MultipleWays Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 I've created worksheets pulling data from symbol records. They've been working fine for the past few months. All of sudden it's populating each symbols data three times. Anyone seen this before - have a solution? Quote Link to comment
MultipleWays Posted October 1, 2020 Author Share Posted October 1, 2020 User error... It was pulling the info from DL viewports as well. Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 Correct. Worksheets count objects in Design Layers, and Viewports. So if you have one object on a Design Layer, 1 Design Layer Viewport that contains that object, and 2 Sheet Layer Viewports that are displaying that object (even if it is outside of the crop), you will end up with a count of 4 even though there is only a single object on the drawing. The solution is to be more specific in your Criteria and specify exactly what layer(s) you are looking for objects on or what viewport you want to count objects in. Glad you figured it out. Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 2 hours ago, Pat Stanford said: ...and 2 Sheet Layer Viewports that are displaying that object (even if it is outside of the crop)... Is this true? I thought they only count objects in Viewport Annotations. But you use worksheets far more than I do. Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 Yes it is true. Each instance of a symbol in a viewport will be counted as a separate item from the one on the design layer. Strange but true. Not too bad of work around to set the criteria, but disconcerting the first time you hit the problem. I probably answer this question at least once per month here on the forum. Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Okay I'm testing it now and that's not happening for me. Design Layer Viewports, yes, but not Sheet Layer Viewports... Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Maybe they fixed for VW2021. I have not checked. Pretty certain it still impacted 2020. Will look tomorrow. Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Just tried in 2020 and it doesn't happen there either. I'd venture to guess that if it did ever happen that way it would've been a bug, since that sounds like a terrible way to count things 😉 I only recall it counting in these places: Quote Link to comment
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