Spotlight - Align Distribute Tool Crashes 2018 SP1 & SP2

[Wesley Burrows]

When using the "Align and Distribute Items" tool from the Spotlight tool set, VW 2018 SP1 crashes everytime I use the tool with fixtures on a hanging position.   The tool seems to work if the fixtures are just in some open space.   These were the settings I used.

 

 

 

Edited November 21, 2017 by Wesley Burrows

[markdd]

I can confirm this as well. Will you submitthiss as a bug?

 

Do you know about autoplot tools? These tools have several other ways to distribute fixtures.

Edited November 8, 2017 by markdd

[Wesley Burrows]

8 hours ago, markdd said:

I can confirm this as well. Will you submitthiss as a bug?

 

Do you know about autoplot tools? These tools have several other ways to distribute fixtures.

 

Yeah,  I've played with them a little bit,  But not for a while.   There wasn't much in the way of documentation and I didn't have a bunch of time to experiment with them.

 

 

I just submitted this as a bug.

Edited November 8, 2017 by Wesley Burrows

[Wesley Burrows]

FWIW This has been filed as VB-146635.   @JimW,  I don't know if this thread should be moved to known issues or if it should hang here.

[Wesley Burrows]

Update,  this bug still exists in SP2.

[markdd]

PLEASE can this be fixed soon!

Edited December 21, 2017 by markdd

[Martin Bernstein]

SP2 on Mac, same problem!

Very disappointing that this problem is not solved after such a long time.

 

Looking forward that this will be fixed soon,

 

 

[klinzey]

We are seeing the issue when you use a Hanging Position that contains a Vectorscript Parametric object. Till we can get the issues resolved when converting a Straight Truss,  Curved Truss or Lighting Pipe to a Hanging Position choose the "Create Symbol" option when converting the objects to a Hanging Position.

[Wesley Burrows]

1 minute ago, klinzey said:

We are seeing the issue when you use a Hanging Position that contains a Vectorscript Parametric object. Till we can get the issues resolved when converting a Straight Truss,  Curved Truss or Lighting Pipe to a Hanging Position choose the "Create Symbol" option when converting the objects to a Hanging Position.

 

 

Bummer,  according to Moritz Staffel @ Vectorworks Design Summit to avoid potential Braceworks calculation issues he recommends converting as geometry.   So I guess it's one or the other.

[klinzey]

There is no problem using the "Truss" object  placed by the "Insert Truss Tool".  It is not a Vectorscript object.

If you are making structural calculations you should be using the "Truss" object as it contains accurate structural data and not a generic cross section used by the Straight Truss object.

[markdd]

That's helpful to know. Many thanks.