Earlier version VW Import woes

[mjm]

As one can see, 2018's import function seems to corrupt the text layout. Far as I can make out, there's no fix in 2018 possible.

Intriguingly, 2017 has no trouble. I am importing from a VW 2008 file.

 

Thoughts? Fixes?

 

Thanks

 

PS; oh yes, the third screenshot? that's from the correct v2017, saved, then opened in v2018. Why does it fail?

 

So, when I break a fixture symbol down to a group, ungroup, then select text objects, they're all wrapped. There any way this can be globally adjusted within the symbol? All PIO fields are greyed-out

Edited December 14, 2017 by mjm
Added additional info

[markdd]

I don't understand where you are importing from. 

[mjm]

1 minute ago, markdd said:

I don't understand where you are importing from. 

Thanks Mark; I see how I could have been clearer & so have edited the post to reflect the originating SW.

[markdd]

I feel your pain! I have just opened a 2008 drawing in 2018 with the same results. I am not sure what fix to offer yet. I imported a new label legend and applied it to some of my instruments  and all behaves fine with those. Maybe you should remake the label legends or import them from a recent design? 

 

Hope that helps a bit?!

 

 

[mjm]

20 minutes ago, markdd said:

I feel your pain! I have just opened a 2008 drawing in 2018 with the same results. I am not sure what fix to offer yet. I imported a new label legend and applied it to some of my instruments  and all behaves fine with those. Maybe you should remake the label legends or import them from a recent design? 

 

Hope that helps a bit?!

 

 

Thanks Mark. And right back atcha.

Sadly, (now, but certainly not then) I was using @Sam Jones Autoplot VW plugins, which I loved dearly. I need to see if there's a APVW to SL translation mechanism which would perhaps solve the problem in on swell foop, as it were…

Edited December 14, 2017 by mjm

[Sam Jones]

I'm assuming the file has APVW symbols that need to be converted.  This is problematic since there have been a number of changes to the Light Info Record of Spotlight symbols.  However, I just sent a macro to do such a conversion to Michael Mazzola.  Let me know if you want to try it.  If if doesn't work, I should be able to change so that it will.  I will need you to send me a file with APVW symbols to test it on.  That being said APVW symbols don't use label legends so the best such a conversion macro could do would be to apply the default or active label legend to the converted symbols.  Additionally it is likely that the converted symbols would not have a Light Info Record which could pose an issue with Vision and maybe some regular Spotlight renderings.

 

Sam