WYSIWYG Import Floor Plan

[vinntec]

Hi - I am probably doing something really stupid but..

 

I am using WYSIWYG R23 Report (educational edition) and have been sent a stage plan as a bitmap for a very small 70 seater theatre. It has a scale on the bottom to show that the theatre is only a little over 6m wide. I am running on Windows Vista and a screen set to 1280 x 1024 32-bit colour resolution. If I import this as a floor plan, I set the width to be 6m according to the scale in the normal way. However after loading, the length of the scale on the imported floor plan is only about 5.6 metres – which in such a small theatre is quite a large error. It makes no difference if I zoom in or out, or use imperial rather than metric scales it does the same thing every time! Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong or is it just that WYSIWYG is not used to such small theatres?

 

Peter Vincent, amateur LD, UK

[the kid]

It should work, I have done it several times before.

If you import a image as floor plan it says something about setting a distance, you then click either side of the stage and type in the distance (if it comes up in inches just type 6m and it will work it out for you), and that should work.

 

This is for R22 but I assume R23 will not of changed TOO much for importing.

If all else fails email tech support, you will need the dongle number but they are very good at sorting things out.

 

The other thing to do if all else fails is to create a riser/shape that is the needed size and import the image on to the top surface. a bit of a bodge but should work as well.

[vinntec]

Hi

 

thanks for your ideas. Cast have agreed is a known bug for small images and theatres which will be fixed one day.

 

I have tried your suggestion of using a surface and importing the image as a texture, but this does not show up in CAD view. This might be because I only have Report, but have I missed something?

 

Further suggestions welcome

 

Regards -- PV

[DonkiDonki]

I have found the import floorlpan tool to be a bit hit & miss for scale. As long as you know the correct dimension for at least one item on the floorplan, you just have to use the dimension tool when you import the floorplan; check the dimension it reads once imported and if there is a difference re-import the floorplan and compensate by under/over compensating the dimension tool.

 

It's a bit of a pain, but do-able.

[vinntec]

I have found the import floorlpan tool to be a bit hit & miss for scale. As long as you know the correct dimension for at least one item on the floorplan, you just have to use the dimension tool when you import the floorplan; check the dimension it reads once imported and if there is a difference re-import the floorplan and compensate by under/over compensating the dimension tool.

 

It's a bit of a pain, but do-able.

Hi DD - I have tried many combinations of doing this and eventually get to tiny fractions of difference in scale to be too large or too small, but cannot get the background any closer. I think the small size of this particular theatre is an issue as these rounding errors are significant amounts when the whole theatre is only about 7m across! Cast have accepted it as a problem and will fix it in due course. In the meanwhile I will just have to live with it, unless there is another way of showing a bitmap on a layer (in Report edition)?

Thanks for your comments -- Peter :(

[DonkiDonki]

I must admit I've never tried to import such a small floorplan; it's often frustrating enough trying to get it right with a 50M venue.

 

I never did understand how an object on a drawing which you say is e.g. 10M to scale the drawing; measures 9.5M in the CAD plot?! (a fictional example, but that's basically what happens)

 

I hope this is something which Cast is able to fix in the not-too-distant future.