ericjames Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 I'm a little confused right now. I am on tour and trying to fit my normal light plot into a repertory plot. The theatre sent me a dwg file of the rep. I imported the dwg into Vectorworks, and then went through and converted all of the lights to instruments using "modify/ convert to instrument" command. I have then gone back and entered some of the light data. Everything seems to be working until I assign a label legend. I made a new label legend, did the layout, and used "assign legend to fixture" command. When I did, the fixture symbol disappears. The color, instrument number and channel are visible, but no fixture. If I click on any of the data, the OIP appears like normal. The same thing occurs if I just enter the legend name in the OIP. I have tried multiple times, and always the same result except for one time I forgot to do the layout, and then the fixture did not disappear. Any suggestions? I'm running 2008, SP3 Thanks! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted February 9, 2009 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 9, 2009 Your symbols are probably 3D only. As soon as you assign a label legend to the instruments the objects become hybrid and supress the 3D in a 2D view. If you switch to a 3D view you should see the fixtures. To fix the problem you will have to edit the symbols and the 2D information then run refresh instruments. Quote Link to comment
ericjames Posted February 11, 2009 Author Share Posted February 11, 2009 Thanks Kevin, that was the problem Quote Link to comment
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