Hoist Load Weight Missing in 2021

[corbinhand]

The hoist tool seems to no longer have a "load weight" field in VW2021. I used this field to create simple rigging worksheets for the last several years. Now I am struggling to find a way to make my old workflow work. Has anyone else run into this and found a workaround?

 

I don't have Braceworks, and don't intend to make that purchase anytime soon given the way 2020 went...

[jcogdell]

Have you considered adding a custom record to the hoists to document this?

once it has been attached to a hoist symbol you can save the hoist with the record attached into your favorites or user folder for future projects

 

 

 

[markdd]

I believe the field you are looking for is now called Hoist Weight Equivalent. I am no structural engineer so cannot give you a detailed reason why this has been changed, but it seems that the terminology is more aligned with engineering best practice than the old one.

 

You will need to add a data tag on the new tool instead of using the fixed labels. There are a couple of examples available in the Data Tag libraries, but for the most part you will need to make your own.

 

 

[corbinhand]

@jcogdell Why has your team taken away very simple functionality that's been available for years? Why have developers elected to make my workflow MORE cumbersome? Why do I now have to create custom records and attach them to ever single hoist symbol?

 

There has to be a better solution than this. 

[ReMatsu]

You can still use the old one. Edit your workspace, Click the "Tools" tab, search for "Legacy" on the list and add Hoist(Legacy) to your tool set. That's what I did. 🙂

[corbinhand]

25 minutes ago, ReMatsu said:

You can still use the old one. Edit your workspace, Click the "Tools" tab, search for "Legacy" on the list and add Hoist(Legacy) to your tool set. That's what I did. 🙂

I don't know why I didn't consider this! Thank you for the idea. +5 pro points for you 

[stayathomedad]

Looks like I am headed to the Hoist(Legacy) tool. I even tried to attach a custom record to the hoist symbols as jcogdell suggested, but when the hoist is inserted using the new Hoist tool, it seems to make the attached record fields inaccessible too edit.

[jcogdell]

@stayathomedad I made a mistake regarding this so please disregard my previous answer.

After talking with some colleges the workflow for attaching a custom Data record to a hoist is that it has to attached after insertion with the hoist tool for it to be accessible in the data pane.

If the hoist is inserted as a normal symbol without using the hoist tool then the data record will be directly visible.