Spot00055.pngSpotlight preferences: Lightwright pane

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Path

Spotlight Preferences

File > Document Settings

The lighting instruments and parameters specified in the Vectorworks Spotlight product can be automatically sent to Lightwright versions 5 and later to perform paperwork processing. Any changes to the data in Lightwright automatically update the light plot. Once configured (and once the Vectorworks file has been saved), these updates occur seamlessly in both applications.

For versions of Lightwright earlier than 5, see the documentation for that version of Lightwright.

To specify automatic data transfer between the Vectorworks Spotlight product and Lightwright:

1.      Select the command.

2.      The Spotlight Preferences dialog box opens. Click the Lightwright pane.

3.      Click Use automatic Lightwright data exchange to enable automatic data transfer between the Vectorworks Spotlight product and Lightwright, and indicate the location for saving the transfer file.

4.      Move fields to be exported from the Available fields list to the Export fields list. All parameters in the Export fields list are exported to Lightwright.

Click Reset defaults to use the lists last saved as the default.

As instruments are added, deleted, and changed in the Vectorworks Spotlight product, the edits appear in Lightwright. Similarly, edits made in Lightwright apply automatically to the Vectorworks file. Instruments added in Lightwright are inserted in the Vectorworks file based on the Enable auto positioning when created setting on the Spotlight preferences: Loads and rigging pane. Instrument data are updated when the file focus switches from the Vectorworks file to Lightwright, or Lightwright to the Vectorworks file.

In the Vectorworks file, an import worksheet is automatically created, listing instruments that have been added from Lightwright as well as instruments that did not have a Lightwright equivalent and should possibly be deleted from the Vectorworks file.

Right-click on a database row of the import worksheet, and choose Select Item to select and display the associated instrument.

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Importing Vectorworks Spotlight Instrument Data

Exporting Vectorworks Spotlight data

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