Accessories hide Label Legend

[marioilsanker]

Hi there,

I'm having a problem with my Label Legend Manager:

Everything works fine, just as I want it to be as long as I don't insert any accessories to my lighting device, such as a colour changer. Because the colour changer takes some space in front of the lamp it hides my channel label which is there. Is there any possibility to get the LL-Manager to use the "whole thing" when a accessory is involved? Like the actual lamp plus the shutter plus the colour changer and place the dimmer label then in front of all of them with the offset of the legend layout?

Thanks a lot!

Mario

[klinzey]

The label legend will not automatically move labels when you add accessories. You can either move them manually or create a separate label legend.

If the issue is the accessory hiding the label you can just change the stacking order and sent the accessory to the back and the label will show ion top of the accessory.

[marioilsanker]

Hi Kevin,

thanks for making that clear!

But I am just wondering, wouldn't it be logic to automatically move the label legend when accessories are used (not static ones)? What's the point of not moving them? In my case for example, I have a big opera house setup with dozens of HMI Fresnel of different sizes. Each of them either just alone, some with shutter, some with shutter + colour changer, and some even with shutter, CC and Barndoors... That makes the lamp actually double its "length" (I attached a picture). So I would now have to change every label by hand or create such a lot of label legends that I would then have to change every LL of each lamp again. When would not changing the Label be needed? I find that the so powerful functionality of the LLM which actually makes Vectorworks to my first choice for drawing lighting plots gets lost because I have to modify every information of every lamp again. I would even consider to draw the accessory as part of the symbol and have one lighting device per function, because then the label would work again even though this means that I would lose a lot of other features such as the count, etc...

I'm afraid I do not really understand the methodology of this function, am I understanding something wrong? I think it would be great to have this option, especially for large scale productions.

I would be very interested what you think about this, thank you very much!

My best regards from Austria,

Mario

[PWLD]

Yes Please. Can not see why this is not a feature already.