Venue seating help please.

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Just opened up Spotlight this morning for the first time....cool   I want my seats to fill the white border, as in the perimeter chairs should touch the border of the white box.  Can't get that to happen.

 

Also, there is a control (has a pointer arrow) that changes the radius length for curves seating.  Is there a dialogue control for that or only manual?

 

 

 

[Kevin Allen]

try the theatre row PIO

https://www.verysmallgroup.com/vectorworks-plugins

[mjm]

2 hours ago, Kevin Allen said:

try the theatre row PIO

https://www.verysmallgroup.com/vectorworks-plugins

A big thumbs-up for that plugin

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@Kevin Allen

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for that, but It won't work well on this project.  I have to do large areas of seats 50 times over.  Not sure there is a solution.

 

Paul

[EAlexander]

I do seating layouts on almost every project and I have found doing it by hand (duplicate array, move by points, distribute along path, rotate tool in duplicate mode, mirror tool) to be much faster than wrestling with that awful seating tool, even for curved seating. 

 

Edit: curious to try the Theater Row plug in on my next project. 

Edited February 25 by EAlexander

[Peter Neufeld.]

Hi Paul,

On this page in the Help there's this quick movie. Note how you can manually change the curved seating angle and/or enter a number via the heads up display. Like any tool always refer to the Help and you should find the answer once you get to know it.  

 

I think Evan that you're being a bit harsh about the tool. At least we have it, and for certain things it is much better than doing things manually although I understand that sometimes you just need them in there quickly and don't need the benefits of the PIO. Like Kevin has said @michaelk's PIO also offers good things.

 

Cheers,

Peter

 

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@EAlexander  Yes, I am a big fan of the tools you listed, in particular DAP for NURBS.  

 

Fiddling with tools In MiniCAD/Vectorworks for nearly forty years has been helpful.  I found a way to make the polygon tool work, but this project will likely require the use of all the tools discussed.

 

@Peter Neufeld.  Hi Peter.  I did find that video.  There is one thing that would make this so much better for me.   Using the new function, if there was a way to move the direction pointer farther away by the OIP, I would be all squared away on the problem.  Unfortunately, that is causing the problem, but I think I can work it out.

 

regards....Paul

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@EAlexander

I would like to change the default seat to a stadium seating.  Not familiar enough with symbols to do that.  Can you point me in the right direction?

 

 

 

 

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@EAlexander

Figured it out, but any other advice you (or anyone else) has, I would appreciate.