Michael Schroeder Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Hello! I am looking to have whatever I change in data visualization to reflect in a worksheet on the same sheet layer. Image below: Truss is all colored via Data visualization, I would like to have a way to have it be reflected in the worksheet on that sheet layer as well. Anyone know of a way to achieve this? Thank you!! 2 Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 (edited) +1 to this, eg a function called =Image using Data Visualization attributes or something other and another called =Pattern using Data Visualization attributes It would probably be necessary in both cases for the Worksheet to live as a Viewport Annotation. Edited March 22, 2019 by bcd 2 Quote Link to comment
gmulder Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 I'm looking for the same thing.. Can anybody help me to make a simple worksheets of the colour meanings? Quote Link to comment
Popular Post ericjhberg Posted August 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 15, 2019 Sadly the only way I know how to do this is to place a live object into the viewport annotations as a legend symbol. In this methodology you don't use the =IMAGE function and the live object(s) will color via the Data Visualization settings. For obvious reasons, this is not ideal because if your worksheet changes in layout/dimension/# of items, the live/dumb legend objects do not update with it in spacing or layout. It is the only way I currently know how to do this though. Additionally, when is the =IMAGE function going to represent a true Vector version of the queried object/symbol? I'm tired of the poor quality, faint raster symbols created in worksheets that are hardly even legible upon export, regardless of the DPI of the worksheet or sheet layer 5 Quote Link to comment
Charlie Winter Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 @Gunther Who would be able to provide some feedback here? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Gunther Posted August 16, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted August 16, 2019 On 8/15/2019 at 1:09 PM, Charlie Winter said: @Gunther Who would be able to provide some feedback here? I've checked with a couple sources and the output/workflow doesn't seem possible. Let me check with a few others... Quote Link to comment
Gaspar Potocnik Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Why not changing the color of your symbols? If you want to keep de grey/black for renderings you only change your pen color so in wireframe it renders with color, if not you change both. Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 Yeah, this definitely needs to happen--any updates? 2 Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 (edited) OK I'm almost there... However: 3D truss symbols in the worksheet continue to be a problem but not always I'm not sure how to make the Simplified Truss class invisible in the worksheet Edited October 11, 2021 by Mark Aceto 3 Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Set your class visibilities before you recalculation the worksheet. Whatever is active will be what is used. You probably want to make a Saved View of "Settings for Worksheet Recalc" to make it easier to recalc. You could probably even go so far at to put the Recalc command into the saved view so that whenever you switched the view the worksheet(s) would recalculate. Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 7 hours ago, Pat Stanford said: Set your class visibilities before you recalculation the worksheet. Whatever is active will be what is used. You probably want to make a Saved View of "Settings for Worksheet Recalc" to make it easier to recalc. You could probably even go so far at to put the Recalc command into the saved view so that whenever you switched the view the worksheet(s) would recalculate. Rigging-Truss-Simplified is not turned on for any of these screenshots. However, it's somehow always on by default in worksheets. At this point, it appears to be a bug -- notice that the tower truss symbols properly display the data vis in Shaded but not wireframe. So that's actually 2 bugs for me to file... Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 OK new version of the same challenge: need to set fill color by data vis What am I doing wrong? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tim C. Posted November 11, 2021 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 11, 2021 Hi Mark, do you get better results if you apply the colors using the Truss Record instead of the "Symbol Name" function? That function works a little differently and may not reliably locate symbols embedded within plugins. So instead of choosing Objects using Function: Symbol Name, choose Objects using Record: Truss Record: Model Name and apply the same colors there. I think that'll give you better results. Hope this helps! Tim 2 Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 4 hours ago, Tim C. said: Hi Mark, do you get better results if you apply the colors using the Truss Record instead of the "Symbol Name" function? That function works a little differently and may not reliably locate symbols embedded within plugins. So instead of choosing Objects using Function: Symbol Name, choose Objects using Record: Truss Record: Model Name and apply the same colors there. I think that'll give you better results. Hope this helps! Tim That may explain why this has worked in the past with VW stock truss symbols but isn't working with my vendor's library of symbols (that aren't VW truss objects). Is the issue that worksheets work better with records instead of symbols for the IMAGEBYDATAVIS function? Quote Link to comment
Marionette Maven Marissa Farrell Posted November 16, 2021 Marionette Maven Share Posted November 16, 2021 Hi Mark - is there a chance you could share a file with the objects you're working with? I'm having difficulty assuming what your vendor's symbols are created like. Attaching here or sending to me in a direct message is appropriate. 1 Quote Link to comment
Holat Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 On 11/11/2021 at 7:09 PM, Mark Aceto said: OK new version of the same challenge: need to set fill color by data vis What am I doing wrong? Hi Mark, did you manage to solve this? If I set it to 2D attributes it doesn't use the data vis colors but rather the object colors. Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 (edited) 9 hours ago, Holat said: Hi Mark, did you manage to solve this? If I set it to 2D attributes it doesn't use the data vis colors but rather the object colors. Sort of (solved it)? I think where we landed is that it works if you're pulling from a record but not if you're pulling from "symbol name"? Since then, I think a few folks smarter than me advised against using symbol name as criteria for anything (as a best practice). That's one of the reasons I created a global "missing link" custom record to pull data from. But it could be any record, really. So if you're stuck, just slap a record on the objects that aren't doing what they're told, and that should hopefully work. Edited February 18, 2022 by Mark Aceto Quote Link to comment
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