods experts, like @C. Andrew Dunning I'm doing some Marionette and trying to make or change SoftGoods objects. https://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=223231#Post223231 Basically entering a value in the AdjustableLength field isn't doing much. It's either not recalculating or grayed out. It works great manually, but in VS and Marionette I'm getting stalled. Got any tips? (Thanks in advance!!)

Almost there in making a new object. This file gives me an error on rotation angle, that I don't think I'm using. It also generates a zero size SG object with the AdjustableLength field grayed out. ???

I had a bit more time to work on this. This mornings webinar was informative. So much to learn! I just want to draw a Soft Goods object based on data. Sarah's script gave the Soft Goods record names. I also dug out a similar script for worksheet uses just to compare. First off I'm playing with 'AdjustableLength', later I'll get to less critical features. 1. The mini-network with SetRecordField changes the OIP data but not the object. If I use the "update" button the length goes back to the original value. Something needs to trigger object recalculation like an Enter key in manual use. (You can ignore the other stuff in the file. Most of it is working but there some I've abandoned in process.) 2. Soft Goods are path based objects. I tried the SetSeg node with various sources. I get nothing but errors. It seems creation of path objects gets a bit more complex. Any nodes to work with paths? 3. Perhaps what I need is a node to create a SG object from pure data. Changing existing objects seemed easier at first. So I'm looking at the VS for Custom Path Objects and it seems to assume a previous object. Is that necessary? Am I on a viable track? Can you suggest an alternate approach. Thanks for your help!