ArenaLights Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 Try as we might we cant seem to atach intrument type, watage and frame size data to our newly made instrument symbols. How is this acheived it seems that symbols come in from vectorworks with this ability. Modifying the light info record does not do the trick. All we are trying to do is what Autocad would call default text in certain atribute fields. We are pulling our hair out. Any suggestions Thank you Tlaloc Lopez-Watermann Arena Stage Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted January 22, 2003 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted January 22, 2003 Import the Light Info Record from another file if it does not exist. Edit the 2d symbol definition. De-Select everything. Change to the Data pane in the IOP. Check the box next to the Light Info Record to attach the record. Fill out the data. Exit the symbol. The step that most people miss is to De-Select before attaching the record. You can take a look at Appendix-A for some more detailed instructions. Quote Link to comment
ArenaLights Posted January 23, 2003 Author Share Posted January 23, 2003 Thak you very much this worked However, I thought it would be good to post that sometimes the name of the field name in the light info record is diffent than the field name in the instrument record. This means that even if you do have the information about the light in the light info record it will not show up when you lok at te object info of the light. This problem came up when the field in one of them was named Inst Type and the field in the other was named Instrument Type. To work around the problem all I did was edit the global Light Info record to match field names with the instrument record. Anyway in the end we got it to work Quote Link to comment
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