JMR Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 (edited) Hi all, I encountered the following phenomenon: I've created a custom door record and I'm using viewport data visualization to check if I've remembered to put the right record info into the right doors. I've found that this is a practical way to check if the correct doors have been assigned, let's say, an electronic access control lock. However, using custom door geometry seems to break the visualization - please see the attached snip. The red doors should be blue. Doors that have custom geometry always show up red, independent of the data. There is no red assigned anywhere: in classes, objects, visualization, object attributes. In normal plan views and other views, these custom geometry doors look fine, no red. Has anyone else had this issue? Before someone asks, the reason for using custom door geometry is that one cannot make an unequal swing door so that the side leaf would have a glass pane just like the main leaf (VW please fix this, important and a very basic requirement !). Another thing I noticed is that the data visualization system doesn't allow umlauts (Ä's, Ö's etc.) in record names - it ignores them, in VW 2017. I haven't tried the 2018 yet. Removing the umlauts solves the issue (but then the worksheed data headers have to be corrected correspondingly). This was surprising since these records with umlauts work just fine with the worksheets. Edited October 20, 2017 by JMR Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 Can you post a simplified .vwx drawing with just a couple of each type of door for us to look at? Quote Link to comment
JMR Posted October 21, 2017 Author Share Posted October 21, 2017 Thank you, Attached is a sample. Stripped of everything non-relevant. File version is 2017, Architect. Data_visualization_test.vwx Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted October 21, 2017 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 21, 2017 Hi JMR, In the Data Vis dialog, I see two records being used. The one using red attributes is the "Rough Opening Width" of the Door record. Try removing that to see if it gives you what you're after. 1 Quote Link to comment
JMR Posted October 22, 2017 Author Share Posted October 22, 2017 That's it! Thank you. I hadn't opened the "record" dropdown menu at all - therefore I didn't notice that another record was applied. How and why this "red" door record came to be, with the strange lower bound and upper bound criteria, is a complete mystery to me. Well, the important thing is that it now works as expected, thanks again. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted October 22, 2017 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 22, 2017 You're welcome! Quote Link to comment
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