Red-Hatched "Viewport-Needs-Updating" Border

[willofmaine]

I just printed a pdf drawing, and suddenly all my viewports need to be updated? Obviously they don't, but the red-hatched "viewport-needs-updating" viewport borders are most of the time meaningless. It seems there are few things you can do without triggering the "need" to update some or all viewports. It would be helpful if these were much more "aware" of whether or not a change has been made that would actually affect viewports, ideally on a viewport-specific basis... VWIS013

[PVA - Admin]

This should now be corrected as of Vectorworks 2014. I do not know if it will be addressed in older versions.

[willofmaine]

Great! Thanks.

[michaelk]

Jim

It would be really cool if there was a vector script call that would turn the barber pole off for a specific viewport. There are many times (like after changing the graphic attributes of a section line object, or changing the data attached to an object) that a viewport will display the out of date barber pole, when the user know that nothing changed.

In those cases, being able to turn the barber pole off would be very useful.

mk

[PVA - Admin]

You can turn them off now in Vectorworks 2014.

Under File > Document Settings > Document Preferences > Display, uncheck "Display viewport out-of-date border"

[michaelk]

Yes, you can turn them all off.

I'd like to be able to turn just one off. For example in, the case of a section viewport after changing the graphic attributes of the section line instance.

Specifically I'd like SetObjectVariableBoolean(h,1004,FALSE); to work. I think 1004 is currently a read only parameter.

mk

[PVA - Admin]

Gotcha, submitting now.

[michaelk]

Put this request in the DONE column!

 

Thanks!!!

 

mk

[michaelk]

Wait.  SOMETIMES column.

 

mk

[michaelk]

Either I am imagining things or it worked exactly once.  @Jim is this request still open?