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Allow finer control via "Viewport Styles"


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Viewport Styles are potentially very useful but there are various things they can't control which means that I can't use them for certain purposes.

 

To start with, a couple of things that it would be useful if they could do:

 

- Control class over-rides independently of class visibilities (note that I can transfer these things independently between vports using the eyedropper tool). In other words, I might want to have class over-rides determined by style, but class visibilities determined per viepwort.

 

- Controlling which lights are turned on or off.

 

There are other things, which I'll add to this thread as I think of them.

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17 minutes ago, line-weight said:

- Control class over-rides independently of class visibilities (note that I can transfer these things independently between vports using the eyedropper tool). In other words, I might want to have class over-rides determined by style, but class visibilities determined per viepwort.

 

Totally agree with this + one of the reasons I've not used VP styles as much as I thought I would.

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"Parent" styles, as suggested here:

 

https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/119602-the-need-for-a-parent-style-to-rule-over-sub-styles/#comment-519002

 

would also make them a lot more useful.

 

For example - I might have a file with a lot of viewports that show "as existing" or "as proposed" conditions. I will tend to use layers to distinguish between those. There will be a particular combination of layers that show the model in "as proposed" condition and as the project develops, new layers might get added, or I might want to change that combination in some way. It would be useful to be able to change the layer visibility setup in a viewport style and have that roll out to the tens of relevant viewports in the file, rather than having to go and do them all individually.

 

However... I might also want to use a viewport style to control the graphic appearance of (say) all 1:50 section viewports. There may be many such viewports in the file but some of them are "as existing" and some are "as proposed".

 

I can't currently do both things using viewport styles. Either I choose to control layer setup via style, and graphic appearance manually, or vice versa. Or... I have to create two styles (1:50 sections as existing, 1:50 sections as proposed) and each time I want to change the graphic appearance of all 1:50 sections I have to go and change the settings in two styles. And if I want to change the "as proposed" layer setup I probably have to go and change it in multiple vport styles too (1:50 sections as proposed, 1:100 sections as proposed, GA plans as proposed, etc etc)

 

This is quite a similar problem as we see in other object type styles, like wall styles.

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