AceRoehrborn Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 I have a few custom panels with quite a few connectors on them, which took a little bit of time to layout. I need to make a change to the panel and add a connector. I have created the connector on the schematic layer. When I run the get connectors command from the elevation layer, everything on the panel that is already laid out is wiped out. The new connector is added but I have to re-layout everything again. Has anyone figured out a way to just do an update of the panel? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Nikolay Zhelyazkov Posted November 20, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 20, 2020 22 minutes ago, AceRoehrborn said: I have a few custom panels with quite a few connectors on them, which took a little bit of time to layout. I need to make a change to the panel and add a connector. I have created the connector on the schematic layer. When I run the get connectors command from the elevation layer, everything on the panel that is already laid out is wiped out. The new connector is added but I have to re-layout everything again. Has anyone figured out a way to just do an update of the panel? - I do not think that this is currently possible. Anyway, you can manually insert the correct connector symbol in the Equipment Item layout and then set the correct name for the connector from the symbol's Data Pane. Just be precise in following the steps in the previous statement, so that you avoid things getting weird 🙂 . Quote Link to comment
AceRoehrborn Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 Thanks! I will give that a try. I would love to add an option to update, instead of completely refresh the connectors to the wish list! That would be very handy. Or even it if has to completely refresh, just have the system keep track of the location of the existing symbol and replace it in the same XY location. Appreciate your quick responses! I feel like I am creating a bunch of questions and complaints but this is a really great product and its working great for me! Thanks again! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Conrad Preen Posted November 20, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 20, 2020 Hi Neil, Thanks for the feedback. Some tweaks to this workflow have been on my list for a while now. We'll take a look at that. Conrad 1 Quote Link to comment
Eliot Hartzler Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 I've been bouncing between VW2020 and 2021, so maybe I'm behind and didn't realize when this happened, but...just noticed (in VW2021 SP3 at least) that the "Get Connectors" button now acts more like an update command and pulls newly created connectors from schematic layers without resetting the Connector Panel's layout. Thanks for taking care of this CC/VW team! 1 Quote Link to comment
AceRoehrborn Posted March 21, 2021 Author Share Posted March 21, 2021 Awesome! Lots of great ConnectCad improvments in SP3 Quote Link to comment
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