A.D.K. Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 (edited) Lightwright data exchange working great, except it won't read fixtures that were created in VW by copying other fixtures. It reads fixtures inserted with fixture insert tool just fine, but not when it's been copied. This holds even if the fixture has totally different data than the original. Once I manually add the fixture to LW, it doesn't pull the rest of the data from that fixture in VW, but it doesn't throw a conflict/errror. Any fix? Is this a vw problem, or a lw problem? Thanks! Edited September 24, 2020 by A.D.K. Quote Link to comment
JBenghiat Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Is this for 2021? If so, see here: https://www.mckernon.com/supportmenu/vwdataexchangevwbugs2021.html Quote Link to comment
A.D.K. Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 It's the end of the world. But thank @JBenghiat! Exactly the answer I needed. I deserve it for apparently skimming the release notes. But it looks like definitely a VW problem. Do we have an eta on a fix? Quote Link to comment
A.D.K. Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 Wait a sec, does this say only if the copying was done *after* data exchange has been initiated? Because that's a pretty easy fix... Turn it all off and on again and dump it in a new LW6 file. Disregard panic. I thought I did that and it didn't work, but I must have been tired/frustrated and did it wrong. Quote Link to comment
Lightwright Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 When I said "it only screws up if Data Exchange has been started", that really means "If you have ever connected the .vwx file to Lightwright or want to connect in the future." not "when you are currently connected to Lightwright." The problem is that the Vectorworks and Lightwright UIDs aren't being duplicated properly during any copy/mirror/duplicate operation in Vectorworks. 1 Quote Link to comment
A.D.K. Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 Just now, Lightwright said: When I said "it only screws up if Data Exchange has been started", that really means "If you have ever connected the .vwx file to Lightwright or want to connect in the future." not "when you are currently connected to Lightwright." The problem is that the Vectorworks and Lightwright UIDs aren't being duplicated properly during any copy/mirror/duplicate operation in Vectorworks. Thank you for clarification. I guess I'll be sticking to 2020 for a while. What a pain. Quote Link to comment
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