Lightwright Adding Fixtures & Positions

[carsonld]

Two questions...

I am using a file I drafted on Vectorworks earlier this year. I have Electric 1A, Electric 1B Electric 2A, Electric 3A. This is a file I have just "save as" for new shows. When I use data exchange in lightwright it added Electric 2B with six fixtures on it. I looked at the VW symbol coloumn and saw that it was six wybron scroller. Earlier this spring we rented chroma q scrollers and I just used the wybron symbol but changed the name. Now I have zero scrollers in my plot but somehow these wybron guys showed up on a new position. I reset the highlight and history but thats all I have done. When I delete the fixtures from lightwright, nothing is removed from the plot.

Secondly, I am having trouble getting vectorworks to auto number correctly. I have my lighting pipe converted to a lighting position and then my fixture show they are on that position. However, when I go to "auto number position" it numbers the fixtures in a weird order. Any ideas?

Lightwright and I don't get along a lot of the times as it always breaks the communication between Vectorworks and I have to create a new xml file... so I am always running into problems. Any ideas on the problem I am experiencing?

Thanks for the input. In the meantime I will continue reading the manual

 

[danTt]

What direction is the autonumber set to? Is it right to left when your position is up to down (or visa-versa?)

As far as scrollers go... I've always found deleting accessories from vectorworks and letting that update in lightwright is more successful than deleting/adding things in lightwright.

As far as the software goes... It's fustrating, unpredictable, and a shame that the market is too small for a competitor to feel motivated to make something. Every time I use it something else amazes me at how... creatively... it behaves.

 

[carsonld]

Autonumber is set right to left and the position is an electrical which is also right to left.

Im confused because I dont have any scrollers on the light plot. I dont even have electrical 2B anymore. But it keeps appearing in the lightwright show file. I have even found the layer and class that it is on but there is nothing there that corresponds to what lightwright is showing.

 

[danTt]

Have you done a "perform a complete export on exit" in VW and then synced this back to LW to make sure everythings still on the same page?