michaelk Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 If anyone is using this time to clean up their venue drawings… I have a tool that I've been using in one form or another for years that is now stable enough to let other people use it. (Thanks @MullinRJ and @Pat Stanford!) It makes seating layouts and seating charts in theaters where the standard VW tool isn't accurate enough to accommodate whimsical rows that were once popular in theater architecture. It also doesn't clutter up the drawing by putting two arms between each seat. 😀 If you have one of the old versions of this tool, (1) thanks for testing it and (2) replace it with this version (1.1). It fixes a couple of annoying bugs. It's stable and useable (for me, at least) for now. There are some features I'd like to add, depending on the time I have for fun projects. If anyone has any thoughts about it let me know. You can down load it here. There is a sample file with a theater seating chart (some of you will recognize the venue). The directions give options for creating duplicates of rows and cutting rows to create aisles. But I've found it's often easier and faster to just make each row between each aisle. Let's hope seating charts become important again soon. 2 Quote Link to comment
JustFunk Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) My bad, but can't figure out where's the link on the https://www.verysmallgroup.com/theaterow Are you sure you placed it there? Actually, we got an interesting contract and from the government. The project is leaded by a concertmeister, he wants us to design a concert hall for the Philharmonic (with brass, strings, etc.) with a stage in the center. And for now I hve only one guy who had an experience in such sort of projects Edited August 10, 2020 by JustFunk Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 There's a link for Download Plug-in and Example File at the top of the page. Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted October 19, 2020 Author Share Posted October 19, 2020 New update to the seating chart tool, TheateRow. 1. By default it now uses the @SCParker Seat Spacing Method™. You can still go back to the old way if you need to match an existing seating situation. 2. You can now individually select the seat symbol for each seat in the row. 3. I'm working on a possible covid seating solution. This version lays some of the ground work. It can be used "as is" to plan out possible covid seating scenarios. If I get time to work on it, the user will be able to select a sellable seat and all seats within a specified radius that are not already set to sellable will show as blocked. I hope we're all back in production before I have time to write it 🙂. You can get the tool, a sample file to play with, and a video demonstration here. Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted December 19, 2020 Author Share Posted December 19, 2020 Funny thing. Turns out my website may not be serving the most recent version of the TheateRow tool. (Thank you Steve for the heads up!) If anyone is using it and suspects they have version 1, the website should now be correct. Just to be sure, I'll attach the most recent version here. TheateRow.vso Quote Link to comment
AmandaM22 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Hey all, I'm delayed in finding out about this and I would love to use the tool, but I am new to adding tools to the workspace. I tried to check out the video included in the link, but I'm a bit lost just because the tool isn't showing up at all. It's in the plugins folder, it should be the most recent version and as far as I can tell, I did everything right leading up to the "adding it to the workspace" part. Thanks and apologies if this is actually really easy and I'm just bad at this. Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted June 18, 2021 Author Share Posted June 18, 2021 After you add it to your plugin folder, restart VW. Then go to Tools > Workspaces > Edit Current Workspace. If that's not the problem, post back. We'll walk you through it. 1 Quote Link to comment
AmandaM22 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 It's once I'm in the workspace editor that I'm struggling to find the tool itself within that. Thanks for the reminder to restart VW though, I definitely did forget to do that originally😅 Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted June 18, 2021 Author Share Posted June 18, 2021 On the top click the Tool tab On the left you can either look in All Tools or in MK Commands Once you find it in the left column open the Tool Sets in the right column. Then open the tool palette you want to put it in. (i.e., Spotlight, Event Planning, Building Shell, Furn/Fixtures, etc) Then grab the tool from the left column and drag it to the desired place in the right column. Make sure it doesn't indent a little under another tool. If it does just drag it out and back until it lines up on the left side. That should do it 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment
AmandaM22 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 @michaelk Thank you so very much for your help on that. I just followed your directions and it worked and the tool, based on my limited amount of use is already really amazing and I look forward to using it more! 😄 Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted September 6, 2021 Author Share Posted September 6, 2021 Slightly improved version available. This one does a better job at predicting the placement of the house right aisle label and makes the OIP a little more user friendly. https://www.verysmallgroup.com/theaterow 1 Quote Link to comment
aheininen Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 Hi @michaelk great tool. I was testing latest version v2.2 and run into issue with text styles. Last seat on row takes text style from Text Style Row number. Row numbers don't get text style from anywhere. See screenshot. Nr. 14 is bigger than rest seats and Rows are just that handle with no text visible. 1 Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted September 13, 2021 Author Share Posted September 13, 2021 @aheininen Ha! That’s funny. Can you post a file with the misbehaving row? thanks for finding letting me know! Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted September 13, 2021 Author Share Posted September 13, 2021 If you enter a value for the row does it fix itself? Quote Link to comment
aheininen Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 I think you are on point here. Yes if I put value for row then it is correct. My mistake to miss value for row. Also maybe not desired behavior if you don't put in row values that last seat number takes "wrong" text style. Do you still need test file? Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted September 14, 2021 Author Share Posted September 14, 2021 No, I was able to recreate it. Next time I go back to work on it I'll fix it :-). Thanks for pointing it out. Let me know how it works for you. I love seeing real world drawings using TheateRow if you don't mind sharing. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
LXatUniofCalgary Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 @michaelk, Thank you for making this plugin available. I have been in the process of redrafting my venue and this tool helped so much with our audience seating sections. After struggling with Vectorworks Seating Tool for hours, I was able to redraft our seating in under 20 minutes. 1 Quote Link to comment
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