Graphic Legends to be able to interact with Data Visualisation

[_James]

As above, this would be a really useful functionality that would allow symbols or styles to be clearly identified on a drawing with an associated Graphic Legend reporting that data about that object/style.

 

For us, we could then basically automate the way in which we identify differing wall styles on drawings. Currently this is just a regular viewport with all the colours added to the annotation space. The wall descriptions are then manually typed out. This introduces a lot of potential for errors, not to mention it being a tedious task.

 

Other people have different uses for it as described here.

 

This could be an extension of the "Filter by Viewport" option of graphic legends or something else, but certainly it seems like the functionality to achieve this is present in VW albeit in separate parts.

[Tom W.]

44 minutes ago, _James said:

For us, we could then basically automate the way in which we identify differing wall styles on drawings. Currently this is just a regular viewport with all the colours added to the annotation space. The wall descriptions are then manually typed out. This introduces a lot of potential for errors, not to mention it being a tedious task.

 

In the meantime have you considered using Data Tags to label short lengths of Wall in a VP to create your legend instead? You could turn off the components so they resemble solid rectangles of colour then the Data Tag could return the 'Mark' + 'Description' fields of the Wall style (apply the Data Vis to the VP obviously to get the colours). Would cut out the manual/tedious element as the data would be coming from the Wall style. Although would mean drawing the lengths of Wall on a hidden design layer in order to generate the VP.

 

That's not to say I don't support your wish - have voted it up.