Mat Caird Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 Hi All I am struggling with viewport class overrides. They just don't seem to work. It's pretty simple to do, so I won't detail my steps in doing it. Does it work in 12.01? Does it work on a PC? Thanks in advacnce, Mat Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Biplab Posted July 12, 2006 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 12, 2006 They work only if you assign attributes to objects by class. Are you using attributes by class? Quote Link to comment
Mat Caird Posted July 12, 2006 Author Share Posted July 12, 2006 Yes BIPLAB, you're right, and I have now got it to work. For some reason, my walls which are drawn on a class Wall-Ext-Frame (set to use at creation), and type Unstyled, were in fact not behaving as I expected. If I select the wall, change it to any other class, then change back to Wall-Ext-Frame I get the correct result. Can you explain why the wall, whose class was set to 'use at creation', was in fact not using at creation? Thanks in advance. Mat Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee CGrayeNNA Posted July 13, 2006 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 13, 2006 Mat, I have been trying to reproduce your problem in 12.0.1 on a PC, and I cannot. Can you give a specific set of steps for recreating the problem from a new file? Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Mat, I have definitely seen this behavior. It is not reproducible on a consistent basis, but my guess is it's a bug. For me, as long as I have a reliable workaround it's not too big of a deal. Quote Link to comment
Mat Caird Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share Posted July 13, 2006 I use the localised Australia/NZ edition, so this may have something to do with it... 1>create a new blank file 2>select the wall tool 3>change the wall style to one of the defaults available 4>draw the wall 5>edit the class that the wall has been drawn on to "use at creation" 6>create a viewport and try class overrides I agree with you about the workaround thing Peter. Thansk all, Mat Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 if you want to use class overrides on walls, then you will have to edit the default wall styles that you are using so that the wall uses classes for the graphic attributes. Then you can use class over-rides Quote Link to comment
Mat Caird Posted July 16, 2006 Author Share Posted July 16, 2006 thanks Jonathan Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 Mat, don?t forget the user group meeting this week, at a main centre near you (maybe). This would be a good question to show others... Quote Link to comment
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