willofmaine Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 (edited) I can't get Marionette objects to work with Project Sharing. When another User goes to edit the Marionette, it just disappears (though the Select Similar tool will still find it). It looks like the wires get confused, maybe not unlike as in this post: https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/57586-marionette-and-project-sharing-issues/#comment-287920 Screenshot 06, attached, shows the failed network (in this case a symbol). Most of the wires have simply disappeared, one has gone entirely rogue, and a bunch connect to the one node of the "Scale Donut" wrapper, which wrapper has lost its other inputs. So I created a brand new, blank Vectorworks file ("01-Simple Marionette.vwx", attached) with just a simple, rectangular extrude Marionette. In that file, the upper row of objects share the same network symbol; the lower one does not use a network symbol. I put a copy of the file in Dropbox and saved it as a Project Sharing file. I then created a Working File from that and, at least based on limited testing, the Marionettes all worked as expected (drag copying them and editing them presented no issues). I then switched my computer to a different User and there created another Working File. The upper row of Marionettes seemed to work okay, but after I duplicated and tried to edit the lower Marionette, it disappeared. Attached is a screenshot (Screenshot 07) of the network for the original lower Marionette, where at least one wire has made for the hills. After switching back and forth between Users a couple of times and making edits, the Marionettes that had previously disappeared reappeared in the Working File on my main User account. Also attached is the latest Working File, "05-Working File-Refreshed from Successful Twin.vwxw". (In my main project file, the issues first encountered in the other User account were transmitted to the Working File on my main User account, and the "failed" Marionettes did not reappear...). Any thoughts greatly appreciated. Thanks! VWIS236 01-Simple Marionette.vwx 05-Working File-Refreshed from Successful Twin.vwxw Edited December 22, 2022 by willofmaine Quote Link to comment
willofmaine Posted January 5 Author Share Posted January 5 Does anyone use Marionette with Project Sharing?... ... ... Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Apparently not? Perhaps my commenting here can get someones attention. @Marissa Farrell Can you comment on this? Quote Link to comment
Niels Timmer Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 On 1/5/2023 at 9:32 PM, willofmaine said: Does anyone use Marionette with Project Sharing?... ... ... I do, and I experience similar problems as you described. Quote Link to comment
Heblon Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 + 1 switched back to "normal file" I wasn't even able to send changes to the project file after placing a few more complex networks. Quote Link to comment
willofmaine Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 VW 2023, SP3: "Marionette network node connections are preserved when importing, copying, and pasting." Does that mean what I think it means? I like to think it means that Marionette wires will now be far more tenacious at staying present and connected than they have been for at least the past seven years. With a little testing, and except for one instance where all the wires completely disappeared, so far, Marionette may show some promise with SP3, both with project sharing and otherwise. A complex Marionette survived a master project file, duplications and edits in a working file many states away, commitment to the project file, and further use in my working file here. Not only that, where in VW 2022 this particular Marionette takes 18 seconds to "reset" after being duplicated and changed, in VW 2023 (SP3) it takes only a fraction of a second(!). And maybe, hopefully, Marionette Object Styles will be a viable replacement for network symbols, which I abandoned due to their apparent endless issues (oddly, Marionette Object "Styles" seem to function much more like symbols than they do the styles for other plug-in objects...). So given Marionette's long history of appearing to work one day and failing the next, I'm nowhere near cautiously optimistic, but at least I'm desperately hopeful... 2 Quote Link to comment
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