Updating Object Nodes Based on Title Block Data

[nbakovic]

For color coding purposes, I am trying to get a small rectangle to change automatically when sheet data in the title block is modified. I created a network that gets that record field information from the title block on the sheet layer that the network is placed on. It works as expected except that I have to manually refresh the object node to have it change the color when the sheet data changes. I've tried doing dummy geometry and control point placement and anything else I could find/think off to solve this issue and I have had no luck. Does anyone have any ideas?

CAS Template 2025 DRAFT.vwx

[Pat Stanford]

VW really does not have a way for an object to realize when something else in the drawing has changed. Especially not something like data in the title block.

 

The only thing that I am thinking MIGHT possibly work would be for your network to change a Class Fill setting and have the rectangle use that Class Fill.

 

But you are still not going to automatically get the network to run when you make the change.

[Antonio Landsberger]

Hi @nbakovic

What you want is either an event triggered script run, which Marionette and scripts have no access to or knowledge of, or a script that runs in certain intervals to check for changes. The latter is also not possible, because that would essentially be a script running in the background, but Vectorworks is always blocked during script runtime, thus there could also be no change to check while the script is running.

You could create a menu command (from a Marionette wrapper), that shows you the relevant information you want to see - no matter where in the document you are. It could even be information from different objects and records (all in this one message).

[nbakovic]

Thanks @Antonio Landsberger, I was afraid that it was something like that.

I appreciate the idea of the menu command, and there might be something there for me to explore, but this is more intended as a color coding system for published PDFs. I work in exhibit design and the vast majority of people in this field aren't architects or designers and they struggle with reading them so I working on making it as easy as possible, which is where this originated form. 

[Pat Stanford]

Take a look at Data Visualization. That might be able to do what you want.