Bill_Rios Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 It would be amazing if the Focus field could drop down and you could choose from Focus points that you have put in your drawing. Please and thank you! 3 Quote Link to comment
0 Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted January 9, 2023 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted January 9, 2023 This is intentionally a free text field to support workflows and users that do not use the focus point object. If we limited this to a drop down of choices of focus points it would break the workflow of many existing users. Quote Link to comment
0 Pat Stanford Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 So just add a field type that supports both a drop down list and free text entry. 😉 2 Quote Link to comment
0 mjm Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 w/ the free text entry as top choice, preselected 😌 1 Quote Link to comment
0 Ben3B Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 if no mistake , when editing a light (press edit in oip) there is a drop down menu for focus point 😉 Quote Link to comment
0 Bill_Rios Posted January 10, 2023 Author Share Posted January 10, 2023 @Ben59 Thanks for the hot tip. I'd still like to see that drop down menu integrated into the main OIP. Or @klinzey allow me to customize my OIP parameters for Lighting Devices like you can do with Spaces. 2 Quote Link to comment
0 Jesse Cogswell Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 The pre-2021 version of Vectorworks handled this with the Focus Instruments menu command, which was bound to the Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F shortcut by default (on Windows that is). In 2021, they changed the dialog to the Focus Lighting Devices menu command, which doesn't use Focus Point objects at all. As part of my workflow, I lay out all of my focus points before I plot any fixtures, so I've imported the old menu command into the newer copies of VW as Focus Instruments Old.vsm and using it instead. 1 Quote Link to comment
0 mjm Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 1 hour ago, Bill_Rios said: @Ben59 Thanks for the hot tip. I'd still like to see that drop down menu integrated into the main OIP. Or @klinzey allow me to customize my OIP parameters for Lighting Devices like you can do with Spaces. @Bill_Rios concur. I so very rarely go to thru the OIP Edit… button to do anything. OIP is where it's at! 1 Quote Link to comment
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It would be amazing if the Focus field could drop down and you could choose from Focus points that you have put in your drawing.
Please and thank you!
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