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For instance, one of my template holders has a sub category of Lighting Accessory, one does not - I see potential trouble here-

So.... how do I see those subclasses? I didn't know of such a thing. The OIW only shows the one, how to assign or unassign to a sub class?

And now wondering, how can a light have 2 classes - all my units in class "Lights-Instruments" and the new "Lighting-Incandescent" turning one class or the other off, and they disappear. In the Object info, they still say they are assigned only the original class - Lights-instruments.

And another thing, found out that all units in the new library are, by default, set to class "incandescent" so when switching views, I almost had a heart attack when all the symbols were gone again. Sheesh.

Yup, just spent an entire day replacing all existing symbols in plot. It seems 2016 wants all unit symbol names to start with "lighting Instr" and accessories "Lighting acc" to register as such. What a pain. Would have appreciated a short cut way to transition, or at least a heads up.

I received some help from tech support, sent my file in and he returned one where I can now see all my symbols in the lighting symbol maintenance, and lighting inventory setup, but there is no data attached - just the symbol name - no type, wattage, lamp, beam info, etc. He said he found a...

Update - all paperwork appears to show what's in the plot, but Spotlight: lighting symbol maintenance, lighting inventory setup only show the 2 templates. Any idea how to fix?

Having a bad day with VW 2016. I was attempting to get accessory insertion tool working correctly with LW 5, and suddenly VW lighting inventory shows that I only have 2 templates in this plot of a couple hundred units. Lighting symbol maintenance shows the same, all paperwork. Units are there...

We're looking to replace a couple of T3 3 circuit / 6 lamp units. The cyc is 16' wide x 12'6 tall, and the strip pipe is 4' from the cyc. It's a fixed grid, only lighting the cyc from above, so I need to be certain the math works, I can't fly the pipe out higher to cover the cyc. I've been...

yes, tried 16 bit, and all other options on board the units.

yeah, wrong choice of words - all units were run off a/c not thru dimmers of course. All running thru DMX thru the board.

"via mains" ? not sure what you mean.

Yes - great point, will do. We did have the spectra cycle in 16 bit mode and tried every conceivable configuration and dimmer curve, could not get them completely smooth.

I can't tell you, it was a year ago or so when I had the problem in that space. Didn't know if there's some kind of dirty power issue or what that could induce the problem. It was 4 units daisy chained, and we tried every onboard setting on the units, and went thru all the dimming curves on the...

I've had problems in the past with LED units not dimming out smoothly- one show with spectra cycs, another with rush pars - in two different spaces, one with an express, one with an ion. could not find a profile or dimming curve where there wasn't a clean fade up from 0, or fade out - units...