Graphic Legend from Wall Style Data

[taliho]

HI

 

I'm struggling with defining the Graphic Legend Field - (no coding knowledge)

If Mark is empty on the Wall Style Data Tab, then the Legend reads the 'Name' #AnyIFCEntity#.#Pset_WallCommon#.#Reference# (default from Vectroworks original setup)

If there is an entry in Mark, then it reads the Mark .

How to define the 'Mark' and the 'Name' from the Wall Style Data tab?

 

Thanks

 

Tali

 

(apologies - I may have posted this on a PM before)

 

 

Wall Graphic Legend Trial.pdf

[Tom W.]

44 minutes ago, taliho said:

If Mark is empty on the Wall Style Data Tab, then the Legend reads the 'Name' #AnyIFCEntity#.#Pset_WallCommon#.#Reference# (default from Vectroworks original setup)

If there is an entry in Mark, then it reads the Mark .

 

I think you must have the 'Mark' text + the 'Name' text placed over the top of each other in the Cell Layout...

 

What you're showing here:

 

Doesn't match what's showing here:

In that the 'Mark' text is clearly not over the top of the rectangle as shown in the Cell Layout as in the legend it's displaying underneath it. So I'm guessing you must have the two bits of text on top of each other.

[taliho]

Thanks Tom - 

That is exactly my problem.  It does not display in the way I would like it to - the Name definition displays either the name or the mark,   

- I am using what Vectorworks set up as a default .

#AnyIFCEntity#.#Pset_WallCommon#.#Reference#

 

 What do i use to define the Mark? the Mark is reflected in the Wall tag. How do I define it to read the wall-tag?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tom W.]

The #reference# field definition as shown in your screenshot returns the 'Mark' field.

 

Can you post a file?

[taliho]

Tom-

 

Here is the file

Thanks for taking a look

 

651555363_WallLegendTrial.vwx

[Tom W.]

Is this what you're after?:

One of the Walls didn't have any data in the 'Mark' field so I put that in ('2'). And you were absolutely right: in this case, in the absence of a 'Mark' entry, the same formula was returning the name of the Wall style instead. I don't really understand why this would be as I'm not really an IFC person but I can see that for that Wall the name is being returned in the 'Reference' field in the IFC data:

 

 

Perhaps this is just what happens with Wall data: in the absence of a 'Mark' entry 'reference' returns the wall style name instead? 

 

But anyway, hopefully this is what you want: 651555363_WallLegendTrial_edited.vwx

 

 

[taliho]

Tom-

 

Fantastic!!!!!

 

Thanks. That's exactly what I want.

Didn't think of Object Style...........

 

Tali