I'm hoping this is a simple user error and easily fixed, but I'm having issues getting the beam angles of my fixtures to match. The issue is happening with almost all the fixtures shown in the first screenshot, but I've selected just two for clarity. I'm currently running VW2020 SP6 on Windows 10.
Basically, I have these two fixtures which are both using the same symbol, are placed perfectly symmetrical from center, have the same y and z positions, and are focused on two points which are also placed perfectly symmetrical from center. Both fixtures have the same beam and field angles, and the throw calculations are 100% identical. However, when draw beam is enabled, it is clear that Vectorworks is drawing the two beams very differently. I've re-entered numbers, refreshed the symbols, verified everything matches, but they still are drawn differently. I replaced the symbols with various other ones throughout the Vectorworks library and the problem persists regardless of which symbols are used.
To rule out the possibility that the project file is screwed up somehow, I decided to start from a new file, which I've attached. In the new file, I used symbols taken directly from the Vectorworks library, set them up symmetrically and focused them each on symmetrically placed focus points. They are 100% mirrored from each other. Still, the beam angles are not the same.
I first noticed this on SP5 and have since updated to SP6 hoping it would kind of fix itself--but no luck. Any help or suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated. I feel like I've run out of ideas on how this could be fixed, but hopefully I've just overlooked something. Thanks in advance.
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I'm hoping this is a simple user error and easily fixed, but I'm having issues getting the beam angles of my fixtures to match. The issue is happening with almost all the fixtures shown in the first screenshot, but I've selected just two for clarity. I'm currently running VW2020 SP6 on Windows 10.
Basically, I have these two fixtures which are both using the same symbol, are placed perfectly symmetrical from center, have the same y and z positions, and are focused on two points which are also placed perfectly symmetrical from center. Both fixtures have the same beam and field angles, and the throw calculations are 100% identical. However, when draw beam is enabled, it is clear that Vectorworks is drawing the two beams very differently. I've re-entered numbers, refreshed the symbols, verified everything matches, but they still are drawn differently. I replaced the symbols with various other ones throughout the Vectorworks library and the problem persists regardless of which symbols are used.
To rule out the possibility that the project file is screwed up somehow, I decided to start from a new file, which I've attached. In the new file, I used symbols taken directly from the Vectorworks library, set them up symmetrically and focused them each on symmetrically placed focus points. They are 100% mirrored from each other. Still, the beam angles are not the same.
I first noticed this on SP5 and have since updated to SP6 hoping it would kind of fix itself--but no luck. Any help or suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated. I feel like I've run out of ideas on how this could be fixed, but hopefully I've just overlooked something. Thanks in advance.
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