mjm Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Who has time for this? It appears that in the shuttling of data between virgin LW6 and made-in-2022 plot that data is being corrupted: Entire (but not every) electrics of lighting devices have suddenly become static accessories. They retain at least some of the fixture data but they're NO LONGER LIGHTS. There goes a couple hours of work lost and certainly another to rebuild. Any product trust I may have retained has been corrupted by that data loss. Easy-peasy fix anyone? I have attached a couple screenshots showing the diff between the backup file from 2 hours ago and from the current file. I suppose it might be best to delete the problem units & copy | paste-in-place the backups from the latest still Lights file, eh? Let me go do that research now. Quote Link to comment
Lightwright Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 (edited) What version of Vectorworks? I hope you immediately filed a bug report, including the .vwx file. If you suspect it's a problem with Lightwright, file a bug report with the .vwx and .lw6 files at lightwright.com. Edited January 17, 2022 by Lightwright 1 Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted January 18, 2022 Author Share Posted January 18, 2022 10 hours ago, Lightwright said: What version of Vectorworks? I hope you immediately filed a bug report, including the .vwx file. If you suspect it's a problem with Lightwright, file a bug report with the .vwx and .lw6 files at lightwright.com. Vectorworks 2022 SP 2.1 Filed no report, exported back to 2021, re-did all the lost data and pressed on. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted January 18, 2022 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted January 18, 2022 I'd need to see the file to be sure but from the screenshot to top one "Edit Accessory" is set to" #1 -Light ..." so you are probably editing the accessory in the top screen shot. In the bottom screen shot "Edit Accessory" is set to "<None> so you are editing the main light. For the lights you are having issues with make sure the "Edit Accessory" is set to "<None>". Quote Link to comment
Eileen Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Having the same issue in 2021, trying to work thru the problem, hours later still in the same place. 1 Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted January 27, 2022 Author Share Posted January 27, 2022 (edited) On 1/18/2022 at 7:14 AM, klinzey said: I'd need to see the file to be sure but from the screenshot to top one "Edit Accessory" is set to" #1 -Light ..." so you are probably editing the accessory in the top screen shot. In the bottom screen shot "Edit Accessory" is set to "<None> so you are editing the main light. For the lights you are having issues with make sure the "Edit Accessory" is set to "<None>". 'm back to re-visit this issue. As a test I drew out a plot in 2022, very simple. After an hour of drawing, random electrics start showing the fixtures as static Accessories in the OIP. I just discovered that in the Lighting Device panel(double click the fixture -I never use this tool) the fixture appears to be shown correctly, but incorrectly in the OIP. Please see screenshot for visual clarity. a Naughty Fixture is selected, shown in Lighting Device Panel properly, but over there where I spend most of my time in the OIP we can see it reports the static accessory. @klinzeyI am not at all sure what youre reffereing to in your comment but I do very much want to. OH wait! as a test, I entered a channel # into the LD panel, et voila! there it is in the LD panel. But when I skitter my gaze back to the OIP, I do not see the result of my action. Things like this destroy my working brain and no work gets done. Help please PS; It certainly does not appear to be a LW6 issue 2022 Static accessory Issue.zip Edited January 27, 2022 by mjm added a clarifying comma Quote Link to comment
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