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Help with drawing label tool


Frank Schneider

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I have used the drawing label tool before, but for some reason now when I use it it seems stuck to none class visibility. No matter what class I assign it in the object info palette it behaves like the class is none. So I assign it to a different class (sides) but when I hide none class it disappears. I check and it still is assigned sides class, which is visible, but it acts as though it is assigned to none class for visibility. 

 

My old files work perfectly - the drawing label shows up with the class visibility it is assigned, not none, so seems to be happening now with new files. I also tried several different files and the behavior is the same. No matter what class I assign the label to it follows none class visibility.

 

Using VW 2024 update 7 Spotlight on a Mac. Thanks for any help/suggestions! 

 

Frank Schneider

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Find the Drawing Label in the Resource Manager, right-click > Edit... > Plug-in Object Style > Edit Drawing Label Layout... Check the class the label geometry is in. Probably None. Do you need to make None invisible at any time? I use None purposely as the class which is always visible.

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That did it. Thank you. I may have to reconsider my use of none class. I usually use it as my sketch layer, and then assign objects to a final layer once they are complete. Maybe not the most useful way, especially if I need to change the attributes of the label for each drawing via edit in the resource manager. I still don't understand why the OIP class doesn't override the class in the definition. Seems like that would be helpful, and clearly it did at one point, in previous years when I used the tool and everything worked the way I want it to.

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22 minutes ago, Frank Schneider said:

I still don't understand why the OIP class doesn't override the class in the definition. Seems like that would be helpful, and clearly it did at one point, in previous years when I used the tool and everything worked the way I want it to.

 

The "old" drawing label tool was a plug-in object that generated the geometry, so whatever class the Drawing Label was on was the class of all of the geometry.

 

The "new' drawing label tool is more like a symbol: you can draw your own geometry in a container, and this geometry will be on whatever class(es) you assign it to, and will remain on that class regardless of what class you assign the parent Drawing Label object to. Just like with symbols, both the class of the parent container and the class(es) of the nested objects need to be visible to see the objects. It's working as intended.

 

I would personally recommend trying to adapt your workflow to one where you never turn off the None class (except perhaps to test what's on that class). Too many things rely on the None class being visible. (And yes we all agree it's a dumb name for a class, especially the default one, but at this point it's probably too ingrained to change that).

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