TMcP Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 I have been looking through my old lighting plots with the New spotlight 10.1.2. I seem to be having a problem. If i pick a symbol and place it in the drawing using the symbol placement tool, and then decide that it needs to be a lighting device......I find that I am unable to change it to a lighting device. Using the add instrument tool works fine.....but not the spotlight/define/convert / lighting instrument. If i start from scratch, with a new file, I can do this procedure the way I always have. Only files from a previous version of Vectorworks seem to be affected. It isn't just 1 file, it seems to be all of my old lighting plots.....some of which I need to modify and update. Anyone else having a similar problem? Quote Link to comment
Swift Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 I didn't have exactly your problem with 10.1, mine was that I couldn't convert lighting instruments to multicircuit units. The problem was (and it could be with you) that after converting an older drawing to 10.1, the entire key block, which is a group, was selected. You can't immediately see this. You need to double-click on the key block to enter [group edit], then click in blank space to de-select everything, then [exit group], select your instrument and try to convert again. This worked for me. Quote Link to comment
TMcP Posted June 5, 2003 Author Share Posted June 5, 2003 Thanks for the direction.......it does seem to be the key block indeed. I don't have it set up as a group.....but I do have them all "locked", as just symbols. I'm not sure why having these instances of the symbols locked would make a difference....but it does. Unlocking these symbols then allows me to work with the Define/Convert to instrument. Quote Link to comment
Jim_Allen Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Could the problem be avoided by not inserting, or deleting your existing key block, until you have placed and converted all the instruments - then place a new key block? I haven't uped to V10 so I haven't tried to convert a 9.5 plot yet. Quote Link to comment
TMcP Posted June 6, 2003 Author Share Posted June 6, 2003 The problem seems to be related to layer properties. When it is set to show/snap/modify other layers......it doesn't work properly. When set to just show/snap others....it works fine. Now...let's be clear....some of these plots are 5 years old....and have some legacy....LD assist stuff in them. So there are some other things going on. Lots of classes....and lots of layers. I have found ways to work around the problem I'm having...but it is a little cumbersome. I'm contemplating cleaning all the plots up and updating them new in 10. Quote Link to comment
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