Hrindous Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 Hello Vworks World! Hope everyone is doing well in Covid times! The Vectorworks University programs have been amazing to check out during our mandatory home time. So, I am struggling with with a combination of Industry standard practices of having a "callout" style deck plot and drafting in 3D. In the show that I'm doing, I have 4 tail downs from 2 line sets at varying depths, and 2 Lustr Series 2 on each tail down. The goal was to render and test my beams in the plot, as well as create a 3d accurate version of the theatre, but my professor is now showing that what I need to do for clarity and data is create a deck plot using callout boxes in a separate design layer that shows *vertically* where they're being hung on the pipe, as well as all of the data that goes with each instrument (purpose, Channel, and Unit #). In my circumstances, I also have to be careful to not have 2 instruments representing the same data, because I'm using the Lightwright 6 Data exchange system. How on earth do I either A: create a movable section view of just the tail down and get the data properly transposed on it with text boxes. or B :have multiple symbols (2d and 3d) representing the same instrument, without repeating the data in the LW6 data. I really like having the 3d lights in the space, as I'm using a live section viewport for the whole drawing, and testing the beams was so helpful, I would hate to just delete it for a footprint. Please let me know if anyone knows anything about this, or if this is just wishful thinking! I've attached a few images to help! -Hrindous Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee TomWhiteLight Posted October 21, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 21, 2020 So the drop sown bars need to be separate positions where you can create a schematic view. Spotlight - Visualisation - Create Schematic View Also for isolated section views of specific positions you should use the clip cube tool to create a section viewport. Basically right click on the clip cube face and select create section viewport. 1 Quote Link to comment
Hrindous Posted October 22, 2020 Author Share Posted October 22, 2020 Thank you so much! That was honestly super helpful! Now I can have them represented in both the Design, and Sheet layers without clogging up my master plot. That Clip Cube tool is AMAZING. And yeah I had to end up adding side arms to the tail downs, so a further complication of positioning, but in the end it's turning out well! Thank you again! 1 Quote Link to comment
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