Nik Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 I suspect this is more of a feature request but... I'm currently working for a dance company that has an extensive repetory of ballets. Currently all the specials for a ballet are put on a layer. This allows us to turn layers on and off depending on which ballets are used for a given season. Unfortunately even the units that are on frozen layers export to LW. It would be great if I could tell Vectorworks to not include units on frozen layers in the XML file. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted August 20, 2010 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted August 20, 2010 You can't stop them from exporting but LW knows about the layers and you can filter them out of LW. Quote Link to comment
ericjames Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 really??!?!? That would be very helpful.. how do you filter them? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted August 27, 2010 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted August 27, 2010 In LW use Utilities\Limits As a example if the Layer you want to hide is "FOH Positions" then you would set Match "All Kinds" "x" and also when "VW Layer" "is not" "FOH Positions" You can add mutiple conditions to hide mutiple layers. The same limit can be applied when printing paperwork. Data changes will still be transfered and visable as soon as you remove the limit. Quote Link to comment
ericjames Posted August 28, 2010 Share Posted August 28, 2010 Thanks Kevin! I will have to try that. Quote Link to comment
Nik Posted September 4, 2010 Author Share Posted September 4, 2010 Unfortunately you can only apply one limit at a time. If we have 20 ballets in repetory for a season I would need to add 20 evaluations to each of my existing limits such as FOH , Booms, Overhead, Movers, etc. Quote Link to comment
JBenghiat Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 Nik, In LW, you can view and sort by layer. So, for example, you could limit by FOH and view Layers 3 and 5. You would, however, need to create limits for printing. -Josh Quote Link to comment
Nik Posted September 9, 2010 Author Share Posted September 9, 2010 Or VW could have the option of toggling layers so they never make it to LW in the first place. Much easier! Using limits in this way is a workaround at best. I can very easily see someone printing the paperwork w/o a limit and ending up with over 100 ballets worth of specials! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted September 9, 2010 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 9, 2010 Exporting only visible layers was considered but we decided against it since layer visibility is only a temporary state of the drawing. If you changed layer visibility the layers not currently visible would be deleted from LW and then when you made the layers in VW visible again the lights would be seen as NEW in LW. This would happen every time you changed layer visibility in VW. If you added lights in LW on a layer that was not visible at the time what would VW do with the lights? The more we looked at it the more potential problems we found. Quote Link to comment
Nik Posted September 16, 2010 Author Share Posted September 16, 2010 I realize that layer visibility is not the way to control this but having another variable associated with layers would be a great assett. Quote Link to comment
Teresa Hull Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 I could be WAY off base here, but ... Could your drawing(s) be organized so that each ballet was a separate drawing that was referenced by the "master" (rep plot) drawing? ** I am assuming that a referenced file would not share information with LW exchange --- I do not know if this is true. ** From the "master" drawing you could see all, some or none of the ballets. In order to pull the lighting information into LW, you would have to open that document. Quote Link to comment
W Wilkerson Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 You could use the MARK field that exists in both programs, and limit using that Quote Link to comment
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