JGoss Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 Has anybody had consistent success importing DXF or DWG drawings that have been exported from WYSIWYG? I've receieved a couple files that have been exported as DXF's and all of the instruments, text blocks, etc are drawn as individual lines. I'd like to be able to get all of the lighting symbols to at least come in as symbols/blocks, with the text as editable text fields. (Obviously it would be great if Vectorworks could import the drawing and have Spotlight recognize all of the WYSIWYG data) Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks, Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 I understand that WYSIWYG means 'what you see is what you get' but I don't understand the context in which you use it. Do you mean Paper Space (Autocad)/Sheet Layers (Vectorworks)? Quote Link to comment
C. Andrew Dunning Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 WYSIWYG is a lighting previsualization software package. See http://www.cast-soft.com/cast/software/home.jsp for more info. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 Oh I see. Bit confusing of them to use a well known acronym: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG Quote Link to comment
Jim_Allen Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 That is the whole point of their software. You set up the space in 3-D, hang the rig and you can see exactly what you get on the screen. It is used a lot for intelligent fixture rigs that have limited load in and programming time. You can pre-program your movements, color, focuses,etc and see it on the computer screen (thus WYSIWG), and then load it into the board and you will have a show. neat program - but big $$$ Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 (thus WYSIWG) Yeah, sorry to hijack the thread, but it's a bit like Ford calling a new car, well, "car." Quote Link to comment
alanmac Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 (thus WYSIWG) Yeah, sorry to hijack the thread, but it's a bit like Ford calling a new car, well, "car." Ah but they did, a few years ago Christiaan - The Ka interestingly they never brought out a Si version as they did in some other models ;~) Alan Quote Link to comment
JGoss Posted May 23, 2006 Author Share Posted May 23, 2006 Yes, I was referring to Cast Lighting's WYSIWYG program. It appears from their documentation that when exporting a DXF/DWG file the text fields will export as text fields, but they're not showing up that way in Vectorworks. Does anybody have any experience with this? Thanks! Quote Link to comment
priman Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 I think DXF do not support CAD in Block/Symbol, in DXF everything is turned back to lines. Try to export from WYSWYG as DWG at least DWG and see what happen. Quote Link to comment
Flavie Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 i have it as DWG and its only lines to.... Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee jcogdell Posted November 15, 2021 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 15, 2021 @Flavie Wysiwyg now supports the new MVR file format so it should no longer be necessary to use DWG or DXF files when collaberating with a Wysiwyg user. Below is the link to a recent webinar by Dany Tancou from Castsoft about how to work with Wysiwyg and MVR 1 Quote Link to comment
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