Rob Sherman Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 I am wondering if it is possible to change individual connection lines to different line types.(I.E.: Solid, dashed, dotted) My company works predominately in installations and we have to deal with a mixture of existing wiring, client provided cables and bulk cable that has ends added. We use line types to let the install team know what is existing/provided versus what we will be adding. Our existing standard has been: I see that I can differentiate linetype and color by signal type but when I try and do individual cables it doesn't work. Is there a way to do this? Thank you Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Nikolay Zhelyazkov Posted September 15, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 15, 2020 Hello @Rob Sherman, If I understand correctly, you are trying to set line style for cables, independent of their signal. Is that correct? If so, I do not think that there is a way to do this. Circuits take the line style of their signal classes and circuits of the same signal will look the same. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Conrad Preen Posted September 26, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 26, 2020 Hello @Rob Sherman In 2021 you can change circuit attributes in the Attributes Palette from Class Style to whatever you like. So it will be easier to support your workflow. Since you have some particular standards in your company I suggest you look into creating some one-line scripts in a palette so you can easily assign circuits as you wish. Conrad 2 Quote Link to comment
Rob Sherman Posted September 28, 2020 Author Share Posted September 28, 2020 It's great to hear about the change in 2021. We haven't migrated yet but I look forward to playing with it. Our solution was to edit the signal list to include all the signals we use in our standard with both a regular and POE version for network signals. DANTEP, DANTES, DANTEPP(DANTE PRIMARY POE), ETC. In the classes I then set our standard colors and a dashed for POE. For existing lines we are just changing the cable type to say "EXISTING", instead of doing a dotted line. Rob Quote Link to comment
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