mharpur Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Hi all Having an issue where when selecting Spotlight Numbering tool from the menu crashes Vectorworks. This issue occurs on both Catalina (Intel -based Mac) and Big Sur (M1 Based Mac). I can't seem to find a solution. Any help greatly appreciated thanks M Under Milk Wood - V1 MDH TEst.vwx Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Works fine here w/ Catalina. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee TomWhiteLight Posted May 7, 2021 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted May 7, 2021 Works here, fine on Big Sur. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee TomWhiteLight Posted May 7, 2021 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted May 7, 2021 OK - So you need to make a selection of lighting devices prior to Spotlight Numbering - Forgetting to make a selection first is causing the crash. You can use 'Manual' by not making a selection first... Just looking into this now... OK so when I opened the file I noticed that the layer options were set to 'Show, Snap, Modify others' When you ran the command, Spotlight Numbering was seeking every lighting device on the drawing (All 429 of them) my hardware which is average struggled to execute this. As a general workflow tip you should usually work in Grey, Snap Others. This stops the crashing, If you have to work across multiple layers at the same time then make irrelevant layers invisible. 1 Quote Link to comment
mharpur Posted May 7, 2021 Author Share Posted May 7, 2021 Thanks Tom. I will try this with the team this morning. Quote Link to comment
mharpur Posted May 7, 2021 Author Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) That worked great thank you. Just out of curiosity is this expected behaviour as 429 devices doesn't seem that many in the grand scheme of things. is it just a processing limit of the machines we are using? Edited May 7, 2021 by mharpur spelling mistake Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee TomWhiteLight Posted May 7, 2021 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted May 7, 2021 I think it is expected behaviour, you would never want to manually number 429 lighting devices! This is probably why no one has stumbled across this before. Better hardware may help but training everyone up would be cheaper than buying new machines. Get in touch with us if you would like information on our training course options. 1 Quote Link to comment
mharpur Posted May 7, 2021 Author Share Posted May 7, 2021 That’s great! Thanks for the update. I’ll forward on the training suggestion. thanks again for the assistance! Quote Link to comment
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