mjm Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 I don't understand where you are importing from. Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted December 14, 2017 Author Share Posted December 14, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 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?! Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted December 14, 2017 Author Share Posted December 14, 2017 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment
Sam Jones Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 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 Quote Link to comment
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