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Lighting accessory hook height conflict - z height to base


gmulder

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Hello users,

 

On all my moving lights in our personal library, i've added brackets to all fixtures. The bracket accessory is a separate accessory symbol including a parts and info record.

 

So for this example, the bracket symbol is as followed (z height is based on a 50mm tube):

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And it's added to the fixture as followed (not double clicked, but drag an drop):

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As you can see, the connecting point of the bracket has a different height than the bounding box of the fixture. This results in a wrong inserting of the complete symbol when adding the fixture to the drawing. I had this issue also in 2021. 

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When just using the add accessory tool, it does the same (of course).

 

Does somebody has a workaround to fix this? It would be helpful if it should listen to a loci point for example.

 

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Yes. There is a workflow to correct this.

 

Add a 3D Locus to the location that you want the Lighting Device insertion point to connect to in the Accessory Symbol and add the Parts Record to it. Check the Point Field.

 

Now the Lighting Device insertion point will displace to the 3D Locus in the Accessory Symbol.

 

Hope that works for you.

 

 

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OK

 

The locus needs to be on the Accessory not in the Lighting Instrument Symbol. You should also make sure that it is offset by the amount you wish the Lighting Symbol to offset when the accessory is placed.

 

I also took the liberty of placing the insertion point of the Accessory at the point where the centre of the pipe would be.

 

BTW this only works on 2022

 

Here is the file back.

 

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Hope that makes sense.

Bracket conflict.vwx

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