synapse_gh Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Hi folks, Maybe a silly question here... I'm trying to speed up the creation of multiple focus points. "Duplicate As Array" does exactly what I want, but then I've got to go through and rename each focus point one at a time. I'm wondering if there's a way to have the name of each object increment by one during duplication (or some other way). So, for example, if I create "focuspoint_01", ideally I would duplicate or rename it so that each new focus point was named "focuspoint_02", "focuspoint_03" and so on. Where this really kicked my butt this week was on a plot which required a pinspot on each of 50 banquet tables, arranged in a grid. Laying out the focus points was easy, but it's a serious PITA to go through renaming and assigning each one on its own. Is there a better method here that I haven't learned yet? Much appreciated! - GRAHAM ======================= VW 2010 Spotlight w/Renderworks MBP 2.8 GHz, 4 GB RAM GeForce 9400M + 9600M GT Snow Leopard 10.6.3 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted June 8, 2010 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted June 8, 2010 I'm just wondering if the ID Label tool would help you with this. I am away from VW just at the moment but will check it out and come back to you. Quote Link to comment
Sam Jones Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Sorry to be a month and a half late to this one. AutoPlot Tools for SpotLight, www.autoplotvw.com, has a command that will make a grid that you define of focus points that are individually named. Sam Quote Link to comment
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