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    Vectorworks Spotlight Student

    TupeloTechieKid, sorry I didn’t mean to hijack your thread. If i were you i would wait until we here what Nemetschek has to say before further pursing purchasing a student license.
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    Vectorworks Spotlight Student

    I think that we should get as many people as we can to write to Nemetschek expressing our opions about this latest upgrade. There is usually power in numbers....
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    Vectorworks Spotlight Student

    I don't think that it's the watermark that is bugging me, it's the fact that files i create can't by viewed by profesional license. Also Nemetschek never told me about this.
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    Vectorworks Spotlight Student

    I have attached screen shots of the error message that comes up when a profesional license tries to open a student file, a screen shot of the message that appears when you start a new file in a student license, and finally there is a pdf attached showing the watermark.
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    Vectorworks Spotlight Student

    Just so you know within the past month I bought a student license of Vector Works 12.5. Nemetschek has changed some things, the Student edition now does add a water mark on all of your files. But the biggest change, which i am currently extremely frustrated with is that any file saved by a...
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    College Considerations

    ooppsss... read part of the post wrong
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    College Considerations

    The program has changed a little since you have graduated Josh. I am currently attending NCSA for Lighting. Freshmen year we have two terms of had drafting then I believe the third time is CAD. They haven't decided which CAD program we are going to use. There are courses in AutoCAD and...
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    College Considerations

    what are you applying for?
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    Fluorescent lamp questions

    One of the reasons that fluorescent lamps run cooler is that the arc does not run the length of the tube. There are two arcs in a fluorescent lamp one at each end, so the arc is only between the two posts at the end of the lamp. Also the arc does not create the light in the lamp. How a...
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    NCarts and Portfolios

    Are you planning to attend NC-Arts? Steve
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    Tax Help

    This post is directed to more of the professional members of the forum, but the discussion will help everyone. Last year the majority of my income was from a lighting company in Chicago, I was employed as a freelance technician and worked mainly in their shop. No taxes were taken out of my...
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    the pre-show freak out

    I have found that the best thing to do is to only let the necessary people know of the problem. Train your crew to use a specified random word to notify you of a problem, this keeps all unnecessary people out of the problem. Then you can handle the situation before anyone finds out about it...
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    Many many intel questions....

    *Please feel free to correct me if any information in this post is wrong, but I am sharing my experience with this equipment, which could have been different* You CAN NOT run Mac2ks or a DF-50 off of dimmers. Not to get into too much detail but dimmers essentially chop up the sin waves of...
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    Effects database

    Sound Effect Search EngineI use http://www.findsounds.com/ It is great, it is an internet search engine for sound effects. And the best part is that it is free. You also have lots of choices to narrow down your search, you can choose: Flie Type, Mono or Stereo, Minimum Resolution, Minimum...
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