Jake DeGroot Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 (edited) I know there have been a whole bunch of posts recently about bugginess in Label Legends in VW2013. It seems like some of the issues have been resolved in SP3, (such as the container right-reading bug) but I still have a couple of very annoying issues remaining: 1) I am unable to get vertically rotated text to show up via a legend if the legend is set to be non-rotating in Label Legend Manager. I am using the same legends I have been using for many versions of VW and in my legends, the purpose field is vertically rotated so the purpose should be written-out alongside the light and in line with it, vertically if the light is pointing up. If the Non-Rotating option is checked in the legend's Edit Fields dialog in Label Legend Manager, then all text displays at 0? all the time. This is not how this should work, right? I would think expected behavior is that the text shouldn't ever rotate from it's angle/position in the legend as the light rotates. It should not be locked to 0?, overriding my legend's layout. I guess the workaround is to turn off Non-Rotating for all my legends, but this is frustrating. 2) For many years, I have used a custom Light Info Record format which includes a text field called "Use Legend". In previous versions of spotlight, this field would allow me to specify a default legend per symbol so whenever I inserted a lighting instrument, it would already have the proper legend. Now, it seems to no longer work. When I insert my lights, they get added with no Legend at all. However, if I do a "Replace with Active Symbol" from within the Lighting Device's Object Info Palette, then it grabs the proper legend and adds it. My current workaround for this is to have to manually assign all legends. Grrr. Thanks for any help/suggestions/fixes. Jake VW2013 Spotlight on Mac OS 10.8.3 Edited April 14, 2013 by jaked Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted April 15, 2013 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 15, 2013 Jake, Please submit a bug about item #1. http://www.vectorworks.net/support/bugsubmit.php #2 works as designed. A lighting device is always inserted with the active label legend as chosen in the Label Legend Manager. The fact that it picked up the Label Legend from the record was a bug. Quote Link to comment
Jake DeGroot Posted April 17, 2013 Author Share Posted April 17, 2013 Thanks for the reply, Kevin. Bug submitted for second one. Could I possible then turn #2 into a feature request? It was an incredibly useful part of my workflow and have spent a huge amount of time making custom legends for different lights in different orientations and assigning them all to be the default per symbol. Why would this not be the intended behavior when it works so brilliantly? Since the default Light Info Record has no "Use Legend" field, who does it hurt by keeping the feature as it was? For most users, it will remain as-is, but for power users who want to make custom Info Records, it saves hours and hours. Please bring it back! Quote Link to comment
robinsona Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 I'd like to second the request to bring back the 'Use Legend' functionality. I was disappointed to see that this is gone in 2013. Quote Link to comment
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