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Lightwright 6 and vectorworks6/29/2023 mentioned, I have found that almost all lighting designers (especially the ones working out of NYC) use Vectorworks. Except for the designers that still use pencil and paper, most of our designers work in Vectorworks, but one or two work in AutoCad. FGO has both Autocad 2005 and Vectorworks Spotlight 11.5. Any symbol based on the same idea will also do this.Īs the ALD down at Florida Grand Opera in Miami, I deal with the same sort of headaches that you mention. I'm using the Etc Source 4 36? symbol as an example because it comes broken straight out of the box. As long as there is some difference, it will insert the proper symbol and drop in the correct Light Info record information. Now you can get around this issue by adding some graphical element to the 36? symbol. It is kind enough to tell you that it actually inserted the Etc Source 4 body symbol, instead of the Etc Source 4 36? that you actually wanted in the drawing. When using an instrument symbol that references another symbol without any change from the original for example the graphical Source 4 fixtures that come with Spotlight, and you insert the Etc Source 4 36? symbol (that is just the Etc Source 4 body masquerading as a 36?), the Obj Info palette shows no data. I'm wondering if anybody knows why the following happens:
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